The Trans Pecos News. (Sanderson, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 1, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 27, 1905 Page: 1 of 9
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VOL. 4.
SANDERSON. TEXAS, SATURDAY, MAY 27. 1905.
NO. I
WAS A BAD
EXPECT HIGH WATER.
CONVICT LABOR
DIG BATTLE IMMINENT.
Russian Sick and Wounded at Harbin
Have Been Sent Away.
NEGRO IN KENTUCKY KILLS ONE
MAN AND WOUNDS SEVEN.
LATER RIDDLED WITH BULLETS.
Man Believed to Be Insane -Used
Small Shot—Town Marshal
Among Wounded.
Owensboro. Ky.. May 2T Bob
Shaw, a negro, supposedly insane, has
killed one man and wounded seven
in the past twenty-four hours near
Waitman. The body of the dead man
lies in front of Shaw's house and the
negro continues to defy the officers
who are seeking to arrest him.
The dead:
Wiliiam C. Brown, a deputy sheriff.
Wounded:
Deputy Marshal John J. Jackson.
Dr. G. II. Plitt. Town Marshal Wat-
son. James Ford. John Robinson.
Frank Howard, Watson Pelly.
It is probable the house will be
burned in an effort to arrest the ne-
gro. Sunday afternoon Shaw was ter-
rorizing the community around Wait-
man and an appeal was sent to this
city for help. A posse at once formed,
but as soon as it appeared the mad
man opened fire.
Town Marshal Watson was shot in
the face and Deputy Marshal Jack-
son in the back. Others wounded
were Dr. G. II. Plitt on the hands,
a boy named Howard and another boy
uamed Pelly in the legs.
Yesterday morning a posse headed
by Sheriff Kelly went to Waitman
and round the negro sitting on his
front porch. Shaw Quickly barricad-
ed himself in the house. The posse
tried to storm the house, but the ne-
gro opened fire, wounding James
Ford and John Robinson.
He apparently only had small shot,
which saved the lives of those he shot
at. He had two revolvers, but an-
nounced that he would save them for
work at close quarters. A great crowd
gathered around the house, keeping at
a safe distance.
At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoou
W. C. Brown, a deputy sheriff of Han-
cock county, volunteered to go to the
house and take Shaw. When within
fifteen feet of Shaw the latter fired,
blowing Brown's head completely off.
The body now lies at the door of the
house and can not be recovered.
The burning of the house is now be-
ing discussed by the posse, and this
probably will be done.
Riddled with Bullets.
Owensboro, Key.. May 23.—About C
o'clock last night a mob of men and
boys surrounded Shaw's hou-e and
set it on fire. Shaw remained in the
house as long as he could and finally
leaped out and tried to escape. Near-
ly 100 shots were fired, and Shaw's
body was riddled with bullets.
USE PROHIBITED UPON GOVERN
WENT WORKS.
St. P< ter-sBu-r-f
from the front
the immi .o to .
M.—The news
to point to
■will of fight-
EVASION TRIED IN ARKANSAS.
People Along Red River Warned as a
Result of Heavy Rains.
Shreveport, La., May 23.—This city
was visited by a heavy wind and rain
storm Sunday night, which destroyed
two houses, fences, and uprooted a
few trees near the city. No one was
reported injured as a result. Houses
that were destroyed were unoocucpied. i
As. a result of the heavy rains here ; Contractors Desired to Work State
and above a warning has been issued | Convicts on River and Harbor
by the weather bureau to farmers and Improvements.
others to prepare for high water, and j _____
it is feared that Red River will be
over its banks in a few days. The
river here is still two and a half feet
from the danger line, directly oppo-
site the city, but tli-e railway tracks I '■•riKun' '• ‘! l a ' ' n ° . j of lucre haw• been transported west-
and low lands, below are in great dan- °>n*em "• ' 1 •..... ' “l" ‘ 1 j ward to Irksutdt and orders have
1 connection with certain river and bar-, been giv;a ;o (;k,al- the intervening
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EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
The whipping post law passed by
: the Legislature last January for the
j punishment.' of wife beaters in the
| State of Oregon has gone into effect.
The Pacific coast record for long di.-.-
| taace wireless telegraphing has been
: broken, it is claimed, by a wireless
message r«. ceived from 315 miles out
to st_a.
ing on a large seaV. Gen. Linevitch i*
pressing the- Japanese c. :»'• r both on _
the Title of the railway and on the j
Mandarin road, but wbvVr he is situ- j
ply feeling our Field Marsha! Ovania's .
j strength or has assumed a genuine j The Kansas city Southern, of which
I offensive movement is not clear. There | Fort Worth and Denver is a part,
_ | is no doubt, however, that Linevitch | plans to build to Port Arthur, Texas,
i has made comply te preparation for a j at an early date. Plenty of money for
Washington. May 2 L- I he president • battle. the extension is available,
a aw Issued an order piohiotting the yyj the Russian sick and wounded
•employment of convict labor on gov-; whQ w<fre at Harbin anU places south
ALL OVER TEXAS. .
Ground has been broken for the
erection of Genoa's $lG/iOO brick
schoolhousc.
Almost all over the Stats there is a
great demand for farm labor, and
prices are exceedingly liberal.
The health officer reports three ca-
ses of smallpox in Atlanta. One ne-
gro died from the disease Friday
morning.
ger of being flooded, and it is believed
that the river will go out of its banks
there in a couple of days. The fore-
cast predicts a risy of 10 to 13 feet
in 48 hours.
Country roads are almost impas-
sable and the surrounding country is
so water-soaked that the farmers are
being forced into idleness.
Tax for Opelousas Line.
Crowley, La.: Thy election yester-I °f fhe country,
day to determine whether a 5-mili
tax should be levied by the corpora-
tion of Crowley in favor of the Ope-
lousas, Gulf & Northeastern railroad,
to run from Melville on the Texas
Pacific to Opelousas and thence to
Crowley, resulted as follows: For the
tax, 107; against the tax, (1 votes. The
assessed valuation of property for the
rax was $218,214; against the tax-
121,783.
bor improvements in Arkansas,
contractors for which desired to cm
ploy a number of state convicts tin- j
dvr contract with the state authori-
ties.
The officials of the War Depart-
ment were almost unanimously op-
posed to the plan, and Judge Advocate
Davis gave an opinion that it was
contrary to the spirit of the labor laws
hospitals. The sanitary trains have
i also hem ordered to the front.
German Empress' Accident.
Wiesbaden: The accident to th-a
German Empress Augusta Victoria,
who fell down stairs yesterday, while
lather more severe than at first re-
ported, will not have any serious con-
rvquences. The cut on her forehead
will probably leave a slight scar.
The Empress suffers from occasion-
al attacks of vertigo, and to this is
attributed her loss of balance on the
stops.
Drcwned Self and Children.
Jim Roberts, who was stabbed dur-
ing a difficulty at Iloney Grove sev-
eral days ago. died Thursday of his in-
juries. W. B. Lahue is in jail await-
ing an examining trial.
The John H, Reagan monument fund
is growing rapidly, and Col Geo. A.
Wright, secretary of
Sulphur Springs, Texas: .Mrs. Tip j hopes they will have enough to begin j
Sanders drowned herself and three i work in a short while,
children in a creek near their house
two miles south of town yesterday
ers Association, that county is becom
Largely through the efforts of the
j Travis County Fruit and Truck Grow-
morning. The oibv.-i child was a boy,
about six J ears old. the others, girls,, jng one Gf the leading potato growing
three years and ten months, respect- 1
Russ Brew.* Telephone Exchange,
! headquarters at San Angelo, has a
j force of men at work at Robert Lee
i putting in a local telephone system.
The second annual convention of the
Southwestern Electrical and Gas As-
sociation began a three days’ session
at Wood lake, between Sherman and
Denison Thursday.
Oris Bruce, aged 15 years, son of O.
the committee, -T- Bruce, a sawmill man of Big
Sandy, got his right, forearm torn off
at. the elbow in a saw mill accident at
a mill near that place.
The president’s order is as follows:
“Whereas, By an act of Congress
which received executive approval on
February 23. 1 ss7. all officers or agents
of the United States were as a matter
of public policy forbidden under ap-
propriate penalties to hire or contract
for the labor of any criminals who
might be confined in any prison
or other place of incarceration for the
violation of any laws of the govern-
ment of the United States of America.
“It is hereby ordered that all con-
tracts which shall hereafter be entered
into by officers or agents of the Unit-
ed States composing the Union or the
Territories of the United States con-
tiguous thereto shall, unless otherwise
provided by law, contain a stipulation
rorbidding the performance of such
contracts the employment of persons
undergoing sentences of imprisonment
at hard labor which have been im-
posed by courts of the several states,
territories or municipalities having
iveiy. The tragedy was the result
of domestic trouble.
Sanders left home yesterday niorn-
i ing to work the public road. Return-
! ing home for dinner he found a note
J on the table telling him that he
; wounld find the bodies in the creak.
I A letter was also written by Mrs. San-
counties in the State.
The Masons of Abbott held dedica-
tion services Saturday night at which
their new temple, a two-story brick
building, 30x80 was formally dedicated
to the uses of the order.
i
eers held an inquest and found a ver- ers at work on the Chicago River. It is
diet of suicide. ! thought that he committeed suicide.
Sanders and family moved to this I
Wool is selling at about 24c per
pound and has practically all been
sold. The price started in at 20c and
has been steadily advancing until
now 24c is freely paid for the best
wools.
Direstors of the Interstate Amuse-
ment Company, it is stated, have made
arrangements to open a circuit of
vaudeville theaters in a number of
Southern cities, one cf which is Dal-
las.
The body of Otto Kroesschell, a
wealthy manufacturer of boilers and
jail : ders to her sister in Arkansas. Offi- i machinery has been found by dredg-! . u u
J ’ i ... . .... 1 ___ . ......., ... it__ ________ ; An I. O. O. F. lodge has been organ-
; ized at Paducah under the direction
of the District Deputy Grand Master,
Secretary Taft has decided not to j f. O. Smith, from Quanah, Texas,
place from Arkansas about a year ago. j jjUy anv foreign built ships at present j They initiated twenty-one new mem
nor to purchase abroad any material
for the Panama Canal construction be-
be-rs.
Sunday
1 yond that needed for immediate use.
Japs Driven Out.
St. Petersburg: Gen. Linevitch in ! crimina! jur5s^tion; ^
j a dltspatch from the front dated May 1 " ‘
announces that two Russian
Roosevelt.
21, announces that two Russian de-
tachments occupied the valleys of the
Kaka and Khanda rivers westward of
Nanshentsi, on the Mandarin road,
after dislodging forces of Japanese
Old Enough to Care For Herself.
Ningar Falls, N. Y.: Miss Margaret
Jalonick. of Dallas, Texas, the nurse
who disappeared last Wednesday from
St. Luke’s Ho.'pltal, New York, ar-
eavalry and infantry. I he dispatch ; rived Thursday, and has been staying
adds that Gen. Martinoff s detach- since then at a boarding house. She
ment from Tadlu also drove back the j w n he joined by nor father here. Site
Japanese advance cavalry. j is very indignant at the action of the
police in taking her to the station
when they found her yesterday. She
declined to discuss her motives in leav-
ing the hospital, and exclaimed to re-
; porters:
! “i am old -enough to take care of
my own affairs with taking the public
into my confidence.”.
Six Men Killed.
Columbus, Ohio: The boiler of an
engine standing near the hooking Val-
ley railroad roundhouse exploded yes-
terday afternoon, instantly killing six
men who were at work near by. The
building was damaged and quantities
of ihe debris were scattered in all di-
rections.
Tho engine was being tested for its
first run after rebuilding. Four oth-
er engines standing near by were also
wrecked.
Shot in Stomach Killed Negro.
Port Arthur, Texas: A negro. Noise
Williams, was shot and killed here
Sunday evening by letting his revolver
fall to the floor, the hammer striking
the floor and discharging the gun,
the ball entering the negro's stomach,
from which he died.
Jonquieres Inspects.
Saigon: Admiral de Jonquieres, the
French naval commander, returned
here yesterday after an inspection of
the A name; •• coast. He reports that
no belligerent snips have returned to
French territorial waters since May 14.
United Brethren Adjourn.
Topeka. Kan.: The United Broth
ten general conference adjourned yes-
terday afternoon sin** die. The bishops
and church hoards will remain for a
day or two finishing business mat
ters.
Junk Full of Russians Taken.
Tokto: It is reported that a junk
filled with Russian officers has been
raptured It is presumed they were
making roconnaissnn- •* from Viadivu
fctok
India's Plague Victims.
London: Three-quarters of a mil-
lion of people have already tlly.l of
the plague in India this year, accord- j
ing to figures furnished by Indian Sec-
retary Broderick in the House of Com-
mons yesterday afternoon. The mor- j
taiity front January 4 to April 1 was
471,744, while another 215,981 suc-
cumbed during the four weeks ending
April 29.
Says Police Want Him.
Austin, Texas: A man surrendered
to the policy last night, giving his
name as Luther Glazner and staling
that he was wanted at Blue Ridge, Ga.,
for the murder of his wife in March
la. t. He is about 3b years of age, and
has a double harelip. When searched
a revolver was found on him. The po-
lice do not believe his story, but think
him insane. However, he is being
held.
Too Much Rain.
Crowley, la.: More rain
night and Monday morning, coming j
from clue west, has added to the dif- 1 Mrs. Martha Helm died Saturday}
ficulties of the rice farir.yr. While at the county farm of Denton county
Monday morning's rain lasted only
about ai hour, it wa very heavy
while it lasted, and will still further' had made her home here for twenty-
delay planting a day or two. Reports ! fL'e years.
from the west show that the rain was The Castilia, a Hamburg-American
heavier in the ext: me western part j steamer, carrying a valuable cargo of j rates promulgated by the commission.
It is estimated by a leading cotton
weigher of Tyler that the farmers of
Smith County are holding about 1,500
bales of cotton of last year’s crop with
at the advanced age of 102 years. Shq J tke view of obtaining better prices
had many relatives in the county and this fan
For some time it was a current ru-
mor that the Texas railways would
seek an injuclion against the lower
of the parish and in Calcasieu.
A Mania for Chunking.
Austin, Texas: A negro youth 15
■years of age suddenly became insane
while plowing on a farm ten miles
south of the city. Ins mania wa3
throwing rocks, and he has been
European goods and a crew of forty
men is nearly sixty days overdue at
Vera Cruz, to which port she was
bound.
A general shut-down of the extensive
shirt, collar and cuff factories, at De-
out it is now stated that
will be made.
no contest
A freak cf a tornado which totally
destroyed a ranch-house near Ei Do-
rado, was carrying a sash out of one of
the windows across a creek and lean-
troit is feared, owing to the trouble j ing against a tree without breaking
“chunking” everything and everybody which has existed for a fornight be-: a glass in it.
he sees. He could not be admitted j tween the starchers and the em-
ployers.
Condemn Pure Feed Lav/.
Fort Worth, Texas: The Texas
Millers' Association is holding its sev-
enth annual association here. A pa-
per condemning tho pure f-.-od law
passed by the Twenty ninth Legisla-
ture was indorsed. Reports say the
wheat crop is badly damaged by rust
and excessive moisture. Estimates of
this year's crop run ail the way from
7,5wMHio to 15,eob,bob bushels.
to the local asylum owing to its
crowded condition, and was returned) Hon B R Tillman. United States
to the farm until he can be placed in Senator from South Carolina, who has
an asylum. been at Atlanta. Ga.. about two weeks
under treatment for nervous trouble,
left for his home at Trenton Sunday,
much improved.
Secretary Morton will leave the Cab-
le nt July 1, if the President will ac-
Oats Harvest Begun.
Taylor, Texas: Oat harvesting is;
now in full blast in this section, and
the yield is tine. Farm- rs are availing !
themselves of every clear day to rid
The peach crop has just begun to
move, there being heavy express ship-
ments from Tvier daily. By the latter
part of this week or the first ot next
solid cars will go out daily. Shippers
state that so far the variety is show-
ing up well.
Coleman County farmers predict
that unless the wheat and oats crop
are damaged by hail or storm wheat
their crops of grass and weeds, and e pt Lie resignation on that date. The w;u make from twenty to forty- bush-
La Porte Boy Kicked by Horse.
La Porte, Te.xa.s-: John Fn-shwai -r,
aged about 10 years, was kicked by a
horse at his home, west of town, v -e I
terday afternoon, and is in a critical
condition. The animal struck him ia
the right side, and be is thought to
(save sustained internal injuries.
Sultan Recites to France.
London: The ’rimes’ Tangier cot
respdn lent learns that’ tin* Sultan of
Morocco will reply to the French pro-
I pusal.s. admitting that reforms are nec-
essary, but regretting ids inability to
conform to French wishes unless all
signatories to the treaty of Madrid
agree to the means of carrying them
out.
cotton choppers and farm laborers gen*
■orally are in d< mand here.
Cotton Sales and Holdings.
llearne, Texas: Mrs. T. C. West-!
brook sold 390 bates of cotton yester- j
day to Mr. Knawblanch, of Bryan, j
The price paid was 7.5c. There remain |
s' ve'ral Imudivd bales around here;
awaiting an upward turn in the map |
ket.
Wounded Fled. Other Surrendered, j
Austin. Texas: lb n Gregg, a Mex-
ican was arrested last night charged
Secretary has no* completed his plans
for the future. He has a number of
offers under consideration.
/ Is per acre and oats from sixty to 100.
The acreage is larger this year than
it usually is.
Delegates of the Hebrew Bakers’
Union of N«-w York have begun to or-
der strikes of th*1 Hebrew bakers to
force an
•loo or
Buster Johnson, a 12-y^ar-old negro
j boy employed at the Daily Courier of-
fice, Texerkana. got caught in the
fight-hour day. Strikes or s]-aftjng of tke printing presses while
Suit lakers already have been p;ckim, up papers and was killed. He
ordered in ten shops and about 1,000 WM whir!ed over repeatedly with the
more men will quit. Some of the mas- ( flhaft and h!s Uck snd neek both
were broken.
tors have conceded the demantis.
Phelps, Dodge & Co., of New York,
Law bought the control of the New
Mexico Railway and Coal Company,
with shooting a negro, St urges by i which has $3,000,000 common and $1,-
aame, with a shotgun in tin* back ol o,(0jmhi preferred stock. The road
the le ad. The negro is not badly hurt. nms from Liberal. Kan., to El Paso,
having fled after the shooting, but th*
Mexican surrendered. Both are under
arrest.
Texas.
distance of 457 miles.
Biocd Shed Over Chickens.
Paris. Texas: In a difficulty be-
tween neighbors out on Lamar avenue
yesterday morning about chickens get-
ting into the garden, A. te. Hubbard
was shot through the r.-.-ck and may
die. C. M. laisby rev ived a severe
blow over the head.
Japs Are Disturbed.
Tokto; An import an: confer* nee
was held at :*.• r> side roe T the Pro
mier in this city yesterday, it Is re
por;< d that tin* Russian armada Lit:
gained tin- Pacific and that the receipt
of this news was the cause of the cas-
ing of 11.-.* conference.
The sheep men are in the best of
spirits and will all bend their atten-
M’Comas Appointed. Lon to the production of all wool pas-
te ashing! on: Justice Martin F.j sible. as present price* are very prof!
Morris, of the District of Columbia !:i'ale. A good many sheep will change
Court <>f Appeals, having indicated to: bands a '< i} iali rpk-es,
the president his intention soon to re-j ^ j,.,,
tire, she president has announced that ha j tk(
Cur-
Mays to Congress Would Go.
ana, Texas: Hon. Rich
Mays. Representative to the legs
lure from this county, yesterday a
ert that he would he a candidate
Congress.
Cotton Choppers in Demand.
Brenham, Texas: A large number
of farmers were in the city early yes
terday morning and many wagonldads
of cotton choppers went out With
them.
Old Lady's Hip Broken.
Victoria. Texas: Grandma
ings. an aged lady of tills
i mi.-judging tin- location of th
j steps at the Valley View H<>
Martha Henley was struck by light- j Sa,,ndav aight. Mi from th.
mug while in the house ga/.mg from a
window, being almost instantly killed.
tor
Killed by Lightning.
Temple, Texas. During the progress
of the severe electrical storm Sunday
night a 12-year-uld negro girl named
cra<
her hi
in- wiil appoint form, r Senator Louis
E. Me Comas of Maryland as Justice
Morris’ sue< essor.
■alias Sam Collins, was
ht riff at Marshall at
Department
an, T» xas:
ns city has
tend a district
, upon in vita
Bty
of ill
to a
etui
on A lx part ment of Nation:
Loti,” a proposed new cabin
of Education.
Mrs. te. S. Howell
, us. to Gainesville
meeting of women's
ion to r a<l a paper
Eduea-
offiee.
1:05 Friday afternoon,
Svv.-eth.aU, and immt
the drop. 1
by the fa!
:.< • d th.:
Is neck havin
An irumen
• eutii n.
He was p r< >-
d lately after-
r been broken
'.- crowd wit-
Methodist Church Pastors.
Fretleri
cksburg, Texas:
Tii-o
tin*
i
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lit
j&I nit
etillg ot 'he pit:
tors of
\ he
ty.
M
of hodi >
church of ilris
district
tx>
gall
cry
gun her**
yesterday morph
ig and
will
Hal
on
la
st five
days. Seventeen
pastors
ar-
gall
ery
ri
»ed te.
’dne-day and an
iuterc.s
Lug
lif
•tors of the teaeo Business
i I'm-sdav afternoon mtan-
-e-.d H. i>. Wade secretary
himself, complimented his
y and provided for an as-
rank ( oweJJs,
Pueblo, shot
re. has former
ditttely after-
hts own brain
sa-h an hour
The joint building committee of Una
11:11 County Camp of Confederate Vet-
erans and the Old Settlors' Assockv
tion have employed an architect to
prepare plans ami specifications for a
pavilion PSA Ido feet in dimensions, to
be erected on the reunion grounds.
A workman. Albert Devor. killed
himself at Pert Arthur in the rear of a
workshop Tuesday morning with a
shotgun, pulling the trigger with a
stick, the whole charge of the gatt en-
tering his left breast.
Th-* Commissioners' Court o* Elii?
County estimates’ the total loss from
recent floods at $5j5,000. which will just
about exhaust the road and bridge
funds on hand, and It may be that the
£. nvra! fund will have to be called
upon.
A meeting was held at Brucevilie for
•In* purpose of organizing a brass band.
About tw> r.ty of the young men joined.
: Committees were; appointed to pur-
chase instrumenti and procure an in-
ai motor.
The rain that ; have continued for
the past three w■ eks have proven dis-
astrous to the potato crop in Cass
County Potatoes are rotting in the
ground and growers say if they realize
. rough from their crop-, to pay ex-
pen.- a of pbuTlni they will do well.
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