The Jacksboro News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1907 Page: 3 of 10
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE TEXAS LEGISUTURE.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVE8’8 HYBRID NAD.
MONDAY, APRIL 15.
Bills Signed by the Governor.
Austin, Tex.: Governor Campbell
signed the following bills:
Amending the Galveston charter.
Prohibiting hunting on inclosed or
posted lands.
Creating the Blossom Independent
school district.
The Ridgeway bill regulating the
speed of automobiles on country roads
to eighteen miles an hour, and on city
roads to eight miles an hour.
Creating the Dalhart independent
sohool district.
Requiring all railroads to report all
rolling stock owned and leased by them
tor assessment.
Creating the Maude school district.
The Lamar County road law.
Creating the Estelline Independent
school district.
Placing Randall county under the
Slide and animal law.
Creating a board to calculate the ad-
valorem tax rate.
Creating the Gonzales Independent
school district.
Gillespie county road law.
A bill by Robertson of Travis, with
an adverse minority report, providing
that no civil court shall be reversed
because of Immaterial or technical er-
rors.
A bill by Carswell, providing that
the Judge’s charge to the Jury may
be delivered before the arguments are
begun, if the Judge is requested to do
so by either party to the suit.
A bill by Robertson of Travis, pro-
viding that in a civil case nine Jurors
may return a verdict.
A bill by Brown of Wharton, pro-
viding that notice of exceptions must
be given in open court at the time
such exception is taken.
The committee also decided to re-
port favorably Jenkins' felonious hom-
icide bill.
TUE8DAY, APRIL 16.
legislature Did Double Duty on Meas-
ure Relating to Depositions.
Austin, Tex.: Governor Campbell
vigned more than a score of bills to-
■day, most of them being local meas-
ures. The Governor discovered dur-
ing the course of his examination to-
•day that two bills in identical lan-
guage had been passed on the same
subject. Both of them provided for
The taking of depositions by county
judges in anti-trust cases when re-
quested to do so by the attorney gen-
eral or a district attorney. One of
these a Senate bill and the other a
House bill, and the record shows they
were signed by the speaker the same
•day. The Governor signed the House
till and dlsapprpved the Senate meas-
ure. He was influenced in making his
•choice by the fact that in the enrolled
■copy of the Senate bill “probate” is
written where the word “rebate” was
Intended. The enrolled copy of the
House bill, however, is not without
Its faults, for the word trusts „ is
spelled “strusts.”
But as there is no such word as
’■strusts," and as the word “monopo-
lies” follows it immediately, it is felt
that the courts will take no perverse
View of this blunder.
Following are abstracts of the more
Important bills signed by the Gover-
nor today:
Making it a felony punishable by
Imprisonment of from one to ten years
to commit burglary by the use of ex-
plosives. ,
The county superintendent bill, re-
quiring the appointment of county
school superintendents in counties of
ever 3,000 scholastic population.
Placing an occupation tax of $2,000
•on dealers in non-intoxicating malt
liquors in local option districts ana
placing an occupation tax of $1,000 on
cold storage companies handling such
non-intoxicating malt liquors.
Permitting appeals to be taken in
certain Injunction cases.
Making but one school board for
each school district, thereby elimlnat
ing the negro board of trustees.
Making it mandatory for county
commissioners to advertise for bids
lor county depositories.
The following bills were also
signed:
Appropriating $15,000 to pay the
contingent expenses of the Thirtieth
Legislature.
Road laws for Childress, Comanche,
Smith and Lee counties.
Creating the independent school dis-
trists of Donie and Kerens.
Prescribing the time of holding
court in the counties of the Thirty-
Eighth Judisclal district.
Exempting Webb county from tl
hide and animal inspection law.
MoArdls Pictures for $12,000.
Austin. Tex.: An effort will be
made by certain members to have
Governor Campbell submit a propo-
sition to the Legislature during the
extra session which will permit the
purchase of the McArdle pictures,
“The Dawn at the Alamo” and “The
Battle of San Jacinta Other offers
have been made to the artists but he
desires especially that the pictures
become the property of the State. He
originally wanted $25,000 for the pic-
tures, but as he wishes to reap the
benefit of his principal life’s work, he
is willing to dispose of the pictures
at $12,000. Had this proposition been
made at the regular session it would
have been accepted.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17^
In the House.
Austin, Tex.: A bare quorum, coun-
tenancing the Speaker, was present
in the House at the fall of the Speak-
er’s gavel at 2 p. m. today.
Thirteen new bills were read and
offered, making a total of forty in-
troduced at the special session.
The governor’s message to the legis-
lature was read.
On motion of Mr. Cobbs, the House
ordered printed 2,000 of the two mes-
sages sent by the Governor to the
called session.
The House took up, on egrossment,
a bill by Orgain and 'Kennedy, in-
creasing the charter fees to be paid
to the State.
At the conclusion of the reading of
the bill, as to whether the bill had
been ordered printed or had been re-
ported out of the committee, as no
notations appeared on the printed bill,
was raised by Mr. Strickland, and the
Chair ruled that as no committee re-
port appeared on the bill, it could
not at this time be considered by the
House,
THURSDAY, APRIL.18.
Austin, Tex.: Governor Campbell to-
day signed the following bills:
The fish and oyster bill, providing
for two patrol boats and prohibiting
common carriers from shipping oys-
ters during the closed season. The
law becomes effective in ninety days.
Amending the butchers’ law so that
the statements furnished the Commis-
sioners’ courts regarding animals
slaughtered need not be recorded, and
providing that the law does not apply
to slaughter houses where a minimum
of three hundred animals a day are
slaughtered.
City charter of Tyler.
Authorizing unincorporated joint
stock companies or associations to sue
or to be sued in their own company
or distinguishing name.
Providing for the transfer of chil-
dren from one school district to an-
other where distance or some danger-
ous or Impassable obstacle is a bar-
rier to school attendance.
Amending the Beaumont city char-
ter. ,
Reducing the tax on commercial
feed stuffs.
Regulating bawdy houses and the
sale of liquor in such places.
Providing that a plea of privilege to
be sued is sufficient if in writing and
sworn to and that all tho exemptions
may be negative as a whole, without
specifying each of the exemptions.
•Ulna Up It* Possibilities As • Racer.
UTTER DAY SAINTS
CL08ED A FOURTEEN DAYS’ SES-
SION AT LAMONI, IA.
300 MISSIONARY APPOINTMENTS
Warfare Has Existed for Years
tween Utah Church and Re-
organization.
8enate Bills.
Austin, Tex.: Bills were Introduced
In the senate this morning as follows:
By Brachfleld—Requiring telephone
and telegraph companies of like char-
acter to make connection at junctions,
etc.
By Terrell—His tax bill of the regu-
lar session imposing penalties on Tax
Assesors who fall to list all property
taxable, ansd requiring said assessors
to make affidavit of true value, and
to require affidavit of those rendering
property that it is all of the taxable
property in their possession and is
given at its market cash value.
By Skinner—Providing that the
notes of the - official stenographers
shall constitute the basis for state-
ments of facts in cases, and shall be
conclusive.
By Alexander—His bill of the regu-
lar session requiring all property own-
ers to render all of their taxable prop-
erty at its full cash value, under oath.
By Glasscock—Collating all the
terms used in valuing property, with
a view of having uniformity in as-
sessments throughout the state by le-
gally defining the meaning of all such
terms.
By Chambers—Fixing the pay of of-
ficial court stenographers at $5 per
day, but permits the interested at-
torneys to make statements of facts;
fihwever, if they can not agree, then
the official stenographer must prepare
same from his notes.
By Hudspeth—Amending Article
723, Code of Criminal Procedure, by
providing that no judgment shall be
set aside, new trial granted or rever-
sal on appeal, in any criminal case
on grounds of misdirection of jury,
improper admission or rejection of ev-
idence, or for error in pleading or
procedure, unless in the opinion of
the court to which the application
is made, or the application taken after
an examination of the entire oause. ~
Lamoi, la.—Tbe fifty-fourth annual
world’s conference of the reorganized
Latter Day Saints church closed Fri-
day.
The conference has been in session
here continuously for i.4 days and has
been one of the most important that
the church has ever held. Delegates
from every part of the United States
have been present; also from Canada,
England, Wales, Scotland, Australia,
Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the
Society islands.
The business of special interest
was the reading of missionary appoint-
ments, about 300 in number. Impor-
tant foreign appointments were: J. W.
Rushton, in charge of the British Isles;
C. W. Butterworth, Alma Bore, and W.
W. Mackie to Australia, Peter Muceus
to Norway, H. Hanson to Sweden, Jo-
seph Burton and John Lake to the
Society islands.
The church believes in present reve-
lation and often at the general confer-
ence doubtful questions are settled by
I direct word of God coming through
..he prophet, Joseph Smith. No revela-
tion came to this conference. Presi-
dent Smith is now 75 years old and
has guided his people for the past 47
years. The plans for missionary work
for the year include a very active cam-
paign in Utah. For that purpose a
strong force of men has been as-
signed to that field and iJfacecTunder
the direction of Fred A. Smith, a
grandson of the Joseph Smith who
founded the Latter Day Saints church.
For many years a strong warfare has
existed between the Utah church and
’.he reorganization.
TO REORGANIZE FORCES.
It Is Rumored That War In the
Will Be Continued.
8out!f
City of Mexico.—According to the
Dally Record, General Bonilla, the
defeated Honduran president, who
landed at Sallna Cruz recently, has
started to Coatzacoaloos, on the At-
lantic coast, where a ship awaits him.
It is further asserted that Bonilla’s
destination is Belize, British Hondu-
has, from which place he will endeavor
to reorganize his forces and continue
the war. The state department de-
clared it could not interfere with Bo-
nilla’s movements, as he is. In Mexico
as a private citizen.
CONDITIONAL PARDON GIVEN.
An Iowa Murderer Was Released by
Order of Governor.
Des Moines, Iowa.—Jasper Mason,
serving a life sentence for murder
in 1876, was released by order of
Governor Cummins, under permis-
sion granted by the legislature and
given a conditional pardon. There
was some doubt as to his guilt of first
degree murder, and the legislature
said be had been in prison long
enough. He has served 31 years. Ma-
son murdered one Woods in a heated
argument over the Hays-Tilden Issues.
Two Terrorists Captured.
Minsk, Russia.—A band of terror-
ists lying in wait in a house op-
posite the governor’s palace, appar-
ently with the intention of assassin-
ating the governor, was discovered by
the police. In an Interchange of shots,
a policeman was killed and two were
wounded. Two terrorists were cap-
tured. The others escaped.
VIOLENT STORM ON ATLANTIC.
Five Hours In a 8torm Rarely Exceed-
ed for Violence.
New York, N. Y—From midnight
Tuesday night until 5 o’clock Wednes-
day morning the steamer La Provence,
which arrived in port, passed through
a storm, which the officers of the ship
say has rarely been exceeded in vio-
lence on the Atlantic.
• At dinner time Tuesday the barom-
eter began a once to fall rapidly and
as midnight approached the ship had
reached an area where air was so
heavily charged with electricity that
the compass became worse than use-
less. Suddenly a terrific storm swept
down on the ship. Great waves broke
over the liner’s docks, but no rain
fell, the night being perfectly clear.
After five hours the storm abated as
suddenly as it had come. No one was
injured, but the passengers were bad-
ly frightened.
Capt. Alix of the liner believes the
strange storm was the result of the
same forces which caused the earth<
quake shocks in Mexico.
CHARGE POLICE CAPTAIN.
VERDICT OF CORONER;.
Says Police Commissioners Were Ap-
pointed for a Purpose.
San Francisco, Cal.—Charges were
filed with the police commission-
ers against Police Captain Mooney
by Chief Dlnan, who says that on
April 12 Capt. Mooney stated that to
his positive knowledge the police coni
mlssionere, as they at present stand,
were appointed for a purpose; that
the department is reeking with cor-
ruption, and that in his own com-
pany he knew that fully half of his
men were corrupt. The rules of the
police department forbid any police of-
ficer making strictures on any member
of the department until the charges
are passed upon by the police commis-
sioners.
SUICIDES IN KANSA8 CITY.
Traveling Salesman Drinks Carbolic
Acid and Dies.
Kansas City, Mo.—S. P. Horwitz,
of Cincinnati, aged 38 years, com-
mitted suicide at the Kupper hotel
in this city by drinking carbolic acid.
He left a note requesting that Walter
Jacobs of this city be notified of his
death. Jacobs said that Horwitz haa
a family in Cincinnati and that his
father-in-law, Mannie Bauer, is a prom-
inent iron merchant there.
Jacobs had known Horwitz Intimate-
ly since 1903, when Horwitz was a
traveling salesman for a liquor com-
pany. The cause of the suicide is not
known.
Death of at Least Two Victims of Gun*
"ter Fire Came Before Death Con*
aumed Their Bodiee.
Sherman, Texas., April 18.—Justice
McDonough, of Van Alstyne, acting
Coroner in the Inquiry Into the cause,
manner and circumstances of the
death of the eight'persons incinerated
in the fire which destroyed the John
T. Price homestead near Gunter last
Friday night or some time early Sat-
urday morning, has concluded an ex-
haustive Inquiry.
He was at Sherman Wednesday In
attendance on court and stated that
he would at once upon bis return
to Van Alstyne enter upon his dock-
et a finding, the substance of which hn
authoritatively stated would be aa
follows:
That eight persons, John T. Price,
Belle Price, Annlo Price, Elmer Price,
Fay Price, Homer Price, Dottle Bow-
ers and Aline Upchurch, came to their
deaths from unnatural causes.
That at least two of these, Elmer
Price and Aline Upchurch, prior to
their cremation, received severe bod-
ily injury, and that the flow of blood
as evidenced by recovered clothing,
sheets, etc., was not Incidental to thn
burning of the bodies.
That he, as Coroner, Is not able
to state whether the fire was due to
accident or was the work of design.
Tbe matter is still being carefu'ly
investigated, and while there Is still
a wide divergence in views among
those who hold to the theory of ac-
cident and those who believe there
was foul play, still there is a general
endorsement of the close scrutiny ot
all facts connected with tbe tragedy.
INSPECTING COAL INDU8TRY.
A Party of Austro-Hungarians Making
a Tour of United States.
Washington, D. C.—President Roose-
velt received a party of Austro-
Hungarians, who are making a tour of
the United States, looking particular
ly into the coal industry. The visitors
told the president they had enjoyed
their trip very much and were amazed
as well as greatly Instructed by thi
sights they had seen.
“The people of this country, I feel
sure, have little idea of tbe magni-
tude of Illinois and Missouri coal
fields,” said G. Petsehek, of Aussig,
Bohemia, one of the party. “We were
simply astounded.”
8erving Two Masters.
Lorain, Ohio.—Orders of S. M.
Bowman, postmaster notifying Caut
A. F. Gove and Sergeant Ewalt, mall
carriers, and Sergeant Phinney, now
on strikg duty with Co. B, national
guard, to return to work today or
lose their positions, will be carried
at once to the postofflee department
at Washington for settlement
FIVE DAY8 GONE TO LIMBO.
House Meets With a Quorum But l«
Not Ready to Work.
Austin, Tex., April 18.—After wait*
ing four days, at a cost to the State
of about $1,000 a day, both bouses ot
the Legislature mustered quorums
yesterday. But though ready tor bus-
iness, neither hoube, seemingly, was
disposed to do business, for the whole
product of their collaborated efforts
was the passage of the bill to pay
themselves, as well as one creating a
fund out of which to pay, the con?
tlngent expenses.
The House made a brave effort
do something more; the WH See.
ing the amounts of permit and char-
ter fees charged by the Secretary of
State was called up. But the bill was
not accompanied by a committee re-
port, and without evidence that It had
ever been acted upon by a committee,
the House had no warrant to con-
sider it.
The taxation bills which the com-
mittee agreed to Tuesday had not
been printed, and so, having nothing
before it for consideration the House
adjourned almost perforce.
The same statement Is true of the
Senate. It Is promised that today
will see some start made.
Killed by Loosened Lever.
Sherman: Clarence Nevltt, aged 29
years, leaving a widow, but no chil-
dren, met death at the Frisco ter*
mlnals Wednesday morning. He was
working in the car repairing depart-
ment and was engaged in replaclngl
some springs under a car loaded with*
coal. Among the appliances In use
was a step-jack, operated by a lever.
In some way there was a slip of the*
lever and as It flew up It struck Nev-
ltt on the head and pinioned his head
between the end of the car and the
lerev, causing death.
Died at 107 Years of Age.
Marlin: Charles Campbell, late of
Cego, this county, hoary with age and
bending beneath the wblght of 107.
years and some days, has gone on
that journey to “the undiscovered
country, from whose bourne no trav-
eler returns.” He came to Texas in
the early days, and served in the War
with Mexico. In fact, he was a veter-
an of three wars. His residence in
Falls County dates back about forty
years.
One Dollar for Wheat.
Omaha, Neb.: In the five great
wheat producing States of the country
the minimum price of the cereal this
year will be $1 a bushel. This is
at least the plan of the American So-
ciety of Equity, the grain growers de-
partment of which will hold its an-
nual convention in Omaha June 5, 6|
and 7. Minnesota, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas
will send large delegations to the con-
vention.
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Marks, Tom M. The Jacksboro News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1907, newspaper, April 25, 1907; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth733126/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.