Rains County Leader. (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1908 Page: 3 of 7
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* BOOM FOB HUSHES
FIRE FIEND IS ACTIVE
V
CHICAGO LUSLS $1,000,000
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
The 1
HEARD IN BOSTON.
The first Jim Crow cubs to be in
that
ta-ing j
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Dr. Chalmers McPhersons who was
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thirty and fifty riders in the party.
ard
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He es-
cape Colony, haa reuignud.
the piwltloa.
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aged by fire and water.
The Are •♦wrted In the engine room
of the Peals budding and raged for
three" hours
shipped to Liverpool and Bremen Is
I sold until orders are given from the
> office ut the comutuiy.
The plant of the Atlantic Compress
Company, with between 26oO and 2W0
bales of cotton and alt freight cars
loaded with cotton and merchandise,
’••ere destroyed In the Central of Geor
gia yards at Americus, Ge. The total
The King and Queen of England
have aband«»n«*d visits to Denmark and
banking law to open for business in
that town.
was found dead near his cnbln, near
the mouth of Wilbarger Creek, some
seven or eight miles abovt Bastrop.
borers employed in the local <hnp«
the system. I!
K.l, la colnr tn teat certain I
7-t the fotnnetMe ,.w»t. law
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lor Ixew
Hardin L Blair.
Bute SupeWn ten dent of Public In-
struction V tXlMIIAM >S MMrliMg Vub UMf
blanks upon which professional teach
era make application for tbe location
of summer normal instltutea.
Hughs*
The indcsement of Gov. Hughes for
the Presidency had come up for con
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A Carefully Digested and Coudeaaed
Compilation of Current News
Domestic and Foreign.
destruc- j
Wabash ;
Avenue, occupied by Alfred Peats A
Company, dealers in wail paper, the
the county committee and each time ,
resolutions to that effect were tabled
The action of I
The bulling containing the mechani
cal equipment of the Cleveland, Ohio,
| Plain Dealer, burned Bunday.
Poll ta i payment returns up to Mon-
day give 425,643 for 104 counties, an
increase of 30.939 over two years ago.
formulated .’or the building of an Inter- •
urban railway from Pauls Valley to
Anadaiko, Ok, and that an ele.trto
line will be Installed In the city of
Chickasha, Ok.
OIL TANK IN CALIFORNIA CAUSES
QUESTS TO FLEE.
A RESUME OF THE MOST IMPOR
TANT NEWS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
The temperature at Mllwaukc was
six below zero Wednesday. Reports
(♦•cvbed from the Bo’-thwe** gfv«
temperature «.t Superior, WIs at 11 de- I
Krees below; Green Bay, 14; Madison, |
| 10, and Duluth, xi brUw
The Hereford Nursery Company and
' the Liu no Estacado Nursery Company
are petting out 120 acres Into a fruit f
farm four miles from Hereford. Other
small fiuil farms are being put out
about that city.
thought at one Ums
could save the Marfo Hotel, ths Port
Hartford wharf and aeveral cottages
The saw mil! and planer of the Nona j
Mills Company at Odelia. a f*w miles 1
south of Beaumont, were burned Fri-
day midnight. The loss was about
126,000 Insurance. | IS.500.
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THE WEEK’S EPITOME
shall use aii honorable means to ob-
tain his nomination until he is either
nominated or directs the withdrawal
of his name from the consideration of
the oogvenUoa. The committee uudvu
pledges itself to do ail
congressional
:<mventions and the state convention
for Gov-
- wsJ
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An Inmate of the Insane asylum at j
Austin was killed by falling from a i
.hlrd SUrj w** •tmnnawd m ’
be attempting to escape, as no
It is estimated that something like,
500 acres have been put Into fruit '
farms about Boreford the past few i
mon tn s.
The Missouri Pacific, It Is reported, j
will spend about |400.0u0 on Improve- ;
ments on the Wichita division during •
the current year.
The Beet of JUuilkgA LaltlCfihlpg'
under Rear Admiral Evans came to an- |
chot In the harbor of Punta Arenas at
1:24 Saturday afternoon.
tanks.
All of the contents of the hotel and
the cot Lag m were removed to the
decks of steamers or to surrounding ,
hills, and the inhabitants fled to the 1 chalrr.’sn of the committee stated that
SEEM
n«W.f»e1»y
sbtlity.Psvnfataw I
ar« Im a cl iss jrthe A
rartCifU’
9QB As. AcchiMmws i
tnlHm IwxatMd
they luu«
K reliedM
• cm. 1-oti tcsp^H
Dr. 1 render fltar? Jameson. Printer
sr.d Secretary for Native Affaire L. (
Cepe Colony, haa resigned. He as-
turned those offices In February* 1904, <
The administration haa put Its
shoulder behind the measure pro vid-1
1 Ing for th<* drainage of swamp lands, j
A fitr which started <n Shaylefs
bakery at Hastings. Ok.. destroyed the I
bakery, a harbor «*op anu two I
small buildings adjoining belo. e ’ll
could be •xttngu1*h*d. All the build-1
Ings were insured
While playing with bls two children !
B. F Smith, who lives near Blackburn. •
Ok., dropped dead Mr. Smith had |
beeti a sufferer from stomach trouble,
but his affliction was not regarded aa.
being of a serious nature.
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Colby A Sons, fur-
niture deale-s, and that in the rear,
occupied by the millinery firm of
Ibison, Keith A Company Thn«r to
the north and south of the Keith
Ldiiding, occupied by Gag'* Bfiilkwi
A Company, and J neodore Ascher A
Company, millinery firms, were dam- I
1 Union Cotton Agent in England.
Houston: F. W. Davis, special rep
resentative to Liverpool for the Farm-
ers’ CutUu Company sd«*iaee that h*
has arrived In England and will at
once begin his work in the interest
df the holding of cotton consigned to
ports in Euroi’e His special duties ,
are to see that none of the cotton i recently tendered the place of field
i secretary for Texas Cknauan Univor-
slty by the trustees of that Institution,
h^a derided to accopt. and will com
mence In his new work about May 1.
« booklet osplauiar *U abmat lit
and the H iparlm npecfaM TristSSSWt.
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Beecefid Lwl Viguidus Invss'en.
Chicag< . HI.: Chicago will become
the National center of Democratic In
tercst n<*xe week National, Nfate and
county campaigns of Burpasalng vigoi
will be Inaugurated. With National
headquarters in the
the
Governor Hoke Smith of Ceorgis
has issued a formal statement an
noun* iuk shat he would not be a can
dldate for the United Btatew Senate
to succeed Senator A. 8. Clay. His
statement aka declared that he would
run for a second term for Governor.
e
storm. A tafge quantity of the oil
was spread over the ground by the
frequent eipl'xlons and ran down on
the waters of the bay. biasing fierce
I
Nev* York Ceuety Repwblkane Set Up
Huqhee Btai dard.
New York. Jan. 30.—Gov. Chaa. E.
! Hughes was strong]j indorse! for the
1 Republican nomination for We Presr '
1 doner and the administration of Pres- I
Idcnt Roosevelt wav commanded iu a !
resolution iinanimoualy adopted by the
Republican County
| meeting last night.
Third Disastrous Blaze There Within fuj-tber favored an Instructed
I Three Daye. Much Property
Threatened.
» Cspialn . „,w, ----------------
old. owned | did not have an animal showing traces |
evtensive ranch proper ee along the ' --»•- —*-• — -
Dracos River.
Two con st nn-Hou (tains hate
sum nd work on the Frisco at Sapuina, |
Ok., employing a force of 100 men. i
This line is tne Arst u> cob
structlon work since the flnsnclal flur-
• I put an end to the work.
Setwl for bonkl
I Superlma * *•
AdSrstk,
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feetaree
in Dalia* County.
Fort Wurth has arranged to do-
nate s Isn-acrr tract of land to the
proposed Ffruierw' Vnion cotton fac-
tory.
flute Health Oflcer Brumby an-
nouiKM UMt b. h.« found a dairy | io«nr.n aiiw ObUb. ja City.
S-M M ni.otv <MW. at Anattn which I »•» l’k”'n Ol”" '’j' robber, and lino
In ca«b M4 .lamp, takmi. i.U.w.i,x
j of Wiberetikml.. which, he Mid. wa. ■ | <*«■ w»< «»’- '""W
r<m>»rKaote .bowin, [ sstlrelf
Half a d«e» Polytechnic athlete. | victor >on Salmenn of Moscow
walked from Dallas to the ooileac. a , Huula.!« In New York for the p*'rpoee
dl.tance of about thirty mlla. Mon j atudylna ak,acraper.. He learned
day. the winner making th. trip In | w..lut), of Kaelteh while cotnlna over
air hour, and flft,* lgbt minute., to b, talk InMUgently In Knf
itlrnd he- oM-maaent appotatmewt aa |
a-eiatant po.taaMter at dan Antonio. ,
She haa been .ding la that capacity j
Uace th» death nt Sam yohnaon.
fowf 1. H tfoanell. a well tanri
'Maa aducntor. haa been elected a. |
lipf UWahutna A. aar. M. tvi j
i >«•’ ** o«*i.ee«o. a^; — accrptM
'SUPkHUA
Thg New Syringe g
A «l»WMr, «M
■HMi* of oeif trooUor-Mt A
ai><! <>«orls». troubles. If
you are a •ufforrr fnou
organ»<• ImuUaa, slrvr-
ation, fallUif aa4 «»<•- Mi
T-r-f 'aHty
■ n.tuM not |>e wtlhoLt a '
H1FI R«A With It yaa I
can treat yo«ra»*1 f a* aSU» i '
tally *« aur pSrahla*
and CV«K YOViUXljr
AT HOMK.
At Cuero Judgo Wilson Saturdsy
sentenced John Brown, a nnrro, to
haag on March 13. Brown was con
victed at the June term of court fur
assault.
The Missouri, Kansas and Tuska
depot at Tulsa, Ok., and four loaded !
cars of freight standing on the siu
Ing in the rear of the building, were
completely destroyed by fire Saturday
It is thought that the fire was caused
by defective wiring The lorn will ex
ceed $26,000.
other room and, returning, for the
yoioger, which had been sleeping
overcome by
Rev. John W. Venable, fcr many
years pastor of Grace Episcopal
church at Hopklnsvll’a, Ky. for the ;
past forty years sovereign grand
chaplain of the Odd Fellows in the
United Stalos, died Wednesday mo n-
Ing.
Charging her son with breach of
contract for her support during ths
remaining years of her life, after she
| had deeded 160 acres of land to b!m.
Mrs. Nancy Blair, aged seventy-four
years, of Jones City. Ok., has flhd suit
1 loss Is estimated at between fiiu.vw lor Izeue umma the Bnn.
Rev Ira Landrlth, piomtaunt in the
Presbyterian Church, was stricken
with appendicitis while en route from
Nashville to BL Louie, and was hurried
haHc to his home, whore he Is criti-
cally 111.
moi Buirii<iu Tsbaficc Barns.
Adairsville, Ky.: Night riders burn-
ed two large bams on the farm of
, Jesse Burr, one mile west of here
| Tuesday midnight The barns coo-
1 tained a small lot of tobacco oeiuua-
' Ing to Pres Btrkkiand Cropper Burr
I was not a member of the Dark To-
, bacco Growers Protective Association,
i It Is estimated th we were between
Vlbn ISSUUDV.I .
in the Annex. State
headquarters In tY.e Sherman
county headquarters occupying two
flaors at 91 Clark Street, there will
be mure Democratic activity than the
city has known in more than a dec
ade
I memory of the late King and (’raws
, Prince of Portugal.
hills, scantily clad, in a heavy rain- jle desire his friends <o divide ,
Mtnrwn a s«mm »»r toil jnjerfB* |n aUy B(a(e which had a | stalled in Oklahoma were put on by
cundldte of its own, and that he i the P.ook Island out of Shawnee last I
would “ greatly depreciate a contest 1 seek. A number more are
which imperils Republican victory iu j <-quipped at the local sho<>s.
New York In November.
Committee at a
The resolution
dele
| ration to the Chicago convention from
this state for Governor Hughes which
Chaa. Davis, Br., Dead.
Ki FW>. CbJuUs Daviw-e--.
Tuesday morning Captain Davis was
formerly Mayor of El Paso, at one [
time Grand Commander of Knights
Templars of Texas Colonel on the
staff of Governor <Now Senator)
Charles Celbetffli. ooDertnr of me-
toms at the local po<. and held many
public poetth'li*
Davis, who was slxtv year-
Shot for a Burglar.
Dallas. Mistaking bls father In
law for a burglar A. Burr shot and sl-
^moat Instantly killed William Connor
about 2 30 o'clock Wednesday mom
ing at 147 Payne Street. Mr. Con-
nor, who was about elxty years <»f aee
had gotten up and was moving about
the room. Mr Burr nnee w<th
a largo eallbvi revolver The ball an ;
tered over the right eye and per*
traced the brain.
SyruplFigs-^El ixir*fS«vH
Friday afternoon about 2 o'clock W. * California
P. Green, an old Confederate soldier, FlO SyUUP to. AlfLY
. SOLD RVAIL LEAD!NC rWtlfZJtn
Cflwaaeooly, re^eter pr.ee 504^Mettle
While attempting to dislodge a rab-;
I Mt from a brush pile wi n the butt
i of a shotgun, the gun was diecharged,'
Instantly killing Hoy Wampner, the I
thirteen year-old sou of a farmer living i
sear Shafter, Ok.
■tore at Cresson Burned.
Cresson: Wednesday morning flr«
/Vestmved the store building and stock
of Wolfe A Anderson, with the
Knights of Pythias lodge room ta the ' and |150,o00
second story. Ixmm» to Wolfe A An-
derson about 33,500, with 31,600 in-
■urunes, Knights of Pythias lodge
aud buildina. 31,300. with J7t>0 feeur
a nee. The fire was discovered be-
tween the ceiling and roof, and ie sup-
posed to have been from a defecUve
flue.
dNcago III.: The third disastrous :
Are in the business district of the city
in as many days caused a Iobs last
night estimated at more than 31,000,
000, and the almost complete
tlon of the building at No U’l
To Reais* Prohibition Wave.
New York: >»n organlred move
mo nt against the wave of prohibition
which la spi ending over the country
U now taking shape In New lorn.
Rftaers and brewers and dealers in
brewers* supplies are Behind the move-
ment, and are organising aawKis
tiuuM IhWghWrt the '-’entry whlrh
• /; it *-*!M*<^ -----
The organisation tn New York is Prlauipai
known as the MaMmacturws rsra 1 »wg? a* a
DwAlsrn’ Club Of Grentei New Yc II | the position.
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hMBHHBB
H. G Williams haa Instituted suit '
Against the Gnlf and Interstate Rail
was Cosipany fut dufuMtw to c
shipment ut cattle from lAintmie to |
Calvert, which were delayed la trac
The pottofllce safe at Mustang, a
small town on the Frisco Railroad,
tourleun mii«
Two Die in Firs.
McAlester, Ok.; Howard Ratliff and
his young child were nurned to death
I In a fire which totally destroyed their
hoc'.a at Hartshorne Tuesday night.
When th« flames awoke the father he
1 esc ted four children sleeping in an-
building .djomlui on th. wutb. occu- wMrh h(|r1
pted by John A. Colby * Son. for- <Mfc hlm wa<
: flames and probably never reached
. the child, as his body was found just
< inside the guoi tud that of Lhu child
I on the bed. Both were burned lo a
. crisp. Thu mm>Ua€.~ and two other
children were awny from home
Effective Saturday, the El Paso and ,
flout!', western Railway declared a re-
duction of 10 cents per hour for la- .
Knrz-r® ewaelrwed 1J1 the !'_**••> <if i
Several( men have quit. ,
Alex Alexander, grand tiler of the
grand lodge of Masons of Texas, died
flaturday. He gave op a good mer-
cantile business to serve in the Con-
federate Army, which he did with dis-1
Unction.
Habituol v
Taisiipoiion
ilav kopcrmanevJly overcome In nrrprv
of the onp truly Jyene|Ki«il lueli.e
which enables one to^orm >e.Jar
Kotxtl, laity So tkai aMMtaniv k> M.
lure may be gradually d>sjxm«e<l wJh
when ao loaf'ei needed as the best 4
remedies, t4ien reoutnul. are to
e ’ . •'»*<•»-
d Liu turns, J>U> must depend ulti-
■raWy upon proper nounAment,
proper effort«,ond r^ht Iwwf ^euerUfy.
Th. Pennsylvania Hallway com- logel Us oenepeuU effects, uinoy*
pauy's summer freight houae at*Ck vc tup trie £c*<u<nC
land, Ohio, and abou; twenty freight
cars. were burned late Sunday
loss amounts to shout >75,000.
Aunt Hester—Did *oo play kissing
games at the party?
Emerson Hl»hhed—Well, they par*
tlclpated in ueculatory pea times,
which I consider a ret her uninterest-
ing and juvenile diversion.
Ban Luis Obispo. Cal.. Jan %•*«— ‘
Fire which started in an oil tank
belonging lo the Union OU Com pan >
al Puri Hartford burned all ftanday
night and until late yesterday after t|jft resolution
ntin, consuming wtih their contents I |n t<> have
the tank car which was first set on _
tire and three others belonging to ■ resolutions instructing
the Standard Oil Company. No oth —
er damage was done, although It was
thought at one time that nothing ' _ _ __
I sideration at two prevous meetings of I
belonging to workmen around the oil
j after warm debates.
j the eommlttee on these occMton. was | No, ,By as , mark'"f to the
, productive of much feeing jnmhg
, committeemen and Secretary Parsons
tUa Naw York letter carriers had
their aalartoa reduced »1W par
| for r*'-'*for Chtteuwa aod New
tLCa praartte.
TUa Htffit C iPfT H»r i.
moving to aeeorv a tedrral Cuoii ba
! Orr-avllle.
tnn.le man .hen found uucouacl^m
<m the ground below v ['
■•amford'a eighth anniversary wul.
be celebi .tad on February 11 and It!
will be an occasion for an IrcnV'tise
■atberiac Pmdent Duncan ha. ten
dared the Stamford Collettate InaU-
tate for tbl. .vent
: J. T Ha«en« et al. Ta. the Policy I
lury ot Caddo Pu.-lah la the ety'.* ct.
| a law.ul* hntltutud la a. effort to j
I I*** mu asMe IM trrvmuiu'n viva
I ftrnt nt Jtmtiry U. when the pn**P
j MMlote .TO la Shreveport. La by a
| major“y et aevoacy-twn.
A gas explosion In the home of
Cn«h<«»r Rnltwrlwm of the National !
Bark of Keifer Ok., started a Are i
which coniumed the RM»ertson home I
and the residence of W. Bostick, ad
joining.
The Bryan County State Bank of1
Caddo. Ok„ opened Its doors to the |
public Saturday morning This is the I
flr«l Lank organtafcd 'indcr the State |
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Hill, Tom W. Rains County Leader. (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1908, newspaper, February 7, 1908; Emory, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1322400/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rains County Library.