The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 285, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 15, 1903 Page: 1 of 4
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MINERAL WELLS, TEXAS. WEDNESDAY, APRIL «. !«•*.
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THE DAILYINDEX
POIUU1P DAILY UCIPT SUNDAY,
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TMK IRUBX PRINTING COMPANY.
W. B. BBirtON, BOITOB.
C. W. WILBON, MANAUS*.
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Per jmt
Geo. Tummtas, of Spflngtown,
a member of the firm of Nix A
Tummine, whoee business was
destroyed by fire not long ago,
was arrested last Monday on a
oharge of arson. He and Mr.
Nix eaoh gave bond in the sum
of a thousand dollars and were
released.
Special Train and Music for
U. C. V. >
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
The First National Bank
AT MINERAL WELLS,
In the State of Texas, at the cloee of business. April p, ip>3.
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Advertising rates mad# known on
appilcatioe.
Sntorod nt th« poeioflloe In Mtnornl Welle
as second elaiae mail matter.
The oold snap oontinues.
Cotton is worth over ten oents.
The Easter Storm is holding on
with a tight grip.
There will be Tory few peaehss
this year, but lots of plums.
The prioe nf ootton is not help-
ing the broduoer very muoh.
The Caroline islands belong to
Germany but a good deal of mis<
sion work among the natives is
done by Amerioans. Complaints
have been received at Washing-
ton that graduates of the mission
sobool have been imprisoned and
oarried away by German offioere
on a oharge of preaching against
the German government. .
The Texas 4t P&oifio Railway
Company will run a Special
'Vain, which will be aooompa-
nied by the Hhrris Juvenile Band
]2& in number! who will turnieh
music en rows. This speoial
Train will leavs Fort Worth Sun-
day, May Ifth, at 11:15 am,
and Dallas at 12:80, p m, arriv-
ing in New Orleans next morn- un.ecur.d
ng for breakfast. u. a. noadi tosecure circulation —
Reduced round trip rates will *.T.nrr,..................................................itu*1
>e in effect to New Orleans. For Dae from National Banka (not Rmm Agents) ........................................ 11 071 M
particulars address any agent °r I
S. Pi TurOUP, General Pusken- Checks and other cash luma..........................................................................
ger Agent, Balias; H P Hughes, .................................. 1 g
Traveling Passenger Agent, Ft. ""....................y..............- "
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A negro was a juror in the dis-
trict oourt at Sherman this week.
England and Germany wanted
to make a play at Guatemala cf
the kind they made on Venezue-
la and invited Unole 8am to hold
the eaok* They got left.
A San Antonio dootor will
vsocinate a few prairie dogs by
way of experiment for the pur-
pose of spreading disease among
them and causing them to die by
the millions.
Ths Quanab Tribuns-Cbief
keeps np the fight wish honor to
itself and the proepeot of plenty
help among other papers of the
state. It says:
land laws seem
made mostly by people under the
supposition that these lands are
worth little or nothing. To reo-
tify this error should be the eelf-
impoeed task of every right-
minded legislator. In his fight
on the land queetipn in Weit
Texas the settler lias right, jus-
tice, merit and truth on hie side,
>ut with all theee it will take the
ireea of Texas to arouee the peo-
>le to the faote in the oase. Let
every newspaper do its duty
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Ths Mexican ambasador re-
ports to the authorities at Wash-
ington that Uokete are being sold
In this country on a lottery said
to be in 8an Luis Potoei, Mexi-
co, where he says there is no
lottery. w,
Gus Evans of Belton has a
oow that bad a calf ten days ago.
He took the oalf from her with
the intention of weaning it. A
week later the earns oow brought
another oalf as large and healthy
as the first one.
The investigation of the poet-
office department is going on all
right. The guilty parties will
be dilligently searched out apd
summarily dealt with. The
postmaster general hao not re •
laxed his efforts in the least*
The warship Reina Christina,
flagship of. Admiral Montejo
which was sunk, by Admiral
Dewsy in Manila bay, was float-
ed and beaohed last Sunday
The skeletons of about eighty of
her crew were found in the hulk.
One skeleton wae evidently that
of an offioer, for it had a sword
by its tide. There are fifteen
•hell holes in the side of the
•hip, one made by an eight inoh
gun and the others email. The
main injection valve is missing,
showing that she was, sou tiled
when Montejo abandoned her.
The hull is in fair condition.
The skeletons will be shipped to
8pain for burial. An effort is
being made to raise all the sunk-
en Spanish warships.
Dr. J. La G. Adams,
Eye, Ear, Nose and
Throat Specialist...
Mineral Wills, Texas.
Prefers Chronio, Surgical and I
Difficult cases. All treatments
and operations fully guaranteed.
Wilt Jt>e in Mineral Welle eix I
months. Persons wishing treat-
ment, yet in doubt about re-
sult*, are inviteAlaeall at offioe]
and interview patients now un<
der treatment, and ask for ref*
erenoe from hundreds who were I
led to hie offioe J&ut now tee to |
read.
Persons hot able to pay will be]
treated free.
Offioe in Raines Building,
over Turners drug store.
| 8TATE or TEXAS,
County of hi* rtato, ) '
I. J. W. ftmlth. Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the
| above statement is true to the beet of my knowledge and belief.
J. W. SMITH. Cashier.
Subscribed aad sworn to before me this Ift day of April, 1008.
L. F BARBER,
Notary Public, Palo Pinto County, Texes.
| Correct—Attest: H. N. FROST. 1
j. L. CUNNINGHAM, > Directors.
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JOHN H. SMITH
Burn Eupion Oil.
Absolutely Safe.
The Genuine Eupion Oil is handled in Mineral Wells
. by ths following dealers:
REED GROCERY CO. JONES GROCERY CO.
TAYLOR BROS FLEMING BROS.
COGDELL BROS. D M HOWARD, DP RANKIN.
A J PICKRELL H E WALDRON
A tramp hired to work with a
section gang in Rios oounty,
Kansas, recently. He intro-
duced a disease that has already
klHed nine of the men. The
state health offioer has pro-
nounced it blaok smallpox. A
•triot quarantine is in foroe in
the eurronnding country. It was
reported at first that bubonic
plague bad broken out among the
railroad laborers.
Mrs. Lillie Winston of Nsw
York went to Oklahoma and got
a divorce from hsr hueband.
Then she married another man
The matter got into the New
- York court* and the divoroe and
subsequent marriage were pro
aounosd illegal. Appeal wae
tfthsn to the supreme oourt of the
United State#, which sustained
thedeeieion of the New York
court. Now Mrs. Winston can
try for another divorce*
The supreme oourt Monday
handed down a decision in ths
oase of the railroad commission
of Texas against Weld A Neville
et al, better known as the Low
rey round bale people. The one
wae reversed and dismissed,
whioh is a sweeping viotory for
the railroad commission. Weld
A Neville brought suit against
the railroad commission to oom-
pel it to put Hi a lower rate for
hauling ootton in round bales
on aooount of its density over
the square bale. They won out
in the trial oourt and also in the
oourt of oivil appeals,‘these two
oourte holding that they had the
right to fix just and reasonable
rates and a lower rate for the
round bale, but the supreme
oourt reversed this decision am
held that no one oould oompe
the railroad oom mission to exer
oise discretion in making rates
and further that- the railroad
oommieaion was the exclusive
judges as to what are just and
reaeohable rates. The opinion
is quite lengthy and goes over
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UneedyMe,
FORT WORTH MODERN
Steam Laundry.
SHERMAN NATIONAL
Steam Laundry.
THE TWO BEST ON EARTH.]
W. E. Daily, Agent,
Phone 787.
CARTEL DECK t CO.,
PLUMBERS.
Can be found at
City Water Works
Robert R. Norwood, D. O.
Regina W. Norwood, D. O.
I OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS
Cooaaltattou aad examination
without charge. Special ex-
amination by appointment at
oAee, Holloway bonding.
I Phone Southwestern 178. Mineral Well
J. M. LUTTRELL, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
MINERAL WILLS, TEXAS.
I Ornon— Howard block over furniture store
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ROBERT H. PARRY, j
ARCHITECT.
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Dr. Charles B. Williams
.MINERAL WELLS.
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Newton, W. B. The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 285, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 15, 1903, newspaper, April 15, 1903; Mineral Wells, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1039511/m1/1/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.