The Teague Chronicle. (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1908 Page: 8 of 10
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TEAGUE CHRONICLE
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TEAGUE.
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NIGHTRIDERS HREWB
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THIRTY £lVE THOU8AND BOUNDS
GO INTO SMOKE AND ASHE8.
TEXAS NEWS ITEMS.
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Tho brick dry kiln of tho Clark
& Boice Company at Jefferson was
burned Monday night. 1-ioss about
$12,o0O.
The first brick was laid on Sher-
man's new $50,G0U. high school
building Thursday morning shortly,|
before noon.
Terrell has under consideration a
proposition from a Northern con-
cern to establish a large commercial
cannery there.
The office of tho telephone com-
pany at Mineral Wells was broken
|st£> eah night recently and $15 in
> currency taken.
Something like 500 school hooks
have been presented to the Texas
Text Book Board for competition for
State contract
The'Corn sheds of the Yukon Mill
and Elevator Company and 10,000
bushels of corn have been destroyed
by fire at Barlow, Ok.
J.'i andidates in Johnson County,
€ owing the lead of those in Hill,
W t.vc organized to boycott the county
^iijiers as mediums of publicity.
• Tho rapid increase of wolves and
their depredations on pigs and calves
are arousing the; farmers north of \
Waco, and a big hunt is being organ-
ized.
Rumors "are afloat, to the effect
that the division quarters of tho In-
ternational and Croat Northern road
Mart are to ho removed to Waco
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ay once.
1 Tho State Democratic Executive
Committee will meet at Fort Worth
on February 15. Tho official call was
Issued by Chairman Carden a few
days since.
George Stuart, a. negro, was elec-
trocuted in the State prison at .Tren-
ton, N. J., Tuesday for tho murder
. of John Snel} in Camden County
• several months ago.
The contract for the building of
the new Episcopal Church at Corsi-
cana was let to local contractors, the
consideration being $14,000. The
building is to be of brick.
“Lower gas rates or get out” was
*he ultijnatum delivered by tho City
j'ommission to Fort Worth’s only
f^.s corporation. The company was
£Iven until March 1 to decide.
It is learned that there is a well
defined movement looking to the in-
corporation of Spindletop, including
the towns of Guffey and Gladys, with
the idea of forming a corporation.
Pat Stonecypher, who owned and
operated a saw mill about six miles
northwest of Grand Saline, was
found dead in the river bottom at
Clarke’s Lake, near his mill, Friday.
Joe Tuck and Harry Saunders were
placed under arrest.
P. P. Wilkins, a practical Grayson
County farmer from* near Collins-
ville, has been appointed as special
district field agent of the Agricul-
tural Bureau to 6upervisje the dem-
onstration farms that are to be estab-
lished in the territory contiguous to
this city.
J. B. Allen, car accountant of the
International and Great Northern
Railroad, died very suddenly at his
home at noon Thursday. He had
gone home to dinner and complained
of feeling badly. He leaves a wife,
daughter and two small children.
The sixteenth annual report of the
Railroad Commission for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1907, has been
received from the State printers,
and copies thereof are being distrib-
uted by the Railroad Commission.
Carpenters who started work
Wednesday morning on a house lo-
cated in the Averell addition, Beau-
mont, found the skeleton of a hu-
man .hand lying on top of the
ground near where the Vesidenee is
to be erected.
An election was held at Oran to
decide whether the town should be
incorporated for municipal purposes.
The result of the election was ns fol-
lows: -For incorporation, 102;
against, 42.
It 16 reported that in the spring
the Gulf Ripe Lino company will be-
gin laying a second line from the
Tulsa oil field to Beaumont. The
single line is heavily taxed to carry
I Smith has introduced
REIGN OF, ANARCHY PREVAILS
The Dark and Bloody Grounds Still
• Holding Up a Reputation for
Lawlessness and Disorder.
Hopkinsville, Ky., Feb. IQ.—
Night riders at 3 o’clocy Sunday
morning burned a warehouse on the
farm of A. H. Cardin, in Crittendon
County, containing 35,000 pounds of
tobacco, purchased ferr Buckner,
Dunkerson & Company of Louisville,
and a barn containing 10,000 pounds
of tobacco belonging to Cardin &
Company. Cardin is said to be the
only independent tobacco buyer in
Crittendon County. He was not at
home at the time.
A few shots were fired by the night
riders, it is said, but no personal vi-
olence done. They went through
Fredonia, several miles away, in
Caldwell County, captured the tele-
phone operator, cut the telephone
wires and kept the town under guard
until the work at Cardin’s was com-
pleted.
The main body of the riders
passed hack through Fredonia about
5 o’clock in tho morning.
BANKER COMMITS SUICIDE.
Linton C. Hutchins Found Dead In
Fort Worth Bank
Fort Worth. Tex.. Feb. 10.—Lin-
ton ('. Hutchins, forty-nine years of
age, Second Vice-President of the
Fort Worth National Bank, one of
tho largest financial institutions of
tho city; also Vice-President of the
Manning Lumber Company, was
found dead in the hank building, at
the corner of Fifth and Main Streets,
just before the noon hour Sunday,
with a pistol shot wound in his
right, temple, near the center of his
forehead, and a pistol clutched in
his hand, which was folded, across
his breast.
His lifeless body was found by one
of the clerks. The Justice of the
Peace held the inquest and decided
that death was due to a gunshot
wound inflicted by the deceased with
the object of self-destruction.
Move for Southern Soldiers' Home.
Biloxi, Miss.: Northern winter
visitors have held an enthusiastic
meeting and organized to secure the
passage of the Brick bill for the es-
tablishment of a soldiers’ home on
the coast of Mississippi in the heart
of the South for old Grand Army
men. Congressman Brick of Indi-
ana. has such a bill now before Con-
gress carrying half a million dollars.
Both Union and Confederate veter-
ans attended the meeting here.,.
Cracksmen Get the 8tuff.
Sulphur Springs, Ark. Four men
Sunday morning blew open the vault
of the Bank of Sulphur Springs and
secured $1000 in cash, notes and
other valuables. The citizens were
aroused by the explosions, but by the
time tho officers got downtown the
work was accomplished and the four
men were seen to mount their horses
and ride westward, in which direc-
tion the mountains are filled with
many gorges.
NSW RIO GRANDE TREATY.
May Ba Signed Up Batwean Uncle
Bam and Mexico.
City of -Mexico, Feb. 8. —«* It i»
highly probable that the treaty of
1848 Vtweon the United States and
Mexico, fixing the boundary line
along the Rio Grande, will be abro-
gated and another one, signed and
rati fif'd, as a reault of the negoti-
ations which are now, in" progress.
The question at issue is not to"
make the Rio Grande navigable "to a
greater extent titan is enjoyed at
at present, but to destroy its pres-
ent navigability in the interest of ag-
riculture and the development of ad-
jacent lands o»v either side of the
stream. The treaty of 1848 estab-
lishing the Rio Grande as tho divid-
ing line between a portion of the
frontiers of the two countries stip-
ulated that neither country should
for any purpose divert the channel
of the stream or take from It a suf-
fieient amount of water to render it
navigable to a certain distance from
its mouth.
It was believed at that time that
the navigability of the river would
be of prime importance to the com-
merce and interests of the frontier.
Times, however, have changed in the
Inst sixty years, nnd the great advan-
tage of the frontier States and the
development of lands have been so
important that the navigability of
the stream has become a secondary
consideration and is giving way to
the growing demands of agriculture
and cultivation of arid lands.
8t«te Health Owcer Jar* ’Em.
Waco: A warm letter has been
received from State Health Officer
W. M. Brumby calling attention to
the failure of physicians and mid-
wives of McLennan County to report
deaths and other vital statistics. Dt.
Brumby says that the records show
two deaths for December, whereas,
according -to the average based on
the population of the county of 65,-
000, it should have been eighty-five
deaths.
E. C. Gambr*l| Suicide*.
Fort Worth: Sunday night the
night watchman at the Hotel. Worth,
upon hearing a pistol shot, went to
room 76, where he found E. C. Gam-
brell of Dallas lying upon the floor J
and breathing his last from a wound
directly through his heart. The pis-
tol w^s found on the opposite side of
the room, while the body had fallen
from the side of the bed. Two let-
ters—one to his wife and one td'o
local newspaper man—were found.
'Nothsr Plot Is tbs Talk.
London: The Paris correspondent
of the Central News says word has
reached the French capital of the
discovery by the Empress of Russia
of a Terrori^ warning in the Czar-,
evitch> bed, stating that the Czar
and 'Czarevitch have been sentenced
♦o death. Secret p<‘"
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Building Boom Imminent.
Waco: Taking advantage of the
drop in lumber prices and the lower
prices of labor, brick, sand, lime and
other things entering into the con-
struction of residences, a large num-
ber of persons who have been want-
ing to build for home time have de-
cided to build during 1908, and it
looks as though there will be an un-
usual lot of construction work here
for the ylear. Contracts are being
let daily.
New Rules for Boldlere’ Home.
Austin: Captain Reagan, the su-
perintendent of the Confederate
home, has presented to Expert Print-
er Richardson the copy for a new set
of rules and regulations for the gov-
of the veterans of the home,
inted oi
SIMM OF THE WEEK
GATHERED FROM ALL OVER THE
COUNTRY.
ITEMS FOR BUSINESS PEOPLE
Dallas Contribution Appropriated.
Washington: The House Rivers
and Harbors Committee has agreed
to report favorably the bill permit-
ting the balance of the amount con-
tributed by the citizens of Dallas to
be used for the construction of lock
and dam No. 2. The balance is
about $35,000, and will be sufficient,
it is said, added to that appropriated
in the last bill. This amount is the
balance of $00,000 contributed by
the citizens of Dallas to snag and
clean up the upper suction of the
river. When it was discovered that
the amount aproprinted i»i the last
general bill was not enough for the
building of two locks and dams pro-
vided for, it was thought that this
balance could be diverted to that use
without an act of Congress, but the
legal authority of the War Depart-
ment held otherwise, hence the in-
troduction of the bill reported.
A Horrible Death.
Bonham : L. B. Chitwood, a young
farmer living six miles southwest of
here, met death late Thursday after-
noon while riding a mule. The ani-
mal ran away, throwing him on a
barbed wire fence. His foot hung
in the stirnip and ho was dragged
along the fence for some distance, the
wire cutting his throat and almost
severing the head from his body. He
was a Mason, and was buried by that
fraternity at Ector Saturday.
Farming Condition* Good.
Dallas: John Hearndon, who owns
and cultivates several black land
farms in Dallas County, said, in a
recent interview, that the winter so
far has been very favorable for ag-
ricultural operations, and that farm-
ers are right up with* their work.
Many of them are ready now to begin
planting corn, and if the weather
continues open thousands of acres of
that grain will be planted in the
eounty during this month.
Staon Majors, eighty-one years of
ago, who had resided in Tarranl
County for fifty years, is dead.
Child Burned to Death. J'T
Snyder, Ok.: Friday morning the
little four-year-old daughter of W.
II. Brewer, who lives seven miles
north of Snyder, started to the field
where her father was burning off
land, when a sudden gust of wind
scattered the flames into the pas-
ture and the child, unaWe to get out
of the path of the flames, was burned
to death. The father started to head
off the fire and found his child with
her clothes burned off and dying.
A Breviary of Important New* and
Happenings That Ona Wants
to Know About.
The apopintment of Viscount
Sinzo Aoki, ex-ambassador to Wash-
ington, as privy councillor, ia offi-
cially announced.
A-new cold weather record for
Northern New. York was made
Wednesday, when the mercury
dropped to 45 degrees below zero.
-The lnllvmian Gapal Commission.
has awarded a contract for fouf mil-
lion barrels of ceynent to be used in
tho const rEfckiq of locks and dams
of the canalN,
The ordinance recently passed by
the Board of Aldermen of New
York Cityit forbidding women from
smoking in public places was vetoed
by Mayor McClellan. *
Thomas L. Lewis of Bridgeport,
Ohio, was declared elected President
of the United Mine Workers’ of
America at the closing session of
the annual convention.
A party of Pittsburg, Pa., capi-
talists, in company with Col. Paul
Mahoney, has arrived at Sherman
to look over the situation with a
view to boring for petroleum.
Mrs. Mary I. Sherrer died in
Brocton, N. Y., Monday, at the age
of 102. She read without glasses,
and had vivid recollections of An-
drew Jackson and the wax of 1812.
Out of sixty bales of cotton await-
ing shipment on the cotton platform
at Loren a, thirty-three were totally
consumed and four were partially
burned. The cotton caught from
the sparks of a freight engine.
J. T. Munson has presented the
city of Denison with 130 acres of
land for the purpose of providing a
public park. The land is situated
just outside the city limits, begin-
ning at the north end of Houston
Avenue, nnd is valued at $2(5,-
000.
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Friday at noon J. W. Young, liv-
ing six miles east of town, had eigh-
ty bales of cotton and ten tons of
cotton seed burned. The cotton and
seed were stored in a corrugated iron
warehouse, an<^ the origin of the fire
is a mystery. The cotton was in-
sured.
Leander Adams, ten years of age,
a son of a widow, was killed Sunday
afternoon by a Santa Fe train at
Shawnee, Ok. His head was severed
from his body. He was walking in
company with a playmate on the
right of way near Main Street when
struck.
George R. Tabor, ex-State
Health Officer of Texas, now* a resi-
dent physician of Dallas, w#s elected
to the presidency of the Interna-
tional Tuberculosis Congress, at a
meeting of the Executive Council of
the congress which was held in New
York during the last week. - •
Prof. R. B. Cousins, State Super-
intendent of Public Instruction, has
officially announced for re-election to
his present position.
Application has been filed to or*
ganize the Home National Bank of
Stanton, with $25,000 capital stock.
Tho Palestine Railroad Young
Men’s Christian Association building
at Palestine was damaged by fire,
smoke and water Saturday to the ex-
tent of nearly four thousand dollars,
covered by insurance.
It is reported direct from hcad-
A fire lost Week at Shattuek, Ok.,
which started in a reatauranLde-
stroyed property to tKe'value orover
$75,000. . , , i ’
Secretary Paddock of the Fort
W >rth Board of Trade has issued-
formal invitation toathe State Dem-
ocratic Executive Committee to hold
the next convention in that city.
Thera was a desperate fight in the
office of United States District At-
torney Robert T. -Whitehouso at.
Portland, Maine, When an indicted
smuggler attempted suicide. ’
■ In raiding a bootlegging joint at
Pawnee, Okla., Sheriff Pomeroy and
mo lew las
TEMPLE AND CAMPBELL HAVE
SWEEPING FIRES.
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UTTER NEARLY OBLITERATED
a force of deputies found among a
pile of rubbish a bomb charged suf-
ficiently to "blow up the entire town.
The Anuona Lumber Cqjapany’s
drying kiln was burned Saturday
night at the company’s aaw mill, five
miles south of that place, entailing
a loss of $300 or $400, with no in-
surance.
Failing to recoup his fortune lost
in speculating, Edward C. Brooks,
aged thirty-five years, committed sui-
cide at the Produce Exchange
building in New York City by tak-
ing cyanide of potassium.
William Perkins, a former resi-
dent of Rose Pine, La., who had
been residing in Arkansas, killed
himself by shooting. The act of
self-deBtruction resulted from de-
spondency over financial matters.
It is stated that Dr. Simmons,
owner of the great Simmons ranch
in -Atascosa and Live Oak Counties,
containing 95,000 acres, has bought
forty miles of steel with which to lay
the first section of a. railway from
San Antonio
lands.
Temple’* Lo** Climb* Up to $176,000-
With Light Inauranc*—Tot*l ’ 0
ln*uranee SmalL -
Temple, Tex., .Feb. 7.—A disas-'
trous fire -broke out shortly .after
midnight, which for a time threat-
ened to consume the whole block of—
business houses on North Main, be-
tween Avenpe A and Central Street
The fire started in the McCelvey Dry
Goods Store, in the second story. The
loss by fire, smoke and water will
probably exceed ($175,000, not fully
covered by insurance.
The greatest loss fallB on the Mc-
Celvey Company, whose stock in-
cluded that of the Fair, the loss to-
both being estimated at $125,000.
Other .losers were the Mississippi
Store, £50,000; Burwitz & Riley,
loss on building, $15,000; Charles
Roeder, tailor, $1000, insurance not
known; Misses Spencer, millinery,
$2500, insurance not known; Mr.
and Mrs. Thompson, music, $1500;.
Dr. White and A. J. Harrell, loos on
Mississippi Store building, $2500,.
insurance not known.
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After reading se|veral chapters in
the Bible and kneeling with mem-
bers of his family, David
East Lake, a suburb of BJ
ham, Ala., repaired to a rear room
and with a shotgun blew th,e top of
his head off, killing himself in-
stantly.
The jury in the case of Jack Ear-
ly, charged with the murder of City
Marshal J. Terrell Calloway of ML
Calm, who was killed on October 24,
1905, after being our thirty-six
hours, returned a verdict finding him
guilty of manslaughter and assessing
nis punishment at two years in the
penitentiary.
Bids for three aeroplanes, ranging
in price from $10,000 to $25,000,
which must have a speed of at least
forty miles per hour and carry two
persons with* a combined weight gf
350 pounds and sufficient fuel for a
flight of 125 miles, have been accept-
ed by' the War Department.
The Sullaway bill calling for an
increase" in the pension to the wid-
ows of Mexican War veterans from
$9 to $12 per month, has passed the
House of Representatives. It is es-
timated that there are 9500 widows
of veterans of this war in the Unit-
ed States.
At an early hour Thursday
ing almost the entire town 61
ton was destroyed by a fire originat-
ing in a building owned by Dallas-
parties and occupied by the Kings-
ton Star office and T. A. Lewis’ bar-
ber Bhop.
Fodliwing is a list of losses: I. O.
O. F. Hall, $3000, insurance $1000;
Shields Brothers printing office,
$500, insurance $375; J. E. Rose &
Company of Dallas, $1500, insurance-
unknown; T. A. Lewis, barber shop,
$100, no insurance; J. W. Barr es-
tate $3000, small insurance; J'. W.
Ross, groceries, $1250, insurance
$800; Reberak, Lodge, in I. O. 0.
F. building, $250, no insurance; W.
J. Moore Lumber Company $150 ;
James Moore, Grocer, $75, no in-
surance; W. F. Pierce of Commerce,
$100, insurance unknown; J. R.
Thomason, $100, no insurance, r
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JUDGE JAMES HARGI8 SHOT.
quarters that the proposed Shawnee
Central Railroad, surveyed during
tho summer between Checotah and
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Shcwnec by the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas, will be under couree of
construction.
It is announced that Swift & Com-
pany, packers, will build a plant al
Portland, Ore., to cost not less than
$6,000,000. Over 2000 acres of
land land have been bought for the
plant
Two hundred marked night riders
visitod Discurburge, Ky., early
Tuesday morning and applied the
torch to Bennett’s tobacco warehouse
and distillery. Both were complete-
ly destroyed. The loss is about $40,-
000.
C. H. Hargraves, a wealthy real
estate man of San Antonio, died at
Montgomery, Ala., Tuesday night of
uremic poisoning. He was en route
home from the East, and was taken
from the train there.
Jeff McLemore, formerly a news-
paper writer, baa been appointed
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, The Louisville and Nashville
Railroad has reduced the salaries of
all employes making more than $250
per month. Those receiving $400
and over are cut 10 per cent, while
those making more than $250 and
less than-£400 will suffer a reduc-
tion,of 8 per cent.
Mark Twain iigs returned from a
trip to the Bermudas, much bene-
fited by the salubrious climate.
After telling her husband she
would cook no more biscuits, Mrs.
Genie Owens, a bride of two months,
ended her life in Rockport, Ky.
The Corporation Commission of
Oklahoma has issued a proposed or*
der that passengers shall not be re*
quired to surrender their tickets un-
less they are provided with a seat
while traveling on passenger trains.
Tom Smith has taken the contract
to rebuild the Texas and Gulf Rail-
road from Waterman to Grigsby.
It is a sensational rumor that
Bon 8Hoots Father Instantly Killing
Him.
Louisville, Ky., Feb. 7.—A special
froip Jackson, Ky., says: Former
County Judge James Hargis, for
many years a member of the State
Democratic Executive Committee,
accused of complicity in the feuds
rbmh have disrupted Breathitt
County for several years, was shot
and instantly killed in nis general
store here about 3:30 yesterday aft*
emoon by, his son, Beach Hargis.
The son fired five shots in rapid suc-
cession at his father, who fell dead
while his clerks were waiting on cus-
tomers.
The exact cause of the mufder has
not been learned, but it is supposed
to have been the result of differences
that have existed between father and
son for some time. The two men are
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reported to have had a severe quar-
rel several nights ago, when the fa-
ther, it is alleged, was compelled to
resort to violence to restrain his son.
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It is said that seven houses were
entered in Dallas Tuesday night by
burglars.
Hundred Mile Lumber Road.
Houston: William Anderson, con-
nected with the Carlisle Lumber
Company of Trinity, says the Car-
lisle Company is building the Beau-
mont and Great Northern Railway,
fifteen miles of which have been com-
pleted from Trinity to Livingston,
and surveys have been carried into
King l-icopold of Belgium is the next’ a*?*
in linn nfWim. hv ro.“d * *° “ «acUy one hundred
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in line of victims marked by the Red
I Hand.
A niartyr to duty. Dr. W. D. Gross
|died at his home in Philadelphia
from blood poisoning, caused by the
infection of a cut upon his thumb,
received about three weeks ago in
performing an operation.
Low prices and slack demand for
oil have played havoc with develop-
ments in Oklahoma.
A thousand bushels of cotton seed
are being sent out from Waco in
four-pound packages by the Govern-
ment, under the free seed provision.
Contracts were signed last week for
the sale of the sixteen-story Liggett
Building in St. Louis for $1,250,000
to a syndicate of Texas capitalists,
including Reese M. Allen of Hous-
ton.
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miles in length and will run through
the virgin pine lands of East Texas.
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Hous* Bank May Pay Out. , ->r
Houston: The prospect brighten*
daily for the creditors of the Houhe
Bank. Present indications are that
the estate will jiay off in full. Ap-
praisers of the property have bren
most conservative in their report.
W. V. Lauraine, expert accountant,
says that some of the paper p—
nounced worthless '
had been partially
in more than one i
that the totala would 1
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