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HERALD
M. HULBHRT, Editor and Publlzhec
LANCASTER. - - TEXAS’
_
HE WOULD GET EVEN
^Hwinsa Planned by Editor
Who Realized That He Had
Been Snubbed.
\
the Atlantic City beach by a plain
‘ * man with enormously padded
said to his wife in explan ar
why shouldn’t he cut me?
produced a best seller, and all
pan are vain. Look at Gibbon.
“Gibbon, you know, wrote in his
1 am the greatest historian
ever lived. No one can equal me
this direction.'
“Victor Hugo wrote to Bismarck:
>e giant greets the giant; the) foe
foe; the friend the friend. I pate
furiously because thou hast hum-
L France. 1 love the* because I
greater than thou art.'
‘ “And Wordsworth said at the Swan
Avon: There is an immensity of
trick ip all he wrote. If I had a mind,
I could write exactly like Shake-
I
■ “No wonder, then, the weedy lit-
tle chap cut me," the editor conclud-
- ed. “But I’ll get even with him. IH
snapshot him in his bathing suit and
end the picture to the Ladies' lllus-
rated. This will cause his sales to
pall off at least 80 per cent."
A Puzzling Answer.
Davies was riding on the
Central branch the other day when
a very loquacious individual sat down
beside him and began bombarding him
With questions. Gomer got very
tired of his talkative friend, hut did
not complain. Finally the fellow look-
ed down and noticed that Gomer had
at wooden leg.
v “How did you loee you leg?" he
m
^ T will ten you upon one condition.”
said Gomer.
“What is tt r
. “That yon will not ask me another
right.”
mm was bitten oft”
the curiosity of the
a great deal, but be
*T11 bet,” said Gomer, “that that
dlow has tost s tot of sleep since
ten wondering what sort of an sal-
may bit that leg off.”—Kansas City
ouri
Was This Punishment?
A.correspondent of the British Med-
an account of the
i symptoms he experienced
drinking''tea. He writes:
rer I take tea I go through a
procession of events, most
distressing and stultifying. Shortly,
lAise are as follows: Within fifteen
minutes of walking (movement seems
to be essential) I feel hot about the
isoalp and knees; the former feels as
iff pepper were dusted all over it;
I practically lose my sight and
hearing, and, if in conversation, can-
pot say more than Ires’ or W be-
I am so faint and listless; then
the power of walking quite
Straight and ehooee the wall side of
the path; lastly, I break out Into a
general perspiration, and within forty-
five minutes I return to my senses.”—
&«w York Tribune.
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Back to the Mines,
nomas L. Lewis, once president of
the United Mine Workers of America,
has gone “back to the mines'* with a
•vengeance. He can pick coal and put
|Sn eight hard hours a day as well as
T never felt better in my
be said the other day, "Of
I am a littls sore after not
fhaving dope any hard physical labor
I.
. for fifteen years, but things will come
ito me as easy as ever in a few days.”
Lewis went back to hard day labor
/ |aftsr having held office in the miners’
{organisation for fourteen years. "My
as s miner is certainly easier
my work as president of the
miners,” said Lewis. "As president I
worked fifteen hours a day. Now I
Work eight hours, and my day’s work
is done, and I can pick coal as well
today as 1 could fifteen years ago."
SANITY A WINNER
NEAT INSUFFERABLE
LOWEST DEATH RECORD FROM
ACCIDENTS IN YEARS.
OLD-TIME CUSTOM IS ENDED
Heat Kills More People Than Acci-
dents Through Use or
Explosives.
Of the eighty-four observation sta-
tions of the Weather Bureau twenty-
two reported official maximum tem-
peratures of 100 degrees or over,
while a considerable number showed
over 90 degrees.
The greatest heat area was In the
middle and central Western States,
In the Mississippi River basin.
The South was relatively cool and
most of the territory along the bor-
ders of the northernmost of the Great
Lakes was also cool. The Pacific
Coast also was a notable exception,
that part of the country enjoying
pleasant weather.
The greatest heat recorded was 104
degrees in the weather observatories
which, in numerous Instances, meant
a temperature of almost 110 degrees
at street level. Eight cities, Boston,
Albany, Charles City, Mo.; Des
Moines, Kansas City, Omaha, Sioux
City and Indianapolis, reached the
maximum of 104 degrees.
Gome of the places reporting deaths
from heat on Jnly 4 follow: Chica-
go 27, New York 16, Pittsburg 7,
Philadelphia 9, Dubuque, Iowa, 1;
Milwaukee 1, Kansas City 2, St. Louis
3, St. Paul and vicinity 6, Toledo,
Ohla, 1; Springfield, 111., 1; Daven-
port Iowa, 1; Columbus, Ohio, 1; De-
troit 6, Topeka, Kan., 2; Sedalla, Mo.,
1; Cincinnati 2, Rockford, III, 1; Pe-
oria, HL, 2; Des Moines, Iowa, 2; Sioux
City, Iowa, 1.
Thirteen deaths from the old fash-
toned celebration of the Fourth of
July was the total reported in the
United States, according to figures
oomfifled by the Chicago Tribune last
night
The Nation-wide spread of the sane
Fourth movement brought fruit in
the smallest number of celebration
casualties ever recorded. In nearly
every city where the use of explosives
by individuals who prohibited no ac-
cidents were recorded. In others,
where the discharge of explosives
as permitted under limitations, there
was a decided falling off in the num-
ber of the dead and Injured as com-
pared with previous years.
The de^th list ctf thirteen compares
with twenty-eight reported the first
night of last year’s celebration, when
the sane Fourth movement was es-
tablished in fewer cities. The num-
ber of injured reported in 294 against
1,785 reported up to the same hour
last year. In 1909 there were 44 kill-
ed and 2,361 wounded.
REGULAR AMERICAN FOURTH
The Road to Matrimony.
Miss Elisabeth Marbury. the dra-
matist agent, was talking at tbs Col-
ony Club in New York about beauty
doctors.
”Tb# papers and magazines are full
their advertisements" she said.
•“They must make a great deal of
F **
i, Miss Marbury*” said a young ;
lawyer, *T have heard that
’beauty treatments are dangerous.”
"WeP, you might call them dan-
gerous In s way,” Miss Marbury
•,agreed. ”1 know, for example, a very
•rich widow of sixty-two years. She
•took a course of ten beauty treat
g !ments, and last month married her
!boy chauffeur.”
High Standing.
“There is no doubt in the
world
dhat Jonab was an exceedingly good
land truthful man, enjoying the respect
{Of all who knew him.”
v "What reminds you of all this?”
"The fact that nobod^ attempted to
/discredit his story about a fish.”
Helped With Fuel,
lfan With Wooden Leg — Tour
^charge for cremation la exhorbitant
Porter at Crematory-Well, we will
throw off 20 per cent, in your case
m account of your wooden leg.
Wolgaet Whips English Champion to
Standstill.
San FYancisco: The measured
swing of Referee Welsh’s arm, tolling
off the fatal ten seconds over the
writhing end unconscious body of
Owen Moran of England counted a
victory for Ad Wolgast in the thir-
teenth round of Tuesday’s interna-
ternattonal battle for the lightweight
championship.
Right upper-cuts to the stomach
followed by a left hook to the Jaw
forced the English fighter to take
the count for the first time in his
eleven years in the ring. Moran came
undistressed to the unlucky thir-
teenth round, although it was plain
he was tiring. Wolgast met him with
a well-timed rush a«id forced his way
to close quarters. Moran checked
him with a left jab, but was backed
against the ropes in his own corner.
Wolgast whipped his right arm free
from the cjinch, and swinging from
his hip sent his glove crashing three
times to the pit of Moran’s stomach.
Moran’s face whitened and twisted
with agony under the smear of blood *
from his lip cuts. He groped blindly
to smother the smashing blows; then
his knees gave way under him and
he slipped from Wolgast’s grasp to
the brown canvas that covered the
ring.
Moran rolled on hie side and his
legs scrambled for a footing, hut his
mouth was wide open and his eyes
rolled back and shouting seconds
brought no meaning to his deafened
senses.- It was several minutee be-
fore he regained consciousness.
NEXT!
(Copyright. MIL)
DEPOSITS SHOW GAIN
REVENUE INCREASED
RESERVE IS AWAY BEYOND THAT
REQUIRED.
THE SURPLUS IS $33,000,000
DISCOVERIES LOOK MIGHTY BAD
Disbursing Clerk Involved Regarding
Vouchers for Portrait of
Justice Day.
Finances Are Ail that Could Be De-
*- sired Both With Government
and the Public.
Washington, D. C.: The total re-
serve held by 7,277 National banks at
the close of business on June 7, the
last call by the Controller of the Cur-
rency, was 11,478,140,795, an average
of 22.10 per cent, and $121,870,815
above the amount required to be held
by law. The percentage in the cen-
tral reserve cities has Increased to
27.37 per cent.
Compared with their condition on
June 30, 1910, all the National banks
show an Increase of $486,423,977 in
their total resources, $180,679,600 in
loans an<L discounts and $190,774,844
In Individual deposits.
When the Government’s fiscal year
of 1911 closed the Federal Treasury
held a cash surplus of at least $33,-
000,000 and showed an excess of all
receipts over all disbursements for the
first time since 1907.
While the revised returns, showing
the Government’s exact financial con-
dition, will not be available for seme
days, from such figures as are at hand
and such estimates as Treasury offi-
cials consider reliable, it is apparent
that the Government during the last
twelve months received from all
Bourcs not less than $689,000,000 about
$10,000,000 more than was expected,
and spent $656,000,000, about $6,000,-
000 less than was planned.
For the first time, income from in-
ternal revenue and customs was near-
ly equal. While customs receipts for
the year fell $20,000,000 and will -stand
at about $312,000,000, the internal rev-
enue promises to total $15,000,000, the
greatest sum ever collected from that
source, which will surpass the record-
breaking figures of 1866.
Just an Illustration.
Kansas City, Mo.: A striking con-
trast between a ‘sane” and an ‘‘old-
fashioned” Fourth of July was offered
in the two Kansas Cities. In Kansas
City, Mo., neither accidents nor fires
due to explosives have been reported.
In Kansas City, Kan., one death was
directly due to the noise. Three fires
caused by fire crackers occurred on
the Kansas side in less than ten min-
utes, and all day the fire companies
were busy answering calls.
About 300 delegates to the conven-
tion of Modern Brotherhood met in
Dallas Wednesday in a one day’s ses-
sion .
A “BULL” ON MR. 0’REILLEY
Family Mix up that is Quite Dis-
appointing to Texans.
New York: John J. O’Reilly, of Dal-
las, is now on his way to Ireland
while his wife, son and daughter, are
waiting in New York for the sailing
of another White Star Line steamer.
Mr. O’Reilly has plenty of money,
but his steamer ticket is in his wife's
possession. When the steamer Baltic
sailed Saturday the O’Reilly family
were victims of a peculiar mix-up.
Mr. O’Reilly went to have some bills
changed a few minutes before the
vessel s filed. The family waited on
the dock for him while the vessel
sailed away. In the meantime Mr.
O’Reilly had boarded the vessel look-
ing for his relatives. A wireless from
the ship Sunday announced that Mr.
O’Reilly was on board and the family’s
anxiety was relieved.
Washington, June 29.—Expressing
the belief that there was a misappro-
priation of State Department funds
and recommending, as a result, the
dismissal from the service of Wil-
liam H. Michael, American Consul
General at Calcutta and formerly chief
clerk of the State Department, and
of Thomas Morrison, disbursing clerk
of the department, the subcommittee
of the House Committee on Expen-
ditures in the State Department
adopted the report which is will send
to the .full committee.
The alleged misappropriation oc-
curred in connection with the pur-
chase of a portrait of Associate Jus-
tice Day, former Secretary of State,
and amounted to $1,600. Only $800
was paid to Albert Rosenthal, the ar-
tist who painted the picture, whereas,
the committee, during Its investigar
tion, traced to a single voucher the
sum of $2,450, on wnich were writ-
ten the words "for portrait and frame
of Ex-Secretary Day.”
The mysterious finding of the couch-
er for $2,450, which was reported lost
when the committee began its in-
vestigation hut which later was dis-
covered by a messenger on the floor
in the disbursing clerk’s office, is
criticized by the committee in its
report as beyond human belief. Both
Morrison and Michael should be re-
moved from office, in the opinion of
the committee, for the good of the
public service.
COTTON ESTIMATES
INDICATE DUMPER
COTTON ON JUNE 25 IS 88.2 OF
NORMAL.
HIGHEST AVERAGE SINCE ’01
With High Average and an Increaset
. Acreage the Indications Are
Great.
Washington, D. C.: The conditio,
of the cotton crop June 25 was 88.;
per cent of normal, compared with 87.!
per cent May 25, 1911; 80.7 per cen
June 25, 1910; 74.6 per cent in 1909
and 80 per cent as the average con-
dition June 25 during the last ten
years, according to the Department
of Agriculture’s estimate announced
at noon Monday. Official estimates
of the cotton crop of 1911 indicate
that it will be the largest in the his-
tory of the country, approximately,
according to the present figures, 14,-
425,000 bales of 500 pounds each.
Dr. N. M. Murray, acting chief of
the crop reporting board of the De-
partment of Agriculture, has made
the following statement, subsequent to
the issuance of the cotton crop report:
“The report shows the condition of
the crop to be higher than on any
corresponding date in the last ten
years. A month ago the general con-
dition was 8:5 per cent above the ten-
year average. It is 10.3 per cent above
the ten-year^ average.”
The acreage of cotton this year is
about 35,000,000. Allowing for the
average amount of abandonment—
about 1,000,000 acres—the indications
are that approvlmately 34,000,000 acres
of (fctton will be harvested.
WIRE TRUST IS IN BAD.
New York, June 30.—Nine indict-
ments charging restraint of trade in
violation of the Sherman anti-trust
law were returned b> a Federal Grand
Jury here Friday afternoon against as
niany associations, and a long list of
individuals comprising the so-called
“wire trust” affiliated with the steel
industry. Prominent among the de-
fendants are Herbert L. Satterlee, a
son-in-law of J. Pierpont Morgan,, and
William P. Palmer, president of the
American Steel and Wire Company, a
subsidiary of the United States Steel
Corporation, and Frank Gould of New
York, president of the Old Dominion
Iron and Nail Work Company.
The Government does seek to es-
tablish a physical of fiscal merger of
the properties or interests indicated,
but a series of pools to maintain
prices and to apportion territory, in
elmination of competition, and so in
violation of the Sherman act
Thus the suit appears as a further
effort of the Government to deal vig-
orously with restrictive trade agree-
ments. The suits against the Period-
ical Clearing House this week and
against the Box'and Paper Manufac-
turers earlier, are cases in point.
Seamen’s Strike Ends in England.
London: Monday night saw the
practical end of the shipping strike,
which so far as its international char-
acter was concerned, was a failure
from the first Nevertheless, in Great
Britain, it developed a serious char-
acter, dislocating commerce and trade
in many directions. The strikers have
not gained all their demands, hut have
obtained substantial victories, includ-
ing the recognition of their unions,
the chief obstacle to a settlement in
Liverpool, Glasgow and other ports.
Steamers which have been held up
have now obtained crews. ..
Railway Loses $150,000 by Fire.
Palestine: About $150,000 damages
were done when fire destroyed the
wood working shops of the Interna-
tional and Great Northern Railroad
and threatened the other shops and
other valuable property with destruc-
tion. The shops were closed and the
origin of the fire is unknown. Sev-
eral coaches were burned. The new
anto fire engine was used, but could
not cope with the flames at the wood
working shop, though It stopped them
before they reached the other build-
ings.
The Frisco will soon erect a com-
modious freight depot and offices in
Paris.
San Francisco Gets Shake.
San Francisco: Saturday at 2:10
p. m. a sharp shock of earthquake—
the heaviest since the 1906 disaster—
gave the whole coast a fright, and is
charged with causing the death of two
people who collapsed from nervous
shock. The whole of Northern Cali-
fornia and Nevada were affected, but
no material damage was done.
Heat Explodes Dynamite.
Marietta: The excessive heat caus-
ed the explosion of 600 pounds of dy-
namite at the Marietta Torpedo Com-
pany nitro grycerin plant, three miles
from thi3 city, and there is now a
big hole in the ground, big enough to
put a dwelling where the plant stood.
This eity was considerably shaken.
Three men were slightly Injured.
Three Dallas doctors have been in-
dicted by the grand Jury on the charge
of practicing abortion.
Veterinarians Organize.
Austin: The new state Board of
Veterinary Medical Examiners is or-
ganized. Dr. T. W. Watson of Corsi-
cana is. elected president; Dr. J. F.
Wilkins of Greenville, vice president;
Dr. F. C. Cook of Paris, secretary and
treasurer. The other three members
are Dr. W. A. Knight of Houston, C.
C. Parker of San Angelo and S. J.
Swift of Austin. A sixth member of
the board is yet to be named by the
Governor. The board will hold Its
first meeting for the examination of
applicants for license to practice veter-
inary medicine in the State on July
25, at Dallas.
The scholastic census of the city of
Dallas as final^r completed shows 17,-
764 names within the State scholastic
ages.
Modern machinery Is being Installed
installed Bryan's new candy factory.
Railways Make Poor Showing.
Austin: The railroad commission
has given out a comparative state-
ment showing the revenue and oper-
ating expenses of the railroads of Tex-
as for ten months ending April 30,
1911, as compared with the same pe-
riod for the previous year. It shows
the total operating revenue to be $84,-
079,707, which is an Increase of $*4,-
114,930 or 5.14 per cent; operating ex-
penses, $64,181,846, which is an In-
crease of $4,139,937 or 6.89 per cent.
Income from operation, $19,897,560,
which Is a decrease of $25,007 or .012
per cent.
’ Austin: Texas is facing a $476,000
treasury deficit. When State Treas-
urer Sparks closed up his office last
week he found that he had just $125,-
000 to the credit of his general rev-
enue fund. Fifty thousand dollars of
this went out to pay the interest on
the State ’s public debt and this will
leave only about $75,000 on hand. Dur-
ing July, August and September the
treasurer—figuring on last year’s re-
ceipts as a basis—calculates that he
will take in about $801,000, against
which expenditures to the amount of
about $1,352,000 must be made. This
will boost the deficit well along toward
the half million dollar mark by the
early fall.
Washington: Appropriations made
by Congress In the third session of
the Sixty-First Congress amounted to
$1,026,682,882, according to a joint
statement by the House and Seftate
Appropriations Committee. This was
51,218.747 less than the appropria-
tions of the previous session. In
addition, however, contracts were au-
thorized to be entered into for cer-
tain public works calling for future
appropriation* of $43,454,145.
Gregg County Wants Roads.
Longview: This county, Gregg, Sat-
urday voted bonds In the sum of $100,-
000 for road improvement by a vote
of 3 to 1, only one box going against
the proposition. This makes $160,000
to be spent on street and road im-
provement Longview recently voted
$60,000 for street Improvement
St. Petersburg. Russia’s first
Dreadnaught, the Savastopol, was
launched successfully from the Baltic
works. The battleship was laid down
on June 16, 1909, and It Is expected
that another two years will be occu-
pied In equipping the vessel which
has a displacement of 23,000 tons and
with 42.000 horsepower, is expected
to develop a speed of thirty-two knots
an hour. Her length Is 590*4 and the
beam is eighty-seven feet. Her arm-
ament will consist of twelve 12-incb
guns, sixteen 4.7-lnch guns and small-
er artillery.
GEN. C. A. EVANS {
ANSWERS LAST ROLL
AFTER LINGERING ILLNE8S PROM-
INENT CONFEDERATE DIE8.
SIX CHILDREN SURVIVE HERO
n JOE
■fm
Prominent in Military Affairs, Yet ft
Presiding Elder of the Methodist
Church Many Years.
Atlanta, July 3.—'After lingering at
death’s door for nearly a month, Gen.
Clement A. Evans, formerly commaa-
der in chief of the United Confederate
Veterans, died at his home in this city
Sunday afternoon at 4:40 o’clock of
Bright’s disease. His death was not
unexpected and several of his children
were at his bedside when the end
came.
Gen. Evans, wjx> was 79 years old, •
had been confined to his home slnco
the first of last April, but he had been
In ill health for several years. Ho
was born in Stewart County, Georgia,
In 1833 and came to Atlanta to make
his permanent home in 1889, when lift
was appointed presiding elder of thft
Griffin district in the Northern Geoft
gia conference of the Southern Meth~
odist Church. At the time of his death
he was still a member of the North
Georgia conference, holding the offteft
of treasurer of the Preachers’ A iff
Society.
Gen. Evans was elected commander-.
In chief of the United t Confederate
Veterans in April, 1908, and served two
years, declining to accept re-election
on account of his health. He Wa»,
then elected honorary commander in
chief, being the first member of tfin
Veteran organization to be accorded)
that honor.
Gen. Evans, since his early man-
hood, had been prominent In ths af-
fairs of Georgia^ military, businesa
and civil, and in the work of the Meth-
odist Church, of which he was a mine
inter for twenty-five years.
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14 HEAT VICTIMS IN CHICAGO
-.i
Hundreds Prostrated and Many Com-
pelled to Sleep In 8treeta.
m
Chicago: Fourteen dead and hun-
dreds prostrated is the result in Chi-
cago of the hottest July 2 in thft
history of the local Weather Bureau. , .i
But for the fact that it was
with few people laboring, hospital
police authorities toy the list of d<
would have been doubled.
The official temperature was 94 ah
2 o’clock, the high mark, hut street
thermometers showed 107 above. In;
the streets there was no air and thft
humidity was smothering. In thft
Ghetto and other congested districts
the people deserted their stuffy homes
and alept in the streets.
The bathing beeches were crowded
beyond their capacity and several who
sought relief from the heat by swim-
ming In the lake met death by drown- *
ing. There were two cases of mem
fishing from the piers, strlken by thft
deadly heat and knocked into the lake,
where they drowned. «*$
Reports ifrom outside cities and r
towns teirof intense heat, the tem-
pe^ature going above 105 in many
localities.
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A LONG FRISCO EXTENSION
f
El Paso Terminus Is Again Brought
Forward.
Houston: That it is still the Inten-
tion of the St. Louis 4fc San Francisco*
Railroad company to construct a line
across the western part of Texas and
the southeastern portion of New Mex-
ico, with El Paso as the objectivft
point, is shown by the activity of the
engineers now engaged in locating the
proposed route. The construction of
this line was commenced two years
ago by the Quanah, Acme and Pacific,
a subsidiary of the Frisco. The Une
was completed between Quanah and
Paducah, a distance of over forty milee
and is now being regularly operated
between those two places. Sam Lazar-
us of SL Louis, who was associated
with B. F. Yoakum, chairman of thft
Frisco executive board, in the con-
struction of the Brownsville line, la
president of the Quanah, Acme 4k Pa-
cific, and R. D. Yoakum, a brother of
Frisco head, is third vice president of
the Une.
A corps of engineers is now In thft
field making the final survey of the
route and It has been announced that
construction on the line will be resum-
ed as soon as the route is finally lo-
cated. This Is taken as evidence that
plans for the proposed extension have
been revived.
One of the largest towns through;
which the line will pass is Roswell,
N. M. The distance from Quanah to
Roswell is about 350’ miles, while from
Roswell to El Paso, over the proposed
route is another 150 miles. This makes
the entire proposed extension 500 miles
long.
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On July 25, 26 and 27 the State
Swine Breeders' Association w'U bold
their annual meeting at College Sta-
tion, Texas.. An interesting program
for the three days* session to
prepared.
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Hulbert, Elbert Monroe & Tufts, Minnie Wetmore. The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, July 7, 1911, newspaper, July 7, 1911; Lancaster, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth543704/m1/2/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lancaster Genealogical Society.