Halletsville Herald. (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 3, 1903 Page: 9 of 10
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Rosenberg Bors
Just Received
Just in and
Receivingi
75 bags coffee. |
100 boxes Prunes. iMr
One car seed Oats. .RK
100 eases best LyC. II
One cat Furniture.
One car Bell and Roval
; Flour.
One car Plows, Stalk Cut-
ters aqd Cultivators.
£5 eases boots and shoes.
10 cases dry goods, in-
cluding dress goods,
blankets, outings, etc.
5 cases clothing, suits, over-
coats, etc.
2 cases heavy underwear,
Ladies hats, skirts, Jack-
ets and capes.
, Special low
! prices on above
! and all other
1 goods in this
! department.
Stock full,
complete and
prices low.
. Special Low
Prices on' ioo
other things
this sale.
Stock complete,
Prices right.
HALLETSVJLLE, TEXA
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look down upon a
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Title UA LM'.tSV iCLK HERALD.
YNA TO HANG.
WILL EXPIATE HIS CRIME
FRIDAY.
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Governor Refuses to Intervene—
, Wffl Be Lavaca County’s
Third Legal Hanging.
Austin, Tex, Dec. 1,—TheGov-
• *ernor declined today ter interfere
in the case of Margarita Reyna,
under sentence of death for com-
mitting a nameless crime on a 7-
>ld girl.
•r..
to his cqH; He realizes that
death is impending but bears it
with stoical indifference. To
some Mexicans who visited him
he remarked that life imprison-
ment was nearly as bad as
death, indicating that he was
not overly anxious for the com-
muting of his sentence.. Again
he remarked when asked about
the chances of being reprieved,
that if it cdtnd at all it would be ...____
od the day set for his execution. Atlanta, Ga., escaped the SOT-
but that he did not place great jeon’s knife, hy using Lydia E
^li^ha^T-d H. H. Rrtkham’s;Vegetable Compound.
(ireen, and later John Upchurch,' less bu^t Rome more?”
who succeeded Green, who -have health and happiness’Lydta E. Pink- 4. »> ho is here s
been the death watches since ham’s Vegetable Compound has
sentence was passed,. have had hito mv life. .
no trouble at all. KeynaJollows
the CU8tOmarv routine Ot ^au tion, and did. not know What the trouble'
As the above telegram, indi-
•cates Gpverndr Lanhain has re-
fused to int«i^|jB| in the ease of
Margarita Reyna; sentenced to, life eating regularly and hearfily, * was until the doctor pronounced it fn-
t.be gallows, and unless some- sleeping soundly and having no ovaries’ fcnd
**,I felt so weak and sick that I felt
thing unforeseen prevents, the
Mexican^iflbe executed Friday
afternoon. Sheriff Noble has set
'the bour of execution at 3:30
■O’clock. Everything is in readi-
ess. The gallows has been erect-
and inclosed in conformance
POCKET.
sure that I could not survive the ordeal,
„ an^ so I told him that I woul4 not uUr
' The crime for which Pocket j dergo it. The following week I read
was hung wvas the murder of
an advertisement in the paper of your
Leonard Hyde in February,
1878. He was an Indian who
Vitb the law and the rope tested: came to Lavaca county about a
The hanging will be strictly pri-
vate* only officers, ministers,
'-physicians, and newspaper repre-
year previous from the territory
and was generally known as*
“Indian Pocket.” The* killing
^entatives, being present as the^ occurred a mile south bf town
near the S. D. Peterson farm
evna will where Hyde vwas living. The
inces* ci
law allows.
^ The execution of R ............... , ,
make the third legal hanging in ; circumstances connected with
Lavaca county sjnee its^organi- the murder were as follows: Pet-
ition.
The other two were Ze-
legro, for rape,
Pocket, an Indian, for mur-
der. A short sketch of their
respective crimes is givenJ^elow.
dolph Davis, a nt
ancfl
erson and Hyde were at the.
former’s corn cribj when Pocket
appeared and requested the loan
of Peterson’s gun stating that
tfe wanted to kill a wild turkey.
Hyde remarked that he would
go along to “see the fun” and
the two men left, the place to-
gether. Shortly afterward a
shot Was heard and on investiga-
tion Hyde was found mortally
wounded. He lived only a few
minutes after being found but it
was tong enough to gasp that
Pocket had killed him. A tho-
rough search was immediately
Instituted for thd Indian but it
was found that he had disap-
peared:.
Some time later he was ap-
prehended and arrested in Bos-
que county and returned here for
i trial. He was defended by W. H;
|Craid, who was appointed by
I the court, and prosecuted by M.
V. Kinnison, then prosecuting
attorney, assisted by J. R. Burns
I of LaGrange. Everett Lewis of
j Gonzales J was district judge.
The.crime which Rt-vna will ex- ijpde was an English subjected
>iate on the gallows" is that o! the^British government employ
[Margarita Reyna.]
Vegetable Compound in such an emer-
gency, and so I decided to try ik Great
was my joy to find that I actually im-
proved after taking two bottles, so I
kept taking it for ten weeks, and at the
end of that time I was cured. I had
gained eighteen pounds :and was in
excellent health, and am now.
** You snrely deserve great success,
and you have my very best wishes.”—
Miss Alice Bailey, 50 North Boule-
vard, Atlanta, Ga.—$6000 forfeit If orlpiomt
o^aboot litter proving genuinonots cannot bo pro-
All sick women would be wise
If they would take Lydia E. Pink-
ham's Vegetable Compound and
he well.
Sesame Club.
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The Sesa.nie club met in regu-
lar order, on Saturday Nov. 21.
| with Mrs. 8; C. Patton.
Tip program for the next
meeting Dec. 5th, will be as fol-
lows:
Hostess—Mrs. S/€. Patton.
| Roll Call—Quotations from Mil-
ton. N
Humorous Reading—Mrs. J
R. Lay.. . | I
v J ulius Caesar—Act IV .
. Leader-Airs. Beaumier.
Questions on previous reading
‘-Airs. Guenther.
Current Events—Club. ' *
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questions. • ■ .]
1. “What touches us most
shall'be last served?” •
2. “Let no man abide this,
deedybut we the doers?”
3. “Not that I loved Caesar
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so base as |
would be a bondsman?” . 1
5. “The evil that men do lives
after them, the good is often in-
terred with; their bones?”
(>. :;“If you have tears prepare ]
to shedtlrem now?” . - :
7. ’ This is the most unkind-
est cut of all?” '
8. Where is- this passage
found?. “They are fools that
Uncle Sam says it’s
all right
_ Uncle Sam. In the person ot ten of hts government officials, is always in charge ot error*
department of our distillery. During- the entire process of distillation, after the whiskey
is stored in barrels in our warehouses, during the seven years it remains there, from the
very grain we buy to the whiskey you get, Unde Sam is constantly wo the watch. We dam
not take a gallon of our own whiskey from our own warehouse unload be says it’s all right.
And when he does say so, that whiskey goes direct to you. with all its original strength, rich-
ness and flavor, carrying a UNITED STATES REGISTERED DISTILLER'S GUARAN-
TEE of PURITY and AGE,- and saving the dealers’ enormous profits. Ttefs why
HAYNER WHISKEY is the best for medicinal purposes. That’s why it is psefcrred for
other uses. That’s why we have over a quarter of a million satisfied
why YOU should try it. Your money back if you're not satisfied.
That's
Direct from our distillery to YOU
Sam Beaton* Profits I Promts Moflorattoa I “T
HAYNER WHISKEY
FURE SEVEN-YEAR-OLD RYE
FULL EXPRESS
O PREPAID
QUARTS
marry
v
if you don’t find it all right and as good as you ever used or oen huy tram
anybody else at any prioe, send it back at our expense, and your &20 will be
returned to you by next mail. Just think that offer ever. How could It be
fairer? If you are not perfectly satisfied: you are not outo cent. Better lei
us send you a trial order. If you don’t want flour quarts yourself, get a
friend to Join you. We ship in a plain sealed case, no marks toakotr what’s
inside.
COTTON
DEHONSTRATION
FARMS
Commercial Interest and Progress-
ive Planters Asked to Co-oper-
ate in Selection in Each
County.
committed on the pers-on of
tonica Arredondo, a Mexican
.girl 6 years old. The crime was.,
committed in April, this year,
in Wilson county, and be was
arrested on the 10th and
brought here by Sheriff W right
of WUsou county for trial, the
ftaw> requiring that the crimes of
rape, etc., be given trial where
district court is ih session in that
district at the time.
He was given immediate trial,
8. C. Autry, esq., being appoint-
ed by the court for the aefehse.
The death penalty was assessed
■ - by the jpry. The case was ap-
pealed to the^igher courts and
affirmed and at the October
term of court, on the 13th he
was brought before Judge Ken-
non in open court, and sentenced
to be hung • Friday, December
4th.
Shortly after, being sentenced
two petitions were circulated in
this county, and one efw;h in
■Wilson county where the crime
was committed and Live Oak
county where he formerly lived,
requesting the Governor and
Bqard of Pardons to commute
the sentence to that of life im-
ed Mr. Burns to assist in the
jrosecution. Burns was the
atherof Waller T. Burns of
Jouston. The defense offered
by Pocket was that he . was
drunk at the time of the killing,
but the supposition was that he
had borrowed the gun to kill a
negro with whom he was at outs,
and failing to induce Hyde to
leave him, shot and killed him.
Office Secretary Texas Cotton
Convention, Dallas, Texas, No-
vember 28, 1903.—At a meeting
of the executive committee of
the. cotton convention held in
Dallas, November 27, Considera-
tion was given to the purchase
of seed which are now Vbeing
brought into Texas in large
quantities, with which to plant
the cotton crop of 1904, and im-
portant action was taken in-
dorsing the movement ' under-
taken by the business men of
Dallas in tjhe establishment of a
cotton seed bureau, w’hich will
co-operate' with the merchants
and farmers living in and uear
small towns in the purchase of
quick maturing cotton seed, at
actual cost to the planter.
The secretary was instructed
to correspond with the business
interests of the State and urge
that the commercial interests
and progressive planters and
farmers in each county take
steps immediately for the"select-
ion of one or more farms that
He was found guilty of murder farms^^to^be^operatel^by
in the first degree and was sent
enced to be hung, the sentence . , , .
being executed in September ?«"c_ul_tuJre th?. community.
United States department of
?ptei
beei
1879, after the case had been ap-
pealed and affirmed by the high-
er ‘Courts. The gallows was
erected just. above where the
Schuetzen Yerein grounds now
are.
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^ZEDOLPH DAVIS. 5
The crime for which Zedolph
concerned. The cotton gruwin
counties of the State are advise^!
to tender the choice of several
farms in each county to 0 Hon.
James Wilson, the secretary' of
agriculture, such farms to "con-
sist of not less than fifty acres of
tillable land, in good culti vation;
provided that the use of these
Davis paid the death penalty i farms'by the United States go v
was for the detestable crime of Eminent be made contingent up-
rape. *His victim was Mrs. Wil-1 °.n ttie. passage of the appropriu-
liam Ballard living on the Navi-! tion bilK carrying the necessary
dad near Viebna. The crime was funds tor the operation of such
committed Apnl.24th^ 1892 and stations, by the United States
be was captured^almost immedi-1 col)gres8 in its regular winter
ately afterwardsbemgshot in the i This committee is cor-
arm while attempting to escape, j responding with the secretary of
John F. Houchirio wu* sheriff.
'Davie narrowly oenpe
carried in person to Austin by S.
€. Autry, the defendant’s aV
.torney, who pleaded his client’s
case but a telegram Wednesday
Announced that it was hopeless.
Reyna is a young Mexican
about 29 years old. He was
born in Mexico but came txrTex-
-as when seven years old and has
since lived m West Texas going to
Wilson county about two years
before the crime was committed.
He is of medium etature, slight
m build, with pock marked
features and a small black
moustache. His face, though
having weak points, does not
appear to be that of a criminal’s.
Since his incarceration he has
been quiet and subdued and
given trouble but once,: when he
made hiB escape. He gained the
outer world, but owing to a
weakened condition from illness
fact was captured within an hour
by Chaney Harless and returned
ing as a mob gathered determin-
ed to wreak swift vebgeanee on
him. It was only by prominent
citizens advising and urging that
the law be allowed to take its
course and assuring that he
would suffer the extreme penalty.
The_ indictment was returned
against him August 3, 1892 and
trial held and death sentence
communities will be forced to
act under the most favorable
conditions. ‘
Business men and farmers in
the cotton growing counties of
the State are requested to notify
this committee promptly of any
action taken looking to the select-,,
ion and choice of such demon-
stration farms rn order- that the
judge, though M. Keunon was
sitting as special judge, and T.
HVlSpooher was. district attor-
terested in this important move-
ment’. Earnestly yours,
nejr. if. 1!. AII.mi wan ret.iin.-d .p,,,. H-
w „ excretory. Texas Cotton Lonven-
foFthe defense. A motion for a
w trial was made and overrul-
i,and no appeal taken
tion.
—Dave Samuseh left Saturday
on a ph asure trip to Houston. I
—Senator D. A. Faulus went to
La Grange on legal business this
week! ’ ;
—The city council will meet in
regular monthly session Monday
night. " /
J. C. Lamkjn, esq., was a
business visitor to Yoakum
Monday.
—Take your furs arid hides to
E. Schwartz. He,will paj’ you
highest cash price. -
— Friench SimpSon left Monday
for Wacoio athbnd the Masonic
Grand Lodge cpnvention. j
—F. W. Ledbetter left Mon-
day for Waco to attend the
Grand Masonic convention.
—W. R. McCutchan returned
Monday from a business trip to
Temple and other Northern Tex-
as points.
—W. H. Morgan of Sweet
Home, who has been critically illf j
the past month, is reported to
be improving.
—Miss Beulah Avant has gone
to Eric, Oklahoma to spend the
winter with Mr. and Mrs, Theo
Avant.
: —Hon. John »M- Green was
over Tuesday attending land
sales, representing William Ham
cord, who accompanied him.
—Otto Fahrenthold purchased
11 acres of land adjoining his
place from Bernard Brown last
week, consideration beiDg ^250.
—Noble Moreland has resigned
his job at driving the express
wagon finding that it conflicted
with his mqil carrying contract.
—Deputy Charley Munson weDt
to Hope Saturday after Jim
Travis, a negro, who was
brought up and jailed ou an old
fine.
—T. A. Hill of Weimar was
over last week and in company
with his son, T. Y. Hill went
down to the Wharton county
rice farm for a couple of days.
For rent—the commodious
store building formerly occupied
by S.. Goldberg. , ^he best loca-
tion and best business house in 1
Halletsville. For particulars see
F. W. Xeuhaus.
—Attention is called to the ad
of A. H. Hamden of Yoakum, in
this issue, which relates to the
Sharpies Cream Separator of
which he is agent. In as much
as the creamery agitation is, on
in this section liis ad will be of
particular interest to farmers.
—The. appeal in the case of
John Bull vs. SrA. Ac A: P. liy.,
for damages was due to be called
in the Court of; Civil Appeals at
Galveston yesterdav. The case
was appealed from the Lavaca
county.district court, it having
been decided against Mr. Bull
here.
—Mrs. Christina Clark of Yoak-
um, mother of C. A. and 1). A. j
Clark, died Mondnv morning at
the advanced age of 80 year.*.:
Deceased \\as an old pioneer of
Texas and was married at In-!
dianola over a century ago,;
leaving that place after its de-;
st ruction by storm j
—H. Berckenhbff and daughter ;
Miss fjaiiraof Koerth were in the.
city shopping; Wednesday and |
called at the Hehabij office to see
^ers^foj^Arix..^. ^Col.. Idaho. U^a. WaatL
Write our nearest office and do it NOW.
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$1.00 shirts
for............................
50c
75c all wool flannel
‘ lor............................
48c
75c dress goods
for...........................
48c
$6.50 box toe, hacd
! made boots..............
5.50
‘ Davis was hanged April 28,
18^3 in front of the present jail.
Was a public execution as the
interior of the place was such
that“*a gallows could hot ‘be
ejected.
the big press in operation. The
Dave Cohn, who hue been Hlhald is always glad to weL-
with tbe Houston Chronicle for ■■ come its friends and invites them
the past two years, has gonCrto- particularly on press days, which
El Paso for his health. : Ills are Monday morning and -Wed-
many friends hiere hope he will -nesday afternoon, when they cad
shortly regain his customary s see the printing«machinery in full
health. , ! blast,
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Halletsville Herald. (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 3, 1903, newspaper, December 3, 1903; Hallettsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1006482/m1/9/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Friench Simpson Memorial Library.