The Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 18, 1912 Page: 1 of 4
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Wt Hav* Installed Up to Dot# Machinery
and are Prepared to do
ALL KINDS of REPAIR WORK
On Short Notice. All Work Guaranteed.
Did you know that you can
be forced to per for lead after
it ia discovered that the tide is
bod sad unsalable? See the
opinion of the Supreme Court
in Athorifestite Land Title Can*
tion No. 2 in another column of
this paper.
ine Auto Gompy,
PHONE 164
A one h. p. gasoline engine
that will take the place of a 16-ft
windmill
Alpine Hardware Co.
A NEW LEAF HAS
BEEN TURNED BY
R. B. Slight & Company
And a New Policy Wil
Be Adopted for 1912.
Look for Our “Busmen Letter'
VOL. XXIL
ALPINE, BREWSTER COtJNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1912.
NO. 3
H.L. KOKKBNOT. V Pim
U L. HE88, Y-Pim.
C.A. BROWN. Pies.
G. W. BAINES, JB. Cult.
A. & BURTON. Art -
The First National Bank
OF ALPINE, TEXAS.
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Capital and Surplus $90,000.00
We solicit your business, assuring prompt and courteous treat-
ment, and every facility consistent with prudent banking methods
Our directorate is mode up of men who are individually suc-
cessful and collectively able to care for your best interests.
Notice to the Public.
Mr. J. E. Kirksey has assumed
the management of the Alpine
Power Company. All business
in connection with the above cor-
poration or complaints, .will be
attended to by him. We expect
to have good light service in the
coarse of ten days and will en-
deavor to give the very best of
service. J. H. Derrick,
R. B Slight,
H. W. Townsend,
Directors.
Public Dray.
I wish to announce that I am
prepared to do all kinds of haul-
ing and will be pleased to have
the patronage of the public.
Phone your orders to 186 and
they will receive prompt atten-
tion.
Jno. R. Hall-
Clean and sanitary beds and
well lightedrooms at the Alpine
hotel. My rates are reasonable.
11-5-tt > Mrs. C. Duoat.
FOR SALE BY
GUY CRAWFORD & CO.
Alpine, Texan
THE FAIRBANKS LINE
Western Engineering Company
Alpine —— Ft. Stockton
Consulting and Contracting Engineers. Gas and Gasoline Engines,
Machinery and Supplies
Statewide Fight Da Mentegitu.
‘ Dallas, Texas.—An effort to
secure spinal menigitis serum for
distribution throughout Texas
will be made by the State Board
of Health. County attorneys
are urged to prosecute practice
on meningitis by unauthorized
perseons, and also dilatonness of
physicans in repotting the disease.
The disease is most prevalent
among negroes.
These were the main points
made by the State Board of
Health today in formal resolu-
tions adopted at its special meet-
ing here to consider the menin-
gitis outbreak.
Dr. Abraham Sophian, the
New York meningitis expert,
received word today that his
mother is dying in New York.
He said he would remain in
Texas and help fight meningitis.
Following are the State Board
of Health resolutions:
“Resolved, That the president
of the State Board of Health be
authorized to use every effort
to secure a supply of the ap-
proved New York board of
health Serum for distribution
throughout the State.
“Recognizing the import-
ance of early diagnosis and im-
mediate use of the serum, the
State Board of Health urges
upon the county attorneys the
prosecution of all unauthorized
persons prescribing for such
people and anyone delaying a
proper diagnosis and treatment,
as snch delays tend to a further
spread of the disease and prove
fatal to the individual
v “On the appearance of the
disease in any community the
State Board of Health advises the
Jploaingr of public schools, dis-
courages public gatherings and
further advises the closing of
places of public amusement, at
the discretion of the local health
authorities.* The disease being
conveyed by carriers (people
apparently well), the State Board
of Health wished to emphasize
the importance of anticeptic nose
and throat sprays.”
For the first time in medical
history, according to statements
of physicans last night, injections
of Flexner serum have been given
for the purpose of effecting im-
munization against meningitis.
Dr. A. Sophian, expert of the
Rockefeller Institute of New
York and associate of Dr. Simon
Flexner, director of the institute
and discoverer of the serium
which bears his name, was so
immunized Monday morning,
as were several Dallas physicians,
who are engaged in the crusade
against the meningitis epidemic
here._It was declared that there
had been no reaction or undesir-
able after effects whatever, and
that an advance had been made
m medical science in this demon-
stration of the possibility of
immunization against meningitis.
The operation .consists merely
m the injection of a r small
amount of the serium underneath
the skin; aprophylactic injection
as is done immunizing persons
agaifist dipthcria.
The physicians conducting
the fight against meningitis here
advise Dallas citizens to become
so immunized. It ia said that any
physician may perform. the
“vaccination,” and that these is
plenty of authorized Flexner
serum here. A large supply has
arrived from New York and
more is expected.
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The Valuable Predicts of the
Plates.
The despised and much abused
cactus is about to become a val-
ued and valuable product, and
promises to add enormously to
the wealth of the country.
Burbank, the horticultural,
floncultural and several other
varieties of wizard, having suc-
ceeded in his efforts to free the
cactus from its spines and having
converted it into excellent feed
for cattle, sheep and hogs, has
gone further and made candy
from it.
He surprised the California
fruit growers the other day by
announcing that he has succeeded
in making mucilage, waterproof
whitewash and paint from cacti
for commercial purposes.
Two other of his discoveries
of the value of the cactus announ-
ced were the production of rub-
ber from the plant of such excel-
lent quality and economy of
production as would revolution-
ize the manufacture of automo-
bile tires and that an excellent
quality of paper—better and
cheaper than wood pulp—could
be made from it.
It is the factories which con-
vert the unsalable products of
a section into merchantable articles
that bring wealth and prosperity
to the communities in which they
are located. The possibilities
of the southwest since the dis-
covery that the cactus and shrub
of the plains can be converted
into food for cattle, rubber,
paint, paper and other com-
modities for which the demand
is universal, or beyond all cal-
culation.
The utilization fof waist pro-
ducts of this section in the
production of manufactured
articles of world-wide use, relieves
the prediction that Texas, New
Mexico, Arizona and Mexico,
and the great and regons to the
north of us, will yet receive
greater returns from the products
of the deserts than are being
derived from their mines.
The belief is justified that
the economic potentialities of the
west are vet far beyond concept-
ion, for the whole country is
still amazed at the wonderful
discoveries already made while
the work is vet in its infancy.—El
Paso Times.
Irrigation in Southwest Texas.
San Antonio, Texas. —One
hundred large projects to be
completed in Texas this year will
bring under irrigation approxi-
mately 350,000 acres of land,
much of it never before touched
by plow, according to W. L.
Rockwell, irrigation manager of
Texas and Oklahoma for the
United States Department of
Agriculture.
These irrigated lands will av-
erage in value, he said, more
than $2SO per acre. Mr. Rock-
well has just returned from a trip
of inspection through ✓ West
Texas.
Near, Marfa, Mr. Rockwell
visited the scene of a dam being
constructed by a Kansas City
syndicate to confine flood water
sufficient to irrigate about 10,000
acres of land that will be ready
for cultivation in 1912. At
Fort Stockton about 10,000 acres
of land is being brepared
for irrigation from Comanche
Springs, which furnish a flow of
about 35,000 gallons a minute.
In Hale, Floyd and Lubbock
counties, - Mr. Rockwell found
many individuals boring wells
for artesian water for irrigation,
and in the El Paso country the
irrigated lands are being planted
in fruit orchards and alfalfa with
great success.
Big Ranch Deal.
The Adams ranch of 10,400
acres has been sold for #104,000.
This land lies partly in Reeves
and partly in Pecos counties, and
is said to be a very fine body of
land. )ohn G. Willis, a banker
of Snyder, Oklahoma, bought
it from Mr. Adams and in turn
sold to Slaughter and Ingles of
Kansas City.
It is reported that these gen-
tlemen will put in an irrigation
system and place a greater part of
this land in cultivation. This
will be great development for this
section of the country, and will
be desirably located since it is on
the auto road between Stockton
and Pecos.—Reeves County
Record. *
t A HOME BANK FOR HOME PEOPLE
| ALPINE STATE BANK
f Capital, Surplus and Profits $36,000
Sailing Jack Rabbits.
Hereford, Texas,—Ja«k rab-
bits arfc being killed here bv the
hundreds. Toe Bourell, living 5
miles south, has 156 pounds
packed m brine in barrels. He
saves only the front, hind quar-
ters and back. It is his intention
to kill several hundred pounds
more for next summer’s meat.
Mr. Bourell says if you know
how to prepare and cook jack
rabbits, it is the finest meat out.
Several other parties here are do-
ing the same thing. It might be
interesting to know that dressed
jack rabbits are selling as high as
$1 each in Chicago. They con-
sider them quite a luxury there.
Navarra Soon to b« Triad.
Mexico City, Mex. —The
body that wjil try Gen. Juan
Navarro for the surrender of
Ciudad Juarez will soon get to-
gether. The agent of the public
military ministry will turn in the
charges in a few days, after hav-
ing passed them over. They will
probably be dismissed, as the’
president of the republic, Fran-
cisco I. Madcro. the minister of
gobernacion, Abraham Gonzaka,
arid many other prominent per-
sons, have nude statements very
favorable to Gen. Navarro.
BENJAMIN F. BERKELEY.
President •
GEO. C. MILLER, V. President
H W. FERGUSON,
W. VAN SICKLE,
Vice President
J. H DERRICK, Cashier.
Ass’t. Cashier
T This bank is under the direct supervision of the State Banking
4+ Board, governed by the laws of Texas, madi by the Deople for the
A people. The nun-interest bearing and unsecured deposit* of this
T Dank are protected by the Depositors Guaranty Fuuil of the State T
4* of Texas Your bu-dnosa solicited.
I Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent. T
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Why He Disobeyed Orders.
The following story is told by
one of Admiral Dewey’s sailors:
Just before the historic battle of
Manila, ’ when the order was
given to strip for action the
smallest powder boy on the flag-
ship dropped his coat over board.
He asked permission to jump
after it, but was refused. He
went to the side of the ship,
dropped overboard recovered
his coat and ^vas promptly ar-
rested for disobedience. Ad-
miral Dewey spoke kindly to
the youngster, who broke down
and said that the coat contained
his mother’s picture and he could
not bear to see it lost. Dewey’s
eyes billed with tears. He fairly
embraced the boy, and ordered
him to be released, saying:
“Boys who love their mothers
well enough to risk their lives for
her picture cannot be kept in
irons on this fleet.”
Shortening the Road to Wealth.
Hello, Pard! Where is the
beft place to buy Groceries?
Why, at Ritchey’s, of course.
At Ritchey’s? And if I buy
my Groceries from Ritchey will I
get rich. too.
Certainly, ''Sir. It you buy
Groceries from Ritchey and man-
age your other affairs properly,
you teill not only get rich but you
vVitl accumulate wealth in such
quantities that some of these days
you can put your foot on the
shouklfer of such men as Harri-
man and Rockefeller. Reach up
and take down the gown of
Superiority from the peg in the
wardrobe of life’s great competi
tion.
I will try.
Hia phone is 8.
A Market for Cantaloupes.
The American Refrigerator
Transit Company of St. Louts,
through their State Agent, T.
H. Gorman of Tyler, has been
negotiating with the Commercial
Club tor a guaranteed acreage of
cantaloupes, the number of acres
required being 200.
The secretary, Mr. Whaley,
informs a Record representative
that the required number of acres
had been assured and the comp-
any will make necessary arrange-
ments for refrigerator cars for the
transportation of all cantaloupes
from this market. This is a
great opportunity for the fa- mers
of Reeves county, for there is no
more certain crop and a crop that
produces more abundantly than
cantaloupes. Let us get our
lands ready for the greatest crop
of cantaloupes eyer grown in the
southwest.
If the Pecos Valley produce is
put on the eastern market, there
will he such a demand lor our
cantaloupes that we wiii not be
able to supply the demand, be-
cause there are none equal in fla-
vor to the Pecos Valley product.
—Reeves County Record.
Eggs For Sale.
Settings of Rhode Island Red
eggs tor sale. Apply or phone
to Mrs. W. W. Townsend.
Fresh and tender meat of all
kinds at Terry’s market. Phone
or send in orders. We make
prompt delivery 10-5-tf.
Remember the Alpine fire of
last year ? Then get a reliable
safe from S. H. McCullough.
The Final Test.
Ten Chicago packers are de-
fendants in the suit of the United
States against what is known as
the Beef Trust, and are now on
trial in Chicago under the crim
inal provision of the oherman
Anti-Trusc Law, one of the
most unscrupulous of many
combinations in restraint of
trade; a combination which has
set itself in defiance of law; which
has “sinned against the light”
and boasted overmuch that it
was stronger than the law. We
shall see now whether it is or not.
The evidence against this trust
appears to be overwhelmingly
convincing as to the guilt of the
defendants, but the case against
them will be tried by orderly pro-
cess.
The Beef Trust has grown
powerful. Since 1880 it has
fixed the prices of meat, one of
the commonest necessities of life
in this country. The case
against this trust is not like the
case against either the Standard
Oil or the American trust. It
has taken advantage of every
possible legal technicality and has
secured one delay after another,
but at last it has been brought
in to court and the case against
it is now in progress. It will be
fought to a finish this time and
if there is any virture in the crim-
inal provisions of the Sherman
Anti-Trust Law, the ten defend-
ants will have to pay the penalty
of their contempt and defiance
of the law by imprisonment.
In this case the law is on trial as
well as the Beet Trust and it is
hoped that the law will prevail.
J. L. CRAWFORD
Real Estate
Office in Store of Guy Crawford & Company.
Will handle Ranch and City Property, Rant
Houses, Pay Taxes.
All business entrusted to my care will he carefully looked alter
Wm. A. Schubel t
General Contractor and Builder
Special Attention Given to See Me Before
High-Class Building........ You Build.......
........Plans and Specifications Furnished........
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Yates, W. J. The Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 18, 1912, newspaper, January 18, 1912; Alpine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth802878/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library (Archives of the Big Bend).