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VOL. 4.
SANDERSON. TEXAS. SATURDAY, JAN. 20. 1900*.
NO. 35
NATIONAL WATERWAYS CONVENTION
Resolutions Adopted Asking Congress to Appro-
priate $75,000,000 Annually.
Farmers Co-Operative
Union of America.
Washington. Jan. IT.—The National
River3 anti Harbors Congress upon
convening Tuesday adopted the re-
port of the committee on organizing,
recommending the election of the of-
ficers: President. Harvey D. Gould-j
cr, Cleveland, Ohio; one vice presi-j
tlent from each state represented, to
be named by the diegalions; Coi.
William H. I.ove. Baltimore. Md.. sec-
retary; E. R. Shaswood of Philadel-
phia, treasurer.
The executive committee is charged
with the duty of actively prosecuting
the work of securing regular and in-
ert ased appropriations for the im-
provement of the rivers and harbors
of the entire country, and to take
such steps and use such means as
will fend to mold public sentiment
in favor thereof.
President CSoulder, upon taking the
chair, said the rivers and harbors bill
should receive the same consideration
that any of the other bills received.
If the government has not money fur
this work, he said, it should ra'se it.
He thought the credit of the govern-
ment ample to get the money needed,
although he did not favor issuing
bonds for the purpose.
Mr. Ransdeil, accepting the position
of chairman of the executive commit-
tee, said there were no longer any
sectional lines in this country, and
that it would be his effort to work
for the interest cf all sections, as the
prosperity of the whole country de-
pended on the prosperity of the vari-
ous sections.
The following resolutions were
adopted:
Resolved. That this congress, recog-
nizing, appreciating and commending
the invaluable work of the Rivers and
Harbors Committee of the House of
Representatives and of the Committee
on Commerce of the Senate and the
engineering corps of the army, deeply
regrets the limitations resulting in tp-
propriatiens so small as to seriously
embarrass and defeat the proper de-
velopment of iheir labors.
Resolved, That the national govern-
ment. having assumed the improve-
ment and control of rivers, harbors
and waterways of tho country, has
unequivocally bound itself to the dis-
charge of these obligations promptly
by sound business methods, and in-
stead ot' appropriating for the purpose
at uncertain intervals of two or three
years should put rivers and harbors
bills on a par with great appropria-
tion hills by annual appropriations,
and direct all such work economical-
ly and continuously without the waste
incident to intermittent effort.
Resolved. That in view of the large
number of projects for the improve-
ment of our harbors, rivers, water-
ways and canals that have been ap-
proved by the engineers and the com-
mittee requiring the expenditure of
large sums of money, we do not only
recommend, but urge annual appro-
priations of at least $75,000,000, con-
fined to such work of improvement,
and that until the accumulation has
been cleared it is due the country that
Congress take whatever steps may be
required to provide the sums neces-
sary to promptly, effectively and eco-
nomically complete the accumulated
worthy national projects approved,
adopted and recommended by the con-
stituted authorities now delayed only
by lack of available funds.
Resolved, That the executive com-
j mittee appointed be, and is, hereby
directed to use all proper means to
further the purposes of these resolu-
tions actively and in such manner as
will assure the completion of these
works of national developments.
So all the late unpleasantness over
the threatened infringement upon the
rights of the Texas T'nion by the
National organization as forced a;
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
Women’s ideas of good form usu-
ally based on what it suits them to
do.
j Mrs. Chadwick, sentenced to ten
i years in the penitentiary at Columbus,
O.. for conspiracy to wreck a National
At a recent meeting of (he 1 timber ;bank, will be incarcerated in a few
men it was decided that they could days to bt>gin the sentence,
extort $1.50 a thousand feet more out
ALL OVER TEXAS.’.
of the public pocket, and the $1.50 was
wholesale
Now, lum-
Texarkana has been settled, and all accordingly added to the
these who have been wasting oner- price of that commodity,
gy over this matter can now go ahead her is one thing that the people must
and devote their strength to better have, prosperity or no prosperity, but!
HIDDEN PUZZLE PICTURE.
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Find Another Communist.
NEGRO ATTACKED GIRL.
Her Soreams Frightened Him Away—
Searching for Him.
Cameron. Texas. Jan. 17.—While a
1 .‘5-year-old girl by the name of Palma.
Patrick Reprieved.
Albany, N. Y.: Albert T. Patrick,
the New York lawyer convicted and
awaiting execution in Sing Sing pris-
on nexr week for the murder of \v,|-
liam Marsh Rice in New York in Sep
tember. 1900. was reprieved Mon.i ty
who lives about four miles west of
here, was returning home from school j a^,ernoon by Gov. Higgins until Mr;-
yesterday afternoon a negro man met ' l9fh This reprieve is granted fot the
•her in the road and he proceeded to! Purpose of giving Patrick's counsel
took her dinner basket away from
her and threatened to make a crim-
inal assault upon her. but she began
time to bring before a trial court al-
leged newly discovered evidence. It*
granting followed a hearing before the
screaming, and before he aroomplishu-; Bovernor and was in accordance with
ed his purpose some parties in a wag-1 'b** request of former Senator Hip and
on came near and frightened hint -,n,,Re <)lf-ott of counsel for Patrick
away. Officers are in pursuit, but r, )ii,ni1 wi’h the full consent or District
arrests have yet oeen made. The lii- I Attorney Jerome, who was piv .*nt in
tie girl is of a prominent Bohemian l,er-s,,n-
family.
INSURGENTS LAY DOWN ARMS.
Trobule in Santo Domingo Has Com
Completely Blown Over.
New York. Jan. lb.- A cable dis
patch from Puerto Plata says:
Captain Cat ran has delivered the
Mistake in a Directory.
Waco, Texas: On account of liav
j trig put E. M. Tucker in its direct i y
j as a saloon man. the Southwestern
! Telephone and Telegraph Company
! has been sued for $5.00(1 damages by
Thicker, who alleges that lie was it;
the meat market business, and that ne
lost customers on account of the mi
Dominican gunboat Independoncia to j take. He alleges in the petition tin
the United States cruiser Paducah. |the mistake was a costly one for him.
General 'Sanchez has surrendered ! antl ,ha? h,‘ fl'ied to haw in correct.'.;,
a- Monte Cristo, with c rtain rest,. J T^tT' ^
.• on*1 ann th<* miiconif w }>#• '.vutrh.-.j
non*. in Calores forces. j with iuiet u.
There is strong talk of electing
President Roosevelt to the presidency
of Chicago University upon the ex-
piration of his term as President of
the United States.
ends than worrying over what is only of course more of it is used during j The French bankers have definitely
a secondary matier at best. It can- periods of good times. There is not j decided to make a short time advance
not ever make so very much differ- a man in this State that does not. | of $5ft,0h0,b0<i to Russia at 5 1-2 per
once who are the officers of the Union, know that this raising of the price is j cent interest plus 2 per cent eomrnis-
provided always they are men of good contrary to all law. and there is not sion. The loan is to be guaranteed bv
horse sense and of reasonable hones- a county attorney in this country who. the Russian State railroads,
ty. You know that it is equally as could not knock the combine sky- ^ dersey millionaire has made
high if he is only half a lawyer. It is j a wi„ i,ei|Ueatliing at the deatn of ins
the duty of these men and the duty, w :e ,)alf a mmiou dollars in Tuske-
of the Attorney General to attend to gee ;vornial institute, Booker Washing,
matter of being of being too honest is such cases as this, but they are not, ,on-s scbuol. The present endow men:
like the old saying about making doing so. The farmers of this conn-i ^ j; ooo.ooo.
good gunpowder. In tlte out days it try control, or could control, the elec-
bad to get tangled up with a man ot
too great honesty as it is to hileti in
with one who is too dishonest. That
was the custom to make the gunpow- tions of all officers. Have they failed
der at home, and as making it con-
sisted largely of beating it thorough-
Charges against -T. \V. Reynolds,
to put men into the offices who will! nominated by the President
do their duties? It does look that way, j
lv so as to finely incorporate its com- for they are all delinquent, and the
as secre-
tary for New Mexico, were considered
by the Senate Committee on Terri-
, , „ , , .. . , i tories and the confirmation will be
ponents, there came about a saving farmers whooped up the majorities or. ,
that “one should not beat powder too those elected. It is not necessary to u,) un?l 1 u ^ tan e nUC lg
much.” At any rate, there is no dan- organize any new parties. It is nec- Rates have been agreed upon by the
ger of too much honesty, but there is essary to cut out the ’round town Tovas roads for the coming cattle-
grave danger of (hose who prate too Colonels who are running the govern- j men’s convention in Dallas and the
glibly of Honor, and who are all the ment of this country under the guise fat stock show in Fort Worth. Both
time afraid of somebody else stealing of political parties, and get down to, rates are to be on the convention ba
something. first principles. Cut out the “promi- sis, it is announced.
The cotton association which has
nent in political circles” men, and
just closed Its session at New. De-
nominate and elect men who are ;
j
known more for their honesty and
leans took advantage of the occasion horse sense tha„ for 8hrewd political I
to impress the fact that too much or wire.working and thesP evils will j
a crop of cotton was worth less men- gradlja„v di8appeai, Haven’t you !
ey, to say nothing of the increased men among you who are linpnrchas- !
able? They are the men to do the ’
cost of harvesting, than a too small
crop. To put it plainly, ten million business E,*ct (hern.
bales are good for $050,000,000, while
a crop of fourteen millions bales
could not be sold for more than five
cents a pound, or $250,000,000. This
If you haven’t paid your poll tax. be
sure that you do so before this month
is gone, for it is your last chance to
is the sort of things that this Union | bp R ciUzen_ Don-f forget that we are
is to teach people, and it is hoped
that this lesson is taking deep hold
on the minds of those who must suf
fer from ignorance and cupidity. The
one-ideaed little cuss that “crops’
in need of all of all the clean votes ;
that we can rustle. Again, you can- !
riot be a Farmers’ Union man unless j
you have vour vote ready to us on all
occasions. Your first obligation is to
Word was received at Lampasas that
Walter Harris, son of Fleming J. Har-
ris a prominent citizen of that city,
was killed Thursday in a mining camp
in Mexico. He was struck by an ore-
laden car and killed Instantly.
Gray-haired and bent with age,
Samuel Lee, who claims to be a grand-
son of Major General Charles Lee, ot
revolutionary fame, was an applicant
for lodging at the Harrison street po-
lice station, Chicago.
James Sanders and Mary Williams,
two negroes, are held for the mtir-
der of Charley Few. of Stamps. Ark.,
last Wednesday. The jury was out
36 hours. The prisoners were re-
and plants a big lot while he advises be a Ioval voice in our government as raoved lo Le'visvl,le lor safe keepmS‘
his neighbor to plant lightly, is mean- 1 any one iiaving no vote. ! It is stated that President Castro will
er than all these "grasping monopo- No opportunity has been left unused j offer for sale to the highest bidder the
lies.” gigantic octopuses,” and “grasp- ■ (0 impress the importance of frequent j concession for the asphalt lake at
ing corporations all thrown into one. and live meetings of the Union people, Guanooo, of which the New York and
He is so mean that if a drop of his whether it was in the capacity of a Bermudez company was deprived about
blood w’ere put onto the tip end of Union or merely in a social way. The
a dog’s tail, it would kill all the jack isolation of farm life lias always been
rabbits in all the adjoining counties; jits greatest drawback, and will al-
he is so mean that when he dies and j ways be the incentive to drive men iff- •
gets to (he gates of the lower regions to unfavorable conditions of life of- 1
he will be handed a bunch of rotten ; fered by the crowded centers. Get to
sulphur and a bit of fire and will be gether, and see to it that everyone has
told to go and start a hell of his own. a good. If there is one set of men on
for his presence among the gentle- ! earth that is entitled to more pure,
manly damned would raise an uncon- ; clean, unadulterated fun than any oth-
querable insurrection. J er it is the farmers. Its life is close
to nature, and should be so clean and I
wholesome that merely living would i
be a pleasure. The fact is that when
an emergency arises—when a great
them in the English peerage-namely, j cr|aig ls impending, it is some farmer
a year and a half ago.
P is s'ated by parties in a position
to know that Waco stands an ex-
cellent opportunity to be the head-
quarters in Texas for a chain of wire-
less telegraph stations which will be
established from New York to San
Francisco.
Three “Catskm” Earls.
Lord Derby is one of the so-called
‘catskin tails.” There are three of
l^rds Derby. Shrewsbury and Hunt- who bas ,cJ a whok(5ome aml indus.
ington -and they owe this designation rlous life> who arises equaI to lhe emer.
to the fact that their earldoms were
gency. Then why is it that all farm-
In existence prior to (lie sumptuary j prs do nwt kad Sllch ljves that thPre
order issued at the beginning of the will como no qlMWtlon that finds them
seventeenth century to the effect that
ermine should be used instead of the
catskins lhat had been employed until
then for (he bars of fur on the robes
of peers which designate their grade
in the nobility. The designation of
"catskin earl” is, therefore, a title of
honor, since it indicates tlte extreme
unprepared for its demands?
The Journal is in favor of Farmers’
Unions and labor unions passing reso-
lutions requesting government officials
to do certain things, but it is not in
favor of putting such resolutions in
the form of demands. Civil govern-
Poultney Bigelow, a newspaper
correspondent, has been sending out
| some “hoi stuff" about l’anaman con-
ditions and about the oamt! and its
conditions, prospects and environ-
ments. and is now before a eongres
| sional inquisition.
The Santa Fe is doing an enormous
grain business for export through Gal-
veston. its business being restricted
; only by the number of cars it can se-
! cure. The exports of corn through
I Galveston for Mexico have fallen off to
I some extent owing to the increased du-
ty effective Jan. 1.
Marshall Field, the Chicago mer-
chant prince, is suffering from pneu
monia in New York City.
Willie Lewis and Willie Fitzger-
ment is an affair of ali the people, and
antiquity of the Parage in question. ! while a single individual has the right ald Fridav night fought twentv-five
The present. Lord Derby spent several to petition, no set of individuals has , ro,mds , R draw at '
years in Canada as governor general ! the light Lo demand —Abilene Farm- | ‘
of the Dominion. 1 ers Journal.
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A FARMERS' PARCELS POST. ,
The postmaster general in his last
report “kow tows” to (he express com-
panies tn that part of the document
as follows:
I cent; over .S ounces to 1 pound, 2
cents; over 1 pound to 11 pounds. 5
treating of the parcels post In sub- ‘ cents; over 11 pounds to 30 pounds,
stance he says that (lie mails can not 10 cents: over 30 to (.0 (bushels), 15
compete in this matter for short haul cents; over 1"0 to 200 pounds, 25
shipments with express eompanies cen,s-
now in operation To begin with let-
ter postal rates were based on the
distance or zone plan, but In 1863 this
was abolished and instead of paving
three cents for carrying a letter less
than 5,000 miles and ten cents for
greater distances, the uniform 5 cent
Eleven banks of the city of Mexi-
) have concluded arrangements for es-
The proposed schedule of rates is j lab,(shins a Hearing house. This in-
Parcels up to S ounces, j sUtlltlon is mad„ ..pessary on ac-
count of the great increase in bank
ing transactions.
The supreme court of Mexico has
declined to giant a stay of execution
in the ease of three Americans, Mar-
lin, Richardson and Mart, recently sen-
tenced at Chihuahua to be shot for
murdering people to secure insurance
on their lives.
Are you interestd in this matter?
Then read m next week's Farm and
Ranch of the privileges now enjoyed
in foreign countries by those whose
At a special meeiiiig of the Uitv
governments are progressive enough rounci, a lraiM.hhM. vvas granu,d to thp
ra,.. was made fur all distances. Later , of a mere letter and money post such ^V.w.-r'(ipai.'v ' local
it was reduced to two ceutss. as we have in this country. The farm. I
capital, to establish a system for the
It should be borne in mind that
this is a farmers' proposiiion- that
the parcels post means as much to
the dweller in the country as rural
mail delivery does. The nral post
wagon would d.-li\ r at ih<- farmers’
door under this system parcels tip to
200 pounds in weight and wi hin the
dimensions of a sugar barrel
as we have in this country. The faint
> rs should make themselves heard and
felt upon this parrels post proposi-
tion. Fat in and Ranch.
J. C. Cotiwav. president of (he Con
-keeper Lumber Company, and of the
• Quarles I,umber Company, of L>allas,
died in that city of pneumonia Fra*
i 'lay.
| city.
Permanent organlzatio of the Farm-
: ers' Union for Indian Territory will be
perfected it South McAlester March
I I'. Recently Indian Territory organi-
j zation withdrew from the Oklahoma
I body because of dlll'ToKCt s ill iita'icrs
j oi p >Iiej
1
The man who likes to wash dishes
will never have to go very far to find
a job.
Hon. Ferg. Kyle is grooming Rev.
Josephus Johnson, pastor of the Free
Presbyterian church at. Austin, for
chaplain of tlte House.
Congressman Jack Beall has intro-
duced a bill providing for the return
to the Southern people of money now
held in the treasury from cotton eo»
fiscal ed during the civil war.
The contractors for the new' bank
building for the Siate Bank of Canton
have completed their work and the
bank is now domiciled in its new quar-
ters.
Parties from Sutton County report
that sheep men are experiencing much
difficulty in getting herders. They are
offering $50 per month for work and
are anxious lor help.
R. L. McMillan, night Police Cap-
taiir of Dallas, against whom charges
were made before a recent grand jury,
has resigned and his resignation has
been accepted.
Glrardi Francisco, aged 7 years, is
dead from lockjaw, induced by a toy
pistol wound sustained abort a week
ago. His residence was League City,
and he was brought to Galveston for
t’ eatment.
Tax collections are pouring into
Austin at a lively rate and the indi-
cations point that the collections this
month will even exceed the Bum ol
$450,000, the amount estimated by the
state treasurer.
The first annual poultry show under
the auspices of the Lamar County
Poultry Association was opened at
Faria Friday afternoon in a large build-
ing on Grand avenue. There are
nearly 200 coops entered.
The Industrial Association of Tex-
as Railroads held fourth quarterly
and second annual session at San An-
tonio Friday, and for three hours dis-
cussed various matter concerning the
industrial development of this state.
I. I„. Cohen, who represents an East-
ern concern, has closed the trade with
the Dallas Consolidate Railway com-
pany, for the sale of 500 tons of steel
rails, to be used in making improve-
ments on the par line in that fity.
J. H. Sutton, an old gentlemen liv-
ing near Harrison. McLennan County,
died within a few- seconds Thursdty,
the cause probably being heart faiil-
ure. He had gone to Waco on busi-
ness, and stopped In East Waco for
a short time, taking sick suddenly and
expiring In a few seconds.
Word is received of th* assassina-
tion of Ellis Brown, a negro CO years
old. He is said to have just stepped
out of the cabin of Josephine Evans
on the Briscoe place, near Richar^.
when he received the contents erf both
barrels of a shotgun, killing him al-
most instantly.
James W. McLean, of the Firm of
McLean and Mudge, of the Menger
hotel. San Antonio, was found dead in
bed Thursday morning. Death was
caused by heart asthma. Deceased
was fifty-three years old. He was a
cousin of John R. McLean, proprietor
of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Though having traveled half around
tha world and having received like a
royal princess. Miss Roosevelt is still
democratic in her ideas and loyal to
her own country. In proor of this
she will have every article of her
trousseau made in this country.
Creasy Shepard, a negress, died a
f- w days ago at Hempstead at the ad-
vanced age of 102 years. She was not
a sufferer from any particular com-
piaint, and her demise is due perhaps
entirely to old age
Frank Potter, one of the best known
engineers in the southwest, died ct
Denison Thursday of blood poison.
Hoodlums in McLennan County are
causing trouble among farmers by
posting whitecapping notices on the
negro tenant houses on the farms.
The decision of the United States
oir< uit court ot appeals reversing the
Lamar County local option matter and
having th»- effect of permitting heal
option to he enforced in the county ha?
bet'ii handed down
A grain and cotton warehouse wall
fell at Waxahacbie a few days sinc*j
involving a loss of about $2,000.
Will Hughes, a negro man employed
on John McHee’s farm, two miiea
southwest of Petty, dropped dead wh;l«
m in tha lot feeding the stock.
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