The Dublin Progress. (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, May 29, 1914 Page: 1 of 8
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HTOBV or ESCAPE.FROM MEXICO CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR
CITIZEN IS NOW IN DUBLIN SPOKE IN DUBLIN THIS WEEK
E. S. Ijutgamn. a brother of W. i’.j Both the prominent Candida tea for
I.*ngston of thla city, came in Sunday governor spoke in Stephenville and
from Central Mexico, where he hn«t Dublin thla week and the frtenda of
for the past eleven years been a rag- each are pleased threby.
Idem and prominent and well-to-do Mr, Ferguson »«» In Dublin Tuea-
bualneea man engaged In the lumber
business, as the owner of two exten-
sive lumber mills In that section of
the southern republic.
day night and wan somewhat at a dis-
tance In point of securing a good au-
dience by reason of the night appoint-
ment and a heavy rain durlg the af-
Mr, Langston resided at Perlban In- ternoon w hich continued almost to the
rifle coast town of Manzanllla, being ^ how ever, there were some three bun-
six hundred miles by rail from the dred or more In the audience which
latter place. There were few Amerl-, gave the Temple roan a most respect-
cans In his immediate locality and tbe.ful and enthusiastic
His
SILVER SERVICE FOR SHIPS
CONTRIBUTIONS ARE ASKED
The battleship Texas, In the course
of the next fifty or sixty days, will
come to Galveston. After the old bat-
tleship Texas was launched, the peo-
ple of this state raised money by con-
tributions to purchase a silver service
and the Texas came to Galveston to
receive the same, and it was given
with due ceremony.
Something like a year and a half ago
Gov. Colquitt appointed the Mayor of
Galveston as chairman of a committee
to raise funds to buy a creditable sil-
ver service to present to the battleship
Texas. He has been unable to raise
sufficient funds to do this, and has bor-
rowed the old sliver service and had
CANDIDATES FDR CONGRESS
FIGHT AT COVANCHB
hearing
conditions had reached such a stage j speech was along the Hues of those
before the occupation of Vera Crux by made at other points and which havt^ r burnished up, and purchased new
, the Americans that these had all left , been published, one of which, his Fort pieces for the purpose of presenting
ill PoPUS .. | Belying upon his long residence there, Worth speech, is printed In this issue the same to the new ship upon its ar
his thorough knowledge of the Mexl- of the Progress upon order of his rival at Galveston,
can language and the satisfactory bus- headquarters at Temple and w hich The Young Mens Business League
iness relations he had so long main- j should he read by every citizen, voter of Waco has taken an Interest In the
talned with the Mexicans of all claSs-jor not. Mr. Ferguson Inspires one matter and will act with Gie Governor
es In his locality he had remained to with his earnestness and his speech Un an effort to raise $7,500 to pur-
look after hlB properties, amounting I was well received
| to some $40,000, which constituted his1 Mr Ball came the following after-! the new
savings of all these years and which noon amt was more fortunate In the j Remit
chase a creditable silver service for
battleship.
contributions direct to the
A dispatch of Wednesday from Co*
manobe says; ;J §| '
As a result of a verbal War there
that afternoon. Oscar Cillaway, con-
gressman from this district, and Judge
Sam J. Hunter of Ft. Worth, engaged7
In a skirmish with their fists, which
for a time seemed to border on the n
sensational, it ended with charges be-
ing preferred against each of the con-
testants, Mr. Callaway being charged
with assault, while Mr. Hunter faces a
charge of carrying concealed weap-
ons."
Parties who were in Comanche at
the time were Interviewed yesterday
by a Progress reporter and they say
that Congressman Calloway had stat-
ed In u speech at Weatherford a few
days ago that Judge Hunter was
drawing a pension from the govern-
ment. In his canvass of the district
Judge Hunter was at Comanche yes-
terday and had distributed circulars
severely criticising Congressman Cal-
loway. The two met near the post
office In Comanche Wednesday and
rough words ensued, resulting, as
our informant said, in Congressman
was sure would lie destroyed or. matter of weather conditions The j Governor or to the Young Mens ISusi-
I | confiscated in the event he should train of the afternoon and night before'ness league uf Waco, and receipt w111 i ('a])0way knocking Judge Hunter
leave. j made it Impossible for farmers to be sent for same. j down and as the Judge got up he drew
When Vera Cruz was occupied the) work In the fields and the sunshine | The Young Mens Business Iwague a pj8t0i which was taken from him
Dictator Huerta sent word throughout j Wednesday made It pleasant for a trip I ,>f Waco has agreed to raise one-third by tboap about
the country that the Americans had j to town to hear the speech. Mr. Ball [of the amount, or $2500, In Waco.
Invaded Mexico and calling upon all .delighted his followers. Ills speech al- J ~5 TjrTtjj—
Mexicans to rally to his standard Mr. »<> was along the lines of his speeches HIGHLAND MALL IU
Langston said conditions at once be- elsewhere, some of which have been j
]’ came alarming and Mexicans marched j printed and one or more of w hi< h thej manager of
LIGHTNING KILLED WOMAN | VETERANS GET ACKNOWLEDGE-
STOOD UNDER LIGHT SOCKEl'j MENT OF OFFER OF SERVICES
Mrs. Bonnie Schmlck, twenty-four
Veteran Tom Bnys showed a Prog-
years of age, was struck by llghtnlug rcss reporter a card one day this week
and instantly killed Tuesday afternoon I from Capt. W. H. Christian at Steph-
»t Ft. Worth, while preparing dinnerTnville in which the captain quotes leans were getting out of Mexico andjtlon
in the kitchen pantry at her home In j ft letter received from the war de-
that city. I partment at Washington aeknowledg-
Mrs. Schmlck was standing beside a jng receipt of some resolutions passed
table, her head directly under a drop .by the Sam Houston Post G. A. Ft.. >f
light There was no incandescent j this county, about the time recently
globe In the socket and evidently the that it looked like war with Mexico.
-current was not shut off The bolt-These old veterans at that time passed
struck the top of the house, set the j resolutions offering their services to
roof on fire, and connected with the the government in any rapacity, they
•electric wiring. i might he needed in case of war and
The current followed the wire until! at once forwarded them to tile depart-
lt reached the socket, and Jumped1 ment. The Robert E. Lee camp of
through the air to the top of Mrs.1 Confederate Veterans at Ft. Worth
Schmick's head, searing her body to adopted and forwarded similar rese-
ller feet. The top of the socket was i lotions and received addressed to
at least a foot above the woman's them a similar letter from the de-
head. j partment ast that which Is
Thomas F. Schmlck. the woman's! low:
husband, was sitting in the front room! —•
of the house with his clhldren when WAR DEPARTMENT. 1‘. S. A,
the bolt struck. He rushed to the) office of the Adjutant General
kitchen to his wife's assistance and c,en. Sam Houston Post No. 55, Depart-
found her dead, in a heap on the floor, j ment of Texas, G A It
Mr. and Mrs. Schmlck had but re- Gentlemen I am directed l»y the
cently moved to Ft. Worth from (For-! secretary of War to acknowledge with
man, having lived at Gorman for four I thanks receipt of your letter tender
months. He Is a railway postal clerk,' ing your services In case of war with
and his run Is between Ft. ..'orth and 1 Mexico.
Galveston on the Gulf, Colorado &j Vpry Respectfully
Santa Fe, He was to have left on his, ^ ,|0U^N1, AUJ< GENERAL
in front of his home calling him ev- ' Progress would he glad f» present 1 ^ | ))tii) team. I hereby extend a challenge pause
ery vile name In the Mexican vocab- j part of the expense of such publication L a„y |)aa(,hall team in the county gun.
tilarv and clamoring for his life. HiSj^’cre borne by his campaign head-, W'|)bout boasting, think we can Inter-j
mall and telegrams were at once held ; quarters, as Mr. Fergusons manager j V()U an(j )bp committee agrees to j
up and he was totally without com-j dm-*. ! leave all disputes to the managers of j
munleation with the outside world and j Mr Ball is a polished speaker, a'the respoethe teams. Any interested
remained barricaded In his home, send-j law x er of ability and Is practiced In w |], please w rite or phone me as mail-
ing for his mall each day, hut being the art of oratory, stating hlmkelf I a(!(>r „f ||,e team Our line up is as
aide to get none, whatever. (that he had been a politi ian for tbir- 2nd !> Emtnltt Rips* toe. : t r < I !.. !>!iii
Finally a telegram was delivered to ty years
him from the American consul at Ga-i- In order to keep the record straight
dalajara advising him that all Amer- the Progress would mention one asscr-
iu the speech of Mr Ball that
for him to come to that place at once, j was misunderstood by many of his
Within a few minutes a squad of fed- hearers and Is now being freely mis-
eral soldiers came, followed by a howl-1 quoted in Dublin Mr. Ball said, refer-
Ing mob of Mexicans, who remained i ing to the submission question: ‘ We
in the street while the squad entered are going to have prohibition In T'»-
and arrested him. Mr I^angston In- as When the people vote it should
Frinds of both parties. Tis said, fear
that the occurrence may destroy the
chances of either of being elected, Cal-
loway because he struck an old man
the Highland base! like Judge Hunter and the Judge be-
OFKEKS CHALLENGE TO t 01 MV
: follows \V W Good son, ' ■ IBiU'cr!
lloss. p; Is'c Ross, p, Jin- Ely. p. hi;,,
Rippetoe, iHt t>; Arthur Fit nderlmt
L Tliiehaud, ss, Dean Kipjietnr If
Emil Thlebaud. cf; Ira Ross, rf R>
f spectfully. S. E l Ed « Shocm . ker, i ap
i tain, route Dublin
he was found to be carrying a
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sisted that he would fight before he j th0 legislature refuse to submit I he
would be taken out In the street to be , question, then 1 will fight the devil
shot down by that, mob, that they »itli fire' meaning lit- would depart
would have to kill him in his own | under those conditions from his oppo-
housc If they Intended to do It He|giilon to statutory prohibition and ask
was held in his own house under Mex-jthat of the legislature Of course Mr
lean guard for six days and then taken Bail knows that If the people vote for
to a barracks ninety miles away and J submission the question will U> sub-
held prisoner there two days when he mltted whether he Is elected or not
was fortunate enough to sec a federal j -,nd If the people don't vote it we shall
printed he- officer whom he knew as a friend and | not have submission regardless of
to whom he appealed for assistance whether he is elected or not Thai
A telegram to the governor of the. matter is up to the people ami not to
state secured a release and he was giv- m- n„n or \|r Ferguson The people
on liberty without escort with the dis- are not golt,.; to elect men to the Icg-
tlnct understanding that lie was on IBs ial.itiir>- who will not carry out their
own risk. He boarded a train and expressed wishes, if indeed it is m*'
made bis way two hundred tulles to mandatory upon them to do so
Guadalajara, where he hail previously n |N being now freely stated that
more or less made headquarters and \ir Ra|i said in his speech "if the
where there were many Americans people do not rote submission, then !
and a United States consul Here he will fight the doril with tire." Mr
found that every American, including
the consul, had left the days before
run Tuesday night
Beside her husband, Mrs. Schmlck
is survived by four children: Gladys
8; Henry, 6; A. 0., 3, and Warren. 1.
Mrs. Schmiek Is also survived by her
lather and mother, Mr. and Mrs. A. G.
Channlng of Tyler, and three brothers
Ball did not say this and will not
'say It until he changes his at111ml •
He also at this point barely escaped a uui goes buck on his studivvl and rare
and six sisters.
The body was forwarded to
man Wednesday morning for
men t.
HILL C0UNTV FARMERS
TO ERECT COMPRESS
More than 100 Hill county farmers
gathered ut Hillsboro recently to con-
sider the advisability of establishing a carried
Mexican mob which came to a Chinese
hotel searching for hint, and the China-
man In charge assisted In secreting
hint. He knew the British consul
there and communicated by telephone
and the consul came In an auto and
fully planned opening six’ech
Gor-
Inter-
1 large cotton compress and warehouse
In that city for the storing of their
cotton It was decided al the close of
the season to perfect a temporary or- j f()Ur hun(trp(1 q.Ues’tn go before reach
GOOD JOB ON A RANCH ; sanitation and name a committee to ,n(? ,hp const town of Manzanillo
BEATS RACE KOlt CONSTABLE w‘»r>‘ o'*1 f(>r ,tlP compress and . wherp hai, i,ee„ told the British
Lfter he came aboard, stopping at
Ma/.atlan, another port up the coast l
ind taking on more refugees and then
sailing on to San Francisco, from
him to a train and provided wb|cb city all left for their various j
homes In the states or to go to rela-;
lives
When Mr I sings ton found that he
him with a British badge, which he
was glad to wear to make appear lie
was a British subject. He still had
County Farm Itemonstratton Agent
Latham, in co-operation with the liar
: bln public school, will hoi<! an agri-
cultural meet ing at Harbin al 2
o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday,
June tith Tile corn club hoys of the
-Harbin vicinity arc exueeted to attend
in a body, as the, work will he the
: feature of the a'ternoon meeting
Farmers arc capes Sally Invited to at-
tend. as the lecture by the govern-
ment agent will he on Corn Grow
Ing We urge our farmer friends in
that vicinity to hear Mr Laiham talk
on this Important subject
I It. II IT F V t"l Vl COM t NTIBN
TO OICG VM/T I I MM s
[5 n thousand delegates from all
parts of the nation and Texas wil he
|in atlcndums at the eighteenth ati-
jnual con v t-titinti of tile Baraev, and
T’lillatlira organized Sunday s. bool
* lasses at Waco, June tl-lo These
'classes include every dct,onnnation
: and constitute the largest organization
of the I tilde classes of the young peo-
ple In the world Spts Ia1 trains from
I New York. Nebraska Missouri and
South Carolina will bring th« heavy
! deiegation from out of the state
A strong program of Texas relig-
ious leade. s is scheduled Iti addition
to the speaker* of national reputation
in organized class work
G. 0. Turner, a candidate for eon-
atable In the Dublin precinct recently
went to Coleman, near which place ho
expected to assist In the harvesting
of the oat crop and return early In
July lu time to see the voters In be-
half of hts candidacy Mr Turner
writes the Progress under a recent
date from Coleman, stating that he has
decided to accept a good position of-
fered him on a ranch near Coleman
and that tt therefore became necessary
for him to withdraw from the race.
Re asks the Progress to so state and
to convey his thanks to his friends for
their offer of support
warehouse. The warehouse will V« (vtrlana. In rharge of Capt Edward .I
sufficiently large to house all cot-( MlnlB,Pri llJU, bppn docked to take on
ton produced In this county and »| American refugees and which boat he
protect the staple from the open . r,>ar,.(1 ha(1 by t|ia, time left On his
posure which it has heretofore b<'"n j trlp the coast he had to stop several
subjected to on the open yards This , hour„ ,n tho n,Kh( at a *ay station to
exposure causes a deterioration In the awa|t Jinothpr train and while there
quality of the product which ultimate-, hp rema|np(1 tn a railroad toilet from
ly means a loss to the producer of a jbp windows of which he could see
considerable amount of money It '■ howling Mexican mobs marching the 1(afptv an(1 ,bat t„,fore he left his horn,
estimated that the farmers In WH streets with torches and crying death
county sustain losses In tho sum of; (o ftl| Amprir.ins. On lire trip he was
160,000 each season from the open ; without a bite to eat for twenty-four
yards. The structure will cost in the
neighborhood of $60,000 and will bo
ready for use by the next cotton sea-
<u to be taken suddenly out of tils; ___________
i.rme he haretv had time to pick up a-MILLION VND A HALF TAXES
.trip and throw In a package of let j PAID HY ROUKEEEI.LOM IN OHIO
•era and papers on his desk and these j John D Rockefeller Is assessed for
with the clothes he wore was all he j taxes In Ohio on personal property to
got away from the republic with lie the amount of $.41 1.22X5!47. Of this
w as not even permitted t line to step j sum $2X5.000.(toe is allowed to be
nto an adjoining room and receive a Standard Oil stork The Ohio rale of
haiige of clothing j five dollars a thousand will cause Mr
Mr Langston said that through the | Rockefeller the Inconvenience of pay
six hundred miles he traveled he wag Jug that state a tax for the year of
grave doubt every hour as to his $].556,13!
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For Associate Justice Court +
Civil Appeals: ♦
Ol’IE SUKER, (re-election) ♦
JUDGE R H. BUCK ♦
For Congress, I2th District: *
R F .MILAM, of Ft Worth ♦
SA.M J HUNTER, of Ft. Worth *
Fur Representative— ♦
HENRY CLARK ♦
J E BURNETT ♦
J. S DALEY ♦
t or Sheriff ♦
H C THORNTON ♦
.1, T TURN BOW ♦
G II. (Hud) DEASON ♦
G S (Sami BRITTON ♦
BATES COX ♦
CHARLEY LOVE ♦
For County Clerk— ♦
K. S t Sparks) HOWELL ♦
JOE J BATE ♦
SCOTT WOODARD ♦
For County Treasurer: ♦
LEE KELLY. (re-election) ♦
For District Clerk ♦
MACK CKESSWELL A
K N BAXLEY ♦
W c BURNETT ♦
S U ( I’rice I WILLIAMS ♦
OLIVER PRYOR. ♦
F'or Tax Asessor *
YV G COOK ♦
G It I Gran vtllel FAGAN ♦
For Tax Collector ♦
COLEMAN D MCHOlvS ♦
EDGAR JUSTICE ♦
JOHN PURVIS
M O CUMBIE ♦
I. E (l>ewl*) ROBERSON ♦
It M YARBROUGH ♦
For Co School Superintendent ♦
W T GRAVES, (re-election) ♦
For Commissioner l’rec. Two— ♦
.) C WILLIAMSON ♦
ED STRINGER *
D It KNOX ♦
DAN R MORRIS ♦
S F ROSS *
A N WHITTEN ♦
H F C,IBRS *
J J TURUKN *
K D (King 1 HAMILTON ♦
R. S POPE ♦
For Justice of Peace, Free. Two *
YA It A RLE
YV M DENMAN ♦
For Constable. Dublin, Free Two *
1. It THOMAS *
JIM VAN ♦
N. F WI IvSON ♦
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Commencement
Our Behool turned ost twenty-one Graduates this season
We Invite all young geople to make their Bank Commence-
ment with os.
Thla Bank urge* every oae to call on It for any service It
«u reader.
The Citizens National Bank
j without a hlte to eat
;hours
| ArrHIng at Manzanillo ho found that »as shouted
a few days before the Cnltod States continually
j gunboat Raleigh had come within 11 in property Is recorded wjlh for-
! sight and at the moment the ,,|gn officials at Guadalaja and some
flags along the wharf signalled day he may get It a value, but he fears
i the ship of an enemy sighted rlizit this will he many years and prob-
, Mine* and torpedoes, which had been ;lt,|y not In his life time, though as
j laid In the harbor blew up and the soon as affairs settle a little he in
j|S docks which ha.1 been drenched with tends to return end endeavor to re
njoll were Ignited In hundreds of places cover anything that may be left
and these and all the buildings along Another misfortune, of a sadder n»-
the wharf were deatroyed The Brlt-iture yet, came hi Mr Istngston tn
tab ship barely escaped being either the knowledge Sunday when he arrlv-
destroyed by mines or burned by the ,*| h,.ra atI(| went to the home of bis
lntene« Brea before she could head out brother and learned that bis sged
||j to the open sea, where she had an mother had died at Duffau In Ibis
chored six mites out and still stood county and had been burled Saturday
when Mr. Ferguson arrived, a very at the family burying ground in Hleo.
much agitated man He MM nsgotlat- j He haa remained In Dublin this
ed with a Mexican boy with a row J week and expects next week to go to
boat to take him out to the vessel, and nio for a vlalt with his father and
he had been Insulted in every wav
!M>sslble for a Mexican to insult A
inted name in Mexico I* Onto* lllan-
• -os (white hogsl. and thla and gringo;
In front of hi* dwelling !
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BINDERS AND MOWERS
Ouhitr.
contrary to hla expectations reached
the boat Instead of being capalsed and
tromwd. There were ISO Americans
on tool'd and he was to get away on
tbs Tsnssl, which oniM worth shortly
several brothers who reside In that lo-
cality.
A month had elapsed from the time
he was tnhen prisoner at hla boms
tn Mexico util he reached Dublin.
We hip agent* for McCormick and Dewing Binders
ami Mowers, and for Sterling Tlirodiinp Machines.
Von will find a complete stodk tvf cxtraH on hand—
it will j*aj yon to see ns before placing tout orders.
Utterback & Harris
DEALERS IN XVXRYTHDfCI
iMWMIlltbWI III! SMSIS »SI*l««M$WIIHtMII H11
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