The Lubbock Avalanche. (Lubbock, Texas), Vol. 13, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 1912 Page: 1 of 14
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THE LUBBOCK
AVALAMCMK
OIUMEXIII.
LUBBOCK LUBBOCK COUNTY TEXAS THURSDAY OCTOBER 31 1912
NUMBER 17
FORT WORTH
REPRESENTATIVES FROM LIVE
CITY SPEND LAST
111.111 WELCOMED BY
Given "Cowman's Lunch" At Hotel Carletos hi 10:30 Leave For Ta-
hoka And Lamesa at 5:00 O'clock and Return To Lub-
bock at 5:00 to "See More of Lubbock"
Laat week we made mention
of the fact that the Fort Worth
poard of Trade in their special
train would visit our city Wed-
nesday night and accordingly
the excursion train loaded
with enthusiastic boosters rolled
into the Santa Fe yards and
halted at the Santa Fe depot at
ten minutes after eight o'clock
about forty minutes Ix'hind the
schedule time. Peing ft few
minutes tardy however did not
seem to have any had effect on
the enthusiasm with which the
touring party was thoroughly
bubbling over.
They were met at the depot by
a large number of LubUck's
business men including whole-
sale and retail merchants pro
fessional men of ail kinds bank-
ers. ral estate men newspaper
rejKirters and many other lub.
bock boosters who at once began
to make the Fort Wort hi w fwl
....... l.i ! f
that it was fi to re nere.
i. I l .1- l ... U'. -.k
lieaueii vy inw rn oni
band a line of march was insri
tufedaml led the crowil to the
Lvric Theatre where all
comfortable seated.
Jno. W. Pake? president
the First NaMoral Park a
master of ceremonies on this oc-
casion introduced May.r F rank
E. Wheelock who in M.alf of
the city extended the viMiors a
nit cordial u elcoiTie. He told
them the poiue were o(T duty
and the cty was th-ir.
Prof. J. K. Wester then ad-
dressed the audience in his usual
fluent mnr.i.er and caid in part:
"At imp time not lofiir luist.
Dm .iintrv u4 th rani7( fori
tha .tral. and .he Indian but !
now it has fecome one of the
greatest feed producing sec
tions of the state." He said
further "Irrigation is fast be-
coming a valuable feature in
agricultural lines" and wound
up his story by saying "you al!
know Lubbock is the banner city
of th plains."
A. G. Carter president of the
Chamber of Commerce replied
to the address of welcome in a
very pleasing way. Said he was
proud to be in the city and would
come again.
J. F. Henderson Division Com-
mercial Superintendent of the
South western Telegraph and
Telephone Company favored the
waiting crowd with a few well
chosen words. He said: "It has
been said that 'He that causes
two blades of grass to grow where
one formerly gre is a benefac-
tor' and that being true Lub-
bock has made good and this trip
will bring you mors closely to Fort
Woith and her great enterprises.
We will no longer be strangers.
We will buy your cows horses
mules hogs and heep and sell
you anything you might need."
Holt Hani with the Pierce-
Fordyce Oil Association was
next introduced as a product of
Fort Worth and although rutbrr
delicate (weignt about 1?75 they
felt proud of him. Mr Harri
suid the flft word h ver heard
was "Lubbock" anj that ht
stiiopvd lh firt tricks that wvrs
BOOSTERS HERE
- WIRE FIRMS OF THE PANTHER
NIGHT IN OUR CITY
OUR BUSINESS MEN
ever brought to Lubbock to im-
prove property here; that he had
always believed in Lubbock and
had more faith in her now than
ever before and termed her
country as the "Eden of the
West."
O. R. McCormick Secretary of
the Chamber of Commerce fol-
lowed with a few words in which
hesaid this trip wasagreat rev-
alution to the partv and all could
see clearly the great need of a
direct line of railroad connecting
Lubbock w ith Fort Worth. Lub-
bock is attracting attention for
she is the star of the Great
Plains.
O. L. Slaton President of the
Lubbock State Bank was called
for a speech and in well chosen
words gave a brief history of our
'city. He said 'six years ago we
were further from a railroad than
any other town in the state and
now we are a leading railroad
t .
reenter ana win not tie contented
till
we can ship our produce
isiraigni 10 rori worm
in :.. .i .k. u-;
'
j Vttu1
m yisn me na sonic nan
which
is recognized as the Pest j
j in lexas and then they were es-
corted to the Carletos hotel
where in the U.hy the Yr1
.iio (.iii.i i . ii'ii i tij r Al. . i ir-r 1 1
music. After tr.is the (linirirrixim :
was thrown open and all invited ' l-'f"i" and fo' the state and have A. W. lai! kinship A. E. Wat-
in to -a cowman's lunch." with '''"'J bne-s evidercing research sm. W. E. RobiiiM.n. A. M.
the following menu- jstudy and th..ugnt. and to eactr c j A C:inrMlll( J. H.
me jouovnn nn nu. df whom we have given mucn n ...
JiON OF AGl'N attention. However after a f Brvan. A. L K I m Mc
(Formula) ! careful studv of the records. we; Kinley J. A. Baker J. T. I ryor
jver 11 6-l per cent ' hav arnveil at the conclusion I J. W. Harper II. W. Seroggins
LightsZlZL. 12 3-9 per cent I thf V Wa inK T' i S. P. Robbins R. L. Beard. P.
I Sswcthrind Q fl. 1 rr rant I
" " " e-
Kntr8'U 155 7-18 per Cent
Cayenne Pepper ....10 3-9 per cent
M.a's . 2S-lt per cent
Hot Air Balance
Guaranteed under Lubbock's
food laws.
Pickles Onions
Coffee
Bread Cola Water
HAVE A GOOD TIME
DESERT
Corn Cob Pipe and Prince Al-
bert Tobacco.
Visitors repaired to their Pul-
man cars and spent the remain-
ing hours of the night leaving
next morning at five o'clock for
Tahoaa and Lamesa.
Not being satisfied with seeing
the city of Lubbock by electric
light they resolved to do some-
thing that has never before been
done on an occasion of this kind
in this section of the state and
that was to double back and
spend a few hours more looking
at our great improvements of
which they have heard and
read so much about. The train
returned tu Lubbock at tw.
o'clock after a pleasant trip and
short stopa at Lamesa the ter-
minus of thu Lamesa branch and
Tahoka our neighboring county
seat to the south.
They sa v Lubkick as she is
no extra powder and paint and
b lo-'ked good in the eves of th
Fort Worth people. Ihey are
iutureitU'd in a closer relation
! with us and they will 1 of
(treat assistance to us and ws to
them in securing better hipplng
facilities buiwevii tho two towns.
SNEED GETS BOND
Higher Courts Grants Slayer of
Al Boyce Bail in the Sum
of $20000.00
John Beal Sneed was granted
$20000 bail by the court of crim-
inal appeals at Austin Wednes-
day after a long fight by his
Fort Worth attorneys that start-
ed the day he killed Al G. Boyce
Jr. at Amarillo Sept. 14 accord-
ing to dispatches to the Star-
Telegram. Sneed will walk the streets of
Amarillo a free man for this time
being. Thursday if Attorney
Walter B. Scott receives the
mandate from Austin in time to
go to Amarillo tonight
Presiding Judge Davidson and
Associate Judge Harper concur-
red in the opinion that means tem-
porary freedom to Sneed. Judge
Prendergast dissented but
would place the bail at $35000 in
any event.
"If this bail were $1000000
or two or three million." Scott
said Wednesday "Sneed would
be released as promptly. Fifty
wealthy men of Amarillo all his
sympathizers in the tragic feud
stand ready to pledge their for
tunes for him
Sneed will hurry to his children
at Georgetown where he will re -
Frr Worth Nov. 11. for killing
('apt. Al (J. Povce. Sr. in the
msm until Ms secona trial in
Metropolitan hotel lobby Jan.
13.
He will not be tried until next
spring fur killing Al Itoyce Jr.
whose elopment with Mrs. Sneed
in the autumn of 1011 was fol
lowed by Sneed killing two men
8nd the wrecking of
families.
three
It is not customary in habeas
A.iitiiii n ti jiiu rVlS fKA 1 1 1 r- t k AV
press an opinion for it would
' atrect the trial case. The opm -
' ''!n J""ntinK bail is short and the
lilT-Il I el l"i 'it
(PINION IS BRIEF
The text of the opinion is:
"Relator was indicted bv the
grand i.irv of Potter county.
charged with murder. lb' sued
i out a writ ot habeas corpus be-
1 1 t i :
''
f the Hist net court praving
that he Pe granted hail. Alter
hearing the evidence the court
remanded rotator to the custody
.. hli ....... Ki- a!.
I -
Abi counsel appeared in
this court in hehair ot th re
iriu.somi.iic ... "
the judgment is reversed
iihii
is granted in the sum of $120000.
"(Signed) Harper Judge."
The dissent is:
"I have reached a different
conclusion from a careful and
thorough study of all the evi-
dence and the briefs. I am of
the opinion that the district
judge was right in refusing bail
and that his judgment should be
affirmed. I therefore dissent
from the judgment reversing
the judgment of the court be-
low and admitting relator to
bail. In the event relator is
granted bail it should in no
event be less than $35000.
"(Signed)
Prendergast Judge."
THE C0NIEST TODAY
Interest Increasing in Diamond
Ring Contest New Nomina-
tions Miss Wilson Still Leads
In the merchants contest the
interest is increasing and a num-
ber of others have been entered
this veeK. Voting has been
mote brisk than heretofore and
promises to become more lively
thantevcr.
The vote today at noon stood:
Miss Willie Wilson 1241
Miss BerniceCox 1KM
Miss Minnie Hurst 577
Miss Carrie Abnev 50t
Miss Grace Hawkins.. 501
Mias Mildred Moore 500
ORGANIZATIONS
Carlisle Sunday School. .. 941
Mrs C. L. Adams wife of our
enterprising abstract man left
yesterday for Ibg Spring
where stio will visit relatives
and friuiida.
DISTRICT COURT
The Following are the Names of
the Grand Jury and Petit Jury
for District Court.
District Court will convene on
Nov. 11 1912 and the following
are the names of the Grand (Jur-
ors and Petit Jurors:
GRAND JURY
W. E. Bledsoe H. T. Boyd
J. N. Stauffer J. W. Moors S.
D. Stewart C. C. Hoffman C.
B. Joplin J. S. Slover J. T.
Brown S. S. Rush A. M. Lude-
man Joe E. Perkins H. D.
Beal Jno. W. Baker Geo. C.
Wolffarth M. C. McCrummen.
Petit Jurors for second week
beginning Nov. 18th:
R. C. Burns J. D. Oliver
D. F. Meredith E. B. Green
C. C. Reed R. D. Looney F. D.
Eddy Will Haney P. D. Haney
J. C. J. Burns Thoma9 Cox J.
A. Burgess. O. E. Rush W. K.
Dickinson S. R. Pierce J. H.
Kemp J. Garrison Joe Joplin
G. E. Martin. Scott May J. B.
Green L. C. Denton J. L. Ben-
ton J. L. Tubbs J. C. Dean. C.
1 ij jj(nton p; Twaddle R.
Q. Pierce Jim (Pig) Robinson
C. D Shaw Thad Tuhbs. A. J.
Ilryant. L. I. Rouse J. M. Bloyd
W. S. Norton. W. D. Reiger.
Petit jurors for third week
November 2".
C. A. Kellner. W. O. Murray.
Sam T. Davis W. L. Simpson
R B. Iiwerv. W. M. George R.
H. Haney A. R. Phipps. J. V.
Roy. J. C. Ervin N. R. Porter
p Cawan S. W. Jams. J. L.
1 hhowa.ter. U A. tierce u. j.
Luna J. D. (Juiok. W. G. Nairn
J.J. Reynolds F. K. Mitchell
A. M. Kankin Ed Sullivan C.
A. Holcomb J. S. Penney S. A.
Ikard. sham Tubbs. C. T. Jack-
son W. O. Bur ford Jno. A.
Glenn. L R. McDanie!. W. H. D.
hrns. L. Hardy. O E. Eubank.
Jim Mabry L C. Robinson.
Morton J. Smith.
Petit jurors for fourth week of
District Court.
R. E. Pennev Jim Robinson
Jr. W. O. Tubbs R. R Sluw
i un Mr i - iwnton. (i. S.
Burt. T. L. Farris. W. C. Green.
L. Fitzgerald. W. F. Flynt E.
A. Fraizer Win. Collins J. E.
Penney. Smith Shaw Ed Vaughn.
J. C. Pollard' Dave Crump. M.
G. Abernathy W. C. Vaughn
Edgar Abney Henry Crosby.
Miss Thornton to Hospital
Mr. Dave Stokes returned
from Dallas Mondav.after accom-
paning his niece Miss Thornton
to the Sanitarium and remaining
with her for several davs. Mr.
Stokes states that Miss May Hell
seemed to be improving to some
extent when ho left Dallas.
Miss Thornton has been for
several months past in poor
health and continued to go down
which was the cause of going to
the Sanitarium.
Miss May Bell has taken great
interest in the church work at.
thin nine and was retarded as a
great lender among the Christian vived the old rumor of the taking( iUrnhart nilf LaKe an(j iankjn
people among both young and over of the Orient by the Chicago j
M. and her presence is missed & Alton. I The heelock Dress Shop win-
by every one of the church work- "An intimation of such a deal j dows have been wearing hallow
ers of Matador and it is hoped was published in papers through-1 en decorations for this week
that Miss Thornton's health will out the country about two years which remind all who have
be restored to her. and that she ago." hesaid: "The Orient uPassod that way t bat tun is
oe resioreu iu mi i . k'.a... r;u -.i - gradually passing along. Does-
may be permitted to return to: budding into Kansas f-41 . aild n.t n.m lontr nince thi eventful
Matador and again take ud thetho Orient alreadv is there. lUy WM hert lvtt The (li0ra.
religious work. Matador Mes-jTeis would enablea great through tions at the Wheelock Dress
pH!enner service from Chicago. Shop were very tastily and
MissThornton made Lubbock to the City of Mexico. The ru-! uiu.juely gouen uo.
her homo for several years and! nior even went solar as to state Mrs. J4. L ()w and twoson
w-. . u. .. ..t fri..i.u hiM uho
1119 U" -
will regret to learn of her failing
health.
S. K. Hynuin of Lamesa ws
a LubtMH.-k visitor the latter pail
of last wcik.
THE STATE
CONTRACT WAS LET THIS WEEK FOR IMMEDIATE IMPROVE-
MENT OF THEIR BANKING BUILDING
CIODRDU Of SWEETWATER SUCCESSFUL BIDDER
The Work of Remodeling the Building To Be Completed By January
22nd 1913. Will Bt Quite An Improvement Over Old
Building. Work Starts in a Few Days
Mention was made some weeks
ago of the intention of the Lub-
bock State Bank to improve their
bank house and thev have made
good their intentions and have
this week let the contract for the
remodeling of the old building.
The contract was let through
Henry Mount the local architect
and the successful bidder was uary 2Jnd of the coming year.
Sam Goodrum of Sweetwater! The Lubbock State Bank
the man wh ) built the Lubbock Jagoment is on of the strongest
Mercantile building. and best conducted institutions
The contract includes tearing'nf the kind in the state and it
down of the east south and west always keeps abreast of the
walls of the the old concrete j times. They were among the
building and the replacing of I first to p it un a concrete build-
same. The East and South iag in the city which was done
wall of the new building will be
made of E:gin Butler grev brick
w it h Luder stone trimmings and gressive spirit and their efforts
Georgia grev marble base for j to improve the town are proper-
plate glass show windows. The ly appreciated as is shown by
south and east of the building j the splendid deposits.
SAN f A FE WANTS ORIENT
Said to Ha Seeking Control of
That System of Railroad
Riplty Inspects Lines
uumoiH oi n miviny conniei
net ween several great railroads
m r i. it:..
for the possession of the Kansas1
City Mexico it Orient now in
the hands ni receivers were cur-
rent in Fort Worth vesterdav.
The general impression was that
the Santa Fe and the Chicago &
Alton were the railroad giants
i.euveen whom posession of the With the establishment of
coveted road lav. railway mail service on the Kan-
Tlmt the Orient will be sold sas citV( Mexico & Orient rail-
and shortly is conceded by most I way between Mertzon and Fort
railroad authorities. That it ia Stockton Nov. 1. the passing of
desired by many roads is alsoj(neof the oldest stage lines in
certain for. when completed it I Texas will be marked
will offer the snortest transconti-1 Since Texas was a frontier
nental route from the Missouri cointrv the Fort Stockton rest
river to Mexico City. dents have lieen supplied with
E. P. Riplev president of the mai by staxo coach The route
Santa Fe system accompanied formerly was from Mertzon to
by a party of capitalists madejport Stockton but in recent
an inspection trip of the Orient ;year8 port Stockton has been
last week. They would divulge ; supplied from Monahans on the
no information regarding their : Texas & Pacific
intentions but that did not pre- i The distance from Mertxon to
vent the rumor that the great !port Stockton to tie exact' is
system was preparing to further X3G.54 miiea. That country at
strengthen its almost impregna- one time wag ptrhaps the wild-
ble defense in the fight for the e8t part of Tcxa an(J 8taRe
trade of West Texas. 'drivers and stage passengers
REVIVE OLD RUMOR
A railroad authority of Fort
im.jr .'
movements in Orient circles re-
that such a service wouia tie can-
fd the White City special.
ins conntfiion oi nuo.ior
P. Shonts andth late Wwti.w J her sister Mis Km-.-j
!laW Uth lowers in the Al-j)rn attnnd.nl th4 slats fair kil
ton cttnflrm this rumor Ths week.
TO
IMPROVE
will be provided with drop awn-
ing. The interior of the build-
ing will be remodled and com-
pletely overhauled. It will be
replastered throughout upper
and lower stories which will
make it one of the nicest build-
ings in the city.
The contract calls for the com-
pletion of th building by Jan-
before trains ran into Lubbock
which bespe iks for them a pro-
rhicago & Alton is now a portion
of the Union Pacific system
which itself is owned by the
j Southern Pacific. A great im-
provement in service on the
'Southern Pacific might thus be
! made for the On. 'lit will cross
..(
; Woith Record.
Alpine.
Fort
THE (KDEsr STAGE LINE
AMI be Ab.Mishe;! When Railroad
rl.nl Servico is Put
On Orient
were frequently robbed by bold
bad men.
The new mail service will sup
ply the intermediate stations of
ujnkin ana Aieivtn reiurwa
TuesiUy from a visit at th
home nf Mr. a id Mrs. J. II.
In Mf.l...!l n.uiiilil
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