La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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Opposite Masonic Building. Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Postofficb at LaGrange as Second-Class Matter.
VOLUME 25.
Lagrange, fayette county, Texas, Thursday, January :s, 1904.
NUMBER 4.
WARRENTON.
Editor Jouknal:--
According to announcement the
public installation of the officers of
Sayers Camp W.O W. of this place
occurred yesterday evening in the
presence of a large number of visit
ing Woodmen and a large number
of invited people. Sovereign Chas.
Ahlrich, the outgoing consul'com-
mander, conducted the installation
ceremonies ip a creditable manner
Hon. J. F. Wolters, by special in
vitation, was preseut and delivered
an interesting and eloquent address
on Woodcraft and the advantages
to accrue therefrom. The address
was well received and was frequent-
ly applauded. County Judge Geo.
Willrich followed in a few well
chosen and appropriate remarks.
An elegant repast was served to
the visiting brethren, invited guests
and the public, and was enjoyed
immensely by all present. Burton,
Carmine, Fayetteville, Shelby, Wal
deck, Rutersville, Ledbetter, Round
Top and other places were well rep
resented and many were presept
from the county seat, among whom
were Hon. J. F. Wolters and wife,
County Judge Willrich and wife.
Superintendent G. A. Stierling and
wife, Dr. Otto Ehlinger and wife,
John A. Ligon and wife, Ed Moss,
J. B. Anderson and many others
The occasion was a very enjoyable
one and in every way a success and
terminated in a ball which was well
attended. The Woodmen of this
camp feel grateful to their distin
guished guests and the public gen
erally for the interest manifested
in their organization, and are proud
of the opportunity afforded them
of extending to all the hospitality
of their camp.
The letter written by the Hon.
J. F. Wolters in the last issue of
The Journal in regard to making
nominations for county officers, has
been read with considerable interest
and the question is likely to be
fully discussed before the meeting
of the executive committee. It is
a question of great importance to
the voters of this county.
Dr. Casper Letzerich and bride
of Sublime returned home Saturday
by the way of LaGrange, after
making a visit of several days’
duration to his parents, Mr. and
Conrad Letzerich, of this place.
Janurry 25. RHR.
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ENGLE.
Editor Journal:—
The members of the Engle Truck
Growers’ association, composed of
farmers living near Engle, Will
plant six car loads of Maine Bliss
Triumph potatoes this spring. Five
sacks to the acre will be planted,
which places the amount of acres
at 240. One hundred and fifty
acres will be planted in onions. Ac-
cording to the figures of some
growers, who were successful last
year, the potatoes average from
.4,500 to 5,000 pounds to the acre,
which would be in total 108,000
pounds. As it requires 26,000
pounds to the car, Engle will prob-
ably ship forty cars of potatoes this
season. This, of course, with the
proviso that the truckers will be
successful. So far t^e onion crop
iA doing fine. There is not a farm-
er around here who will not have
at least from one to eight acres of
onions, set out. Many farmers are
figuring for every pound of onion
seed planted, they expect ten times
the amount in return. Granting
that cotton will bring twelve cents
pound, no farmer can make
as much out of the fleecy staple as
thdy can oiit of truck, as with the
latter the trucker can raise two
crops, which is impossible with the
former.
The secretary of the association
informs your correspondent that he
has several letters of inquiry from
buyers who are trying to locate an
office at this place, one* from St.
Louis, one from New York and
one from California, all reliable
firms.
Herzik Brothers have dissolved
partnership, Ed Herzik has pur-
chased his brother’s interest, and
will continue the business. A.
Herzik will open a general mer-
chandise store on the 1st proximo.
Stavinoha & Chroncak, tinners,
will open a tinshop here as soon as
satisfactory arrangements can be
made.
D. Rosenauer, jr., lately has at-
traction towards the west. Wish
him success L-E.G.
January 25, 1904.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Burned to Death.
Miss Meta, the eighteen-year-
old daughter of Chas. Marquart, of
near Plum was burned to death Sat-
urday afternoon The young lady
was assisting in the burning of corn
stalks in the field near her father’s
home, and during the temporary
absence of her father her clothing
caught fire. In vain did she at-
tempt to extinguish the flames.
Her screams brought help, but not
until she was most frightfully
burned. Medical aid was sum-
moned, but she died in great agony
Saturday night. Mr. Marquart’s
family is well known here and the
entire community sorrows with
them in this sad hour.
Beana and Pepper Imported.
The Corpus Christi customs dis-
trict has just given out a statement
showing the vast amount of beans
(ktjoles) and red pepper imported
from Mexico for the year 1903,
ending December 31, all the money
paid for which coaid have been
kept at home by farmers planting
these products. The imports which
came from Mexico through Laredo
consisted of 296,860 pounds of red
pepper, valued at $39,014, which
paid a duty of $9,912.50. There
was also imported 16,304 bushels
of Mexican beans, valued at $9213,
which paid a duty of $7336.80.
According to these figures the duty
on the beans amounted to fully 90
per cent, of the valuation of this
product. Why can’t Texas farm-
ers keep this $48,227 at home by
raising '‘chile Colorado and fti-
joles” ?
------
C. W. Rummel, a well known
citizen and ginner of Ronnd Top,
spent Wednesday in Bellville on bis
return home from Houston, where
he made a trip mainly for the pur-
pose of paying taxes on several
hundred acres of Harris county
lands. Mr. Rummel is one among
the oldest living citizens of the
state, coming here just three years
after Texas was annexed to the
union. He lived twenty-two years
in Harris county before moving to
Fayette, and remembers Houston
when it was a village half the size
of Bellville.—Bellville Times.
Editor Journal:
The democrats still hold the floor
in the senate. Daj by day, more
and more firmly they fasten upon
the president the scandal of the
isthmus—the responsibility for the
rape of Colombia of her richest and
fairest state. Republicans take re-
fuge in silence. They have nothing
to say, or, it they have, they do
not say it. They have put forward
their most garruluous member as a
buffer—a senator whose armor of
gall and self-complacency is im
pervious to all attacks. Senator
Spooner is physically the smallest
and vocally the largest member of
the body. He never speaks with-
out tossing the most fulsome com-
pliments right and left. These
bouquets are so large as to greatly
embarrass the recipient, especially
when he discovers, as he always
does, that they are made of arti-
ficial flowers.
During the last week Senators
Teller and Patterson of Colorado
have made speeches against the
plunder of the isthflius which will
be regarded by the historian as the
classics of this controversy. Mr.
Spooner has interrupted them both
every few minutes and, permitted
to ask questions, has interjected
speeches, some of them an hour
long, within the body of their re-
marks. At one point, Senator De-
pew, came to his assistance, where-
upon Spooner said: “I thank my
illustrious friend,” and walking
over to Mr. Depew and putting his
arm around him he continued, "If
I' wanted information on any sub-
ject I would apply to this great
man.”
After tossing this sort of flattery
about promiscuously on Tuesday
Mr. Patterson replied in kind voice
saying "In all this senate, in all
this magnificient country, I do not
know the equal of the eloquent
senator from Wisconsin”—here
Senator Spooner bowed low and
blushed—"I do not know his equal
—in the opulent talents and trans
eendent abilities which enable him
to make black appear white and
white b|ack.” Here ironical com
pliment and flattering badinage
took a rest for a while.
I X X
The last four weeks have been
the coldest for many years. Usually
early shrubs are in blossom in Jan-
uary, but now sleighs and ska'es
are much in evidence. In 1880
there was a similar winter. Then
there was skating up and down for
six miles over the channel of the
Potomac, and great teams crossed
with heavy loads to Alexandria.
X X t
Yesterday your correspondent
found at the Metropolitan Con-
gressman John Sharp Williams,
democratic leader of the house
"Yes,” he said, "it certainly would
be better for the democrats to stand
together and repudiate the fake
treaty. But they are divided, just
as they were unhappily on the
Paris treaty. On the issue of hon-
esty and decency instead of crimi-
nal aggression—of a canal instead
of the canal—the people would stand
by and give us victory. They prob-
ably will anyhow. We have issues
enough if the treaty is ratified in
spite of us. The single issue ot
honesty in office in the light of the
official plundering going on is it-
self sufficient to cause the people to
refuse a' long lease of power to any
party, especially the party that is
guilty.”
I t X
Was there an irresistable and vo
ciferous demand for the department
of commerce? Its first report re-
veals what some may consider very
valuable information. It informs
an anxious public how many beeves
were received the past year at six
great cattle markets; it says the
cattle raiser is trying to adjust his
prices to the new prices of beef; it
tells us how many miles of railroad
were built, how much flour was
marketed, and how much coal was
mined in 1903, and unrolls a long
list of similar astonishing facts. As
they have all been published hun-
dreds of times before, it is difficult
for any fellow to find out what this
republication amounts to.
The business of getting up sta-
tistical information is sadly over-
done in Washington. The depart-
ment of agriculture, the geological
survey, the statistical office, the
census office, and bureaus too nu-
merous to mention are all engaged
in grinding out similar facts. They
might as well write poetry on the
seasons
1 X 1
The first scientific bureau estab-
lished by the United States govern-
ment was the patent office on April
10, 1790. Since then there has
been a great growth of scientific
bureaus. They are now no less
than thirty-three, connected with
the executive branch of the govern-
ment, and each of them has a cer-
tain number of distinctively scien-
tific employees. They are devotee!
to architecture minting, lighthous-
es, coast and geological surveys,
standards of weights and measures,
engineering, ordnance, signals, ani-
mal industry, chemistry, entomolo-
gy, forestry, plants, zoology, eth-
nology, fishes, etc.,—a great scien-
tific university. But there may be
something in the plain* often sent
up by farmers of the country,
"What good does all this do us?”
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The postmaster-general and Mrs.
Payne varied the monotony of the
weekly cabinet dinner last evening
by entertaining the president and
some forty additional guests, the
company being the largest known
at a cabinet dinner in many years.
The flowers were large placques of
pink carnations interspersed with
tall crystal vases of bride roses.
X X X
The court room in Washington
where the republican postoffice con-
spirators are being tried hrs been
the scene of the star route trial, the
Guiteau trial, the unsavory Breck-
inridge-Pollard trial, the re-
volting Bonine trial, and many oth-
ers of note. Three doors from it
is the police court in the brick
building, formerly the Unitarian
church where Cbanniug preached.
XXX
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. There is no truth in the persist-
ent rumor that Senator Lodge of
Massachusetts will succeed John
Hay as secretary of state. The
president can not spare from the
state department a man who has
reduced political and territorial ra-
pacity to a fine art.' So the position
is not likely to be vacant and if it
were, Seuator Lodge says be would
prefer bis present position.
January 22, 1904.
Entombed by Mine Explosion.
Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 25.—From
all that can be gathered at a late
hour tonight, between 180 and 190
men are lying dead in the head-
ings and passageways of the Har-
wich mine of the Allegheny Coal
company at Cheswick, as the re-
sult of a terrific explosion today.
Cage after cage has gone into the
mine and come up again, but only
three miners of all those who went
down to work this morning have
been brought to the surface. One
man is Adolph Gonia and he is still
alive, hut in a semi conscious con-
dition at the temporary hospital on
the hillside above the mine. Henry
Mayhew, a check weighman, and
Geo. Waltman, tippleman, died in
the hospital. The men in the mine
were at work when the explosion
occurred. It is now believed by
practically all of the men of the
rescue party who have come up the
200-foot vertical shaft for a warn-
ing and a breathing spell that Sel-
wyn M. Taylor died; that the min-
ing engineer who plotted the mine
and who was the first to reach the
bottom after the explosion bap- *
pened, is also now among the list
of dead. Of those in the miue, all
are probably dead.
The explosion occnrred at 8:20
this Wiorning and the first warning
was the sudden rumble. under
ground, and then a sheet of flames-
followed up the deep shaft. Both
mtne cages were hurled through
the tipple, twenty feet above the
landing stage, and the three men
on the tipple were burled to the
ground. A mule was thrown high
above the shaft and fell dead on the
ground. The injured men were
brought at once to this city,
where two of them have already
died.
As soon as the explosion and
the crash at the pit mouth startled,
the little village, the wives andl
children of the men below rushed
to the scene of the disaster, but
only to gain no encouragement.
There was no way to get into the
deep workings. The cages that
let the men into the mines and
brought them out again when the
day’s work was done were both de-
molished.
All day long there was a jam of
women and children, waiting about
the mouth of the pit. There were
calls for assistance and for surgical
aid from the men in charge of the
mine, but not until four o’clock
this afternoon that the first at-
tempt at rescue was mode. This
was a failure, as the two men who.
volunteered were driven back by
the foul air.
Shortly after five o’ dock Shelwin
M. Taylor and pne of his assistants
signalled for the engineer to lower
them into the shaft., Taylor,is.still ,
down there, Three times efforts
have been made to reach him, bat
so far without avail. ,
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The Southern Pacific surveyors
reached city limits' Friday * night.
Saturday they came up to the cen-
ter of town and made two Ihics
through. We understand leaving
El Catnpo the road will run sixteen
miles straight west, then to Colum-
bus, connecting with the LaGrange
short line. The road will then be n
thoroughfare front . LaGrange to
Midfield, covering a distance of
sixty miles.—Bay City Tribune.
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La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1904, newspaper, January 28, 1904; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1004369/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.