Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, February 12, 1904 Page: 1 of 4
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Alpine Avalanche
VOL. XIV.
ALPINE.* BREWSTER COUNTY. TEXAS PBIDAY, FEBRUARY 18. 1904.
N*. .7
Now for 1904.
We have THE BEST CANNED GOODS and the largest stock
of good things to eat we ever had. Our stock of
Dry Goods, Notions &c,
is complete. A beautiful line jpf
UP-TO-DATE FOOTWEAR
in transit, and new styles of MEN’S and BOY’S SHIRTS just
received.
W. D. Kincaid,
President.
Fiux Stappkb,
Vice-President.
E. J. ALT GELT,
Secretary.
Kincaid-AItgelt Go.
With best wishes to all for a happy and prosperous new year,
G. R Larkin Go.
As to Manufacturing.
A few days ago the AYalanche re-
ceived from the secretary of the Amer
lean & Mexican Trust Company a letter
of inquiry in regard to the population,
business, etc. of Alpine and the resour-
ces of the surrounding country. It
was asked, among other things, what
manufacturing establishments are now
in operation and what advantages are
there for the establishment of new
enterprises. These questions suggest
possibilities that are worthy of careful
consideration.
Some people will smile, perhaps, at
the mentiou of manufacturing and
Alpine in the same connection. But
why? Is there anything in natural
conditions to make It impossible that
manufacturing can be done here ?
Three years age these same people
smiled audibly when the Daugherty
brothers began building their Ice fac-
tory, but it baa been a paying invest-
ment from the start and the volume of
its busines is increasing all the time.
Again, when Thomas Dean began the
manufacture of sheet metal goods,
these same people were ready with
their predictions of failure. Yet the
business has become so large that Mr.
.Dean had to send for bis brother in
San Antonio to come and help him
handle it. «
Have you ever Been any of thoBe
beautiful rugs and other fabrics made
by Mexican women from the liber of
the lechageia and other native plants ?
And beauty is not their only merit.
The fiber is so strong that fabrics
made of it are more durable than simi-
lar stuffs ot auy other material. These
hand made rugs sell for fancy prices,
but if they were manufactueed by ma-
chinery they could be sold as cheap as
inferior goods. Thus this despised
plant hitherto regarded as an unmiti-
gated nuisance can be made a means of
giving employment to many and source
of wealth to whoever will judiciously
engage in its manufacture.
H. W, Blum hss gone to Midland on
business.
Hlmon Kinsella, manager of the oil
well property, has gone to El l’aso for
two competent drillers.
Mrs. Barney liiggs was in from the
Tom Biggs Bauch last week.
E. VV. McKenzie sold to John A
March of San Angelo 111 stock horBes.
The total number ot poll tax receipts
issurd In Pecos county to Feb. 1 is 383,
whlcbls more than 100 short of the
vote in tbe last election.
Lee Fowler is down with a severe
attack of tic douloureux.
Politics inactive and no candidates
yet soliciting the favor of the sover-
eigns, though it 1b rumored that D. L.
Anderson (Doc) is out ler sheriff and
tax collector.
State and county tax collections for
January amounted to $17,000, the larg
est for auy one month in the history of
the county. ,
Mrs. Jane Rooney is building a neat
cottage in tbe Rooney & Butz addition.
The versatile General McKenzie is
lost, strayed or stolen. He left here
just before ChriBtmas to be absent two
weeks and has not returned. When
last heard from he was at Brackett,
where he had a case out of court.
R. B. Neighbors is feeling 500 per
cent better. He is feeding 500 grown
steers on alfalfa at the. 7D ranch.
When in prime condition they will be
shipped to San Francisco and thence
to the Phllllpine Islands. George C.
Haseltine will haue charge of them as
frr as San jrancisco.
Orient.
Then there is the rubber plant whloh
grows wild all over this section and
which according to tests made in El
Paso yields 60 per cent, of elastic gnm.
What hinders the building of a factory
for converting it into a valuable article
of commerce ?
Everybody knows that many hides
are shipped from this section to tan-
nerries In other parts of the country,
but a good many people have not yet
learned that everything that the tanner
needs for manufacturing these hides
into leather of the best quality abounds
in this vicinity.
In view of these facts, and other*
that might be mentioned, why may
net Alpine beoome a man u factoring
oentar?
Fart Stockton Facta and Fancies.
Fort Stockton, Feb. 6.—The weather
la now pleasant and cattle are yet doing
well—can go about sixty days without
any abnormal loss.
Dr. Freeman and wife of Sweetwater
an hen for the balance of the winter.
Sully Yaugh of Pecos, Texas, has
assumed charge of the Koehler Hote
.and will run a Orst-oiaas boon.
Five of the incumbents of county
offices announce in this issue their
candidacy for re-election, as follows:
A. M. Turney, county judge; D. A. T.
Walton, sheriff; M. A. Boyd, county
and district clerk; L. B. Caruthers,
treasurer; J. W. Phelps assessor. They
are too well known to require any-In-
troduction. Read what they have to
say In announcement coluum.-
Cattlemen Will Moot at Fort Worth.
Fort Worth, Texas, February 6,1904.
—Tbe Avalanche, Alpine, Texas:—We
enclose yon an invitation to our annual
convention which meets in Fort Worth,
March 8,1904, and hope you will at-
tend. We have assurances of a large
attendance, and will be pleased so have
yon give notloe through your paper of
this oar 88th annual convention. A
cordial invitation Is extended to all
cattlemen and others Interested In the
cattle business. Respectfully,
John T. Lytlk, Secretary
At the grading work progresses on
the Orient rallaoad in the third GO
kilometers east of this city, more and
more interest is taken In the mining
pemi MU ties of the eastern part of tbe
state, especially in the extensive lead
silver deposits that are already known
andwhleh will be within easy reach of
the railroad. Quite a number of de-
nouncements have been made recently
near Aldama.—Chihuahua correspond
•nee El Paso Herald.
Austin, Tex., Feb, 4.—The Supreme
Court this morning dismissed for waut
of jurisdiction the appllotton for writ
of error in the case of Presidio County
vs. Jeff Davis County, from El Paso
County. The case Involves a boundary
dispute, and was brought in Ward
County, but on yenuo removed to El
Paso, The case involved possession of
300 square acers and the dispute arose
over an original act and amendatory
act of the Legislature creating Jeff
Davis County. The boundaries describ
ed in the two were different to the
extent stated, and both counties sought
to collect taxes in the disputed territo-
ry. District Judge Gogin held in favor
of Jeff Davis County, enjoining Presid-
io County from collecting taxes in Ihft.
disputed territory, decidiug that the
boundary described in the original act
creating Jeff Davis County is correct
and shall be observed. The case was
affirmed by the San Antonio Court of
Civil Appeals and the Supreme Court
declines to interfere, Thus Jeff Davis
County is winner and will not suffer
the loss of the land because of the error
of a Legislature In an amendatory act
in making a wrongful description of
the bonndary.
Tbe Desire.
Give me no mansions Ivory whit#
Nor palac^ of pearl and gold;
Give me n cnlld for nil delight
Just four years old.
Give me no wings of rosy shine
Nor snowy raiment, fold op fold!
Give me a little boy all mlno
Just four years old
Give me no gold and starry crown
Nor harps nor palm branches unrolled;
Give me a nestling head of brown
Just four years old.
Give me a cheek that’s like the peach,,
Two arms to clasp me from the cold,'
And all my heaven's within my reach
Just four years old.
Dear God. you give mo from your skies
A little Paradlso to hold.
As Mary onco her Paradise,
Just four years old
—Katharine Tynan In Spectator.
We are agents for the Wood Star Wind-
mill, the Steel Star windmill, back gear and
direct stroke, in Presidio, Jeff Davis, Peco»
and Brewster counties. We also carry the
Leader windmill in large sizes.
All sizes of Black and Galvanized Pipe
Fitting and all Repairs carried in stock.
OALF WEANERS
THE POPULAR KIND AT
POPULAR PBiCES.
WATER TROUGHS
The kind that never
leaks, made from well seasoned yellow pine, securely
braced and bolted, tbe inside lined witli the best of
GALVANIZED STEEL
ALL EXTERIOR OF WOOD WORK IS GIVEN TWO
HEAVY COATS OF CREOSOTE PAINT.
We also have tbe CREOSOT13 PAINT
for sale, this is the best preservative known
for all lumber, sold in any quantity desired.
DEAN MFGr. WORK.
ALPINE, TEXAS.
PnfnMIn n-li.
The snowflake'that softly all night la
whitening treetop itnd pathway;
Tha avalanche suddenly rushing with
darkness and death to the hamlst;
The ray stealing In through the tattle* to
waken the day loving baby;
The pitiless horror of light in the sun
smitten reach of the desert;
Ths seed with Its pregnant surprls* of
welcome young leaflet and blossom;
Th* despair of the wilderness tangle and
treacherous thicket of forest;
Th* happy we*t wind as tt startles som*
noon laden flower from its dreaming;
Th* hurricane crashing Its way through
the home* and the life of th* valley;
The play of the petlets of flame when the
children laugh out on the hearth-
■ton*;
Th* town or th* pralrl* consumed In a
tsrrlbl*. hissing combustion;
Th* gild* of a wave on the sands with Its
myriad sparkle In breaking:
Ths roar and th* fury of ocean, • limit-
less maelstrom of ruin;
The leaping of heart unto heart with bliss
that can never he spoken;
Ths passion that maddens and shows how j
God may be thrust from his orea-
turas-
For this do I tremble and start when th*
rose on th* vine taps my shoulder;
For this when the storm bests me down
nly soul groweth holder snd bolder.
—Mary Map** Dodga
now you May make a Queer Little
Man Out of Peanuts.
iWhpeyer heard of making a man
GOt of peanuts P It can bo done,
however, by any boy or girl, and a
queer figure it will make to hang
up somewhere for your friends to
admire.
One peanut makes the head, on
Stink you must mark with a pen
the eyes, nose, mouth, ears and hair,
and you may -give him a heard if
you choose.
Now, by means of a long nccdlo
and a etrantl of thread, string to-
gether three peanuts, end to end,
for the little man’s body, two for
each arm and two for each leg. Se-
lect two very small ones to make
the feet, marking them with a pen
iq. represent shoos.
But he will be a queer man, in-
3eed, if you leave him in this contli-
tion, for he is a civilized littlo fel-
low and must have some clothes. If j
you are a girl, make him a suit your-
self; if you are a boy, get your sis-
ter to make it for you.
To give him a gay look suppose
you make his coat of red cloth, his
trousers of yellow snd his leggings
of green. Then finish him off by put-
ting the cup of sn acorn on his head
as a hat, and to this attach a thread
by which you can hang him up.
Try it and see whst an odu little
fellow ho will be.
Poe's First Appearance.
The old dispute as ta. where Ed-
gar Allan Poe was born appears to
be settled by his latest biographer.
Professor Harrison states with em-
phasis that he was born in Boston
Jan. 19, 1809. His parents, who
were strolling actors, though his fa-
ther was of excellent family, were
playing iq Boston when little Edgar
was born. As Professor Harrison
facetiously puts it:
“At length a stop—^-in Boston—
came to the wanderings. Jan. 19,
1809, Mrs. Poe did not appear—but
Bdgar did.”—Boston Herald.
When Squirrel* Ware Nomornna.
Accounts of early writers show that
squirrels must formerly have been
amazingly numerous. Godmau Bays
that the gray coat was a fearful
scourge to colonial farmers and that
Pennsylvania paid £8,000 In bounties
for their sculps In 1740 alone. This
meant tho destruction of 040,000 within
a comparatively small district. In tho
early days of western settlement reg-
ular hunts were organized by tho In-
habitants, who would rungo tho woods
In two companies from morning till
night, vying ns to which bund should
bring home the greatest number of tro-
phies. The quantities thus killed are
almost incredlblo now.
An Abstract Ides.
At a card pnrty at Charles Lamb's
ITnzlltt and Lamb’s brother got Into a
discussion ns to whether Holbein’s col-
oring was as good us thnTOf Vnndyke.
At length they became so excited that
they upset the tnhln ami qglznd <»«'■!>
other by the thront. In tho struggle
Hnzlitt got u bluek eye, but when tlio
combatants were pnrted Huzlitt turned
to Tulfourd, who wns offering his aid,
and said: "You need not trouble your-
self, sir. I do not mind a blow, sir.
Nothing affects me but an abstract
Idea!" _
Dogmatism.
A pretty snub delivered by a pro-
fessor to a very young and very dog-
matic undergraduate la refurbished In
a work of fiction. "Dogmatism," said
tbe don sadly, “is puppyism which has
reached maturity." It may almilarly
be said of dog Latin that It Is chiefly
uaed by pupa.—I^pidon Globe.
All About Matepfcrale*.
A Scotchman thus defines metaphys-
ics: "When a mon wha’ kens naethlng
a boot any subject takes a subject that
nae mon kena anything aboot and ex-
plains It to anlther mon still more Ig-
norant than himself—that’s metaphys-
ics."—Lyre.
It la funny a man loses his hair and
doesn’t comb It mnch, and a woman
combs, brushes, curls and pulls and
still has a wad left when aba dies.—
Atchiaon Globa.
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Carnes, J. M. Alpine Avalanche (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, February 12, 1904, newspaper, February 12, 1904; Alpine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth803550/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 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).