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SIGNAL
VOLUME 18
Honey Grove, Texas, Friday, January 22, 1909.
NO 51.
The Waters-Pierce Co.
Must Leave the State.
THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
AFFIRMS DECREE OF THE
TEXAS COURTS.
In Addition to Being Ousted from the State, the
Big St. Louis Corporation Must Pay a Fine
of $1,623,000.—A Big Victory for At-
torney General R. V. Davidson.
CALVIN TAKES BACK TRACK.
Says Anti-Bucketshop Law Lowered
Price of Cotton.
[Hon. E. A. Galvin, ex-Presi-
dent of the Farmers Union of
District of Texas on a verdict by
the trial court. The District court Texas who was one of the movers
Washington, Jan. 18.—The Supreme Court
of the United States to-day affirmed the decree
of the Courts of Texas imposing a fine of $1,-
of Travis county was sustained.
Justice Day announced the deci-
sion of the Supreme court affirm-
ing the finding of the Texas court.
The case turned on whether the
proceedings of the state against
the company had been in accord-
ance with constitutional require-
ments of due process of law and
the court held such was the case.
While regarding the fine as
very large Justice Day’s opinion
held that it was competent to im-
pose it. The court also sustained
the action of Texas state courts
in the appointment of Robert J.
Eckhart as receiver, and thus
again deciding against the com
623,000 on the Waters-Pierce Oil Company, of pany> which sought to have sus
St. Louis, and ousting it from the state on the tained the aoti°n °f the Federal
charge of violating the Texas anti-trust law.
HISTORY OF THE CASE.
The celebrated suit was brought by Attorney
General Davidson on behalf of the state for the re-
covery of penalties for alleged repeated violations of
the anti-trust laws of Texas by the Waters-Pierce
Company. The matter was first tried in the District
Court of Travis County and resulted in a victory for
the plaintiff. The defendant corporation appealed to
the Civil Court of Appeals for the lower district, and
the judgment of the lower court was affirmed. Then
the case was taken up by the attorneys for the oil
company to the United States Supreme Court on a
writ of error. The decision was handed down Mon-
day and is a complete victory for Attorney-General
Davidson.
While the legation was in progre^ United
States District- Judge Bryant appointed C. L Dor-
ciitsjTc-i, or Sherman, receiver of the company’s ef-
fects in Texas.
for the law which closed all the
bucket shops in the state, came
out in a letter Sunday, saying he
and others who fought for the
law made a big mistake, as the
law cut off speculation and left
farmers at the mercy of spinners,
with the consequence of much
lower prices for cotton than
was reached and was obtained by
various members of the Farmers’
union, also others.
During the time when the mini-
mum price asked was secured for
cotton, trading in contracts was
unrestricted, and subsequent
events have demonstrated con
clusively that spots and futures
are so closely related and abso-
lutely essential to each other that
“united they stand or divided
they fall.”
The Texas anti-future law be-
came effective July 12, 1907, and
on that date July New Orleans
cotton closed at 12.85, and then
TEXAS FIFTH STATE.
should have been obtained. Th^ | sr.eadily cTe0lined Until April 28,
letter ia too long for publication 1908> when jt 8old for 8-47> or a
WON ON EVERY COUNT.
Texas’ Victory Was Complete, Win-
ning in Each of the Three
Cases Passed Upon.
The decision in each case is by
Justice Day without a dissenting
opinion. The result is Texas can
collect $1,623,000 fine and the
state receivership remains.
The first case decided was that
Bradley Palmer and Henry
Clay Pierce against the State of
Texas, appealing from the deci-
sion upholding the state receiv-
ership.
The Supreme Court affirmed
the decision of the Texas courts
with costs.
The second case was No. 360,
on attacking the ouster and re-
ceivership case. The supreme
court dismissed this for want of
jurisdiction.
The third case was No. 361,ap-
pealing from the $1,623,900 fine.
The court affirmed the decision of
the Texas courts upholding this
fine.
Decision Was Unanimous.
The case came to the Supreme
court on a writ of error from the
final decision of the Circuit Court
of Appeals for the Third Judicial
court appointing C. B. Dorches-
ter at the instance of the com-
pany.
The decisions' in all the cases
were unanimous.
Big Fee for County Attorney.
The total amount of the fine
imposed by the trial court in the
case is $1,620,000 and the fees of
County Attorney Brady, who is
the only state official who gets
any fees, is approximately $390,-
000. Out of this amount he will
have to divide fees with several
attorneys who were employed to
assist the state in the prosecution
of the case.
The final outcome, however,de-
pends on the disposition of a case
now pending in the state supreme
court. The anti-trust act of 1899
allowed 25 per cent attorney’s
fees on $1,545,000 of the fine,
while the act of 1U03 allows 10 per
cent on the first $1000 and 5 per
cent on each additional thousand.
This suit in the supreme court
is to determine whether the coun-
ty attorney can celled 25 per
cent allowed under the act of
1899 or the fees under the act of
1903. The case so far has been
decid'd in favor of the county at-
torflC^jin the lower courts.
fe 100,000 Years Ago.
Scientsts have found in a cave in
Switzerland bones of men, who lived
100,000 tears ago, when life was in
constant Amger from wild beasts. To-
day the dinger, as shown by A. W.
Brown, of Alexander, Me., is largely
from deadlldisease. “If it had not
been for DiyKing’s New Discovery,
which cur.cl me, I could not have
lived,’’ he frKes, “suffering as I did
from a seve^lung trouble and stub-
born cough. X To cure sore lungs,
colds, obsthu*^coughs, and prevent
pneumonia, i\^ie best medicine on !
earth. 50c an,ml.00. Guaranteed 1 minimum price of 11 cents per
by Black & Little\ Trial bottle free, pound for cotton, and this figure
in these columns, but following
are extracts giving Mr. Calvin’s
principal arguments:]
One of, if not the most vital
questions, ever agitated by the
Farmers’ Union was the abolish-
ment of bucketshops, and the in-
fluence and strength of the Farm-
ers’ Union is proven absolutely
when,in their endeavor to abolish
bucket shops, they not only did
so in nearly every cotton-growing
State, which was beneficial, but
they actually destroyed legiti-
mate speculation in cotton, which
was detrimental, especially to
farmers.
This now proven fact, while
contrary even to the ideas of a
few, both inside and outside of
-
the Farmers’ union, is in reality
the only tangible, logical or
sensible solution of recent or
present low prices for cotton, and
if heedUd leads *to evolution, and
if ignored to either revolution of
what is even worse, dissolution.
The worl& concedes and history
shows that one odjshe greatest
tests of courage is to admis sav-
ing made a mistake, and unwill-
ingness to rectify errors always
leads to one ultimate result—dis-
aster.
The remedy is for the gover-
nors of all cotton growing States
that now have statutes similar to
the anti-option law in Texas to
immediately and urgently recom-
mend the enactment of a law that
will prevent bucket shops operat
ing within their respective states,
but will permit the buying or sell-
ing of cotton on contracts for
either present or future delivery
for cash or on credit.
Every voter should constitute
himself a committee of one to
work in every honorable way to
secure the enactment of such a
law, as the agricultural and busi-
ness interests are mutual, and all
citizens are affected to a certain
extent by the success or failure of
the farmer, who is the corner-
stone of all commercial pros-
perity.
In the years of 1905 and 1906
the Farmers’ union named a
decline of 4cents per pound, or
$22.50 per bale.
This enormous decline can be
attributed to any cause desired,
but the fact remains that it oc-
curred. from the start to the finish
of the greatest holding movement
of cotton by farmers, merchants
and their friends, that ever was,
or probably ever will be known.
That this decline was unjustifi-
ed is evidenced by the fact that
during that year spinners con-
sumed 11,885,000 bales of cotton,
or 313,000 bales more than farm-
ers produced, whice was only 11,-
571,916 bales, and these figures
by Secretary Hester, the
Passes Missouri in Population and
Reaches After 5,000,000.
It is announced by boosters of
the southwest that Texas has
passed Missouri, and is now the
fifth State in the Union in popu-
lation. In other words, it is ex-
ceeded only by New York, Penn-
sylvania, Illinois ard Ohio in this
respect. This is considered ver^
important for the reason that 1910
is census year, and when the
census taker enters the state he
will find that there are over
5,000,000 persons claiming the
land of the Lone Star as their
home. The St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch prints the following, giving
the general views of half a dozen
St. Louis experts on Texas, in
answer to the query: “Will Tex-
as make its five million by 1910?’’
“Will it make it before the ar-
rival of the census taker in 1910?
Well, it is about turning the four
million mark now. It will have
to hurry to turn the five-million
mark before June 30, 1^10. It
has been hurrying, or "course, or
it would not be able to show totals
turning the four-million mark
now, when in 1900 it had barely
turned the three-million mark,
with a census population of 3,018,-
710 people.
“If you wish to know on Texas
authority what Texas expects to
do, we have it here on file as the
latest from the most authentic
expert in Texas.
“ ‘Texas,’he says, “ ‘is larger
than South Carolina, New York,
Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, Delaware and
Tennessee combined. She has
an area of 265,790 square miles,
an equivalent of 170,099,200
acres, divided into 246 counties.
One can scarcely take in the size
are
recognized standard authority,
and since their issuance have
been verified.
Spinners were able to depress
prices by utilizing their reserve
stocks, commonly known as the
invisible supply, also because
they knew bearish laws that per-
mitted free selling, but prevented
free buying,had become effective.
Speculation, as commonly
known, is a ven'ture based on cal-
culation containing* elements of
reason, while gambling is without
calculation, and simply bliBd
chance. One is an evil; the oth-1of tuL ^"^ory.’
er a necessity. The law con- “Texas has 84,LL4 ^ugj’e miles
demns gambling, but should sus- more than the Austrian empire
tain speculation, It is larger than the German em-
'ht* nominal leads? of any of- pirs by 62,365 square miles, and
ganization must and should bow, J it is more than a third larger than
also work according to the will of France. You could put the whole
the majority when not fully cer- population of the United States
tain they are wrong, but when on Texas soil and give them each
the humblest citizen finds the en- over two acres of ground, or ten
actment of an untried law has acres to the average family, and
proven unwise, and is sure he is they would not be nearly so jam-
right, he can only say, “To err is med up as the people of New
human; to forgive devine,’’ and Jersey are now.
work unceasingly to correct er- “By the time 1950 rolls around
rors of the head instead of the Texas will outstrip New York and
hearf' take its rightful place as the Em-
it requires the courage of posi- pire State,
tive conviction for any one to ad-
mit having been honestly mis- The Gaming Passion,
taken. The South had a bucket! If the full story of the card ta-
! ioner who had a passion for
I gambling for her approaching
death the lady after listening tor
a short time to his exhortation ex-
claimed: “That’s enough! Now
let us have a game of cards.”
To humor her the parson consent-
ed to play. The dying woman
won all his money and had just
suggested playing for her funera!
fee when she fell back and ex
pired.
In the early years of last cen
tury a whist club composed large-
ly of clergymen used to meet in
the back room of a barter’s shop
in a Somersetshire town. On one
occasion, so the story runs, when
four of the club members were
acting as pall bearers at the fu-
neral of a reverend brother, some
delay occurred, and the coffin
was set down in the chancel. One
of them produced a pack of cards
and suggested a rubber. The
coffin served the purpose of a ta-
ble, and the players were deeply
immersed in the game when the
sexton arrived to announce that
everything was at last ready.
The curious fascination cards
possess for their devotees is illus-
trated by the following story of
Lord Granville, at the time am-
bassador to France. One after-
noon when he was about to return
to Paris he repaired to Graham’s
to have a farewell game of whist,
ordering his carriage to be at the
door at 4. When it arrived he
was much too deep in the game
to be disturbed. At 10 o’clock he
sent out to say that he was not
ready and that the horses had
better be changed,six hours later
the same message was sent out,
and twice more the waiting horses
were changed before he consent-
ed to leave the table after losing
£10,000.
An equally remarkable story is
told of George Payne, the great
turf plunger of seventy years
ago. On one occasion he sat
.down at Limmer’s hotel to play
cards^Uh ljord Albert Denison,
STOMACH DISTRESS.
shop sore on its speculative hand, ble could be written it would sure-
and instead of curing it with the ly be the most thrilling revelation
proper medicine, they cut off the of human cupidity ever publish-
hand‘ ........ ed, and almost every page of it
International Paper Dollars. | would be marked by some inci-
Secretary Cortelyou has made de^ which would outstrip fiction
a recommendation to Congress, , en ^,ou^s ^V, was at the
the idea of which is not brand °ard table the faacination of the
new, namely, that an interna- game made him absolutely dead
tional paper dollar would be a to a11 externals and even to de-
great convenience. Our own pa- Gency and humanity. On one
per dollars are certificates for the UCCt8i°n When he ' " PlaYing
represented amount in coin, and f°r heavy stake. one of oppo-
it is argued that on the same „3 overcome by excitement,
principle that makes them legal °°llapsed m hl9 chair in a fit
between states, an international ", apop.lexy‘ His affect-
certificate might be arranged that | t0 ignore the incident until
would be legal between nations. l°,me °1I?e . e_x°laimed> “M. de
For some reason this plan seems 18 111!” “I11?” retort
both sensible and desirable. ed the king’ ca9fcin2 a careless
At present all international ?lanoe at the stricken man; “he
monetary transactions are car- | deadl Take him away. Spades
ried on only by the medium of I ar® trumps> gentlemen!”
gold or silver. It is for such pur- Equally weird is a story Gold-
pose only that the coin is remov- 8mi.th tells’ When the clergyman
ed in quantities from the govern-1 arnved to prepare a lady pash-
ment treasury. For instance, if
later the first LorJ- U/ondesbor-
ough. Hour after hour pasSe^h
The game proceeded all through
the night and long after day
dawned, and it was not until an
urgent message came to tell Lord
Albert that his bride was waiting
for him at the altar of St.
George’s, Hanover Square, that
the cards were at last flung down.
It was Lord Albert’s wedding
day,and he met his bride £30,000
poorer than when he left her on
the previous day.
And All Misery From Indigestion
Vanishes Five Minutes
Later.
Every family here ought to keep
some Diapepsin in the house; as any
one of you may have an attack of in-
digestion or stomach trouble at aDy
time, day or night.
This harmless preparation will di-
gest anything you eat and overcome a
sour stomach five minutes afterwards.
If your meals don’t tempt you, or
what little you do eat seems toffsll you,
or lays like a lump of lead in your
stomach, or if you have heartburn,that
is a sign of Indigestion.
Ask your Pharmacist for a 50-cent
case of Pape’s Diapepsin and take one
triangule after supper to-night. There
will be no sour risings,no belching of
undigested food mixed with acid, no
stomach gas or heartburn, fullness or
heavy feeling in the stomach, Nausea,
Debilitating Headaches, Dizziness or
Intestinal griping. This will all go,
and, besides, there will be no sour
food left over in the stomach to poison
your breath with nauseous odors.
Pape’s Diapepsin is a certain cure
for all stomach misery, because it will
take hold of your food and digest it
just the same as if your stomach
wasn’t there.
Actual, prompt relief for all your
stomach misery is at your pharmacist,
waiting for you.
These large 50-cent cases contain
more than sufficient to cure a case of
Dyspepsia or Indigestion.
we owe France a million dollars
we put that much gold on a ves
sel and send it across the Atlan-
tic, and if a foreign country owes
us a debt it is paid in a like man
ner.
If we had an international
clearing-house, where the credits
of all nations were supervised and
could be ascertained without fear
of mistake, we could keep our
gold at home and, instead, ship
paper certificates that would be
as acceptable to the receiver and
quite easy of replacement if the
vessel bearing them should be
lost in a storm.
The Meanest Man in Town
is the one who always wears a frown,
is cross and disagreeable, and is short
and sharp in his answers. Nine cases
out of ten it’s not the poor fellow’s
fault, it’s his liver and digestion that
make him feel so miserable, he can’t
help being disagreeable. Are you in
danger of getting into that condition?
Then start at once taking Ballard’s
Herbine for your liver—the safe, sure
and reliable vegetable regulator. Sold
by Blac1-^ ’ "
Scott’s
Emulsion
of Cod Liver Oil with Hypo-
phosphites should always be
kept in the house for the
following reasons:
First— Because, if any member
of the family has a hard cold,
it will cure it.
Second— Because, if the chil-
dren are delicate and sickly, it
will make them strong and well.
Third— Because, if the father
or mother is losing flesh and
becoming thin and emaciated,
it will build them up and give
them flesh and strength.
Fourth—Because it is the
standard remedy in all throat
and lung affections.
No household should be with-
out it.
Send this advertisement, together with name
of paper in which it appears, your address and
four cents to cover postage, and we will
you a “Complect Handy Atlas of the ,11^
SCOTT & BQWNE, 409 Pea'j
The Railroad Across the Sea.
One of the most notable rail
roads in the world is one which
goes to sea from Miami, Fla.,and
which is now approaching com
pletion, the road from Miami to
Key West.
Work on this road was begun
in July, 1905, and has been in
progress ever since, with the ex
pectation that it would be the
greatest achievement of Henry
M. Flagler, the multimillionaire
railroad builder, who conceived
the idea.
Already the road is completed
and in operation nearly a hun
dred miles south of Miami and
the extension will take it over a
stretch of thirty miles of open
ocean and thirty miles more of
submerged keys and lagoons, to
connect Key West with Miami,
156 miles. Only about thirty
miles of the road remains to be
constructed to connect the line
from the north with that which is
being constructed from the south.
The most important part of the
work yet remaining to be done is
the eleven - mile gap between
Knight’s Key and Bahia Honda,
where the track is to be carried
over the ocean on concrete arches.
When the line is completed to
Key West huge railroad car floats
will take entire trains across the
Florida Straits to Havana, a dist-
ance of ninety miles, without
compelling passengers to leave
their car seats or sleeping car
berths and without the necessity
of breaking bulk on a single con-
signment of freight. Thus there
will be practically an all rail route
from New York to Havana,
though for nearly a hundred
miies of the distance the railway
trains will be carried on floats.
Every Mother
is or should be worried when the lit-
tle ones have a cough or cold. \Tt
may lead to croup or pleurisy or pnen
monia—then to something more se
rious.^^^lard’s Horehound-Syru
Enterprise and Taxation.
Texas and Arkansas are the
only states in the Union that dis-
criminate against manufacturers,
and the two states combined have
less than 1 % per cent of the fac-
tories in the Union—New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Mas-
sachusetts and Illinois together
have 54 per cent of the factories,
though their combined area is
less than half that of Texas.
Seventeen states exempt man'
ufaetories from taxat^o^—mfKer
wholly or impart and in these
seventeen states 90 per cent of
the manufacturing concerns are
located. Among these states are
Alabama and Mississippi, which
exempt all manufacturing plants
fromtaxation for a period of years
after their installation.
These are alleged statistical
facts compiled by the Commer-
cial Secretaries Association with
the apparent purpose of showing
that the states which have dealt
most liberally with the manufac-
turers have been most bountiful-
ly supplied with industrial activi-
ties, while those which have been
most illiberal continue to rely on
outside manufactories to take
their raw materials and return to
them the finished products at an
enormous increase in value.
Texas is placed in the class of the
latter—Texas! the state that pro-
duces practically anything and
everything and that could fur-
nish material for any sort of fac-
tory.—San Antonio Express.
A Watch 308 Years Old.
Ruben S. Price of Alta Loma,
Texas, owns a watch which he
declares is the first one ever
brought to America.
It is a solid chronometer, in di-
ameter about the size of the ordi-
nary watch of to-day, but several
times as thick. It was made in
Liverpool, England, by Richard
D. Banner, about the year 1600.
It is absolutely hand made, every*
wheel,spring and screw was fash-
ioned without the aid of ma-
chinery of any kind. It was
brought to Maryland in 1634, in
either the Ark or the Dove, two
of the ships sent by Lord Balti-
more to his brother, Governor of
the settlement of Maryland.
After running approximately
308 years the watch keeps perfect
time to-day. Mr. Price carries it
with him constantly,and of course
attaches great value to it. “I
have refused thousands of dollars
for it three times,” he said.
A Night Rider’s Raid.
The worst night riders are calomel,
croton oil or aloes pills. They raid
your bed to rob you of rest. Not so
with Dr. King’s New Life Pills.
They never distress or inconvenience,
but always cleanse the system, curing
colds, headache, constipation,malaria,
25c at Black & Little’s.
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