Cisco Apert (Cisco, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 6, 1904 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CISCO
apertIto fORWARD BALTIC fLCET AGAIN
I WINTER CAMPAIGN PROBLEM.
W. L WILSON, PuWiitor.
CISCO,
- - TEXAS
NEWS \U NUTSHELLS.
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JAPS CONTROLl WATER SIPPLY
Two Mormon elders are in Dal-
las distributing Mormon literature.
The rush at the gins in McLen-
nan A'ounty has caused a regular
*
Rivalry between buyers raised
the price of cotton seed to *16 at
Belton Friday.
Thirt<|^(lcer were killed by one
hunting party last week in Li Ik Tty
County. Prosecutions may follow.
Near McCraven, in the northeas-
_ tern part of Washington County,
Si potter was shot and killed Wed*
netday night.
Aunt Rosa McClellan, a negresa,
aged ll<4 years, is dead at her home
near Terrell. Iler youngest son is
seventy-four.
Leona Dare, colored, aged 102
years, died Sunday in the Blue dis-
.trickvat Denisqn. She was the
| moUifr <*f twenty-four children.
^ Iton.'jW. R. Hearst will be nomi-
nated to succeed himself in Con-
gress, Judge Parker having sup-
pressed Tammany’s opposition to
t aim.
, Glover Weiser, colored, in the em-
ploy of Dr. F. T. Walker, at Trinity,
* while gathering flowers in Walker’s
fish pond fell out of the boat and
was drowned.
. Col. W. C. Jones of Greenville
lias received his commission as aid
y, on the staff of Gen. Stephen D. Lee.
^ The appointment carries with it the
f mnk of colonel.
Chairman Tom Taggart has giv-
en out notice that there will be no
iWestern Democratic headquarters.
fThe whole campaign will be man-
aged from New York.
The attorney general has approv-
ed an amendment to the charter of
*thc St. Louis, Brownsville aud Mex-
ico Railroad company, increasing
its capital stock to $3,830,000.
The election held at Gainesville
Thursday4 to determine whether the
. city should issue bonds to the
•mount of $25,000 to build a new
city hall carried by 175 votes.
Two freight trains crashed into
each other near Eastwood, Ont.,
’ Wednesday, killing both engineers
and mortally wounding a brakeman,
, a condutor ahd one fireman.
f' A negro man named Jim Wil*
li^kjnlc asleep on his gallery on
J. S.TPrFIly’s place near Cameron
was killed. A heavy piece of iron
was used, his skull being mashed in
Capt. George W. Eddy of the
Weather- Bureau at Abilene has
.been transferred to New York
weather Bureau, and will leave for
his new post in the nexxt few days.
eW. J. Bryan and M. E. Ingalls,
representing the two wings of the
Democratic party, will be heard in
the Indiana campaign. Former
Senator. Towne will also make
C -speeches.
While Rev. Andrew Sterling, a
young Holiness preacher, who liv-
ed south of Paris, was driving along
the road Wednesday evening in a
he fell under the wheels un
conscious, suffering from gestion
- of the brain, and died Thursday
,. ‘ftiorning.
•V ^
* Twenty thousand dollars to es-
tablish a home for drunkards’ wives
in Iowa is the bequests of
the late Janie^yiahan, the eccen-
tric philantluMH? Millionaire, who
^ ' lately died at lies Moines.
The application of A. G. McMa-
han, D. T. Bomar, EJ. K. McMahan,
W. N. Herrick, M. Anglin an others
, . to organize the First'National Bank
of Whitney, Texas, with $30,000
capifhl stock, has been approved by
* the Controller of Currency,
* Preparations are already being
ipajje by the members of the New
“NYqrk Yacht club .*.** the defense of
th$ America’s cup against a possible
? f fourth challenge f-rmu Sir Thumas
Lipton.
JThc Inland Hteel Company, at
J Indian Harbor, has posted a notice
on; the gate of its works that oper-
ation will be icsuined in the sheet
mill next Monday. The 650 bin
ployees wil^go back at the old wag-
Dallas, Oct. 3.—The Morning [bound in winter for commercial
News sums up the Eastern situation ships, can easily be kept open for a
as follows; fleet of war vessels by means of ice-
Kflorts by the Russians to retake breakers. If the Japanese fleet is
positions commanding the water caught in such a weakened eondi-
supply of I’ort Arthur has resulted tion that the Baltic ships are able to
in hard fighting, the losses of both ! win a victory, officials here hold
sides being reported to have
heavy. The Japanese
been
retain the
contested ground.
It ia said that heavy guns newly
mounted threaten the Russian war-
hips in the harbor of Port Arthur,
which may now lie forced to go out
and face the fleet of Admiral Togo.
There is a report that a Japanese
gunboat was sunk by coming in con-
tact, with a mine south of the Liao
Tung Peninsula. The report adds
that a portion of the crew were res-
cued.
The Japanese have completed
their changing of the gauge of the
railroad from Dalny to Niuchwang,
and its equipment is nearly finished.
This will be of great assistance to
the armies in Manchuria.
St, Petersburg, Get. 3, 2 a. m.—
Announcement'^ made that Emper-
or Nicholas will visit Reval on
Tuesday to bid farewell to the Bal-
tic squadron. After Months of
preparation and.several false starts
it is believed that the squadron is at
Inst on the eve of its departure upon
its long journey. A division in the
Admiralty has existed throughout
the period of preparation regarding
the advisability of sending out the
squadron, but with the decision to
double the size of the Manchurian
army and press the war with vigor
the logic of those who for months
have insisted that every available
ship should be dispatched to the
Far East has finally prevailed.
The argument that no complete
victory over the Japanese is possi-
ble Unless the command of the sea
is wrested from them could not be
overcome, and though much valu-
able time has been lost and the mo-
ment seems inauspicious, it is offi-
cially intimated that an irrevocable
decision has been taken to dispatch
the Baltic fleet, even if the Port Ar-
thur squadron should be annihilat-
ed before its'arrival there.
It is realized that the squadron,
which nil paper,, is about equal in
fighting strength to that of the Jap-
anese fleet, will he much better able
to encounter the foe now than next
spring, after the .Japanese _ ships
have had all winter to clean, repair
and refit.
While hopes are still entertained
that Port Arthur may be able to
hold out until the Baltic fleet ar-
rives, the question of the fall of
that stronghold does not apparently
enter greatly into the. calculations
of the Admiralty. The only thing
<>xpocted of the Port Arthur sqnad-
.on is to break out of the harbor
and inflict as much damage as possi-
ble upon Admiral Togo’s fleet.
Such ships are expected to make
their wav to Vladivostok, where the
repairs upon the cruiser Bogatyr
are understood to have been practi-
cally completed and those on the
Rossia and Gromoboi are nearing
completion.
The question of the war in the
Far East will depend upon the issue
of a sea fight after the arrival of
the Baltic fleet. *
The Vladivostok, although ice
Was Probably Drowned.
Corpus Chriiti: A little before
dark Saturday Mifflin Hawley found
a man’s suit of clothes lying on the
beach in the northern part of the
citv. They have been identified as
belonging to G. E. Francis, a promi-
nent farmer "of this county. Yester-
day Mr. Francis informed a friend
that he intended gying to the north-
ern part of the city to take a bath,
and that was the last seen of him.
Oil and Coal Find.
Mineral Wells: L. E. Goen, a
prosperous citizen who resides at
Lakota. Parker county, was in Min-
eral Wells a few days ago, and states
that while digging a welt on his
place he struck a strong flow of oil
at a depth of twenty feet. He also
states that he penetrated a four-
inch vein of coal at" twenty-four
feet. He says the oil is of a very
' fine lubrieatiug qualitv, and a very
stroDg flow.
that other problems will solve them-
selves and with Japanese communi-
cations severed the Japanese army
on the mainland will be at the mer-
cy of the Russians.
Inis boldly announced program
seems to stake the whole is.-ue upon
sea fighting.
The Japanese ships it must be
remembered, have been in active
service seven months. No mat-
ter how greatly the' efficien-
cy of the guhs and the speed of the
vessels have been impaired, the
crews of Admiral Toga’s ships have
enjoyed the prestige of continuous
victories, while,opposed to them will
be a fleet of brand-new ships, more
or less .untried and none of which
have fired a shot in actual warfare
and whole crews have never yet
been under fire.
Russians Up Against » Hard Propo-
ti*k»n in Getting Supplies.
Gen. Kuroki s Headquarters in
the Field, Undated, via Tien Tsin,
Oct L—The most interesting mil-
itarv problem at present is how large
a Russian army the railway can sup-
port in Manchuria. While the army
south of Harbin almost all the
necessary food supplies can be ob-
tained in the country, but the far-
ther north it goes the more it must
depend on the railroad, while at the
same time the Japanese will gain an
advantage by having an increased
area to draw from,
FLOODS AT TRINIDAD.
Great Damage Is Done by Raging
Wafers.
Trinidad, Colo., Oct. 1.—A ter-
rific flood struck the city of Trini-
dad and the whole valley along the
Las Animas flitter, devastating a
wide section and causing a lose
which will reach several hundred
thousand dollars. So far as known
there was no loss of life, but there
were many narrow escapes.
Every bridge in the city of Trini-
dad is out. the Santa Fe is demol-
ished, ail of the railroads are tied
lllinoisians Touring Texas.
Fort Worth: Homoseekers from
Northrn Illinois, a substantial look-
ing body of men, came in Sunday.
They spent Monday in the city and
went to Clay county to look at
lands.* Among the number are the
following: George Staff, Philip x\t-
wood, R. I). laddie and Joseph At-
wood of Roscoe, 111.; Jo«eph Buch-
anan and Andrew McGregorv of
Rockford, G. H. Halford of Bing-
ham and R. F. Fox of Bloomington.
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Madman Kills Five People.
Memphis, Tenn.: A special to the
Commercial Appeal from O’Brien’s
Landing, Moi, says that four men
and a negro woman wore killed
Sunday night by Charles Getorell, a
Memphian employed as a clerk in a
cotnmissary store at that place. Get-
crall. it is said, was mad from fever
and rushed from his bed. Having
obtained possession of a gun, he.
later escaped into the woods. A
i-herifl and posse arc in pursuit.
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Boll Bugs Are Found in Georgia.
" Covington. Ga.’; Last Thursday
the State Agricultural Department
sent special specimens of specimens
of Mexican cotton boll weevils here
to be compared with insects found
in cotton in this neighborhood. C.
P. Lee, a farmer living itr Walton
county, on the Newton line, gath-
ered a bottle full of hugs from his
cotton ami compared them with the
genuine weevils, They were found
to he identical, even under the mi-
croscope.
X -—
Progress of the Orient Raliroad.
Fort Worth: R. L. McCauley of
the Orient Company said Saturday;
“We have laid track northward
from Sweetwater for a distance of
six* or seven miles, and are now in
the edge of Fisher county. We ex-
pect to lav at least forty or more
miles of track before the winter
sets in, and if we have a mild win-
ter we may lay through the entire
winter. The grading is all com-
pleted to Oklahoma Territory.
Tom Woods, aged 12 years, was
accidentally killed at his home near
Hamby in Taylor County Saturday
by the discharge of a six-shooter.
Put Gasoline on the Wood.
Hillsboro: Mrs. W. P. Alderson
was fatally burned Saturday trying
to start fire in the cook stove. She
intended to put kerosene on the
wood, but through a mistake got the
gitsoline. When , she touched a
match to it the flames leaped in her
face and set fire to her clothes. She
was badly burned from the w’aist to
the hcafl and it is believed she can-
not recover.
up ami the telephone ami telegraph
service completely suspended. More
The richest section in Manchuria j than thirty city blocks in the resi-
is the country of which l.ia Yang deuce and the business portion of
is the principal market, and the the town were from two to four feet
crops in that section are unusually in water along the river.
large. Merchants who are acquatnt-
Tho flood w as caused by the heavy
ed with the country believe that if rain which has be<*n falling for two
Gen. Kuropatkin should retreat to days. At 8 o’clock Thursday night
Harbin He must then bring nearly | the storm assumed cloud-burst pro-
every pound of food by means of hwrtions and at 2 Friday rooming
the railroad, especially as this year's the Las Auimas River went over its
crop in the Sungari Valley haa prov- banks. At 3:30 it was impossible to
ed a failure. Besides this every get within a block of the river at this
horse for the, Russian command
must be brought over the railway.
If winter.campaigning is attempt-
ed, on which point there is much
speculation, it will, become increas-
ingly difficult-nfter December be-
cause the ground freezes to so great
a depth as to render intrenching op-
erations impossible.
The organization of the Japanese
armv continues, to bo as efficient as it
has been since the beginning of the
campaign. Most of the troops were
equipped with Winter clothing when
the first cold weather and snow fell,
and khaki has been replaced by heav-
ier wear with remarkable prompt-
ness.
The railway will be operated to
Liao Y'ang within a week, and
thtrough trains will he running to
the front from Dalny and Niuch-
wang.
1 he changing of the gauge of the J storv structure just nearing corn-
railroad has been completed to w ith- pletion at a cost 0f $o(),000, was de-
in ten miles of Liao Yang, and *1 ,timed. The water then made its
is expected thq^ within throe^or four Wi(V through fiftv feet of ground to
days the first train w ill he run over
point, and Commercial street was
flooded for three blocks in the heart
of the business district. In the mean-
time the electric lights and gas
plants had been flooded and the city
was in complete darkness. Hun-
dreds of citizens tlirongW the streets
on the edge of the submerged dis-
trict carrying lanterns and doiifg
their best to provide shelter for those
driven from their1 homes. Warning
of the flood was given when the river
left its hafiks by revolver shot!.
Warning of the flood was given When
the river left its hanks by revolver
shots and the ringing of the fire
alarm, followed by the blowing of
all the locomotive and shops whis-
tles in the town.
Citizens ujkui rafts paddled
through the streets rescuing fam-
ilies which were in danger.
Tlio new Baeca Hotel, a two-
the new tracks.
There is no change in the situa-
tion.
Japanese outposts are now fifteen
miles to the north. There are daily
clashes lie tween Japanese outposts
and Russian patrols, usually result-
ing in only small casualties,
Corpse of Supposed Texan.
St. Louis; The dead body of a
well-dressed man supposed from a
laundry mark on the collar to have
been from Austin, Texas, has been
found near the shore of Grove Coeur
Lake twelve miles west of here,with
the skull crushed in. Physicians
state that the body must have been
there for more than a week. The
police believe that the motive of the
killing was robbery.
the Santa Fe depot, which was car-
ried aw ay. The Cardinas Hotel, ad-
joining, barely escaped a similar
fafe, an acre of ground being wash-
ed away near it. The Rio Grande
#idge at Elmore is out and the
Santa Fe right of way in many
places lias been washed out. Hail-
road traffic is entirely suspended and
business is paralyzed,
It was reported that the flood was
due to a break in the city reservoir,
hut this is erroneous. The reservoir
is safe.
Gold and Silver Production.
Washington : G. K. Roberts, Di-
rector of the Mint, has completed his
calculation of the production of gold.,
and silver for 1903. The figures for j a\ hf,-V T .n.ot ,e X\th
the United States show the total b-v thc •|mh,Mal d,Tiltlm(>nt of tlio
Texas Pasteur Institute.
Paris: The application for writ
of injunction to prevent the earry-
iing out of local option in Lamar
County was heard before Judge T.
D. Montrose Friday. He held that
the question was political; that the
making of local option laws is a law
process delegated under the constitu-
tion and laws of Texas to the people,
and in the process of making that
production of gold to be worth $73,-
591,700 and of silver to he worth
$29,322,000. The total gold produc-
tion of the world for the calendar
government.
At a depth of 320 feet a large
quantity of water was obtained in
the deep well being sunk at Jack-
sonville by the Texas and New Or-
leans Railroad Company. The
water eruiic wTthtn twenty feef of
the surface.
George Foster Peabody, treasurer
of the Democratic National Com-
mittee, will issue an appeal this
week for contributions to earrv on
The body of Capt. A. A. Hutch-
ison of Mullins was found lying
year 1903 is valued at $325,527,200 jdcad ac'ross the pilot of the Santa
and thc value of silver is given as,Fe passenger train which arrived
$92,039,600. | at Goldthwaite Wednesday night.
------ |As the train passed through Mill-
News is received from Eagle Pass, lins without stop, it is supposed
of a jail delivery there Thursday that he was struck while attempt-
night. Four federal prisoners cs- ing to cross the track in front of
caped.
Lamar County Antis Turned Down.
Austin: At the Seventh Coun-
cillor District Medical Sociotv meot-
the train at that place.
Mr. Vanderfird, his wife and
child, his wife’s brother and sister,
all poisoned Santa \nna,
mg Dr. \\ orshain, superintendent of j caused* it is supposed, by using arse-
the State Insane Asylum, of the njc instead of baking powder by mis-
treatment ol patients in the newly take. All are doing well except the
organized Pasteur Institute adjunct
to the asylum, said that the first
rabbit was inoculated Thursday, and
that thc serum will have passed
through thc proper stages so that
patients can be treated in about two
weeks from now.
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The German residents of Dallas
have selected October 13th, Dallas
day, as their day at thc Festival and
have sent out invitations to all Ger-
young lady, who is not expected to
recove .\
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Senator Clark gives the Demo-
cratic committee a $600,000 contri-
bution. This, breaks all records.
.«’*v " ”
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Married to the secretary of the
first vice president of the Philadel-
phia and Reading railroad three
weeks ago, with ' their honeymoon
BpIB .|9C!gfae| fflthffi niiles uf l trip just-ended, Mrs, Mary j*andi»
Diillas^jmiting them to attend the j,as niet death by falling from the
Festival on that date. .third story of her home iu Phil**
A deal has been closed at Fort dldP^*a*
Worth bv frve business men for the
purchase of the Buster group of gold
Joe Jefferson, the veteran actor,
the Democratic campaign. This is | niinos near Prescott, Anz. The con- has retiied fiom thc stage for good
the second appeal of the kind. sideration was $45,000 1 and at last begins Ins last holiday*.
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