The Decatur News. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, July 19, 1901 Page: 2 of 8
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L W.TYLKR. Proprietor.
Oflca Bast Mam Street, next door to poatoSc*
DECaTUR, - - - - TEXAS
FARM AND FLOCK.
Hot weather is hurting fruit.
Corn is in bad shape in many places.
Peaches are being marketed around
Arp.
Cattle are in good condition in Mar-
tin county.
Whole fields of corn are dried up is
portions of Montague county.
A fine ranch house is being built on
the L X ranch near Amarillo.
People around Arp hare received
about <30,000 for their truck crops
this season.
Cotton and corn in a wide district oi
Mills county have been eaten up by
grasshoppers.
J. C?*Wulton and Nance A Paulton
shipped a train of sixteen cars of cat-
tle north from New Braunfels.
Owing to the intense heat on July
4, over 200 head of cattle were found
dead in cars at St. Joseph, Mo.
A half bushel of open cotton bolls
were shipped from Beeville to the Pan-
American exposition at Buffalo.
' E. D. Farmer of Parker county ship-
ped to Chicago nine cars of 3 and 4-
year-old beef steers. Charley McFar
land made a shipment of six cars.
The first carload of Elberta peaches
was shipped from Rusk on the 9th to
Chicago. They are of extra size and
quality and the crop is large in that
vicinity.
i A special from Casper, Wyo., says
that one big commission firm has pur-
chased over 1,500,000 pounds of wool
this season in central Wyoming on an
average of 11 cents.
Russell A Godfrey have recently pur-
chased about 1000 2 and 3-year-old
steers. These cattle will all be pas
tured during this season in Menard
and Schleicher counties.
The census shows that during ths
past ten years the number of farms in
the United States has increased some
thing over 20 per cent, the numbei
J>eing 5,700,000 against 4,500,000 in
1M0.
Martin Burdg has cut his second
crop of alfalfa thia season twelve miles
from Denison. Mr. Burdg expects to
cut tnree more crops this year and
says ne can realise <15 per ton by
shipping.
A A trade was consummated at Fort
Worth whereby Davidson A Curtis
Bros, sold to Jack Serruys of Montana
for the Wetboux ranch 3000 yearlings
on the D Z ranch, the price paid being
|15. They are to be shipped Aug. 1.
Arp shipped this season over thirty
carloads of tomatoes and about a
fifth as much by express. From that
place over <5000 worth of strawber-
ries ware also shipped. One man sold
two acres of cabbage and one acre
each of beets and peppers.
A green bug is attacking the corn
and cotton in the vicinity of Collins-
ville. The bugs leav%a greasy sub-
stance similar in appearance to honey
dew. Innumerable ants follow the
bug and are destroying thousands oi
jbem. They are unlike wheat green
bag.
[ Jacksonville is shipping consider-
able fruit, as are also several towns
near by. Palestine is not shipping
much fruit, owing to the damage done
by the severe hailstorm that occurred
In that vicinity several weeks ago, and
which toltally destroyed the tomato
crop.
Green corn, beans, tomatoes, pep-
pers, squash and other vegetables are
being sold in goodly quantities at
Wago by street venders and others,
who obtain their supplies from irri-
gated truck farms in and around that
city. These farms are a great success
tn every respect.
The butter now furnished to Porto
Rico is shipped tn tin cans containing
from five to fifty pounds, the beet of
It selling for from 50 to 75 cents, while
the more inferior grades bring from
20 to 20 cents, according to grade.
The first bale of Texas cotton,
which was shipped from Alice, Tex .
to Houston on the 21st of June, was
sold at auction in New York city,
brining 9 cents a pound. The pro-
ceeds were given to the New York
Herald's free Ice fund.
An organised band of cattle thieves
recently got away with <00 head of
cattle near Chamberlain, 0. D. An or-
POINTED AND PLAIN
Were the Remarks of President of
Iowa Bar Association
IN REFERENCE TO PERJURY.
Mr. McCarthy Recommends Severe Fealsh-
SKats far VleiatlsM sad Insists
the Law be Enforced.
Coucil Bluffs, la., July 17.—Presi-
dent J. J. McCarty made startling
statements regarding the prevalence
of bribery in American courts of Jus-
tice in his address to the Iowa State
Bar association at its annual meeting
In this city.
‘‘Is it true,” Mr. McCarthy asked,
“that perjury is committed in Judical
proceedings? I need take no time for
the discussion of this inquiry before
a representative bar associatkm. It
will not do to credit all false state-
ments to lack of memory, visionary
exaggerations, inability to see and un-
derstand things correctly, white lies,
imaginary delusions and such like.
"Where is there a lawyer who has
not seen the guilty criminal pass out
of the court rooom acquitted and set
free because of perjured testimony?
What one of us but has seen the rights
of persons and of property sacrificed
and trampled under foot, presumably
under due form of law, but really and
truly by the use of corrupt and false
and sometimes purchased testimony?
These are the things that beget dis-
trust and disrespect for the courts and
for verdicts and for our boasted forms
of law. These are the things that pro-
duce anarchy, lynching and invita a
just contempt as well as a lack of con-
fluence in these tribunals called courts
of Justice.
"One Judge of long experience upon
the bench writes me that in his opin-
ion about one-half of all the evidence
received on behalf of the defense in
criminal cases is false.
Another judge of equally higher re-
pute writes that he believes 75 per
cent of the evidence offered in divorce
cases approaches deliberate perjury.
“Another writes that perjury is
committed in a majority of important
law suits and that the crime is rapidly
incregd&tj.
In short, with reference to the preva-
lence of perjury the time has come
when, in the words of another, Justice
must wear a veil, not that the m'_
be Imperial, but that she may hide
her face for shame. Some tdll us that
crime is committed mostly in the
police and petty courts where, as a
rule, the witness belongs to the vi-
cious classes. But the fact remains
that it is committed in other courts
and by meu professing high station
in society, church and state.
"Who can blame a poor outcast of
society for false swearing, when pre-
sumably reputable citizens do the
same thing? Why do we expend time
and money in prosecuting some poor
tramp for stealing an overcoat to keep
from freeslng when the wrecker of a
bank, the despoiler of a home, the
taker of human life or the embezzler
of thousands goes unwhipped of Jus-
tice J”
**•. McCarthy then proposed rem-
edies. He said oaths were too com-
mon. He favored the abolition of all
official oaths and the emphatic admin-
istration of the Judicial oath. He be-
lieved that the Judge himself should
administer all oaths that it should be
done with gravity and solemnity, and
that witness should be told the ex-
treme punishment would be meted out
to perjurers. Then the law should be
enforced. Perjury should be swiftly
and severely punished, and if it was
so punished a strong public sentiment
would rapidly grow up against it and
men would hestitate before committing
this most heinous, wicked and cruel
crime.
Little Rock. July 17.—A Texas de-
tective arrived a few aaya ago in
King's river neighborhood Madison
county, and placed under arrest a sup-
pOM<l young woman wno had been
teaching a private school tn the neigh-
borhood for some time. It turned out
that the school teacher was a man in
diHrwiaa- It is alleged that he was
wanted in Texs on the charge of mur-
der committed several years ago. It
is said that he was a most engaging
person and that the yonng men of the
community had gotten up a great ri-
valry on his account. No one had ever
suspected the deception. When ar-
rested bo bad on his person <3000 in
cash, carried in a belt
•TILL POURING IN.
Bight Thousand Persons Registered at 1U
Reno on Tuesday.
El Reno, Ok., July 17.—Last Satur-
day it was predicted that there would
not be more than 50,000 people regis-
tered at this place for the Kiowa and
Comanche opening of lands. Now it
is thought that more than twice that
number is a conservative estimate.
Eight thousand, six hundred and
eighty-flve were registered Tuesday be-
tween the hours of 8 a. m. and 5 p. m.,
making the total number at this place
almost 40,000 and this is only the
sixth day.
The southbound Rock Island day
passenger train came in in four sec-
tions each with standing room only.
People are coming from long dis-
tances. Mrs. Rebecca Livingston, aged
77 years, came all the way from San
Lac, Mich., to register. She will re-
main until the 29th to see if her
name will appear among the lucky
ones.
In the drawing they will only be
counted lucky whose names appear in
the first 10,000 drawn, for, although
there are 13,000 claims open to set-
tlement, 10,000 only are considered
worth having. Another booth was es-
tablished Tuesday and also one to be
use dexclusively for soldiers. Ex-Gov.
Richards has secured more spacious
quarters now for several of the booths
and is ready to make a new record.
L. B. Norman, a brakeman on the
Choctaw road, put two negroes off a
freight train. One of them drew a
revolver and shot the brakeman in the
mouth, the bullet ranging downward.
It is thought he can not live. Both
negroes are in Jail.
WRATHY WOMAN
Takes a Shot at tha French Minister ot
Public Works.
Paris, July 17.—P. Baudin, minister
of public works, was shot at while
driving to a cabinet meeting at the
Elysee palace. The author of the at-
tempt on the life of M. Baudin was
a-woman, who was accompanied by
a 10-year-old child. She approached
M. Baudin’s carriage and suddenly
drawing a revolver, fired at the min-
ister. M. Baudin was not hit and pro-
ceeded to the Elysee palace. The
woman was arrested ana gave her
name as Olzewsky and said she lived
at Neterreu. Her husband is a Pole
and was an architect at Nice until
1894.
Madame Olzewsky asserts that she
had no intention of hitting M. Baudin,
but that she fired her revolver in the
air to draw attention to an alleged
grievance of her husband. Her hus-
band is described as Count Olzewsky,
a naturalized Frenchman, holding a
government receivership in the neigh-
borhood Of Paris. He believes he is
being deprived of money due him by
the ministry of foreign affairs. Mme.
Olzewsky is said to have fired her pis-
tol in the air when M. Baudin’s car-
riage was passing. She said she
thought M. Delcasse, minister of for-
eign affairs, was in the carrage.
LARGEST ATTENDANCE
Ib It* HUtory at the Trant-Mlnl* *ipp
Congre** In Cripple Creek.
Cripple Creek, Col., July 17.—The
twelfth annual meeting of the Trans-
Mississippi congress opened Tuesday
with the largest attendance and the
largest membership in the history of
the organization. Out of 2000 dele-
gates appointed 1200 were in their
seats. The congress was called to or-
der by President Walter Gresham of
Galveston, Tex. Addresses of wel-
come were 'delivered by Gov. Orman
and by Mayors Crane of Cripple Creek
and Franklin of Victor. Responses
were made by Govs. Fishback of Ar-
kansas, Jenkins ot Oklahoma and
Prince ot New Mexico. Secretary
Francis ot Cripple Creek made a report
which strongly urged the congress to
make its work continuous instead of
having each meeting work on an in-
dependent basis.
Vl*lt*<lPrnMM-ola.
Pensacola, Fla., July 17.—The United
States gunboat Stranger, Commander
J. Bostick, having on board as guest
of honor Gov. W. W. Heard of Louis-
iana, put into this port Sunday after-
noon and remained until Tuesday
morning, when the vessel weighed an-
chor and sailed for Mobile. The ship
has also aboard about fifty members
ot the Louisiana naval mlltla, the num-
ber being limited to the capacity of
the vessel.
OIL A SUCCESS.
Santa Fa Railway Making Preparation*
to Use the Fluid.
Galveston, Tex., July 16.—The adop-
tion of oil for fuel by the Santa Fe
has proven a success in every particu-
lar. The management is preparing to
equip all of its engines with oil-burn-
ing furnaces and boilers and to intro-
duce oil at its shops at Cleburne, and
■n fact use oil exclusively all over its
system instead of coal. General Super-
intendent Nixon stated to a reporter
that while the exact data, relating to
the operation of tains with oil fuel
had not been computed, he was in a
position to state that the experiments
made at the company’s shops at Cle-
burne and with the locomotive in op-
eration on the Beaumont branch were
highly, successful and warranted the
company in expending several thou-
sand dollars in improvements to make
the necessary change from coal to oil
as a fuel. Fifteen engines have been
selected for equipment for oil, and
three of them are now undergoing the
change. As son as these engines are
ready for service they will be put out
on the road and the other twelve will
enter the shop one by one and be fixed
up for using fluid fuel.
The Santa Fe will spend nearly
<100,000 this year in equipping its en-
gines for oil and providing receiving
and delivery tanks along the line. It
costs about <300 to change an engine
for the burning of oil, but the con-
struction of the tanks and putting
them in condition for operation is the
most expensive feature of the trans-
formation scheme. Contracts have
been let for something like <50,000 for
steel tanks, and work on the construc-
tion and erection of one of them is
now progressing favorably at Somer-
ville. The company has contracted for
eleven of these immense steel tanks,
with a 37,000-barrel capacity each, and
their building will be hastened as fast
as possible. These tanks will be put
up at Somerville, Alvin, Temple, Bre-
mond and Cleburne. At some places
two tanks will be built and other
places but one tank. The tanks will
be built above ground and will be ar-
ranged so as to receive the oil trona
tank cars and then supply the locomo-
tives. The latest improved devices and
mechanism will be provided, to give
every facility and expedition to the
filling of the tanks and supplying the
engines. Smaller tanks will be built
xt intermediate points to be used in
utses of emergency.
Engineer* Quit.
El Paso, Tex?, July 16.—Train ser-
vice on the Mexican International is
at a standstill on account of the en-
gineers being on a strike. The news
was brought to this city by a large
number of people who are on thefr
way into Mexico from the east. It was
their intention to cross into the sister
Republic at C. P. Diaz, but when thew
arrived there they were informed th 4,
owing to a strike of the engineer*,
there were no trains running on that
line and that they would be obliged ti
come on to El Paso to en{er Mexico.
The strike comes out of a disagree-
ment on wages. The trouble has been
brewing for some time, but the man-
agement did not expect anything so
serious to come out of it. A month
ago the management consented to
raise the wages of the engineers if they
would work on. The engineers agreed
to remain until the 15th, and when
that time arrived they were informed
that the company had decided not to
raise the wages, and every engineer
left his engine.
Continued Dry.
Crowell, Tex., July 16.—Crowell pre-
cinct has had local option in force
since Foard county was organized in
1891. A few weeks ago a petition with
the required number or voters was
presented to the commissioners’ court
asking for an election with the view
of opening a saloon. The vote was
taken with the following resulty:
Margaret Box—For prohibition 26,
against prohibition 7.
Crowell Box—For prohibition 120,
against prohibition 10. v
Total, 17 for and 140 against.
SucceMfully Financed.
Houston, Tex., Jul 16.—The Mary-
land Trust company ha* successfully
financed the Houston Oil company.
This involves many minions. The new
compny will issue <1.000,000 of pre-
ferred stock and <20,000,000 of common
stock of the par value of <100. The
financial plan provides for the issuance
of <7,500,000 of the preferred stock at
present. This has been subscribed and
nearly all the money paid over to the
Maryland Trust company.
TO EXPLORE DEEPER.
Chicago Crude Oil Conipuuy Will Bore
Many Mure Feet.
Beaumont, Tex., July 17.—There will
be a meeting of the directors of the
Chicago Crude Oil company in the of-
fice of the company in-' this city to
discuss matters pertinent to the inter-
ests of the company and particularly
to decide on what course to take rela-
tive to their well. The Chicago Crude
rell is now something over 1100 feet
deep with an 8-inch pipe and work has
been stopped until the directors’ meet-
ing decides upon going deeper.
In conversation with one of the most
prominent directors a correspondent
was informed that it was almost cer-
tain that the well would be drilled
as deep as it is possible for the con-
tractors to go, and Judging from the
fact that they are now 1100 feet, down
with the 8-inch pipe, it is reasonable
to estimate that the well can be drilled
to a depth of 2500 feet or more with
ease and certainty. The Chicago
Crude Oil company is composed largely
of local capitalists who are well
known and they have put considera-
ble money into the company, while the
amount of stock which has been sold
publicly has been very small. It is un-
derstood that the company has the
money to put down a deep well and it
is certainly the desire to go this. Out-
side of the hill the Chicago Crude has
the most favorable location of any
well in the field to get oil. The well
is about 1500 feet north of the hill, and
it is almost incomprehensible how the
oil can get away in so short a dis-
tance unless it drops down at a steep
angle or stops short before reaching
the well.
The decision of the directors of the
Chicago Crude and the Texas and New
Orleans companies will be interesting
and of very great importance to the
field.
The El Paso Oil company started
drilling on its property on block 36,
Spindietop, Tuesday. Ben Harper, who
has drilled three successful wells for
the Heywood company, is contractor.
Guffey’s No. 6 well, on Gladys City
property, was being bailed Tuesday
afternoon with a view of bringing in
a gusher, but whether the well de-
veloped into a spouter could not be
learned. It is located to the westward
of the Columbia and Gladys No. 3 a
short distance, is In the defined terri-
tory.
No further particulars regarding tha
Guffey company’s well at Big HiH
could be obtained. H. Staitin, who is
largely interested in the oil lands in
the Beaumont field, left for the hill
Tuesday morning and promises to re-
port actual conditions there upon his.
return. People who live in that vi-
cinity say it is no secret out there that
the drillers struck oil, but as no one
Is permitted to examine the well,the
quantity is not known. The ground
about the well, however, is said to
be saturated with oil. It is also known
that certain parties are making vigor-
ous efforts to purchase land on the
hill, and there are those who contend
that these parties are the agents of
the Guffey company. The report is
that the Guffey company is preparing
to drill another well a short distance
from the cne which is believed to b«
completed.
Illnrso Deranged His Mind.
Houston, Tex., July 17.—William
Williams, under temporary mental
aberration, shot and wounded one of
his daughters, then turned tho*. pistol
upon himself and committed suiside.
From the best obtainable information
at midnight it seems that his three
grown daughters had only retired to
their room for the night when he
quietly entered the room with the pis-
tol in hand. They discovered him
and immediately took flight. He fired
at close range upon them and wound-
ed one in her knee and she fell to the
floor. He Immediately turned to gun
upon himself and death resulted in-
stantly. Over a year ago he had a
paralytic stroke and at times appear-
ed to be mentally deranged. He was
one of the oldest citizens of Houston,,
having come here several years before
the Civil war. He was a contractor
and waa for years chief of the volun-
teer Are department of Houston.
Vote nt Knufnian Cennty.
Terrell, Ter., July 17.—The commis-
sioners’ court of Kaufman county met
Tuesday and canvassed the returns of
the congressional election held Satur-
day. The official count shows only
1574 votes polled in the county, which
Were divided between the two candi-
dates as follows: Wooten 1293, Lind-
sley 176. O. B. Colquitt received 2
votes. Jack Beall 2 and D. J. An-
thony, mayor cf Terrell 1.
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