The Graham Leader. (Graham, Tex.), Vol. [32], No. [1], Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1907 Page: 4 of 6
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FkaUciaco, Cel., August 19.
ie stricken with bu-
ague. fire ca^es ere known
lend four deaths have re-
With one exception the Tie-
foreigner*. They resided
neighborhood of old China*
„~A aailojr from a coastwise ^
was the exception., *
IocalT state and Federal au-
h nave taken prompt meas-
the
«8t
Keefe of
*3T
honorable
raphers* strike
time.
Mr. jumpers was asked when he
thought that time would arrive, and
;;
“ *PP^Un" : We.t,m U.
iterd.yWWBu'S
nea. ia'movii
SI
Sfrtfi*- ss
broken.
SJS5St=a,i.-.-
replied that he could not mv; that principal trmit,Wires, with more
it might be an hour, a week o* two wmal cpndit.ons prevailing. Only
months, or perhaps not at aH r, " i
d the Central Am
Bid Eddins,
Springs and died
Thraafl.-' " 'l
I Texas au* «»»,, .. .
switch engine at Big - bv
span
yawt-
prompt
for fittsft The infected steam-
er from whi^i the piauge was spread
has been put ip quarantine. The
.bodies of two Mexicans, an Italian
and a"Ruaai*n . Pole, who succumbed,
It 7; were destroyed.m quiahlitqc,
Although Edward J.’ Kolly,‘Vice
President and General Manager of
PbfUl Telegraph Company do*
nied thift any statement that he had
made should be taken to mean that
140 wi^ wtuu rnwrc —"r: 935 of Palestine have raised
S2^ST£sS I® = Sr.
„« operators
^ (ployed bv
aad i •PPllod *o
itora who were -formerly
the Associated Press have 1°
ror positions and hava been caused
I reinstated.. ,.■<-** '■ ■ ■ ■
■IRf > — " 1 _ ...Aiiinntlutil <»ver un^Ac the
' ing critically ill ad hie home in Bast
Sherman as the result of a spider
bite VfjMWrvcd some days ago.
few.,^^1^-
1 Two livea”were
mw*
lost
sons injured, three seriou
result of the fire which *
Orchard resort, in Maine, at.
a loss of from one-half to three-quar-
million dollars. . «
-—vs?*g|
m
PA-1
t« of .
Thomas W.
expected, was
urea at which- «Ti
praised the Standard
M! Oorapai
*** >* **»
2
THE COMING CROP.
Much
Crop.
t TVnw.,-)
Cotton
- Mstmmmmmmwmmmmt - ■ mm _____
ment, They pointed out that |Wpf Jtrtm "MUchfll ^t^nnrwTrken1,
cesefttl arbitration woidd put jtbe ©***1 j Keofo of the j^^ore-
tn a position to wm,.„jaud Samuel Gompere. Mr.
lta bu^maa, spo- made this announcement.
greatly
HI
increase
Workera, :A few days ago ‘Minister I^ee at tf**er <>f JH?
ngshore- G automata City cabled that (fuilleF*”"™ ttou Tounger t&riuut m«alh*r*
- st- ■ - * - - '* .......:of Jthw James hand its, dftW Sunday
mb, Minister of Qautqmala, accora-
morket, though it fa ’still
green, of coiitse. *Tl is sell!
Member* the pnhtrc aquare fcriBflr an
Isfe '
-ju
Commercial Appeal todav says: *
With the exception of Tovas, Ark-
and the northern half of Mis- j
l,~the cotton crop has done
p*ft weekv Moafc^^
tiona had rain ip suflicient quann-
^ ties to carry foprard the groatj) of
tha^lant and hasten fruiting. Leaa
al, and
from
WU weevil sections. There fctif been
no complaint from rust. V, ’
In -Texas, except tn the extreme
■Outngpa section, tne crop is in bad
shape on account of drouth. In
fhmthern Texas the expeciatidns are
that picking will,be finished much
sooner than usual.
While drouth and poor condition*
tn Arkansas are not uniform, in Ark-
£ an— and Northern Mississippi
there is much dry territory in these
confines.
Killing Weevil* In Lamar.
Dallas: Wilbur Keith, editor of
$h» Pans Advocate, declared, while
rially jits laase<l wire trafBer*—r*
L* .A# otnL-n ImaJmiawtava it «rs* a
■^t striki- headnuartcra.il >ajd
that the operators are willing to hr-
bit rate with the Postal Company on 1
I - v ■’
Copf—aas to
Boulder, Cold.
Hollish De«C
: Jotin'W. Reeves,'
brakoman employed JOU the Cok>-
the ground that" tUey~tftve a nnleht»do and Borthweetera Railroad,
more kindly feeling for that corpe- who-has U^n' held as a susjiect in
ration than for the-WesUm Union.
The labor trouble settled, the strik-
ers sa>f the Postal Company can se-
cure the major part of the leased
wire business, thus seriously crip-
pling the Westasn Union.
Behridere Brooks, General Man-
ager of the Eastern Division of the
Western Union, declared that the
local .office was y^thin three hu ^
dyed men of a normal force.
^Ordinarily we have 1900 opera-
ton and we now have 900,** said
Mr. Brooks. ‘We are in very good
condition. Moreover, I
one hundred men to out
poiBta. That looks as though wo
are not hampered very much.
anied by several o-
pam
just
left for the ci
■ meet Sqfrret
proaching visit there.
^rof SSoo* to ft ear accident in Kailas ( h
is just tk^ji'x
once begin the manufacture of ice
The capacity of the plant is twehh
tone per day;
not aurprisad,,
• ^
New cforn is coming into the vv aco^
it mTBb
five cents per bushel, and is findi
a wady nutjfcWSE§ir? • ’^.7SB|S
I
i trusted
Daxc Bass, a negro, acgidcntaByii^n#
the wiping out of five
frar act
liyea and the tinjurv of half a hun- |
arty valued at $500,000.
iroiii uie sirai« wio resuii ui mu , \*r.----- -—1 -
refusal of President CJahrera to snr- -Jrf ie u*ar^ x*ras
——Me
h • States Geological Survey, who has tion. * _ • .... —
.jfco CTof^ 'Th. rwytfof-g**1.**.1*Uener»1
Boston since 1804, was arrea|ad
day on the charge of embeml
from the Govcrpiuent $3000 ia
-rr
tr.— xt is unckr-
stood this detegiftion is clothed with
____________ „ , suKi^t 1R full^wer to represent the GevSrti-
cuimcctioo Kith tlisuiestruct^a ir/Z, h rt nt^xn».vu « negro, arcimntanr *
tjie Colorado A Southern station by B a *nd himself at Pittsbunr with a 38- •
fire and dynamite Jaat Saturday caliber pistol. 1W ball entere<l ; The iKunary election in San Fran-
morning, has confessed that Jw f , f p^^ont G.hSSm in «n^ above tHe^heart and was taken out in OUJO° resulted in a sweeping, victory
^Kiser* another ^n‘tlder the all Jd inSkatom wf the the lower part of the back. The ^ Bepubacun Lmgue, or Ryan
, aaoaoaino.iiiivA Ol th(
On# is Kill'd; -On* Hurt.
* States Geological Surrey, who
for two years been making iftvestiga-
y~~r~
Lockhart Ranks Maka Advanoaa.
Lockhart: A contract has been
two Mexicans
BrwshjGreek.
b— a H i® x3\|MTUCRIB| Ucvlfi*cU| “ HU“ vir^nr \mnkaf 01
in the city Sunday that the phm of ?P.
inudiainDjK from farno^-boSKep--
Cut* Old SattlarW Reunion.
Waxahachie: Following, is-the
program for the Old Settlers* Re-
union to be held in WaQcahachie Sat-
August 31: 9:30 a. m.f music
on tb* bridge at in the StAe University Of Tennes-
gwrfisstties sfis s^a sk
cotton.atoml in the warchonaco at TheJ .*<> *>• »Wat «r « ,the DmmMid Flat., .u
twenty yesrs 4>f age and. look lika totally destroyed by fire. The toss
will b* i*dd
> A fsnuiiv uwvtiug,
ip Palestine on the ^th of August,
at the City Hull hr Government hl‘
atructor :L. J. Huffman and Prot
Procter of Houston.^An, i nter&tfng
program has been arranged.
Iff*..- t
~r,;‘
’ ,r._
corn crop
Luling, Lockhart and Maxwell to
the amount of $85,000, to assist the
farmers in holding .their cotton foV
the union prire of fifteen oenta. The
hoard has recommended that no cot-
ton be sold by them until after Qep-‘
brothers>^{!b«ir names could not be on building'and contents ia ead-
BBBH mm
obtainadL; The
There
-v
itc and punctured bolls, than de-
atfeying the pestiferous insects, has
yioien snfffsafnl -
: ‘••There were burned" at Paris Sat-
urday 4000 pounds of.bolls and boll
Mid Mr, Keith. lf^Th»
re» or w. _
Marchhanks; shorllalks; 10:30 a.
m., address by Hoof Cone Johnson
of Tyler, Texas; dinner, music by
Wise Orchestra; 2 ®. m,, address
bv Hon. A. C. Owsley of Denton,
T-
•kop Construction to Commoroo.
Sherman: The Goodlander Con-
struction Company
has been
"nr
that ia alive says mated at about $40,000.
that tliey were oiCtheir way to Mon- "’ere many narrow escapes,
clova, Mexico. . I Six livgs may pay the penalty
" 1 - v— r v- for dhe act pf petty thievery of a
-- Mere Oil i ^4- ....... vandal who broke open; the gU n»-
Bice: The Rica Oil and Gas Com- ter in tho home of Mrs. May Ward
of Central Taxi
ia very good, and tnis fact goes
to {wlace fanners and others far a
small cotton crop. The cotton ii
not doing well, and it looka like it
will take aeverataeraa to make a bale
- The Stephenville, North /and
0*
Z.y-
•any, which has been drilling a num- in Philadelphia,- te secure the quar-
ter of oil wells hear Rice, struck ten it contained. In doing so the
■wifiileewast
v mHeA
ran its fimt passenger train Thura*
Lnsr.tida»^-
Ki^^^HBty was collected by
eta who were paid in prires for their
/ i tcouhie. The collection represented
a weekYoffering of weevil*, and on
‘the previoue week about the same
*5r” 'amount was collected.
The dan <rf aoenqiig and
i(«g HI this wav the w«*evila an.I the
fmnstnred bolls has proven effic*
a: ine uooaianuer uon- ter of on wells near Kice. struck wrs n conuiinea. m aomg *0 tne da to Alexander the road hein*
Company of Kansas City « good flow of oil aome two ihileaeast thief tiaused a leak winch resulted in completed to that place, a distance oi
•warded the contract for of Rice on A. C..HerveyYJarm -the prostration of Mrs. Ward and thirteen miles '
°JJh® TkumUf whieb i* Relieved wBl be her five children. ' ■ -^S|fe^:
-TWUkYtfB the cotton fields are being
... imp illy rMdotTof th« cotton peat”
Bx-Preaident E. A. Calvin of the
Texas Farmers* Union has. been
named as manager for the Farmers*
tfnion Cotton Company at Houston.
Nison, the noted
TO
Cotton Company at Houston.
Jockey W. G. Wi
steeplechaser, received what will
pavdiably prove a fatal injury at
Bar*toga, N. Y., when Pagan Bey,
the horse •*hc was riding, fell and
completely crushed Wilaon.
hr*-
mi
^ ^ tincta Sam^ Snag Day.
. Washington: Hevelopmrnts of
tbue last week indicate that the Na-
tional administration da wooing m,t
own pohoy 01 dealing with the
trusts.^ Hereafter the repart-
ment of justicc*s efforts will be di-
jrected against individuals rather
Mian corporations. This does not
“TOIT pending suits agalnat the
corporations ate to be allowed to
lapse. They will take their , normal
course in the courts, but in addition
• determined effort will be
apt some of the offending magnates
behind the bars.
Strong Neat for Dove of P*acc.
Washington: Russia is gradually
Wt thoroughly rearranging her pos-
r.r. l fr.rt: fy:r.g ’irr bnaes in.
the Far East as a result of the late
- }War, according to recent mail ad-
vice* from that quarter of the globe.
Advices say that her military base
baa been moved from Harbin far back
lotpBiberia to- tbe great town of ir-
} frutsk, which la to be extensively fort-
ified, with, the town of Chita as an
*. Slice station. •
ball gaMA
C^ea, Fry, gf Cqx*y Fam*k 0««d.
T 8t. Louis: General Lewis Csss
Fry, leader of the Waetern wing of
Ooxey’s Army on lta memorable tri]
to Washington, Sociali^j.
speaker, i a dead ai-Brioe, j
he hadigone in search of health.
He was, fifty-four yean old; Mr.
Fry was a brilliant student and pro-'
potmded the principles of Ctrl Marx,
at hundreds of meetings here.- He
led the Pacific Coast Commpnweal-
era^338Q in nambar, im the memo-
rable transcontinental jonrney,
.... Hot Tima Down In Camoron.
Cameron: A most aggressive poh
icy ia being purpqgd hy the atttia in .
the election to come off here August
31. They have taken large space
in. the newspapers and are
for what they clajm the ri
.. a good producer. There sire a num
Sherman, and the engmetirfur tiw km uf amaH walla ia the viaiaitv
contractors have arrived and begun which are averaging, from five to fil-
the work O' “ - —‘ *
work Of Miking off the founda-
tions. The terminal improvements
now in progress^ and those about to
begin will represent an
rl—> $»*ff|000-frr
“Five persons were
cn others, others injured
ously, Friday, in the
John Moore, a
three aarul of Fort Worthy wbe was rhocked by
one lioama^f^'
3E“j
teen barrels per day, and it ft kw taroHrtoir frame building in C
believed the Hertay well has been occupied as a boarding house,
drilled where the odia located* and Robert Pinkert—
will be da- Allen Pinkerton,
collapse of a
ig in Chicago,
Robert Pinkerton, youngest son of
^ deceased,^founder
haa filed a claim against the city
Iff tMWfo aRegiBg fbat ibKJrfgl
was a * '* ■
pmSk
- Holiness Csmpmooting.
Waco: The Btaie Holiness camp
meeting at Appell Camp Grounds,
three miles east of here, elosed
Thursday night, after the regular'
ten day** activities. Under no cir-
cumstances are the meetings contin-
ued more than ten days. Rev. An-
drew Johnson of Kentucky and Rev.
Mf. Brasher of Alabama did tho
preaching. There weie fiputy OBfr-
veraions and reclamations.
died lest -week aboard
bound for Europe in se
health.
Agency* -ratna
Clsromon Got* Reduction Rtsnt..
* Claremony I. T.: A contract has umhu.-------; • ,, . v
been signed by the Chamber of Com- Prospects for the Wkcp^Hami 1 ton
merce and H. C. Armstrong of lola* Brown wood Railroad are exceedingly
Kan., whereby Claremore geta one of good.
the largest smelters in the country. Colofiel George W. Burkitt of
Thp cifv donglas eighty acres of land Houston is in Palestine conferring
adjoining the city and furnishes wa- wifh officials of the IffternaliOnai
ter torjtt* protection. The pom- *ud Gteat Northern Railway with a
y. agrees to invest not less than riew of putting in a big creosetiug
000,000 and to employ not less olant.
lated.
nflri I .* -L a .
•- Jf
advise- 7.
Honey Grave has under
ment ft complete sewerage system.
A lot of frolicsome boys changed
the tags on a number of babies in a
nurse nr at Waco a few nighta-ago,
and for "several hour* there wai
“something doing in the- town.1
Ia:
Ml--
fightiity
• I gilts of
\
i
0,000 and to employ not lea* plsnt.
HO men, which will add not AnYuthmohile cOnralntnc a "party
-less than-1000 population to the city, of five persons from Bristol, Conn.,
collided with, th* Jfrw
field Express at. the Ashle
Earl Kibbe, son of E. K, Kibbe, •
wealthy stqbkman of Hereford, wat
drowned in the-Jn»bo Lake, ten
iat place. He had
miles south of that
others.
warm.
The campaign is Faxing
Monta J. Moore leads the
snti speaking and Tom Henderson
the pros.
x
^ 8aloon* Are ------*a$ftTfl_ _
A ostia: There ,re tnore ..loon, n*l<1 “PT1 "«n'e>'
.11 men to art and drink it *»» snppored by th» Hoy^ Academy'of Music of Bert^ "/tv"*.-re and thfother two
... - ^rwirbe”"^
to any great extent. The total nam."^*?il'"by, thj Waoo Buaimaa Men^a
her of p^nit, granted by the Con- JLh2£tf_C^SE^ 2
.roller, o«,ee to make JwHrthm ^
cr- ™ a master of technique. Secretary Taft left Washington
FJrtal Affray at a Ball Gams.
Tyler f“ One young man is in
jail and another is at the point of
death, as a result of a fight over a
baseball game. The game was played
at' Whitnhouse, this county, Satur- -,
day afternoon. A man named Har-
rington wat struck on the head with
a club and will probably'die. The
Officers went from Tyler Saturday
night and made the arrest, and arc
still investigating the matter.
Mrt, W. K. Henderson, aged ftf^
ty-nine years, dropped dead at her
home in Van.Alstyne at t»:30 Mon-
day morning. Shft waa the wife of
a prominent and wealthy resident
of that place.
The State Supreme Churt of Cal-
ifprnia rendered a decision Monday
in the McKannay salary case, aus-
taining the legality of the removal
*’r •
Perrell: Active work has begun “imng the legality oi tne removsi
^ Managere^lf h^fe !u- j Oenrrnl James, President of the
permtending the repair work «nd Rowwc. Savde^ftnd Pacific Railway,
everything will be in readiness for » tuthority for the statement that
Hie new crop when gathered. In the 1 they expect to Wn tram* into Sny-
Rose Hill communitv, southwest of dor bv October 15. /
hero Uiore are about 500 acres in A niatrtf of the word “Mindowfi*
peanuts, and at Rosser, in the south- in tho antotnoWW light law, if wra-
" ' this cdfiiij^JLQOO acre* .....J '■* -**"■ ’1 *1'-
sA?kii^.®dUnmTTh«rr*o;ia Sdto.^*«,Xrf3»T«,3S !ff‘w“hin«<0"
h, 3400 oagM unde, the new 1~- fp^m^wMch^lU e^th°!
T.nu Orator win. Cont..t, •»? m folfiltment of a prom-
yr.eot Jt ha. been learned that “* to ,h® F‘1",,n0* 40 rftu™ 40 M“'
— 4*4M. Hiram Bell Dead.
Atlanta, Ga.: Colonel Hiram P. ’
Bell, thd last surviving member of
!ipin<
"«*» «>*ro "uiRtwing mciiiuer oi MaU^ee - x»-..i_________i._ nila to attend the opening of their
The Ixamar County Association oi
Woodmen met .at Blossom and held
a two day*' session last week.
By September t the Orient Rail-
road will be opened to Benjamin.
THia will make ninety miles in op-
eration in Texas. '__, /.
Harry williams waa not hanged
Friday at Beaumont, according to
his sentence. Application was mads
by wire to Governor Campbell for •
respite of two weeks, which was
granted- /
San Angelo' has voted $90,000
I-v/
eprgi
manship and legal ability, died Fri-
day, aged eighty years. Colonel Bell
had been a Colonel in the Confed-
erate Army, a member of the seces-
sion convention and United States
Congressman. He.was a grandson
of Francis Bell, a commissioned offi-
cer in the Continental Arnvjv , j
F4r* AS NeeogdoehM.
Nacogdoches:. Fire stented in the
IQ |(|0 •* • *y • | j
Boger boarding house, spreading to * aPJ:
^ ‘ MTilTulir<
Iwiwe was
$8,000, with $3,000 insurance. Mr.
i'l
Han Angc
tire m tne oratorical contest •* " ti_* wreirtnif rii:ijn ...l the purpose of builfiing a
Monteagle, Tenn., has been awarded ^^ ?nd * crern*t<*y-
first honor*. Mr. Dalton is a young nr^® ^ Rn f«rL F'^.r-nmc votes for and thirty-ait
* '-*--«*- —» - cotton crop prospects, so fa*«* the againstltlie special school tax were
IST^SrJ^n k^Wan I'.rnrire S*'4*«*i SnnAn, night in honor
nod the Texan *aa g.ven the prize. of birUuUy of Eal^Mr pvanma
The new $20,000 high school Joseph. The Kip- J~ n----
building in caurse of construction toasted the Austro-
"illsboro, ia completed,, with the * J m
7^4"-J
King, in German,
isfro-Hungaftan Em-
—. me residence ot iv *». u
0T^' to OieTMethodist Church,
>mk" ‘ttti.lpawblnc shop of
ri‘n* fThe lose on the Boger
tion of the. roofing and
The body of Mies Rom
eged fifteen^years, thft.da
one of the most prosperous
an near -Caldwell,
ith the pcmr, and then joined In the cheer- he was riding was also killed.
23fteas3sS t
Miisf^irirrtss?
:h as those at Tarepace have re- Image,M as Mrs. M«rv
‘ ......... " " ■ * " whl
no insurance. The loss in the ma-
chine siiop was about $250.
A Mexican named Nicamar <3on
zales was kilted by lightfiing during
a thunder and rain atom on-the
O’Conner ranch, in Refugio County,
Wednesday night. The Iiojm which
ding was
rattler ia
too large
a cage whose raeshos were
Three ^oys were bitten
SC*
William H. Hancock, of Fort
Worthy in attempting to boartf a
in peanuts.
m tne smomotnie iignr pf ii mu i. *---—-— nen as imjm *v x*r*pw« n*v* image, a* mr*. iwi«rv a. t#ix«m u*-, fell* and the left arm'was to badfv
strued literally, would (xnlipcl tin* Milam County has placed the cantly been.discoiartd at Antofagaa- scribe* her son, of which she claims crushed that ahiputalion Fas Kccew
burning of lamps all the time. county tax rate at 40 cent*. ^ ta and Tocopilla. _ McCarrcn is the fftther. sary. ^ ^ ^
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Bowron, Frank H. & Martin, P. A. The Graham Leader. (Graham, Tex.), Vol. [32], No. [1], Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1907, newspaper, August 22, 1907; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth854913/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.