The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, July 28, 1905 Page: 3 of 8
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Humble, Tex., July 24.—During
• vivid electrical storm last night
lightning struck one of the big
earthen tanks belonging to one of
the Texas companies, resulting in a
blase which had spread until elev-
•en tanks were burning, while fifty
men were surrounded by flames and
their fate unknown. One hundred
teams are known to hare perished
in the great blaze, and many fami-
lies have been burned out.
The tank first to burn contained
250,000 barrels of oil and, as it was
wood covered and isolated, it was at
first thought the fire would not be
communicated to other property,
but by 10 o’clock six of the big
tanks, each of 250,000 barrel capac-
ity, were ablaze and over one mil-
lion barrels of oil in flames, with the
fire spreading, until eleven were
doomed to destruction.
Houston, Tex., July 14.—-At 1 *A0
this morning the fire in Humble oil
fields was atiD burning, aU of the
tanka' of the Texas Company
ing caught Loss of human
ng flie men who were handling
teams is reported here in this way,
that the me.* have not turned up.
It is not poef lively known that the
men have perished, but they are
missing. Tney were men in the em-
ploy of the company who were en-
deavoring to extinguish the flames.
Nothing can be told definitely be-
fore daylight.
During the electrical storm the
lightning—presumably the same
stroke—knocked Foreman Reed of
the Guffey tank builders and sever-
al men unconscious and killed a
negro named Jum Nobles, who was
standing c» « scraper. Another ne-
gro standing behind him was ren-
dered unconscious but soon recov-
ered. A team of mules was killed.
TEXAS PASTEUR INSTITUTE FLOURISHING.
Austin, Tex., July 24.—Tho State*
Pasteur Institute, it is stated, is
proving a great success, both in
point of patronage and effective
treatment. Dr. B. II. Worsham,
uuperintendent of the State Insane
Asylum, to which the Pasteur In-
stitute is attached, states that since
the institute was thrown open sev-
eral months ago, he has treated
415 patients, there being from one
to ten at the asylum taking the
treatment all the time. He has not
lost a single patient; that is, hydro-
phobia has been forestalled and the
patients saved from that dread dis-
ease.
It is a fact that the work of the
Institute has spread all over the
State, though a large number are
still unaware of its existence. Pa-
tients have come here from every
section, and the fees received have
more than paid the small expense
incident to maintaining such an in-
stitution, and one which is doing
so much good for humanity. Indi-
gent patients are received the Same
ss others, and those who are able
to pay are charged the sum of $25
ior the 'full treatment, while the
Pasteur Institute of ^Chicago exacts
$200, not to mention the great sav-
ing in railroad fare to Austin as
compared with Chicago. The Aus-
tin institute has been recommended
by eminent specialists of St. Louis,
who have had occasion to know of
its work and methods.
Dr. Worsham says that 99 cases
cut of every 100 will be saved from
hydrophobia if the treatment is
commenced in time; that the rec-
crds or statistics show that without
the treatmen 85 per cen of those
bitten by mad skunks or wolves
have hydrophobia, and 60 per cent
•of those bitten by mad dogs have
the fatal disease.
Three Negro Children Drowned.
Tyler: Three negro children were
browned here late Saturday even-
ing. A wagon in which they were
riding, Accompanied by their moth-
er, a negro mand and a boy,
overturned in a small branch which
was swollen from the effects of
beavy rain. The man, woman and
boy narrowly escaped. The woman
drifted a half mile down the stream,
making her escape by climbing a
tree. The team was drowned.
Dallas OanAbide the Law.
Dallas: The lid was on Sunday.
Sheriff Ledbetter sat upon it, and
cast his eye over a city of 85,000 in-
habitants, the male population of
which, unless it had prudently pur-
chased a supply the day before, be-
ing denied its daily cigar, and the
female population whereof suffered
grievously from the lack of chewing
gnm and went athirst for its soda
water, for some druggists stopped
business.
Members of clubs were the only
moist people in town. Elsewhere
the beverage with suds on top was
not on tap—that is, so far as the
officers engaged with the Sheriff
were able to discover. The_ merry
tune of the bung-starter was stilled,
the chink of ice in glass was hush-
ed. Rubber sandwiches rejected by
discerning flies were cast into the
corner, and the town was dry—dry
as the proverbial bone, and a deep,
dense, weak and appalling sense
thirst was present.
Big Railway Proposition.
Greenville, Tex.: W. J._ Hogue,
formerly of this city, but now of
Chicago, is here. Mr. Hogue rep-
resents Chicago capitalists, who, ns
says, are ready as soon as surveys
and preliminary arrangements can
be made, to build a line of railway
from McKinney, through Denton,
Decatur and Seymour, to Roswell,
N. M., thence to Ysleta for a con-
nection with the Santa Fe. The
company will expect a liberal bonus
from the principal towns on the
route.
It is stated that the contract for
the construction has.already been
let to the Rock Island Construction
Company. The new line is to be
known as the Interstate and Great
Western.
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Col. Laitiont Paeses Away.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.: Col Daniel
S. Lamont, Secretary of War dur-
ing President Cleveland’s second
administration, died suddenly at his
home at Milbrook, Saturday night,
of heart failure. Ool. and Mrs. La-
mont weer out driving in the after-
noon and Col. Lamont appeared to
be enjoying the best of health. Af-
ter dining hq, complained of feeling
ill, and Dr. Stewart of New York,
who is a guest at the house, imme-
diately went to his aid. The phy-
sician diagnosed the case as an at-
tack of heart failure, and in spite of
heroic treatment Mr. Lamont pass-
ed away within half an hour.
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Suicide of German Farmer.
Brenham: At his home, Fred
Hueske, a prominent German farm-
er, killed himself by hanging. He
got up about 4 o’clock and, as his
wife supposed, went out to look af-
ter his stock. Just after daylight
his body was found dangling in mid-
air under a hackberry tree. His
neck was broken and he must have
died instantly. He was about 58
years of age and leaves a widow and
several grown children.
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■The postoffices at Faught, Givens
and Amhurst, Lamar county, will
be discontinued August 14.
The first shipment of three car-
loads of export wheat arrived from
Kansa City Saturday and gradec
No. 2. _
Extra 8eeslon Talk.
Oyster Bay/ N. Y., July 24.—
President Roosevelt will call an ex-
traordinary session of Congree to
begin Nov. 11. It was originally in-
tended to call the session a month
earlier, but the President has post-
poned the date until after the com-
pletion of his trip South. So many
inquiries have come from member*
of Congress that Mr. Roosevelt has
decided to authorise announcement
of the date.
In his message the President wil
lay stress upon the necessity of rail-
road legislation. It is also intimat-
ed that some plan will be presentee
to overcome the organized boycott
by the Chinese against American
trade in retaliation for the exclusion
act Mr. Roosevelt feels he bar
gone as far as he can in modifyiii
enforcement of the law by savin,;
Chinese merchants and travelers
from annoyance in entering the
country.
resulted
Young who
HP a hoe
whip, a board, and wet rope, that he
bound her hands and feet together
with a rope and beat her tied
and tortured her in many other
ways. Photographs of the victim
were exhibited during the trial show
ing her skull laid bare be the
Wounds, her back, "limbs and feet
cut and gashed.
The evidenoe showed the defend-
ant’s real name to be John T.
Young, that he formerly lived in
Travis county, where he married
Maud Nixon in May, 1903, that he
eft there, going to Brady City,
Where he married May Benton, af-
terward traveling with her from
dace to place. They left Durango,
Tails county, last April, the girl,
Alma Reese, going with them to
Temple, Belton and finally to Flor-
ence, this county, where his treat-
ment of the girl was discovered and
lis arrest followed. Both wives
were at the trial and it being es-
tablished by the evidence that de-
state. Several physicians who ex
amined the girl after she was res
eued by the authorities, testified
as to the horrible condition of the
girl's body and the photographs told
he story most vividly. The court
louse was crowded throughout the
trial and when the verdict of death
was returned, the satisfaction of the
crowd could not be restrained.
' Two Murderers Condemned.
Dallas: After being out about
twelve hours, Friday the verdict
returned by the jury in the Es-
McKensie murder case about
ser*
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me united
ton yesterday at
terdif morning.
On board the
endant and his first wife had not
been divoreced wife number two
was permitted to testify for the
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10 o'clock Friday morning. McKen-
zie, the negro oh whbm the extreme
penalty of the law was assessed, shot
his wife on the nineteenth day of
ast June in a servant’s house on
Floyd street near Haskell avenue,
from the effects of which she died
later. According to the statement
made by the woman just before she
died, McKenzie shot her because she
did not have dinner readv when he
came home to dinner on that day.
This breaks the record for Dal-
las in the matter of murder cases,
this being the second sentence of
this sort this week. The other case
was that of the negro Manning sen-
tenced to death for shooting to
death’ a barkeeper last spring.
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Civil War Veterans Disappearing.
Topeka: The Topeka Pension
Agency, which handles the busi-
ness of Missouri, Kansas, Colorado,
New Mexico, Indian Territory ant
Oklahoma, has 115,368 pensioners
on the rolls, a net loss of 252 for
the year. The total loss was 5,052
of which 4,506 were due to deaths.
The number of Spanish war veter-
ans and1 of civil war widows in
creases, but the rate of death o !
Civil war veterans is very high.
Smallpox is reported have zbrok-
en out in the Gatesville reforma-
tory in a mild form.
On board the Bennington ware
presented terrible soenes. The force
of the explosien had torn a great
hole in starboard side of the
ship and the vessel already co
menced listing. A section of the
upper deck was carried away from
stem to stem. The blood and wreck-
age were distributed over the entire
<?ver it all hung a great cloud of
white smoke.
The boiler which exploded, It ia
said was regarded as unsafe. Com-
mander Young stated that during
a recent return from Honolulu the
steam pressure was kept reduced in
that partfeura one.
When the explosion ooeurred the
engineer was inspecting the boilers
as a preliminary to the vessel's leav-
; ngjaort. He was not seriously in-
Officers and men who were able
,o assist in the recue work acted
n a brave and collected manner.
The ship's inner works are a tang-
ed mass of machinery and she prob-
ably will have to be dismantled in
order to examine her injuries.
Lieutenant Ferry and 33 men are
dead, 76 are wounded and 21 are
missing. Many of the wounded were
taken from the water, where they
had been thrown'by the force of
the explosion. A number of the In-
jured will have died by this nu
The Bennington at the time o1
the accident was lying in the stream
just off the commercial wharf at
the foot of H street. The warship
___ from the Navy
Department at Washington to
for Port Harford, where she
to meet the monitor Wyoming am
convoy the vassal to Mare Island
Navy Yard.
Steam was up and everything was
in readiness for sailing, when sud-
denly and without any warning
whatever the starboard forward
boiler exploded with a deafening
roar.
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made to
ous portions of
work done has not 1
its with
tance of the
portunity that
opment of a profitable
The Swinden orchard i
wood was planted sev
ago, and is the i
of Hie kind in the !
the status of that
present we are not
ought to have reached
where it is beginning to
revenue. There are
orchards let
enterprises
the State, and
can enthusiasts who
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ceeded with the
as determined as
presented
That there is
can culture in Texas,
from H. B. Halbert
who is one of the
tbusiasts and \ bull
State. He says:
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tatna
other forest tree throughout the do-
main of Texas. It abounds slang
streams from the
i Grande and from the
to the Gulf. This is not
tive that the pecaft will
along the streams,
Strikers Seek Plaoes. *■
Chicago: The teamster strikers
who gave up their long struggle
against the employers broke ranks
in a stampede for work. Barns of
the strike-affected firms were be-
sieged by men who had been idle for
months and whose places had been
filled by nonunion men. The em-
ployers in many cases announced
that there were vacancies for only
a few/ Of more than 4000 men who
quit wbrk not more than 1400 or
1500 will be reinstated.
Herman Seber, a 11-yeqr-old boy,
died near Thomas, Ok., from hydro-
phobia, the result of a bite by a pole
cat two weeks before. The cat en-
tered the house and bit the boy
on the noae and clung to him tenac-
iously until it waa killed.
H. H. Levering , sheriff of Kin-
sey county, has resigned his office,
and Tom Perry was Friday as
lag appointed in his plaes^
Yellow Jaok at New Orleans.
Galveston, July 22.—Texas has
quarantined against New Orleans
■Dr. George R. Taber, State health
officer yesterday received a tele-
gram from Dr. Souchon, presiden
of the State board of health
Louisiana, stated that yellow fever
had invaded the Crescent City, and
Dr. Tabor promptly put on an em-
bargo against passengers originat-
ing in New Orleans.
He will leave for that point and
made a personal inspection, after
which further plans will be evolved
for the establishment of detention
camps at the railroad entrances to
Texas, if they are deemed neces-
Pending this, however, Dr. Tabor
by wire instructed the ticket agents
at New Orleans of the Texas and
Pacific and Southern Pacific rail-
roads not to sell tickets to Texas
points.
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Aunt Dicy Smith, a negress arid
to be 102 years old, died at Waco
last week.
The Pet Stock and Poultry As-
sociation of Marshall will give a
show in December.
President A. J. Davidson of the
Frisco who has just finished an in-
spection of the company's lines,
places the Oklahoma wheat yield at
i, but that hers
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overflowing and drifting
and covering than with
natural methods
have more greatly
streams
the nuts and
silt.
There are man;
y natural groves
from streams, started, no
u; away from streams, stai
°f doubt, by nut-eating birds
the nuts, or rodents burring
showing that many of the i
will grow pecans success!
once planted. East of the „
river, in the region known as the
timber belt, an area almost as larga
as any .of the other States, the pe-
can will grow very successfully on
any soil—valley or upland. In fact,
mistake can scarcely be made In
starting an orchard in any locality
in eastern Texas.
At a rough estimate, wa would
say that the area of land in Texas
on which the pecan will thrive,
without crowding, is 20,000,000
acres. This vast area will grow
half a billion of trees. At a low es-
timate of $5 per tree as an annual
income, the total annual value
would be $2,500,000,000. Thia In
pounds would be 60,000,000,000, W
1,250,000 carloads, enough to sup-
ply the world, and in a few years
absorb its wealth. This estimate is
made upon a basis of the low
age rate in price and bearing
ities of the Texas wild pecan,
this area were plant
15,000,000 bushels.
The present yeai
to statements of rai
prove a record breaker for earnings,
both gross and net, of the American
railroads. I
Mrs. Hoxie Murray, mother of
Hon. B. C. Murray, proprietor of
the Sunday Gasatser, died In Deni-
son Friday morning. Deceased was
86 yean old.
Ollie Bradford,' a negro
is killed in mine No. $ at Dow.
A large rock fell an the man while
at work. The body waa bed*
pose this area were
improved, soft shell
the ruling price < *"
these figures wot
in rated.—Fort Wc
Harold A Lortng.
Secretary of the I
of native tndl
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The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, July 28, 1905, newspaper, July 28, 1905; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth882613/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stephenville Public Library.