Conroe Courier (Conroe, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 30, 1916 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CONROE COimiER. CONROE. TEXAS
LMMT ESTABLISHES
SUPPLY BASE
VILLA NOT ABLE TO SECURE RE
CRUITS AS HE HAD EX-
PECTED TO oo:
BRITISH TAKE SOME
GERMAN TRENCHES
TEUTONS' f|R8T AND 8CCOND
LINE TRENCHES TAKEN 'BY
BOMB ASSAULT.
TOURISTS RETURNIN6 FROM THE SOUTH
CARRANZA TROOPS AIDING RUSSIANS MAKE PROGRESS
FIRE DESTROYS KANT
BLOCKS AT PARIS, TEXAS
Estimates of ths Property Loot Front
the Big Flro Will Rang* Between
$10,000,000 and |1S,OOO.OOa
Vrom All Reports the Constitutionalist
Trcopt Are Aiding in Running Ban-
dits Down—Much Trouble With
^ Transportation of Supplies.
Columbus. N M---Brigadier General
J. J l*#*rahinv announced Tuesday the
establishment of u new base in the
pursuit of Pancho Villa The second
base Is much nearer the location where
the bandit is reported in precipitate
retreat tban the old base at field head
quarter*.
Evidence that l*ancho Villa is pre-
paring to resist the American pursuing
columns and that the M< xlcan people
are not aa yet rallying to him bar been
collected by the officers and the
scouts of the American troops
The headquarters. It is presumed,
will be maintained aa an important
link in the supply bases. The bases
form a strong military line, readily
defensible, reaching a distance Into
the interior of Mexico, which Is con-
sidered remarkable, considering the
tact that the army has had less than
two weeka to bridge deserts, moun
tains and many miles of barren land
without benefit of any railroad com-
munication.
The officers who have ridden over
the various fronts now maintained In
tb« district of Ouerrero, where Villa
fled when the UnPed States expedi-
tion crossed the border, hare discover
•d numerous significant Indications
that Villa miscalculated completely
when he expected that his Columbus
raid, by drawing an army into Mexico,
would cause a general uprising against
Americans in bis favor.
Tha bandit who ia being chased by
American soldiers not" less than 250
milea eouth of the border has appar-
Russians Are Advancing Against Ger-
mans, and Also Making Progress
Against tbs Turks—Allied Ves-
sels Sunk—Air Raids, Etc.
Latest War News From Front.
The British and Germuuw have been
fighting fiercely in the region of SL
Elols, just south Of Ypres, und the
British, through the ex plot,on of a big
mine and by Infnntry charges, have
captured or destroyed a considerable
portion of the Qerman trenches.
The British infantry stormed and
took first and second linn trenches
along a front of 6*>0 yards. Ixmdon of
flclally announced, and Berlin adrat-
ted that German trenches in this re-
gion were blown up to an extent of 100
yards and that "casualties were caused
among the company occupying the po-
sition."
French sheila are falling on the Ger-
man positions In the Argonne and
northeast of the 8L Michlei salient
The Germans are obstinately resist-
ing the Russian attacks between
Dvtnak and Vllna, but the Russians
have captured two lines of their
trenches to tba northwest of Postavy.
Twenty bombs have been dropped by
German airmen on the town of Dvlnsk
In the Black sea littoral the Has
■Ians are still making progress against
tbe Turks. In the operations between
tha Italians and Austrians In the Go-
rilla region the Austrians have cap-
tured an Italian position on Podgora
Heights.
Paris, Tex.—Estimates of the prop-
erty losa from Tuesday's fire rang*
from $10,000,000 to $16,000,000
INTERESTING TALKS
ON NEWSPAPER WORK
Nswtpspsr Week. Held at Austin,
Notad for Its Highly Educa-
tional Character.
TEXAS NEWS BRIEFS
A 16c special road tax has bams
voted in Precinct No. 1. Arehf*
i uuutjr
Tbe attorney general's department
1 has approved a $25,000 bond issoa
A until,. T#i — Ne» ,pup*r Weak, held i « ,b' *“» ** ^
_ under the auspices of the university I Jh% cQunty COBmto,|OB#ra of Hax-
The °.fwJ0^?*II*,D>_W#*A_V tUB. rla county have ordeied an additional
$260,000 to be raised by tho issuance
of road warrants.
first figure is probably the most con-1 ll“ *>* ^tending newspaper men
Htrvatlve, however. Tbe assessed val | to be of a highly
nations of the property facing on the j educational and Instructive nature and
before the fire was $20.- Satined to bring much future good to
left Is the lh® literary cause. The following sub
X.
public square
000,00 and all there is
ground on which the buildings stood,
in addition tn the loss on tho square,
between ninety and one hundred
blocks in the residential section of the
lown were destroyed, over half of
Jedt* wore discussed by able speakers
"Things beamed in a Small Office,’
Sam M. Braswell.
“Co-operation Between the News
papers and the Extension Depart
which was In the wcalthlett port on of ” ^r- A- ( aswell Ellis
«Cvpvri«t>i.*
FOR POLITICAL PRIMARIES
STATE CAN’T LEGALLY PAY
Suprsm* Court Holds Presidential
Preferential Act of Third-Third Leg-
lelature la Unconatitutional.
Auatln, Tex.—Tbe supreme court. In
a unanimous opinion Thursday, held
the presidential preferential primary
act of the thirty third legislature la un
constitutional. Tbe opinion was writ-
ten by Chief Jostle# Nelson Phillips.
Only the question of ths constitu-
tionality of the act waa considered.
The finding of the court waa tersely
set out in the concluding paragraph of
tbe twelve-page opinion, aa follows:
"Tested by legal principles which
Washington is awaiting with aomp are clear and established, the payment
anxiety the Investigation Into the ex- j 0f expenses of primary elc-ctlona ol
plosion that damaged the cross-chan political parties is not a public pur-
nel steamer Sussex and tbe sinking of pose~for which public revenue may be
, the British steamer Englishman. The used, and tn our opinion the act in
hl* ouV*w ot'K*n*z*,lon possibility of the breaking off of dip- question Is therefore unconstitutional
lomatlc relations with Germany ia be- >nd unenforceable.”
Ing discussed in the event the steam-
ers are shown to have been torpedoed
by a German submarine. President
.Wilson, however, will communicate
the situation to rongrees before taking
steps which might lead to a rupture.
All the Americans on board the 8ua-
sex were saved, but several were in-
jured.
The conference of the entente alllee
■no at least two sections, if not more,
according to reports roachlng author!
tie*. In fact .there are some who con
•lude that Villa haa spilt his hard
pressed outfit Into a number of small
gkhge, which, by scattering here and
there, can at least make more difficult
ths location of the particular ciowd
•till beaded by Villa himself.
A big International plot, the details
ef which are arid to have been laid in
this country and designed ♦:> force
United States intervention in Mexico, ^ —<!>• most Important since tho out-
la slated for exposure by the national
administration, and the president's
statement of a few days ago was but a
prelude to tbe Licldent, It Is said
El Paso, Tex.—Villa has successful
. ty eluded ths T'arranza troops report
break of the war—began Monday at
Paris. Tho subject of the first sitting
is the military situation.
A British air raid on Schleswig-
Holstein and a rerultant battle be-
tween British warships and German
armed trawlers. In which three sea-
It is held that It Is a fundamentally
sound proposition that no power of
the government can be constitutional
ly used In furtherance or aid of the
effort of any class or kind ef organ
lzntion, political or otherwise, to ob
tain the control of ths government
The act In question provided that th<
expenses of the primary shall be paid
by tbe stato. Tbe coat of such a pri
mary election would not be leas than
$300,000 and would probably exceed
that amount
Over 2.000 Merchant Vessels Taktn.
Washington.—The European war hai
taken from the seas more than two
< thousand merchant vessels of nearly
tc mtaxed hlm.it NamluuhuL "j'ffn ijfT ' rour mim°n tJD»- according j-ojljure^
•nd Is fleeing southward Into the man armed were „unk and a Publ.sned i uelday by the Jepartme'ri
mountainous districts of Guerrero. 1}r)t,gh torpw1o boHt probably was lost of commerce. Germany, with 600 ves
Brigadier General John J. Pershing re- „ co„„,on -lveB diyersity to the ,unk* <* Interned, head,
ported to Major General Frederick UUs,e „ar operattons. lhe Tw,° “J
Punston that the bandit Is being close ... . . . . _____ ___... j twenty-five of the five hundred British
iy pursued by American troops. In 1
three columns under command of Colo-
ssi George A Dodd. It is stated, how
•ver, that should Villa gain tbe moun
tains tbe chances of his capture would
Bs remote and that the stay of the
American troops in Mexico would be
Indefinitely prolonged.
In view of this the question of Iran*
porting supplies again looms big on
tit# 'horizon and Is becoming one of
ths gresiest importance, especially as
Oenera) Pershing states In his report
Ths violent bombardment north- I
west of Verdun, in the region of Ma-
lancour* continues, while north of
the fortress and In the Woevre region '
in tbe east intermittent cannonndng
ia still In progress. No Infantry at- j
Lacks have been launched by the Ger-
mans except southeast of Fort Douan- ;
mont, where Berlin feports a Uand to
hand encounter with the advantage on
tbe side of ths Germans.
The French in the Argonne forest j
are keeping up their bombardments
vessels lost were stink by submarines
Great Britain's allies lost 167 ships
Austria lost 80 and Turkey 124. The
total of neutral losses Is put at 736
but most of these were released aftei
being reported captured Ninety-two
neutral vetaels have been submarined
and ninety-four sunk by mines. Twen
ty-thrve have been damaged by sub-
marines and mines.
tiki, M Ilka, lh. are £
—------ *1 Ullery activity on the part of the
French also has been shown in the
Vosges. The explosion of a French
mine tn this region Inflicted heavy
losses on the French, according to Ber-
lin The German position was not Im
paired by the explosion.
■offering from a lack of grata
A report from Queretaro states that
General Piero Guzman and twenty-two t
Vllllstaa were killed in battle by Car
ransa troops near Ioiguna and teu
ethers captured were summarily exe-
cuted. Successes for the Carranxa
troops also Is reported in the Rtnte of
Oaxaca and on the Isthmus of Tehusn
topee.
Several points on the border have
been reinforced with nddttlomtl troops
and a report is current at El Paso
that another expedition is to enter
Mexico from Fa»>o»a
General Funston stated that 1’nlted
States troops would pursue Francisco
Villa ns far south as he would go Into
Mexico.
No decision hn« been made In th*1
matter of the use of the Mexican rail
*osds so far
More motor trucks have reached the
•order for use of the army stid more
»re on the way from the fai lories.
General Ilell, In conference with of
flclals of the Galveston, llnrrinbtirg A
San Antonio railroad, listed all the oil
burning locomotives for possible use
of the Americans In Mexico. —
Refugees from Torreon state that
the country Is In deplorable condition,
that it Is infested with bandit* ufid
that the train bringing them out was
constantly fired upon despite the pres-
ence of a guard furnished by the Our
ran/a commander.
On the Russian front the Oermans
attempted an offensive near Jacob-
stadt, but were repulsed, while the
Russians captured a German trench
near Dvlnsk Heavy fighting con- *
llnues In the inks region southeast of
Dvlnsk Here, Berlin suys, tbe Rus
slnn attack broke down.
Btorma In the Austro Italian tines
have impeded operations, but pern hard J
merits are continuing on ttie Isorixo
front.
In the coastal region of the Russo
Turkish war thentcy the Russians are
nuktug good nrusrevs am lust the
i Turks, (uni Alpd further south) in the
l^ike Van region, have thrown their
line* still furt*l*r forward.
The most Important conference of
the entente allies since the outbreak
of the war will be held at Par s ttit.A
■ week under tho presidency of Prom er
Brland The premiers of Grant BrR-
j sin, Italy, Belgium and Serbia will par
tlclpatc. Russia will be represi nted
1 by th* foreign minister. M. Irwol^ky,
and Japan by the Japanese ambassa
dor at Pans Other high officials, In
eluding the French, British and 11.< 1
‘ iuti commanders in chief, will be pres-
, ent.
The Dutch ministry of marine says
an Examination of n piece of hron/e
; metal found In a lifeboat of the Hutch
steamer Tubanlta, recently sunk, ftl
duces tho belief that it belongs# to the
hIt chamber of h torpedo
The exact number ol Anicr an cas
Vital 8ta*tlc« for Ftbruary.
Austin. Tax.—Eleven centenarians,
their ages aggregating 1,136 years,
died in Texas in February, according
to the report issued Wednesday by Dr
W. A. Davis, atnte registrar of vital
statistics. The oldest was a woman
In Limestone county, aged 111 years
The total of births reported was 4 142
Including 38 sets of twins. Death*
numbered 2.372. of which 340 were in
farts under 1 years. Tuberculosli
caused 281 deaths, the greatest num
ber of any disease Pneumonia and
Influenze were tied with 2o7 victims
each. Twenty-four homicides and flf
teen suicides were recorded, and pel-
*agra caused thirty one deaths.
Odd Fallows Select Dallas.
Mineral Wells, Tex.—Dallas waa se-
lected Tuesday as the place for hold
log the next grand lodge meeting of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
of Texas at their closing session. All
grand lodte officer* were advanced in
rank and J. W. Chancellor of Mon
tague was elected grand warden. Mr
Boggtss of Del Rio waa chosen tu
preme representative.
Sheriff Gllea Killed by Prisoner*.
Muskug.-*. Okla —Paul V. Hadley
»nd his young bridge of Kancas C.ty.
Mo., accused of killing Sheriff Jake
Giles of ^••HUTnont> Texas, aboard a
Missouri. Kansas A Texas passenger
train, w< r* espturod Friday a few
miles from Checotah, when a posse
surrounded a farmhouse, in which the
couple had 'taken refuge.
unities on board the ero ehcnncl
steamer Sussex, which was olown up
In thw chant ' I Fridsy. has not yet tycen
determined The French adtnlrilty, i leaking gas stove consumed five store-
basing Its statement on uffldavttj of and the Woodmen of the World hall
, American paas*n"era t-avod, says th*1; Sunday, entailing h toss of approxl
matcly $76.00'*
Washington.—President Wilson Sun- '
day issued h warning that "slulster
and unscrupulous influences” nrs j
•prodding alariqist reports about the
Mexican situation with the object of
forking intervention by the United
State* "In the interest of certain Amur- '
lean owners of Mexican- properties."
The new* service* supplying news
papers had been asked, the president
said, to assist in keeping this view con j
stantly before the Mexican people and
American people, to the end that the |
•xpcdltion nhould not be given tin
color of war. . . 1 wa" torpedoed.
There continue* to b« considerable I a notable aerial raid was carried
•Peculation regarding the whereabouts ' out early In th* day on the German
and the activities of General Herrera, seaplane station at Zeebrugge, Bel*
Who was supposed to have revolted a
|«w days ago. that report afterward
B*tng denied. Nevertheless, there Is
•Aid to be A difference of opinion in
•Metal circles regarding Herrera s at
Mtode and while he ia reported to be
gg enmity with Villa, he atao la under
. MtM to have delivered not a grant
WhOe MB a bitter tirade against Amor
toMM and th« “Tlngii 1---‘nn -
$50,000 Voted for Good Roads.
Taylor, Tex. -The Hutto precinct of
W llllamson county Saturday voted n
$60,080 bond Issue for good roads pur
posts. This will connect Hutto and
Taylor with the proposed
highway.
ISSUES FINAL GINNING REPORT.
'.he town Three persons are known to
be dead and one missing.
Paris, Tex.—The residential and bus- 1
tnesa district of Parly Tuesday was de
•troyed by the rapid spread of a great ,
wall of flame which made almost a
clean sweep of that city In six hours'
time.
As far aa known there were no
casualties In the Parle fire. This is |
regarded as unusual, but the theory la
"The Coat System,” Claude Cross
"Advertising the Business," W. A
Adair.
"How I Edit tbe News," Clarence G
Smith. ^
"The Corporation and the Ne*r-
paper," C. H. AbbotL
"How to Make n Small Dally Pay,'
J. K. Vemor.
“Co-operative Effort in Securing
Foreign Advertising,” Sam P. Harben
"An Educational Program for the
Bureau’s Figures Show That 11,068,430 offered that the conflagration came at Prea* of Texaa," Dr. W. 8. Sutton
Running Bales of Cotton Cam*
From Mill* From 1915 Crop.
Washington.—Th* final cotton gin
ntng report of the census bureau la
sued Tuesday shows 11,069,430 running
hales, or 11.1S3.182 equivalent 600
pound baloa of cotton, exclusive of
licters, were ginned from the 1916
crop. Those figures are recorded as
Lb* official statistics of production for
the crop
Included tn the figures are $9,623
bales, which gtnners estimated would
be turned out after the March ca$
vasa.
Round bales included 111,716, sea
Island Included 91,920, average gros*
weight of bales, 606 6 pounds; -gin
•uch time as would allow everyone
to leave the danger xopes.
The fire, which started shortly aftei
S o'clock tn th* extreme southern por-
tion of the city, hat left a funnel-
ihaped wake of destruction two blocks
wide at tho start and from eight to teo
blocks wide. It Is estimated at on«
ind a half miles square.
Paris has a population of about
twenty thousand souls, of which 40 pet
rent are negroes. Of that total It 1*
estimated at least five thousand are
destitute.
Th* structure* of two national and
one state banks, the Tarts poatofflce,
tbe Lamar County court house, the
Parts high school building, three
"Endowing a Journalism Scholarship
for Women," Mrs. J. A. Jackson and
Mrs. J. D. Clay brook.
/“Oettlng Foreign Advertising." A. L
Shuman.
"How to Write and Sell A Short
8tory," Walter B. Whitman.
"The Cost System,'' Claude Croea
"Outside Activities lor Newspaper
Men,” D R. Harris
"Transportation ol Newspaper,'* M.
W. Florer.
"A Profession of Influence and Pow-
•r,"«W. A. Bowen.
"Verses that Find Their Way Into
Print” Mrs. Belle M. Costello.
"Classified Ad zeroising. How to Get
It,” A. L. Shuman.
“How to Writ* and Sell n Feature
neries operated 23 146; Ijntei-cotton, j 5hurche, the two pftrtg newspapers ! Story,” Walter B. Whitman,
not included, 895,274 running bales, of I 4nd Qlher bu#lnMi buildings an
880,780 equivalent 600-pound bales. , 4monf ^ )lBl of nze<J buUdlnc,.
At McKinney. Texas, a cotton com
I press was destroyed, together with
Ginning by states tn equivalent 600-
pound bul*>a Alabama, 1.020,208; Ar-
kansas. 815.846; Florida, 47,816; Qeor
gin, 1,907,310; Ixmlslanu. 340,606; Mis
,-kiKtilppi, 953.620; Missouri. 47,930,
North Carolina, 698,852; Oklahoma.
339.209; South Carolina, 1,133,681;
Tennessee, 302.893; Texaa. 3,223.803,
Virginia, 16,809; ull other states, 35,
694.
"Newspaper Writing, a Distinct
Branch of Literary Work,” Mrs. Gus
ale Scott Chaney.
4 “Wayside Observations," Dean Wai-
j.000 bales of cotton, many freight can ter Williams.
The commissioners' court of Up-
shur county baa called an election
for $300,000 bonds in road district
No. 2 to be held April 18.
• • •
Abilene Is to make a strong bid fov
the location of an agricultural college
there at the meeting called for April
1 at Sweetwater.
• • m
Jack White. Chicago featherweight,
knocked out Jimmy Bibbs of Fort
Worth In the seventh round of a
scheduled 15-round bout at Fert
Worth.
• • •
A movement haa been started **
Ennis looking to the establishraettt
of a large cotton mill there. A party
haa already been engaged to secure
plans and estimates on a $12l,9$i
plant
The residence of John L. Ward Si
Belton was destroyed by Are. Th«
furnishings were also consumed. * to-
talling a total loss estimated at $lLr
000.
* • *
The city of Dellas had almost $V
COO.000 cash In bank on March 1. *0-
eording to th* monthly trial balatso*
of City Auditor Tompkins, filed with
the dty commissioners Balanoos
aggregated $1,926,618.26, but two
funds had overdrafts, which putted
th* total down to $1,806.258.1L
• • •
Reports from pipe line soars**
state that the production of th*
Healdton field la larger by 4,000 bar
rels a day now that It was o* the
first of the mi^ith and that the pro-
duction now la about 66,000 barrels
a day.
9
ind some buildings In the residential
section. The losa was estimated at
$500,000.
A compress fire at Hobart, Okla.,
which destroyed the plant and some
7,000 bales of cotton, caused a losa ol
$600,000, and at Tulig, Okla.
“The Value of Home Economic* De-
partments In Newspapers," Miss Mary
K. Gearing.
"Relation or Circulation to Editorial
Department,” M. W. Florer.
Phone Men’s Convention Enda
Fort Worth. Tex.- Shermlxn or Tern
pie will be the meeting place for the
next convention of the Texaa Inde-
pendent Telephone Association. Sat
urday the executive committee was in
itructed to meet at an early date and
-telect one of these cities for 1917,
with the understanding that the other
s to be -the meeting place for 1918
Jffleers elected at the cloelng session
ire: R. B. Still, Tyler, president; J
-Hr-Eoele, a'»Wi first vice president; J
C. A. Shock, Sherman, second vice 1
president; E. C. Blomeyer, Waco, sec- *
rotary; E. M. Powell, Dallas, treaa
Two Girls Killed on Trestle.
Houston, Tex.—Elsie Rau, 18 yean
old, and Mary Powell, 17 years old,
were killed, and a dozen other girls
had a narrow escape when the party
on a picnic Saturday attempted to
cross the International A Oreat North-
ern trestle near Houston. The "Sun
9hlne Special" struck and horribly
mangled these two girls, while other
members of tbe party barely escaped.
I-ess than 12 hours before his life
was crushed out by a passenger trala
at Wichita Falls. Herman Marchner,
of Fort Worth, took out a $6,000 life
Vrtfiea Viake for Perfection," Henry Insurance policy. It was learned. He
met death when he fell from th*
platform of a car Just aa the north-
bound train entered the station, ftre
cars passing over his body.
Edwards.
Hon Will H. Mayes delivered sev
eral addresses during the week.
Willard Retains Championship.
New York.—Jess Willard la still the
Provldencia Carried Arms
New York—The schooner I.a Provl-
dencta which went ashore on the coast
of Mexico last week waa engaged lb
smuggling arms and ammunition for
Villa and other factions fighting
against Carranza, according to word
Railroad Revenues Increase.
Austin, Tex.—According to the fig-
ures made public Wednosday by W. E.
Fitzgerald, auditor of the railroad com-
mlision, Texas lines bad a materially
increased business for the first seven
months of the preceding fiscal period.
Operating revenue Increased over 3
-per cent and income from operation
more than 20 per cent As compared
with the same seven months of the
preceding year, the results from opera
Fir* of unknown origin destroyed
the plant of tue Austin Oakoal Mats
ufacturlng company, causing a loss
of $17,000. Insurance $5,000 This
waa the only plant of lta kind in the
United States and manufactured a
patented fuel brick from dry garbage,
coal and tar. It had been In opera-
tion one year.
* e *
tlon during the seven months ending
January 31 are as follows: Freight
revenue*, $47,467,003; increase, $2,-
248.331. or 4.97 per cent. Passenger
train revenues, $18,674,866; increase.
TirF CKtrestun county engineer w*e-
Instructed to prepare plans for •
temporary road bridge across Gal-
veston bay and the county auditor t*
advertise for bids for tbe constroo-
tion of the bridge, at a special meet*
$71,064, or .38 per cent. Other rev*- ing of the county commissioner’ court.
her vyweight pugilistic champion of the recejved Friday by Juan T. Burna. con- nuea, $1,672,943; decrease, $4,930, or The bids will be opened April 19 aai
•vorld In ten rounds of fast fighting
it Madison Square Oarden Saturday
night he defeated Frank Moran ol
Pittsburg on points. A crowd of about
13,000 pei.4zns paid approximately
$160,000 to see tbe fight Willard
tirok* his right hand in the third
round, but blows from his fighting left
:<cpt Moran at a distance. Willard'*
tharv of the purse was $47,500 and
Moran's $23,760. Tex Rickard und hla
partner In the enterprise. Satn Mc-
Turkcn, will clear up close to $50,000
profit on the bout.
sal general for the d* facto govern-
ment, from the Mexican minister of
war and marine.
.31 per cent Total operating revenue, ft was generally agreed that th*
$67,614,813; increase $2,314,466, or 3.54 bridge should be completed not later
per oenL Total operating expenses, than June 10.
$49,657,197; decree**, $723,772, or 1.44 ' • • •
Southern Fine Mills Are Busy.
New Orleans. La.—The weel’v ro
port of Southern yellow pine mi..a, os
issued Monday by the Southern Plot
Association, shows conditions aa fol
lows: New business booked. 107,755,
175 feet; shipped. 85.982,125 feet; or
ler* on hand for 366,638,975 feet.
per cent. Income from operation, $17,-
957,616; Increase. $3,038.23$. or *0 36
per.cent.
Favor Oil Land Leases.
Washington.—A favorable report on
tbe house bill for leasing mineral
rights on public lands was ordered
Friday by the senate public lands com „ v . , ... . ...
Gushing oil field Tuesday night and mUtee with an amendment eliminating Q^ntrell band of euerrlllas and^ with
coal and sodium lands from lta pro-
visions.
Oil Field Is Burned Over.
Tulsa, Okla—A prairie fire, started
by burning wasto oil, burned over four
sections of lend in the heart of the
Cole Younger Crosse* Divide.
Lees 6ummlt, Mo.—Cole Younger,
famous outlaw of border days, but of
late years a devout cburch attendant
and model citizen, died Tuesday after
a lingering Illness. He was 72 year*
old end unmarried. Col* Younger was
one of tbe last of the members of the
notorious robber bands that Infested
Western Missouri during and after the
civil war. He was a member of the
At a mats meeting of business
men. Receiver Woodall of th* III!
County Agricultural fair presented hie
proposition to liquidate th* debts sod
put th* Institution on a good financial
basis. The proposition waa unaol*
mously Indorsed and about half ef
the loan to be negotiated was volua-
tartly subscribed by citizens indors-
ing the continuance of the fair,
which ie to be made strictly an aprt-
cuUural and live stock exhlbltloa.
* e •
>arly Wednesday morning. Fifty-five
rigB, two scon tanka of oil, ranging In
size from 250 to 1,600 barrels, filled
with oil. one 55,000 barrel tank, par-
tially filled, two school houses, several
bunklious's, one pumping station and
■ no boiler house were destroyed The
uctunl loss Is estimated at $200,000
Snow and Sleet Encountered.
Columbus. N M.—Know and sleet,
■timing after a nine days' march under
a withering desert sun, Saturday
brought difficulties to the American,
troops In the Cason Grande* district,
according to report* received from
Brigadier General J. J I’ershlng, ex-
pudilionary commander in Mexico.
Texas Is Killed by a Train.
Chicago. III.—Luther Calvin Dupree
of Colorado City, Texas, was Instantly
killed Friday by an express train His J
persons! papers showed he had wr.t
ten a book untitled "The Cowboy and
tho Bible.” which he expected to have
published.
Quicksilver operations hav* k*ea
resumed in the'Big Bend and Brow-
ster county quicksilver districts and
the companies now operating tber*
report the development work pro-
“Angel of ths Battlefields.”
Washington.—Tributes to the life
and work of Clara Barton, founder ol
the American Red Cron a, were paid
Sunday by prominent men and women
gathered in mass meeting to give m
petua to the nation-wide movement for
the erection of u memorial In Wash-
ington In memory of "the angel of the
battlefields.''
his two brothers took part with the
James boys In bank and train rob- %
buries In Missouri and neighboring greasing rapidly
states that «etted the looters more • • «
than a hundred thousand dollars. The General Pershing, who le leading
leading members of these bands are tb„ Vlllft punlUve «xped'tlon Int*
dead, some at the hands of tbe law, has as his chief of staff Lieut,
some by suicide and others from CoL n«Ro,ey c Cabell, who was at
ural causes Younger, after a long ona time in charge of the United
term in the penitentiary, became a law-
abiding Missouri citizen.
States
Dallas
army recruiting station *4
Increase Army to 240.000 8trong.
Washington.—The H.iy army In-
crease bill, providing for a regular
Lives Loat in Fire.
San Antonio. Tex.—In a fire that
completely consumed the S.in Antonio
Country Club house on Washington
Heights Sunday the bodies of six per-
sons, five of whom were prominent In
array peace strength of 149,000 fl ht.ng social and business circles of Texas,
men Instead of the present 100,000,
passed the house Thursday by a vote
of 402 to 2.
Rent-Free Home for Girls.
New York—A rent free apartment
Strawberries Sent North.
Alvin, Tex —The second carload of
strawberries were shipped from Alvin
1 hursduy to points la the North.
Triplets Bern at Edna.
Edna. Tex.—Triplets, two girls and
were reduced almost to tho Herat nts
of the earth. The victims of tho
flames were: Mrs Maco Stewart of
Galveston. James D. Walthall. Mrs.
James D. Walthall of San Antonio. J
E Webb of San Antonio, Homer Jones
of San Antonio and Miss Helen Cock-
roll of S&n Antonio
house for unmarried working women R boy, were born to Mr and Mrs C.
is provided for in the will of Charles
R Webster, a dry goods men bant,
uierid.an|who died March 16, leaving nn estate
worth $1,1)00,090.
Big Fire Loss at Moody.
Moody. Trz Fire starting f-tWi
K. lvirby Tuesday. Two sets of twins
have been born to this couple pre-
ciously.
Texas Corporations Chartered.
Austin. Tex.—Chartered this week:
Dixon Dry Goods Company of Ver-
non; capital stock, $39,900.
squadron of slxty-flve allied machines Fair-Well OR Company of Houston;
teroplanes and *eaplanes--m«klng capital stock. $12,000.
glum, and the aerodrome near there, a
Half Million Dollar Fire at Houston.
Houston, Tex —A largo open cotton
warehouse, filled to the roof with cot
ton, burned Sunday, along'with much
other property. The loss is ertimated
at $569,000.
El Paso Man Inherit* Fortunet
Chicago, 111.—James H Grant of El
Faso, Texas, and hla mother un i {its
sister of Chicago receive the hulk of
the $1,709,009 estate of Edward Grace.
B( cording to the terms of the will tiled
for probate Wednesday.
He Made and Lost Two Fortune*.
Chicago. Ill —Charles II. McConn 11
died Monday in bis 75th year. ID
made and lost two fortunes aggregat-
ing nearly $1,990,009 and b lilt a third
after be was 50 years old and was
$400,090 In debt IDs hi [ fortune was
made in .tho "rut rate drug buslm sb.”
Augusta Is a Heavy Loser. .
August.), Ga A fire Wednesday
raused damage estimated from $5,009,-
000 to $4,000,000 In the heart of Au-
gusta's business district
th* *ttack. The British official state-
ment say* that considerable damage
appeared to have been done.
Heavy fighting continue# between
the Germane and Russians on th* east
srn front froM the region of Rig*
sen th word.
Buffalo Bayou Literary and Scien-
tific Association of Houston; no capi-
tal stock.
Jasper Oraln Company of Jasper;
capital stock. $1,000.
Palace Drug Sion of Willie; *epR*|
Stock. $6,000.
Jasper Allen, last of the Alien clan
which shot up the Illllsvllle (Va.)
court house four year* ago. killing
Judge Thornton H. Maaal* and several
other persons, was shot and killed at
a roadhouse near Mount Airy, N. C..
Sunday by William McOraw. alleged
blocksder.
Fine, large cabbages from the lowei
Rio Grande valley of Texaa are being
skipped to market* to f srn us «ss*
Uttom
Port Arthur Bonds Approved.
Austin, Tex—The attorney gen-
erals department Friday approved the
bonds amounting to $231,000 for the
city of Port Arthur. The bonds are
divided as follows
$180,000; park bonds, $25,000; Incine-
rator bonds. $6,000.
Antarctic Ship Damaged.
Melbourne.—The auxiliary ship Au-
rora of the Shackleton Antarctic ex-
pedition ha* been damaged and la pro-
ceeding to New Zealand for repair*.
Drainage bonds’! •ccordln* t0 * wlre,e” <J'*P«^h from
the vessel received by the navy de-
partment Saturday.
The commissioner's court has re-
ceived from the contractors the new
Smith county Jail, tbe contract for
which was let early last year. The
building cost $40,900 and is three
stories high with basement.
see
A 6,000-barrel gusher was brought
In at Humble by the Gulf Production
company on the E Ruhl leaso. ac-
cording to news brought to HoUsto*
This well is said to be producing
6.000 barrel* of fluid, of which about
1.000 barrels ia water.
The Continental Savings and Build-
ing association of I>allas. capital
stock $1,000,090, has been granted a
charter; purpose, to organize and
operate a build.tig and loan associa-
tion.
• • •
Tho Southwestern Telegraph and
Telephone company ha* 60,733 milea
of wire and 8.745 pole* in Dallas
There la In use 4W28 miles add not
in use 19.605 miles of the wire, ac-
cording to a report filod with th*
city commission.
• • •
The Fort Worth high school cadet
corps objected to serving as a guard
of honor for William Jennings Brya«
when he arrived there because he to,
against preparedneea. and lh* c*c
lake the opposite view.
,
North Texas Town Has Snow.
Gsloosvllle. To*.—A norther Sunday
brought snow flurries sad the tLse
monster dropped to #m 6agree bote
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