The Jacksboro News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 17, 1906 Page: 3 of 10
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BIO MEDICINE MEN
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ONE OF THE QUIETEST
AND ONE OF THE BIGGE81.
TRUST TOUCHES ALL
The Drug Combine to Be Sifted to the
Bottom.
Washington, May 10.—The Attor-
ney General yesterday made public a
statement announcing that a peti
hon has been filed in the Circuit
Court of the United States for the
district of Indiana by the Govern
ment asking for an injunction
against certain associations, corpo-
rations and individuals comprising
what is commonly known as the
“drug trust of the United States.”
In the statement the Attorney
General alleges that the parties de-
fendant:, specifically named in the
bill, have voluntarily combined to
control the prices at which proprie-
tary medicines and drugs shall be
told to the consumer through the
retail druggists in violation of tho
Sherman anti-trust law.
The parties to the alleged combi-
nation include the Proprietary As-
sociation of America, the National
iWholesale Druggists’ Association
and the National Association of Re-
tail Druggists.
The statement continues:
The Proprietary Association of
America is an unincorporated asso-
ciation of 90 per cent of all the man-
ufacturers and proprietaries of pat-
ent medicines, drugs and proprietary
articles in the United States.
The National Wholesale Drug-
gists’ Association is also a nunin-
corporated association composed of
nearly all the wholesale druggists
in the United States. These whole-
sale druggists act as the distributing
agents for the manufacturers and
proprietors of patent medicines,
chemicals, drugs and proprietary ar-
ticles, purchasing the same direct
from the manufacturers and supply-
ing the same to the retail druggists.
The National Association of Re-
tail Druggists is also an unincorpor-
ated association composed of dele-
gates from affiliated local associa
RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT.
NEWS IN NUTSHELLS.
Tama
Tha First Mealing la Vary
and Quiet
St. Petersburg, May 11.—Without
a single hitch and with only a min-
er incident to mar the memorablo
day, the Russian Parliament was in-
augurated yesterday. The weather
was superb and the stage manage-
ment of the impressive ceremony at
the Winter Palace, where Emperor
Nicholas, surrounded by courtiers
And all the pomp and panoply of
power, delivered the speech from the
throne to the members of the two
houses, was perfect. Such a spec-
tacle perhaps never before has been
witnessed </n the earth’s stage.
The message in reality was less
a throne speech than a greeting and
required only three minutes for its
delivery. Emperor Nicholas read
slowly. The admirable and even cor-
dial tone of the sovereign in renew-
ing his pledges and asking the co-
operation of Parliament for the re-
generation of the country was only
partially satisfactory.
Courtiers and spectators other
than members of the National Par-
liament led the cheering, but the
members were ominously silent, ex-
pressing neither approval nor disap-
proval. What rankled most was the
failure of the Emperor to mention
amnesty and later when the mem-
bers -assembled in the Tauride Pal-
ace, away from the spell of the
throne room, many of them with
difficulty were restrained from pre'
cipitating matters by offering reso-
lutions on the subject. The Consti-
tutional Democratic leaders, how-
ever, who dominated everything,
were anxious not to weaken the re-
ply which the lower house will pre-
pare to the speech from the throne,
in which issues with the crown will
be joined, and succeeded in staving
off premature action.
0. P. Gtefer of Crfrthage, Mo;, will
be the judge at the Navarro County
poultry show.
PUBLIC SERVICE.
The condition of the growing win-
ter wheat is given at 91 per cent by
the agricultural department’s crop
report just issued.
For the ninth consecutive term
Prof. W. L. Acker has been elected
superintendent of {he city public
schools of Waxahachie.
The track laying crew on the ex-
tension of the Santa Fe from Can-
yon City south has arrived and
began laying track on the 15th inst
John Watkins, a large wheat rais-
er near Era, Cooke County, reports
nearly 1,000 acres of wheat ruined
in his section by the recent hail.
The Farmers’ National Bank of
Rockwall, capital $23,000, has been
authorized to begin business; W. H.,
Grove, president; Mark Wheeler,
cashier.
August Stephens is busily engag-
ed in the construction of an elec-
tric light plant for Miles, which he
expects to have in operation within
a lew days.
A Buenos Ayres dispatch tells of
a heavy earthquake in the cities of
Tacna and Arica. The inhabitants
were panic stricken and fell praying
in the streets.
W. H. Sylvester, president of the
First National Bank of Montezuma
Ind., was shot and killed in his
home by his brother, whose mind is
believed to be affected.
W. D. Yancy, a boiler maker in
the employ of the Texas and Pacific
railway, dropped dead at the round-
house at Fort Worth Wednesday aft-
ernoon from heart failure.
tions of retail druggists located in
the various states of the Unitec
States, and it is claimed this associ-
ation through its affiliations has a
Membership of about 20,000, or
nearly all the retail druggists in the
United States, who purchase and sel
patent medicines, chemicals, drugs
end proprietary articles to the con-
sumer.
Cuts the Implement Combine.
Austin: It is reported here on ex-
cellent authority that the Attorney
General is now going after the alleg-
ed implement trust which exists in
Texas. Dallas is to be the center of
operation in this matter, and it is
said that suits are likely to be filed
shortly against a number of imple-
ment firms of Dallas and other Tex-
as cities.
Steve and John Beason were both
shot and killed at Beach, one mile
east of Conroe. After the shooting
Harry Bendy came in and surren-
dered to the sheriff and was given
on examining trial and admitted to
bail in the sum of $300 in each
case.
Fort Worth: Jacob Washer, one
of the most prominent business men
of the community, as well as one
of the most public-spirited citizens
of the city, died Wednesday after-
noon after an illness of about five
days’ duration. Mr. Washer was at
the head of the firm of Washer Bros,
of this city and San Antonio and
had been identified with everything
connected with the business interests
of the town for about twenty-five
years.
Brenham-Taylor Survey.
Brenham: Committees from, both
Brenham and Taylor have agreed to
do their part in securing the right
of way for the proposed Taylor and
Brenham line of railroad. A re-
port was approved at a meeting here
pro-rating the preliminary expense
of $4,000 as follows: Taylor and
Brenham each $1,500 and Lee Coun-
ty $1,000. An executive committee
was authorized to contract for a sur-
vey.
Santa Fe Indicted.
Roswell, N. M.: The Pecos Val-
ley Railroad Company, a branch of
i.he Santa Fe, has been indicted un-
der the Elkins law, by the federal
grand jury on a charge of giving
icbates to wool shippers and refus-
ing the same treatment to other ship-
pers. Warehouse and storage charg-
es were paid, it is alleged, by the
company to induce certain shippers
to ship wool over the lines of the
company.
Much cotton in Lamar County is
ready to be chopped out and owing
to the great demand for negroes, la-
bor prices have increased. Men are
asking $1.50 per day and board of
the farmers.
Shells and projectiles for the Na-
vy Department will, after June 30,
1906, be purchased by the Bureau
of Ordinance in the open market in-
stead of as is now the practice in
secret markets from firms engaged
in the manufacture of these articles*
ItYGenerally a Graft and the Peo-
ple Know It.
If put up and sold to the lowest
qualified bidder, there is not a
county office in Wise County that
would cost the taxpayers a thousand
dollars, and very few of them that
would cost them exceeding six hun-
dred dollars per annum, and we
would have fewer changes in office in
the future and get far better service.
The best and most accomplished
county and district clerk the writer
knew filled those offices from
ever
1814 till 1856, and these offices in
all that time did not make him rich,
but only made him a decent support
for himself and family.
The farm laborer, the mechanic,
the salesman, the bookkeeper, etc.,
are .paid salaries, usually, on the
basis of what they are to the posi-
tion they occupy, in other words in
proportion to the service they ren-
der, but not so with the average ofti*
cer, for he is rated much higher in
the salary list. Because of his su-
perior character and qualifications?
No. Because of the harder labor or
more delicate tasks he has to per-
form? Not so, for he is often the
same man that was barely earning a
good living on the farm, as clerk in
some store at $25 or $30 per month,
os deputy in Borne little office at a
salary perhaps of five or six hundred
dollars per year, doing the work for
which his employer was receiving
two or three thousand.
Who blames the laboring classes
generally who are contending for
shorter hours and better pay, when
they see so many people superior to
themselves in nothing, and often in-
ferior in some things, getting in a
few years a nice little capital with
which to buy and improve a good
farm, or buy and stock a nice little
cattle ranch, or stock up a nice store
of some kind, or even become a
stockholder and an officer in a hank,
just simply by working what is pop-
ularly termed the “office combina-
tion,” and getting many times the
actual honest value of liis services
lor a term of years?
for a term of years?—Uncle Zekiel
in Boyd Index.
Borrowing Money On Lands.
If farmers and land owners per-
mit other people to “out smart”
them and secure possession of farm
lands in the Southwest where land
is now plentiful, but valuable, such
farmers have but to pick their flints
and try it again. We all know of in-
stances where mortgage companies
or syndicates have advanced mon-
ey on lands worth only the face val-
ue of the money loaned. Such loans
are sales, virtually. But it lias prov-
ed a poor business. The interest on
the farm from year to year tied the
hands of the borrower and former
owner until it finally crushed out his
life and drove him away broken in
fortune and wrecked in his hopes. He
was simply “out-smarted.” These
loan companies are satisfied with
the interest. The owner becomes
their slave. He labors for ten years,
it first laughing at the trick played
in the “foreigner” and at the end
of ten years usually finds him«elf
homeless and adrift. The syndicate
has earned ten per cent for ten years
and owns the land to show for the
original investment. It is good busi-
ness, very bad business for the far-
mer. It is poor farm management
It means adopting a policy which
looks away from the farm. Any
heavy loan on real estate means usu-
ally an incombrance, a financial loan,
from which the borrower will be
thankful to escape with his life at
the end of ten years.—Farm and
Ranch.
Find Homes In Texas. •
New York: Fifty-eight little boys
and girls marched up the gang plank
of the Southern Pacific Steamship
Company Wednesday and took pos-
session of the second cabin saloon.
With shouts of childish glee they de-
scended on the stewards and were
soon very much at home. They are
orphans from the New York Found-
ling and Orphan Asylum and are
going to Northern and Central Tex-
as, where they are to be adopted by
fifty-eight families.
Ernest, the 16 -year-old son of G
Martin, a farmer living about four
miles east of Howe, was drowned in
Choctaw Creek while seining with a
crowd of other boys. His remains
were not recovered for about three
hours after the accident.
Nebraska Has a Shake.
Chicago: A dispatch to the Inter
Ocean from Cody, Neb., says: At
6:25 o’clock Wednesday night ari
Earthquake shock lasting nearly one
rjinute passed through the Elk
Iiorn Valley, the earth seeming to
move north and south. No damage
is reported from the various towns
which have telephoned the news.
Towns in all directions for a radius
of sixty miles have reported feeling
the shock.
Mrs. Davis Very Sick.
New York: Mrs. Jefferson Davis,
widow of the president of the South-
ern Confederacy is very ill with
grippe at her apartments in the
Hotel Gerard in West Forty-fourth
street, in this city. As Mrs. Davis
is nearly eighty years old it is fear-
ed the attack may be fatal. Her
daughter. Mrs. J. Addison Hayes,
ias been summoned from her homo
at Colorado Springs.
More Boats for Upper Red.
Paris: A third merchant boat hae I
xen aided to the craft that carry
reight on Red River between the
saw mills north of Paris. The new
ship is owned by Capt. T. W. Young,
fin old riverman and lumberman.
Tub is fie third boat to be placed
on the upper portion of the river
within six months. These boats are
equipped with gasoline engines.
The Texarkana oil company, of
which J. D. Cook is president, has
all the machinery on the ground and
will begin drilling a well south of
the Iron Mountain tracks in the city
limits between the city proper and
College Hill in a few days.
R. M. Smoot, who was in the plot
to kidnap President Abraham Lin-
coln, and who sold to John Surratt
the boat which it was intended to
convey Lincoln across the Potomac,
died a few days since at Fort Smith,
Ark., aged 73 years.
The books, records, furniture, etc.,
belonging to the Mangum Land Of-
fice arrived in Lawton, Ok., and are
being unboxed at the local land of-
fice. There are already on hand
more than 300 applications to make
final proof upon land.
The Attorney General has ruled
that Delta County is not. entitled to
the office of District Clerk by not
iiaving the required number of vot
irs, and the offices of District and
County Clerk are thrown together.
Features of the program for the
annual meeting of the Farmers'
Congress to be held at College Sta-
tion on July 10, 11 and 12 were
outlined at a meeting of the execu-
tive committee of the organization
held in Dallas last week.
G. W. Jones of the Brewer com-
munity, in Freestone County, left
lor Austin to place two of his chil-
dren in the Pasteur Institute. They
were bitten by a mad dog last Sun-
day and Monday.
There was light frost in the bot-
:oms around Denison Sunday night.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas
is having 200 stable cars cleaned and
slatted for use in hauling potatoes.
Most of the cars will go to the
Shreveport division. The potato
shipments from Texas are expected
to be heavy this season.
Randall la Right.
Congressman C. B. Randeil in his
recent speech in the lower House of
Congress against the free pass evil,
said in part:
“I tell you, Mr. Chairman, and
gentlemen, it does not lie in the
mouth of a man whose pockets are
filled with passes and franks to
say that it is no slur upon his honor
when the records of public meet-
ings, political conventions, and leg-
islatures of the States—when the
writings of the best thinkers and the
best moral teachers in the country,
those teachers who are acquainted
with political ethics—are brimful of
charges of corruption, both in the
intent of the parties who gave these
favors and as to the returns for these
favors by many of those who receive
them. That man who holds on to
a part of the fruits of a robbery has
no right to say that he is free from
suspicion. Let every man clear his
own skirts, and then lie is in a posi-
tion to judge of a subject that may
concern him and his fellows. (Ap-
plause.) Therefore, I say, let the
Congress of the United States si-
lence the tongue of slander as to its
members innocent of such impropri-
ies, and stop the wrong-doing of any
who may be guilty by placing upon
the statute hooks a law along these
ines laid down by our forefathers.
A large majority, I fear, of our
senators and members of the House,
and the judges of the Federal courts
in the last ten or fifteen years have
accepted these favors; and have ac-
cepted them to the amount of great
lecuniarv value. When a man re-
ceives that which is equivalent to
money, it is a very short step for
lim to get to the point when he is
willing to receive the money itself.
Suppose the system goes on and ev-
ery member is accorded so many
lasses and so many franks; that the
: lumber and amount of same should
>e governed by their value; suppose
each one would get $500 worth al-
iowed to him on applicatipn? How
soon would it be when, instead of
applying for the passes, they would
simply make a commutation of the
whole allowance and, as you do your
stationery account, wind it up by
Aking out the whole amount in
cash?”
But It Won’t Happen.
The poor man hasn’t got the mon-
ey and the rich man hasn’t the
nerve to do that he knows to be
right. What a good, happy, prosper-
ous, contented old world this would
be if every man was willing to work
and could earn enough salary to live
comfortably, pay his, debts, be hon-
est, and wrong no man. Bees work
together in harmony and lay up
their wages for the common good.
They never fight among themselves
unless they discover a drone, and
they put him out of business. Ev-
ery human drone should be similarly
suspended. The man who by any,
means whatever has succeeded in se-
curing to himself the results of tho
ichors of hundreds of less fortunate
men should not sit down in idleness
until death calls him. There is an
opportunity to d*ork, to do good, to
prove himself a man. When he was
poor ho could do nothing but work.
After he was rich, he ought to do
ten men’s work.—Iv. Lamity’s Har-
poon.
The total cotton crop of last year
was, counting round as half bales,
anil including linters, 10,725,602
bales. In running hales it was 10,-
865,520, equivalent to 10,804,55$
hales of 500 pounds weight.
These facts are shown in a bulle-
tin issued which is made up of fig-
ures included in the seventh and last
of the series of ginners’ reports. Tex-
as, of course, leads in the production
ot cotton, the crop of last year hav-
ing been, counting round as half
hales, and including linters, 2,490,-
128 running hales, as compared with
3,132,503 in 1904. Notwithstand-
ing th I3 decrease of production, Tex-
as yielded a larger percentage of the
whole crop last year than it did in
1904, the figures being for the two
years, respectively, 24.1 and 23.4.
The production in Indian Territory
last year was 347,518 running bales,
and in 1904, 469,519. In Oklahoma
it was for the two years, respective-
ly, 328,044 and 342,033.
Williamson last year won the ban-
ner in the matter of cotton produc-
tion. Eighty-nine thousand seven
hundred and twenty-four bales were
ginned there last year, as against
80,814 the preceding year. McLen-
nan is second in this respect and El-
lis third, so that the honors may be
said to lie fairly divided as between
the north and south sections of the
State.
Keep Him In Sohool.
Don’t encourage the boy in his
ideas that he has had enough school-
ing before he has finished a common
high school course. Insist on his at-
tending even at the expense of some
rather powerful persuasion. The
successful man of the future must
Le an educated man. Things have
changed since we were boys and they
are changing more rapidly now than
ever before. The chances for a
“plug” man are fast disappearing,
so give the boy enough education to
raise him out of that class. This
also applies to the girls.—Decatur
News.
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Marks, Tom M. The Jacksboro News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 17, 1906, newspaper, May 17, 1906; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth734729/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.