The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, August 21, 1903 Page: 4 of 8
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A
The Lampasas Leader,
Published Every Friday.
ntered at the postoffice at Lampasas
Texas, as second-class mail matter.
Stock and Farm Notes
Texas Stockman and Farmer.
A few more crop years like the
present and Texas will need more
packing houses.
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The reports concerning the
progress of the Egyptian cotton
•rop seems to be especially fa-
vorable this season. The early
ise of the upper Nile, it is said,
vill enable the irrigation works
o give water to the whole coun-
ry regularly during the most
jritical month of the summer.
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The Stockman and Farmer of-
ice is in receipt of fine specimens
>f corn, melons, and grasses sent
is by friends from various sec-
ions of the state. If the contri-
butions keep up we will soon have
jroducts enough to make a cred-
ible exhibit of our own at the
big San Antonio fair this fall.
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In 1850 St. Joseph had 3,500
beople, and 52,000 in 1890. The
census of 1900 gave this vigorous
/oung packing center 102,000
beople. That is what the meat
ndustry has done for St. Joseph.
£t is one of the five great packing
centers of the world, and the sec-
ond greatest jobbing center west
bf the Mississippi river.
The East Texas Industrial Car-
nival and Fruit Show will be
neld at Palestine, Sept. 16 to 18
nclusive. Last year’s industrial
jarnivai held at Palestine was an
event long to be remembered be-
cause of the numerous choice ex-
hibits which were prepared in on-
ly a few weeks’ time. The effi-
cient committee in charge of this
/ear’s exhibit promises that the
display in September will excel
:he display of last year, “both in
extent and character.” All east
Texas should be represented at
the coming carnival and thus re-
ject credit on that great and
prosperous section of the state.
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The Texas State Horticultural
society has been directing its at-
tention for some time toward the
successful establishment of an
axhibit for the St. Louis World’s
fair, which will be a credit to the
the great state which the society
represents. There seems to be
no question but that the exhibit
will be all that can be expected,
judging from the efforts which
the society has been expending
to that end. The success of the
undertaking is assured by the
announcement that the society is
to appoint a horticul tural agent
who will look after the exhibit at
3t. Louis and work in harmony
with the Texas World’s Fair com-
mission and the society.
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A northern farmer writing the
Stockman and Farmer, asks,
“What time of the year is best to
come to Texas?” Answering
this inquiry, we will say that
there is always something doing
in Texas, and especially so for
the farmer. All our northern
farmer friend has^to do is to load
up his horses, plows, harvesting
Machines, and farm implements
generally, ship them down and
,ransfer to a good Texas farm
and he can go to work at once.
We have no dull season on Texas
farms, no waiting for the ground
o thaw out or the planting or
harvesting season. With us
planting and harvesting is in or-
der every day in the year, and
che Texas farmer can always keep
busy if he wants to. The man
who wants to till the soil, can
borne to Texas any time and find
elenty to do and receive ample
reward for honest toil.
GETTING TO BE AN ISSUE.
State Officials Are Being
Asked Their Views on
Prohibition.
Austin, Texas, August 12.—
Several of the State officials have
received inquiries of late which
are not calculated to make them
rest comfortably. The quizzes
come from counties which are
contemplating a prohibition cam-
paign or are at present in thej
throes of one.
Just how the officials answer
these letters is not known here,
and it may be that some of the
letters are not answered at all.
The questions propounded in
the epistles are not confined to a
pro or anti source. Both sides
ask the questions with a view of
using the answer for campaign
purposes, so to speak.
It is broadly hinted in some
quarters that all candidates who
aspire to State offices next year
will be called on to declare them-
selves before primary election time
and a wiggling answer will not
be accepted by either faction.
Some say that the prohibition av-
alanche is on its way in Texas, and
unless a candidate gets in the
band wagon he is sure to be spik-
ed.
The big counties are fast fall-
ing into line, and the gauntlet is
now being prepared for the fest-
ive candidate. This information
comes from prohibition sources,
and the authors of it say that
they intend to follow it up until
the questions propounded are an-
swered from the stump.
Certain party leaders in Travis
county assert that the prohibition
wave will sweep this locality
whenever it comes along, and
they are preparing to get in out
of the rain.
From what can be learned, sim-
ilar conditions exist in other big
counties, and the exact termina-
tion of events cannot, at this time
be foretold.
Certain prohibition leaders do
not hesitate to point with pride at
the governor and attorney gener-
al, and say that Lanham and Bell
are both with them.
Other State officers never miss
a big religious convention, and it
therefore looks as if they have
boarded the band wagon, long
since, and are on the seat with
the driver.—Correspondent of the
Houston Post.
Prices of Cotton.
To the generation that has
come on since 1875, and who are
old enough to remember that far
back, or a few years subsequent,
there is a new experience this
year in seeing cotton go to 15
cents. It has been much higher,
but those were in war times and
right after.
The following table gives the
average price per hundred pounds
of middling cotton in New York
for each of the fifty years, ending
with 1902:
Year
Price
Year
Price
1853..
..$11.02
1878..
..$11.22
1854..
.. 10.97
1879..
.. 10.84
1855..
.. 10.39
1880..
.. 11.51
1856..
.. 10.30
1881..
.. 12.03
1857.,
.. 13.51
1882..
12.03
1858..
.. 12.23
1883..
.. 11.88
1859..
.. 12.08
1884..
.. 10.88
1860..
.. 11.00
1885..
.. 10.45
1861..
.. 13.01
1886,.
.. 9.28
1862..
.. 31.29
1887..
:. 10.21
1863..
.. 67.21
1888..
.. 10.03
1864..
..101.50
1889..
.. 10.65
1865..
.. 83.38
1890..
.. 11.07
1866..
.. 43.20
1891..
.. .8.60
1867..
.. 31.59
1892..
„. 7.71
1868..
.. 24.85
1893..
.. 8.56
1869..
.. 29.01
1894..
.. 6.94
1870..
.. 23.98
1895..
.. 7.44
1871..
.. 16.95
1896..
.. 7.93
1872..
.. 22.19
1897..
.. 7.00
1873..
.. 20.14
1898..
.. 5.94
1874..
.. 7.95
1899.
:. 6.98
1875..
.. 15.46
1900..
.. 9.25
1876..
.. 12.98
1901..
.. 8.50
1877..
.. 11.82
1902..
.. 8.75
San Saba Items
From The News.]
San Saba county stands a way-
up in the list of the big stock
counties. Her assessment rolls
show that she has 54,000 cattle,
while the assessment i oils of Tom
Green county show only 46,835.
San Saba has more horses and
mules, and more hogs than Tom
Green. We make the compari-
son with Tom Green county be-
cause it is considered one of the
best stock counties in the state.
Henry Schmidt, of Lampasas,
was over to look after the cattle
he is pasturing in this county,
Wednesday.
Joe Turner, a well known sheep
herder in this county fifteen or
twenty years ago, was in San
Saba Tuesday. He had been in
the Confederate Home at Austin
for some time but upon his re-
quest had been discharged.
Dr. W. S. Sanderson and J. M.
Carter received 1000 black bass,
a game fish, Tuesday from the
government hatcheries at San
Marcos and at once put them into
the waters of the San Saba river
and its tributaries. The fish of
course were small, the size of or-
dinary minnows.
G. A. Walters received notice
this week that the Ford and
Trowbridge cases at Austin had
been dismissed and defendants
and all witnesses were discharg-
ed from further attendance.
Mr. Kelley received a letter the
first of the week from Mr. E. P.
Spears, of Houston, confirming
his former letter and telegram
about having closed a deal for-
the sale of the bonds, and further
said he had a promise from the
bond printers to have the issue
finished by the 20th of this
| month, and that as soon as he
receives the bonds he will bring
them to San Saba for the signa-
tures of the officers of the com-
pany. He also said he thought
everything would be ready for
work to begin about the first of
September.
L. E. Hicks was in San Saba
Saturday and had with him a 26-
inch oat head brought from an
irrigated farm near\Roswell, N.
M. He said oats there on irri-
gated land yield from 125 to 150
bushels to the acre. He was
carried away with the alfalfa
farming. He said the farmers
cut from 11-2 to 2 tons of alfalfa
per acre and that about four
crops are harvested each year.
He also was greatly pleased with
the fruit. His son, Robert, who
had been in New Mexico two or
three years, is now at Medicine
Hat, Canada.
The mail route from Goldth-
waite will be changed on August
14 to come from Lometa. The
schedule is: Leave Lometa daily,
except Sunday, upon receipt of
mail from West bound train, but
not later than 8 a. m., and arrive
at San Saba in 5 1-4hours; leave
San Saba at 1:30 p. m., and ar-
rive at Lometa at 6:45 p. m. The
train arrives at Lometa when on
time about 5:50 a. m., and the
5 1-4 hours limit will ordinarily
put the mail into San Saba by
11 a. m.
Meet Shocking Tr-'jjedy.
•n .: jDaje> who un-
til "citly was ths pastor of the Pres-
byterian church of Bonham, shot and
Instantly killed himself at his home
Rev. Dale was at the bedside of his
wife, who is ill., and picked up the
gun from a corner of the room and
began handling it. Mrs. Dale states
That he was in the act of demonstrat-
ing the manner in which a shell was
thrown from a gun after firing, when
in seme way it was discharged and he
fell lifeless to the floor. A portion of
the skull broke a window glass in, tho
room.
An election was held Saturday at
Whitney to determine whether or not
a special tas be levied to build an
$8500 school building. ' The result was
110 votes fdi the tax and 21 against.
Captain Roswell H. Lampson, United
States navy, is dead. He was sixty-
five years of age. He was the first
naval cadet to be appointed from Ore-
gen, but was a native of Iowa.
Bertha Froescohl, aged three years,
died at Austin from eating vaseline
containing phosphorus poison.
Four cars of lumber was burned in
the local yards of che Kansas City
Southern at Texarkana; total loss will
be several thousand dolllars.
Burnet Williams and Jack Hennegan
were aspbixiated by gas, and died,
while working on an oil well at Sour
Lake Saturday night.
J. C. Shiver shot Charles Henry, a
negro at Texarkana, and delivered
himself up to the officers, stating that
the shooting was done in selfmefense.
Dick Wells went a mile in 1:37 2-5
at Harlem and defeated Grand' Opera
in a match race, fi'his is new world’s
record for a circular track.
By the explosion of an ant-killing
machine at Ardmore, I. T., J. A. Rob-
inson was badly burned about the legs.
He will recover.
Considerable damage was done by a
storm at Chickasha, I. T., last week.
Clarence Britton killed himself at
Walsh, near Jennings, La., by swallow-
ing an ounce' of laudanum.
C. Eckhardt & Sons of Yoakum ship-
ped the first bale of new cotton Sat-
urday to W. L. Moody & Co., of Gal-
veston. It .weighed 642 pounds.
Jeff Geen ended his life at Sulphur
Springs by shooting himself with a
shotgun. Mr. Coleman, residing near
the same place, also committed suicide
in a similar manner.
Hon. A. B. Davidson of Galveston,
has announced his candidacy for at-
torney general of Texas.
A suit for $10,000 was filed Thurs-
day evening by W. H. Owen, an of-
ficer on the police force, against the
Gammell Statesman Publishing com-
pany, for an alleged attack made on
the plaintiff during the campaign for
city marshal
The best goods for the least
money, is the motto at Stevens’
Racket Store.
SOUR LAKE OIL FIELD.
Recent Development Makes it the Peer
of Any Field.
Beaumont, Tex., Aug. 17.—The Sour
Lake oil field has been widened until
now it will exceed any southern field,
and the probable effects of the new
well can not be calculated in the mind
of the most competent oil men.
The George A. Hill well, located two
and a half miles south of the proven
field at Sour Lake, has come in ap-
parently as strong -as any well in the
entire field.
It is hard to conceive of the extent
of the new territory brought in,’ but
Sour Lake will at once rank with all
the Eastern fields and the develop-
ments for the purpose of facilitating
the shipments will at once be started
on an extensive scale.
The intermediate land is owned by a
number of different people, which also
assures widespread development.
Jhe Oil Can Still Kills.
Smithville: In the Pin Oak settle-
ment, about five miles east of here,
a horrible accident occurred in which
Ee-ttie Carr, a cclcred girl, about 16
years old, was burned to death. The
girl was at home alone and attempt-
ed to start the fire with oil to cook
supper, when the can exploded, sat-
urating her clothing with oil and set-
ting the house on fire at the same
time. She was so badly stunned from
the explosion that she could not get
out of the house.
—-i-,—
Will Test Texas Lithographic Stone.
Austin: Dr. Wm. B. Phillips, direct-
or. of the University of Geological
and Mineralogical survey, has secured
two fair samples of lithographic stone
found in Llano county, and will test
them. Dr. Phillips states that there is
no reason why the stone should not
be as good as the best, and that if
it is, the deposit will be most valua-
ble, as the lithographic quarries in
Bavaria are practically exhausted. He
says the deposit in Llano is very large
and accessible.
FOR SALE.—Old papers for
sale at this office. Only twenty-
five cents per hundred.
GUILTY Of MURDER
IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE IS
JETT’S PORTION.
PEELING Of RELIEF ALL ROUND
Witnesses Expected Death Penalty to
Be Followed by Renewed
Trouble.
Cynthiana, Ky., Aug. 15.—The jury
in the case of Jett and White, charged
with the murder of James B. Marcum
at Jackson, Ky., returned a verdict of
guilty, fixing the punishment of each
at life imprisonment.
The verdict was returned when there
were but few persons in the court
room. The only attorney present
was County Attorney Webster. Jett
received the verdict with comparative
indifference and calmness. White,
who has been apparently under a se-
vere strain during the trial, flushed up
and his eyes filled with tears.
Attorney Golden, for the defense,
stated immediately that a motion for
a new trial would be made. The gen-
eral opinion seems to be that the mo-
tion will be overruled by the court,
and that it will then go to the court
of appeals.
The verdict occasioned' very little
surprise here, after the deliberation
of the jury had been so prolonged The
only q'uestion which caused the delay,
it is said, was that of punishment,
death or life imprisonment. The ver-
dict on the whole is regarded as a
victory for the defense, as the prosecu-
tion asked that no middle ground be
taken, ana that the men either go
clear or be hanged.
The case has been on trial almost
three weeks, having begun July 17. At
the first trial at Jackson the jury dis-
agreed, and it is believed the verdict
just rendered has a compromise with
a juror opposed to capital punish-
ment. The friends of Capt. B. J.
Ewen and other witnesses for the
commonwealth, who have suffered
greatly and were living in fear of
their lives, are greatly relieved. They
expected the death penalty, which
they are confident woulcl have been
followed by confessions from the con-
demned men, exposing parties high in
authority in Breathitt county, who are
considered to be back of tbe conspir-
acy.
There have been twenty-seven lives
lost within the past two years in the
Hargis-Cockrill feud in Breathitt
county, and this is the first convic-
tion. No arrests or indictments have
been made until last May, when the
troops were ordered to Jackson to
protect the grand jury, and afterward
for trial jury and witnesses.
Jett is still under indictment for
first degree murder for killing Town
Marshal Cockrill.
Trucking in Lamar County.
Baris: J. A. Smith, a truck farm-
er living just out of town, planted
four acres of cantaloupes in the spring.
When the time came to market he sold
the crop to Ed Haines of this city for
$300, realizing $75 per acre for his
crop, which * required scarcely any
work. Mr. Haines shipped the canta-
loupes at local express rates to the
northern markets at $1.50 per hundred
pounds and realized a profit of $150
on th‘em.
Johnson County Pioneers Meet.
Alvarado: The annual reunion of
the Johnson county pioneers was held
Thursday and Friday at the compress
grounds, the best place in the county
for a meeeting, with a flowing artesian
well, plenty of shade and an ice plant
near by. All business houses closed
from 12 to 6 o’clock and everybody
turned out to take part. By a unani-
mous vote it was decided to hold their
next reunion in Alvarado in 1904. The
attendance was estimated at from
3500 to 4000 people.
CARPETS.
It will pay anyone wanting a
new carpet, to inspect the new
line just received at Blair’s Fur-
niture £3tore. They are handsome
and cheap. Call in, we will be
pleased to show you the line, be-
cause we know we can supply
your wants in the carpet line.
L. R. BLAIR.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, August 21, 1903, newspaper, August 21, 1903; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth877235/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lampasas Public Library.