The Decatur News. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, May 3, 1901 Page: 3 of 8
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CHAPTER V—(Continued.)
"Oh, I know yon think us the dirt '
beneath your feet!" he rneered. his
face livid, as he twirled his little j
black moustache and glared at her with ;
unwilling admiration. “We are noth-i
ing. no no; but it is those who win j
laugh, oh, yes! 1 snap my fingers at I
Reverton, tor which we are not good
enough; but they shall accept us,
though they did not tuy amiable unde,
whom, 1 allow, you b .d no cause to
love.”
“1 shall certainly let all Reverton
know if I am made unhappy here,” j
she answered, with a sudden flash of
comprehension, under which Henri
winced. “For Mr. Barlowe. I had lit-
tle cause to like him; but he is dead!
he came to a terrible end! Have you
any chance of discovering who killed
him, or why?"
So intent had they been in their
conversation that they had been oo-
llvlous to the clang of the garden gate
and the sound of wheels. As Mollie
turned quickly to see Madame Dubois
driving up, the horses lathered by
their reckless speed, but well In hand,
she did not notice that Henri’s face
had gone a sickly yellow, that the fin-
gers holding a cigarette suddenly
crushed It as in a vice. Madame looked
from Mollie’s flushed face, to her son's
sullen, dark one, as she drew up, and
her lips tightened; but the girl en-
tered the house before her, and. onco
out of sight, dashed to her own room.
What was she to do? she thought,
as with clenched hands she paced her •
room. What could she do but keep her I
eyes open, and bear It? She was ur- I
prised to find that she was ne.ther
frightened nor dismayed; indeed, won-
dering more what Reggie would think
if he knew—Reggie, whose blue eyes
had given a sudden flash as that “Mol-
ies” had caught his ear. Yet it was a
matter of relief when madame ap-
peared as usual at dinner, even mak-
ing a little show of affection for her,
though looking pale and distraught,
while Henri was effusively polite.
But nothing could prevent the even-
ing being dreary and constrained, and
as early as she could, she bade mother
and son good night. At the far end of
the large square hall was the hand-
some oak door of Mr. Barlowe’s study,
and she paused at the foot of the stairs
to regard it with a felling akin to awe.
What scene had that closed door wit-
nessed 12 months ago that very night?
What was the secret of Leonard Bar-
lowe's tragic death? Well Indeed It
was for Mollie that the future Is hid-
den from us; that she could not fore-
see the manner in which the truth
would be revealed!
As she went slowly up stairs the j
drawing room door opened suddenly
and madame came out and walked
swiftly across to the closed door, her
usually stately step faltering and un-
even, her face wild and haggard; but
ere she had gone many yards Henri
had slipped after her, caught her by
ihe arm. and pulled her roughly back.
“Let me go!” she cried excitedly.
“Have you not tormented me enough?
•—you, for whom 1 have borne every-
thing; you, whom I have shielded?”
“There, don’t make a fuss and rouse
the place!” he said hoarsely, “For :
heaven’s sake cotne back and calm
yourself. What is the use of getting
in a frenzy because an unfortunate
event has happened in the house, and
the servants say it is haunted? Come
hack, I say!” And the drawing room
door closed again on their angry voices
without either having perceived Mol-
lie's presence on the stairs above.
She went on to her room down the
dimly-lighted corridors, for madame
was economical in lights in some in-
stances. There was a feeling of un-
rest and mystery abroad in the house
tonight, more to be felt than described,
which unconsciously influenced her.
She wished she were not so young.
How long it seemed since she had left
her peaceful German life behind, and
been plunged into a sea of difficulties;
vet she would not have gone back.
Unbidden rose the thought that there
was no Reggie in Hanover.
She took her Bible and read a chap-
ter, trying to fix her thoughts on the
Easter day that would soon dawn, the
day our Lord rote from the dead. The
warm old dressing gown In which she
was wrapped accentuated the bright-
ness of her hair, and her lovely face
showed sweet and thoughtful in the
gas light, but as she closed the book
it was with a sigh that she put her
elbows on the toilet table and dropped
her white thin Into them.
All the evening her thoughts had
been back with her mother—remem-
bering her sorrows and sufferings—
and yet there kept running in her mind
also the words she had just read.
*Lovf your enemies.” Ah' how im-
possible it seemed: Jo hoW many more
than poor little MoIH? Iim it appeared
too har'd a precept follow! But
she straggled for it. asking help from
above to forgive T^eonard Barlowe, and
<jad*avor to live in peace with her
;wlrt1vea returning rood for evil.
A ha ij lati'ing at 1,< door bar. lie,
Kate's voice n I'W.Liii ; . roused her. j
."nd. running to >n t the < lilld al-
most full against I. r. b.-r thin little '
face colorless, h«r tiny li ids grasp'ng, ■
us if for des: life, at the folds of her ;
diessing gown.
“Let me stay with you. de r. dear"
Mollie!" she sobbed I sighed. "I I
cunnot—cannot stop alone; I should 1
die!"
It was terrible to sec the nervous !
excitement, the fear that shook the
child front head to foot, an I us Mollie I
caught her up she onlv remembered I
that she was h^r mother's baby, the I
little sister she hid til'd to love. Shut- I
ting the door, she carrted her to the
window, pausing to wrap a rug round
her. for she was in her small night |‘
gown, just as she had jumped out of i
bed, and shivering violently.
"Yes. yes, you sh ill stay with me."
she said soothingly. In her routfd, soft !
voice. “But what is the matter?
Where are Jane and Harriet?”
"Jane has gone; she said she was
not going to stay in this’ house to-
night for anything we could offer her.
She just got the gardener’s boy to take
her box after dark, and went. I don't
know what Aunt Clare will say, and
Harriet will not sleep in iny room
without her.”.
“What! they both slept there?”
“Yes, because of the strange noises ’
and—and things. I woke up and called
out, and when I got up and felt Har-
riet was not there, and her blankets
were gone, my heart seemed to stop
beating—I could not breathe. All I
thought of was you; 1 should be sa'e
if I could get to you. Something passed'
me in the passage; I felt it brushing
against me. it was a ghost, wasn't I
it?” And she cowered down into Mol- |
lie's arms, a pitiable object indeed.
Kate was almost beside herself, and
it was long ere Mollie could calm her
agitation. Inwardly the sister’s heart
burned with wrath against the two
maids, who in their own ignorant fear
had left this highly-sStrung child alone
at such a time, after the shock of the
preceding year. Seriously alarmed,
she rubbed the icy little hands and
feet, talking cheerfully the while, and
then rocked to and fro until the
breathing grew quieter, and the flaxen 1
head lay still on her shoulder, while 1
she hummed the old lullaby which had ;
sounded in her own drowsy ears when
she was a little child.
"Mother sang that,’’ Kate said, sud- !
denly looking up with* a faint smile. 1
“When I found I was alone. 1 said all
I could remember of my prayers ‘Our
Father’ over and over again.’’
“I am glad of that," replied Mollie
simply. “I feared you did not, Kate.” .
”1 am a Freethinker in the daytime; 1
but at night in the dark, when I am
frightened, 1 always say all I can I
think of,” said the child, with quaint !
innocence, all the self-importance
knocked out of her for the moment '
by terror.
She listened very quietly when Mol- I
lie tried to show her that this was i
wrong, and then her thoughts went
back to the last Easter eve. and she
spoke of her father.
“It was very cold—oh, very!” she
said reflectively. “He took me out in
the dogcart, and I cried with the cold,
so he was cross. I did not know he
was going to die, yon see. or I would
have tried not to."
“But you loved him, Kate?"
"Pretty well,” she responded truth-
fully. for she had not words to ex-
press what she was sharp enough to
know—that her father had cared for
her for what she had represented to
him. “When I went to the study to
say good night to him, he called out
he was busy, sd I went away. Next
morning when I awoke the snow was j
thick, and I heard screams and shrieks. |
so I jumped out of bed and ran to the
top of the stairs and looked down. '
and all the servants were there at
the study door, looking in and wring-
ing their hands, and crying, and Aunt ’
Clare, with her hair streaming about. I
calling out that they must get a doc-
tor and send for Henri. I went fur-
ther down the stairs and asked what
was the matter, and they shrieked
more, and said: ‘Take the child
away!’ But I would not go until nurse
caned me, and she told me my fa-
ther was dead. I asked what made
him die, and she said: ’Want of
breath.’ And then heaps of people
came, and there was a bequest.”
"Inquest,” corrected Mollie, with a
shiver, the little girl’s words bringing
the whole scene before her with start-
ling vividness; then, as she felt that
Kate was again shuddering in her
arms, she added: “But we will not
think of it any more."
"I can’t help It!” she moaned,
trembling. "Something In black has
glided up and down the passage ever
since. That door la heard to open and
shut when every one is in bed. All
the servants know this, and won't
stay. Ask them.”
“Oh, Kate, this is really nonsense!”
Mollie exclaimed In horror; then,
drawing back the blind she pointed to
the still, quiet night without, where
the soft breese was sighing through
the budding trees, the moon ’•idl’ag
terone in the dark blue sky ai ov •
‘And see, even the weather is differ-
ent this year. Look nt the beautiful
world God has given us to live in!
. ii if we are goo i He will <•«• ta'n’j
take care of us; we need fear noth
Ing. Why, even a Utile sparrow ca >
not fall to the ground but wl a H
secs it; and we are His children, whom
th.t Lord Christ came to save."
Kute drank in her words with a
icek of old intelligence that ma 1c h.•>•
s< ein as if she had never been a c!ii <1
Put as Mollie put her into bed, two
slight arms were suddenly flung round
the soft white taroat, and el e w hisp-
ered with passionate fervor:
"Oh, I ant glad -1 am ir . Lilly gb<l
that God has given me you for a si
ter, Mollie."
But long s ter the little one ha I
fallen asleep, Mollie sat by her. think
lug, thinking—what did it r.'l mean.’
CHAPTER VI.
Who had kill'd I.’onard Barlow ?
For days M'llie pondered over till
question, and another one that would
keep coming back to het had the Di
bois any private knowtedged that iiad
not been published to the world? They
must have kutvn more of Mr. Bar
lowe. his pa. t life and enemies, than
any outsider could possibly do. Henri
had hated his uncle, she knew, yet
surely he had ':.id no hand in sendins
h'.Ai out of the woill, that could not
it- the meaning of niadarae's wild
words! The I.e was cold-blooded
and cynical to a degree about every-
thing save himself was clear; but it
was it,credible that he could have com-
mitted such a crime undetected; be-
sides, Kate said that he had been in
London at the time.
She thrust the thought from her,
and determined to try and think no
evil—a good resolution put to a very
hard test when she discovered that
tier freedom was gone, and that mad-
ame was always making slighting re-
marks upon the Austruthers. implying
that Mrs. Anstruther was a worldly
mother, who had engaged her daugh-
ter to a rich man, and was now seek-
ing an heiress for her son. About
this latter, indeed, she shook her heal
ominously; she bad heard tales of him
— he was a terrible flirt, or worse.
It was In vain Mollie protested hot-
ly that the young naval officer to whom
Joyce was engaged was far from rich;
that she had never heard a word
against Reggie, that Mrs. Anstruther
was kindness itself and had loved her
mother. Madame nodded her hand-
some dark head mysteriously, and said
her dear Mollie was very young and
innocent, and all young men were not
like Henri, so good and wise and trust-
worthy. Certainly she had plenty of
opportunity of discovering these vir-
tues in Henri, had they existed Per he
spent the greater part of his time
hanging about her, and she grew
heartily tired of him and the tales of
his gay Parisian life.
Why did he not return to It? she
thought wearily. Why did he stay
on here, rolling his black eyes at her
sentimentally, and pretending that
Reverton was now more to him than
Paris?
"It is because I am an heiress,” she
thought wrathfully. when he had ac-
companied her to the Austruthers, and
kept so close to her that she had been
unable to have the good grumble to
Joyce that would have relieved her
pent-up feelings. “Oh, this hateful
money! My mothers’ life was ruined
for it, and they would ruin mine. But
I am not so gentle as she; and madame
will find that I have a will of my own.
1 think she suspects it, for sometimes
1 see her eyes fixed on me with such
a strange expression. God forgive me
if 1 wrong them; but somehow I mis
trust them utterly.”
(To be .continued.)
Made Some Queer W»jer«.
Gen. Francis V. Greene’s story of
the queer bet made by officers at Get-
tysburg recalls other strange wagers.
Harmon, at the Stanwix hotel, in De-
troit, several years ago, bet he could
hold his head submerged in a bathtub
for 126 seconds without taking air. He
won.
In Philadelphia some years ago a
gentleman made a wager of $100 that
he could jump Into water eight feet
deep and undress himself complete.
Any one who has ever made the at-
tempt to remove his clothing after be-
ing thoroughly drenched to the skin,
even when standing on terra Anna,
with plenty of room to “hop around
on one leg,’’ will at once realize the
difficulty of accomplishing the feat
while in the water. However, It was
done in the instance noted. A chap
named Curtis in Berkshire county,
Massachusetts, for a wager of a horse,
ran five miles in forty-one minutes,
and wound up the race with a jump of
eleven feet six inches. An English-
man named Head won $5,000 by walk-
ing 600 miles in ten days, but the ex-
ertion so used him up that he never
walked much afterward, either on
wagers or otherwise.—New York Tele-
graph.
To Mount Photon on Glass.
To mount photos on glass proceed
as follows: Soak four ounces of gela-
tine In cold water for half an hour,
then place in a glass jar, adding six-
teen ounces of water; put the jar in a
large dish of warm water and dissolve
the gelatine. When dissolved pour
into a shallow tray. Have your prints
rolled on a roller, albumen side out;
take the print by the corners and pass
rapidly through the gelatine, taking
great care to avoid air bubbles. Hang
up with clips to dry, and when dry
squeeze carefully on to the glass. The
better the quality of the glass the finer
the effect
FARM, RANCH, CARDEN.
.’rrawherrtea move lively,
V ftetablea are in . .od supply.
Cabbage shipments continue ftiLly I
brisk.
H. O. Ferklus of I’!g >'• •»i»i*v- lias
token eleven cars of cattle to Kansas
! ’Ry-
Tiie recent cold spell in G ti’t’iu and
Smith California l.ns injure 1 v.t on
Sheep shearing is going on at a rap-
id rate around Sanderson.
Feme Collin county fat pits ; ' rte
that wheat p rt will not rat bail y.
A number of tenant termers from
other states are arriving In Collin
county.
Charles Downic and 11. Leraien have
-toted their spring clip of wool at
Sanderson.
Mr. i'urn rb the AmicacUo (Klug
county> stockman, lost two tine bulls
and two hogs from the effects of a bite
of a rabid coyote.
In some portions of Palo Pinto coun-
ty farmers r. port the green bug has
ruined their \heat.
Over 20,000 he; d of T< x < tile have
lx eii unloaded tit 11 myeL i. i T.. the
p. t tew days. They liavi !> . n pie d
< n a lino pasture m ar that place.
Report , from the country .-nrro.r.t l~
Ing Montgomery. Ala., indicate taut
n great deal of cotton, which was up,
has lien killed by the present cull,
wet upell.
I .1. and A. J. Dull sold and ship-
ped from Sanderson 2100 head of
ete-rs, twos nud up. They were ship-
ped to tlie Indian Territory. Terms
ii ported at $25.
Col. E. C. Godfrey of ban Antonio
has been at Bonham r.coiving several
hundred horses and mnli.i for the
United States army. Steger & Co. are
tilling the cpntrr.ct.
So far 61,000 muleu nave been ship-
ped from the United States to South
Africa. Texas and Missouri have con-
tributed more of the number than all
the other states combined.
Messrs. Mangum & Furman sold to
Mr Flinn of Georgetown S00 head of
2 and 3-year-old steers at $23.50. Mr.
Flynn will ship them to the Indian
Territory and hold them until winter,
when they will be put on feed.
Charles H. Flato of Shiner shipped
about 1300 head of cattle to the Ter-
ritory from Hallettsville. Mr. Flato
has a large ranch In the Territory,
where he will ship all his cattle.
Nearly 1,000,000 pounds of wool were
stored at Lampasas this winter. W.
C. Price & Co. of that city, extensive
dealers, shipped the last. They got
fine prices and also paid a nfee sum.
At the sale of registered cattle at
Syracuse, N. Y., 136 head of Holstein-
Frlesians brought $15,000. The high-
est price, $500, was paid by H. D.
Crossman of Cayuga county, for a cow
and calf.
The Sierra Madre railroad took a
train of thirty cars of Mexican cattle
through El Paso. This Is the first
shipment of 400 cars that will enter the
United States from Mexico during the
next four weeks.
A shipment of 100 ponies was made
from San Antonio to polo clubs in New
York. Philadelphia and Boston. These
ponies are all Texas bred and are said
to be the finest, animals of the kind
ever shipped out of Texas.
A good rain, the first in two months,
tell at Anson April 16. Telephone
messages from different points indi-
cate it to be general over Jones coun ■
ty. Grain crops will be greatly bene-
fited, especially wheat and oats, which
have suffered somewhat from the con-
tinued dry weather.
M. M. Hargis of Llano nought 200
head of threes from J. E. Wright of
Driscoll at $19,and 1200 head of three
and fours from Jno. W. Timon jf
Beeville at $23. Both lots were received
and shipped to the Indian Territory.
The Square Bale Ginners' an.ocia-
tion of Texas will meet at Fort Worth,
May 7. The prmident and secretary
urge every person engaged in this bus-
iness to attend, as it is expected that
Mme important business will come up
«> the meeting in question.
A. IL Patterson shipped a carload
<f eggs from Terrel recently to Sau
Francisco over the Texas and Pacific
railway recently. The egs were ail
laid by the iudur.trioua hens around
Terrell and were bought up In the Tor-
rell market.
ThomasDein les sold €000 acres of his
Wilson county ranch to R. S. Dilworth
and 8. P. Jones at Gonzalo*. He also
disposed of 2500 steers, threes and up,
to Gus Whitting and Cougnran Bros.
The two trades will aggregate, it is
said, nearly $100,000.
The decision of the supreme court
In the Texas cattle quarantine act sus-
tained the state of Texas law on the
subject, instead of pronouncing It un-
sonetitutional. The effect is to
strengthen the state's power to quar-
antine cattle believed to be Infected
Owing to cold, backward spring,
crops are not doing well In Malakoff
section. Complaint Is heard of poor
stands of corn. In other cases where
good stands were obtained insects are
doing great Injury. Many fanners
have been forced to plant over.
And the State Cayital Gave Visit-
ors a Wiico.ne
IN SOUTHERN II0SHIADIE WAY,
Cov. Sayers Invited Then, to Pull Off Their
Caatt and Make lh<msd«fi at Nome
and Judye Reayau Spoke.
Austin, Tex., April 29.—When the
New York business men touring TexaA
leave for home they will doubtless
have great faith in the hospitality and
generosity of the people, for they have
been entertained every minute they
have been In Texas.
Upon arrival at the union depot in
Hile city the party was taken in car-
riages and driven directly to the state
capnol, where Guv. Sayers received
them in his reception room. Nearly ev-
ery member of the state administra-
tion was present, including Hon. John
II Reagan, chairman of tlie Texas
ralruad commission. Among other dis-
tinguished gentlemen present were
Hon. A. W. Terrell, ex-minister to Tur-
key; Hon. Frank Lubbock, ex-gover-
nor, and Hon. Guy M. Bryan. Several
members of the legislature were also
present.
Hon. R. E. Prince, speaker of the
Texas bouse of representatives, who
welcomed the party into the state upon
the party’s arrival at Orange in be-
half of Gov. Sayers, was presented by
Mr. Louis J. Wortham and made a
report to the governor upon the trip
thus far. He related the history of
the movement which had been Inaugu-
rated by the governor and Hie object
of tlie visit. In concluding he intro-
duced Mr. Charles M. Jesup, chairman
of the delegation from the Chamber
of Commecrce of the state of New
York, who made a happy and interest-
ing address.
Mr. Trowbridge spoke for delega-
tion from Merchants' association.
Gov. Sayers began his address to the
Chamber of Commerce and Merchants’
association by saying that when he
went to New York last October he had
no Intention of extending the fnvita-
tatlon fur the organizations which
they represented to send delegations
to Texas, but when he stood In the
presence of those bodies he felt that
the hour hud come to render Texas a
greater service than he had ever ren-
dered it before or perhaps would ever
be able to render it again. He empha-
sized the fact that the delegations were
not asked to Texas to inquire Into
any private inteeist. and he expressed
gratification that the citizens of Tex-
as were not seeking to bring any pri-
vate enterprise to their attention.
He felt that when they knew Tex-
as they had never known her be-
fore, they would realize that invest-
ments were as safe in Texas as in their
own state. In concluding he said:
“Gentlemen, In the old southern way,
I bid you to take off your bats and
coats and make yourselves at borne in
this city.”
The governor’s remarks were fre-
quently applauded.
Leaving the capitol the visitors were
driven to the splendid home of Mr.
John Breond, whose guests tney were
at luncheon.
After luncheon tbeir carriages were
returned and the party was driven over
the city, getting view of the principal
state Institutions.
The party again stopped at the cap-
ital and went through the various de-
partments and then returned down-
town, taking quarters at Driskill hotel.
The dinner at the Driskill was in-
formal. The only speecn of the even-
ing was made by Hon. J. H. Reagan,
chairman of the* Texas railroad com-
mission, on the subject of "Tbe Rail-
roads of the State."
At the conclusion of the address Mr.
Corwine, secretary of the Merchants'
association, propounded a number of
questions to Judge Reagan. Mr. Cor-
wine asked if he did not think there
should be an experienced railroad man
on the commission, or if the govern-
ment should not avail Itself of an ex-
pert railroad man. Judge Reagan re-
plied that expert services were indls-
pensible. He said, however, that he
thought the interstate commission as
it exists Is qualified to regulate rates.
The trouble Is that the circuit courts
have picked the law away.
It Is estimated over 30,000 native
Christians were slain In China.
Catluhau Cleared
Omaha, Neb., April 29.—After con-
sidering over night the guilt or inno-
cence of Jamese Callahan, toe jury an-
nounced at 9 o'clock Bunday morning
that he had no part in tbe kfdnaplng
of Edward Cudahy. Jr. The verdiet
was an evident surprise to the court,
and Judge Baker expressed his disgust
in emphatic terms.
sCallaban was immediately arrested
on two other counts, which the state
is not prepared to say will be made
JEAL LOCATED.
What is Said to Hats T.aa.plred la He*
(■rd Io l-ort Arthur Mattw.
Beaumont, Tex., April 29.—The facts
in the Standard Oil company Fort Ar-
thur deal which lias created such wide-
spread interest have been located, and
they ure directly in line with what has
been published in these dispatches.
John Searles and J. 8. Cullinan pur-
chased all the acreage of the Fort Ar-
thur l.and company, amounting to
about $.10,000 acres in round figures.
Whether fl is tlie Standard OH com-
pany or not is another matter and
purely conjectual. J. S. Cullinan is
well known to be the Texas field rep-
resentative of the Standard, and John
Scarlee' connection with the round bale
trust lends the opinion that he may
also be allied with the oil trust But
even if both these men were part of
tlie Standard Oil company, no one could
deny them the right to purchase land
in their own name while at the same
time any one is justified in believing
that they purcAnsed for the Standard,
However, here are the facts about the
deal,
Last Thursday John Searles told W.
H. McFadden of this city that they had
bought the land for less than $25 an
acre, or a total of $750,000. It seems
that the 1’oit Arthur Land company is
in some sort oi trouble with its Hol-
land representatives or bondholders,
and the present trustees of the Fort
Arthur company were anxious to make
the sale before the property was taken
from their hands, and they have open-
ly offered the land to several parties,
among them Ferry McFadden, Mr. Mc-
Fadden in conversation with Mr.
Searles last Thursday remarked that
lie could have bought the land for $25
an acre, whereupon Mr. Searles replied
that they (meaning he and Mr. Culli-
nan » had made u better bargain titan
that and that the deal had been closed,
as was evidenced by a telegram to Mr.
Searles from J. W. Mackie, attorney
of Corsicana, who had engineered the
transaction, in which Mr. Mackie in-
formed Mr. Searles that the deal had
been closed at less than $25 an acre.
The transaction was made with the
trustees of the Fort Arthur loind com-
pany at Kansas City, who ate A. E.
Still, E. L. Martin and James Med.
Trimble. This is of course what start-
ed the rumor that the Port Arthur
docks had been bought by the Stand-
ard.
It is easy to discern the connection
In the two stories and how the one
could have started the other. The idea
it was intended to convey in the ru-
mored purchase of the docks by the
Standard was that it would tie up the
Beaumont oil field by preventing the
shipment of oil save as directed by the
big monopoly, but t!ls is ridiculous
and every one knows that ths Beau-
mont field can iwi be controlled by
production better than by the Standard
company. It can never be done because
there is Sabine Pass and Galveston,
both of which are near enough to the
field to make it possible to get the oil
there at a very slight cost, and more-
over, the Nechcs river, a navigable
stream from Beaumont to its mouth,
can in a very short while be opened
up to the gulf, and when once done
there would be no longer any fear of
a tie-up of this field.
Halt Galled.
Kansas City, Mo., April 29.—Foreign
stockholders of the Port Arthur Land
company have interposed an objection
to tbe sale of 29.000 acres of land nt
Port Arthur, Tex., negotiated last
week, according to local officials of
that company. Negotiations for the
sale of the land which lies around Fort
Arthur and between that city and
Beaumont were practically consum-
mated in Kansas City last week for a
sun said to have been $25 per acre.
The prospective buyer was W. J. Mack-
ie of Corsicana. Tex., said to be the
legal representative in Texas of the
Standard Oil company.
Al 5'«w BraonteU.
Austin, Tex.. April 29.—The visiting
Nev Yorkers arrived at New Braun-
fels at 7 o’clock Sunday, and turned out
to view the beauty and thrift of the
little city. Through the kindness of
Harry loinda, owner of the lovely nat-
ural park near by, the guests were
given an open air breawfast under the
huge overhanging trees to the music
of the purling streams beside them.
This time the diversion of tne million-
aire visitor* took on the shape of droll
stories, begun by the inimitable
raconteur, Mr. Marbla
George D. Bennett of Dallas
elected president of the Traveler^
tectlve association.
■ ■it H«(ius.
San Antonio, ex., April 29J
torney general has filed in u
court here suit agninst thf
and Merchants' Insurar
San Antonio, for quo
felttire of charter, h
appointment of a n
pent filed allege that
organised tn January
Ing the first yea
amount of $2,547,351
sinew then it is not
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