Weekly Visitor. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, September 8, 1899 Page: 5 of 8
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Cleburne’s Military Companies.
Cleburne, Texas, September 4.—Cle-
burne now has two military companies
instead of one. The one under the di-
rection of Captain Duncan has its full
quota. The second company already
has thirty-five men, and the other five
will be secured before tomorrow night.
C. C. Marshall was elected captain; J.
C. Bridges, first lieutenant, and N. F.
Higgins, second lieutenant. Muster
rolls have been ordered from Adjutant
General Scurry, and when they arrive
the organization will be completed.
Both companies will have the benefit
of the battalion drill under Colonel J.
A. Styron.
Wharton’s New Road Law.
Wharton, Texas, September 4.—The
special road law, passed at the last ses-
sion of the legislature for Wharton
county, went into effect last week.
One of the leading clauses of the bill
provides that c»ach commissioner be-
comes road superintendent for his pre-
cinct and has entire control over all
property and utensils for working the
road. A number of other wise previs-
ions are included in the bill. This in-
sures to the county a perfect system of
roads as the present administration
has resolved to make Wharton coun-
ty’s roads the finest in the coast couur
try.
Brain concussion
also produced by the shock and
Young Milton made a successful
jump and escaped with a slight sprain
of one ankle. The horse is a very fiery
-animal and has been implicated in sev-
eral runaways lately. Just what
scared him is not known, but it is
thought it was a bicycle. Dr. Cramar
has never regained consciousness, and
fears are entertained that he never
will. The sad accident has cast a
gloom all over the city, as the injured
gentleman is very popular and well
liked.
Stone Fort Rifles.
Nacogdoches, Texas, September 4.—
The Stone Fort rifles, officered by Cap-
tain R. T. Shindler, First Lieutenant
McNiel Chapman, Second Lieutenant
C. I. Shindler, has fifty-seven members
enrolled. They have received their
new guns—Springfield rifles; have
forty new uniforms with full equip-
ments in transit, expected daily, and
are drilling every night, preparatory,
if satisfactory arrangements can be
made, to going to New York to parti-
cipate in the Dewey reception. The of-
ficers and members of this company
belonged to the Second Texas regi-
ment, company B, and were at Mobile,
Ala., Miami and Jacksonville, Fla.,
during the Spanish-American war.
They are "well up in military tactics
and will do themselves honor if they
go on the contemplated trip.
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SoHSttf Confederates.
Waco, Texa& ..’“September 4.—The
following ordeJfAvas issued today:
To the Sons of Confederate Soldiers,
West of the Mississippi:
The sons and grandsons of Confed-
erate soldiers of all the States and Ter-
ritories west of the Mississippi river
are hereby requested to be present at
the reunion of Confederates and Sons
and Daughters of Confederates, to be
held in the auditorium of the State
Fair Grounds at Dallas, Texas, on Oc-
tober 4, 1899.
The captain of every camp is here-
by ordered to appoint a sponsor, who
must be a daughter or granddaughter
of a Confederate soldier, and urge her
to select four maids of honor to ac-
company her to the reunion.
It is hereby earnestly requested that
every town and community in the
West which has not an organized
camp will meet at once to organize by
electing a captain, first and second
lieutenant, adjutant, quartermaster,
chaplain and surgeon and proceed to
appoint sponsors and urge them to se-
lect four maids of honor each and be
with us at Dallas.
The object of the organization is
purely benevolent and not to perpet-
uate bitter sectional feeling, as has
been charged by some, and to see that
history does not overlook the chivalry
of our fathers nor stigmatize them as
traitors. Brant H. Kirk,
Lieutenant General Commanding,
Felix D. Robertson,
Adjutant and Brigadier General.
Hurt in a Runaway.
Hillsboro, Texas, September 4.—A
distressing and painful accident oc-
curred Sunday morning on Franklin
street. Dr. Cramar and Howard Mil-
ton were driving along leisurely in
their buggy, when suddenly the horse
took fright and threw the doctor out,
his head striking violently on the
ground, crushing one shoulder joint,
breaking and dislocating his collar
bone and fracturing the skull just
above the left eye.
was
fall.
the pumps.
It is Almost a Case of Panic — An Exodus
Has Taken Place and Half the Houses
Are Empty—Tension Is At a Snapping
Point—Other News Notes.
New Castle, September 4.—The Sun-
day train from Johannesburg for Dur-
ban. Natol. -was crowded with passen-
gers from Johannesburg whom the war
scare has startled. The train was
searched by Transvaal detectives dur-
ing its passage through the Transvaal.
BUSINESS AT JOHANNESBURG
PARALIZED AND FOOD RISING.
Meeting of American Mayors.
New York, September 4.—The pro-
gramme of the coming convention of
the League of American Munilipali-
ties at Syracuse, September 10-22, con-
tains twenty-one papers, covering all
of the important municipal questions
of the day. Papers on the municipal
ownership question will be presented
by Mayors Johnston of Denver, Tafel
of ’Cincinnati and Robinson of Colo-
rado Springs in the affirmative, and
Dean Robert Porter of New York and
M. A. Getmunder of Columbus in the
negative.
The garbage question is to be dealt
with in papers by Mayor Williams of
Memphis and Dr. Woodward, health
officer of Washington, D. C.
The special assessment system will
be the subject of papers by Mayor
Johnston of Fargo, N. D., and Mayor
Weekley of Florence, Ala., and a pa-
per will be read by Mayor Flower of
New Orleans on drainage, sewerage
and matters relating thereto.
These discussions will be participated
in by Mayors Maybury of Detroit.
Guy of Minneapolis, Phelan of San
Francisco, Brashear of Houston, Tag-
gart of Indianapolis. Kirschner, of St.
Joseph, Smythe of Charleston and
Woodward of Atlanta.
A feature of the convention will
be the question box, into which all
delegates will be asked to deposit writ-
ten inquiries pertaining to any ques-
tion on which they desire special in-
formation.
McKinney Water Famine.
McKinney, Texas, September 4.—Mc-
Kinney is confronted with a serious
water famine. For several years the
town has been supplied by an artesian
well on the public square, which, from
some unknown cause, has just failed.
The elaborate new system, with a deep-
er well off the public square has just
been completed and was, so it was
thought, practically ready to turn over
to the city by the contractors when the
supply at the old well failed. At this
critical juncture, however, instead of
an abundance of clear water, as at
first gotten at the trial test, heaps of
black sand are being drawn out by
A called session of the
city council was held last night to
consider the situation, at which it was
decided to draw the casing of the well
on the square, in order to determine
whether the defect is in the casing or
the exhaustion of the water flow.
An American Killed.
Manila, September 4.—Five men of
Colonel Bell’s regiment Saturday en-
countered an insurgent outpost of Po-
race, and in the fight which ensued
one American was killed and another
wounded. The remainder drove the
rebels from their position and cap-
tured a bull cart in which to remove
the injured
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A GLOOMYOUTLOOK
London, September 4.—The Johan-
nesburg correspondent of the Daily
Mail, who prints a gloomy and pitia-
ble picture of the condition of things
there, says: “It is almost a case of
absolute exodus and panic. Business
is paralyzed, the prices of food stuffs
are rapidly rising, half the houses are
empty and the others are tenanted by
people who do not pay rent, the land-
lords being glad enough to have them
as occupants in order to insure some
sort of protection to the property.
“The tension has reached the snap-
ping point. Bankruptcy and starva-
tion are staring people in the face.
Another fortnight of suspense will re-
sult in a complete commercial collapse.
The banks are thronged with people
anxious to withdraw their gold. The
number of warrants issued for arrest
is out of all proportion and people are
leaving as fast as they can get away.
“It is believed that the mediation of
Mr. Fischer, the representative of the
Orange Free State, has been felt.”
Johannesburg, September 4.—The
condition of the public mind here is
decidedly panicky.
Today detectives searched the Sim-
merjack mine for arms, but found
none.
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THE COTTON CROP.
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The
MR. MARTIN'S OPINION THAT IT
WILL BE SHORT.
NEW YORK.—John Y. McCane, the
famous political boss, is dying of acute
dyspepsia.
Fountain Murder Case Continued.
El Paso, Texas, September 5.—Oliver
x. Lee and James Gilliland, defendants
n the Fountain murder trial, have re-
vived notice from Judge Parker at
i-.ilver City, N. M., that the two cases
against them have been continued for
the term and both left for their homes
near Alamo-Gordo, N. M., today.
After an Investigation of Prevailing Con-
ditions-Thinks the Whole State Will
Show a Falling 03 of 25 Per Cent from
the Crop of Last Year.
Fever Amoiur the II X can o fliers.
Oaxaca, Mexico, September 5.—A de-
tachment of troops en route from
Juchitan to this city has been stopped
and put in quarantine on a hacienda,
it being suspected that there are in-
cipient cases of yellow fever among
the soldiers. A dispatch from the city
of Tehuantepec is to the effect that
almost every foreigner arriving there
lias been taken down with the disease,
tie mortality being great,
domic lias most notably
there.
INDEPENDENCE, KAN.—Clem and
Marcus Darnell, the outlaws who killed
Marshal Wilson and wounded Sheriff
Misler at Sedan last week, have been
captured.
Dewey Arrived at Gibraltar.
Gibraltar, September 5.—The Unitel
States cruiser Olympia, with Admiral
Dewey on board, which arrived yes-
terday' morning, fired the usual salute
in honor of the garrison and the com-
pliment was returned by the batteries
on shore and the British battleship De-
vastation.
Ainiral Dewey is slightly indisposed
at present and intends to live ashore
during Ins stay here.
The Olympia is expected to sail Sep-
tember 11. direct for New oYrk.
crew of the warship are all well.
Oyster Season Under Way.
Corpus Christi. Texas. September 5.—
The oyster season is now in full blast
and hundreds of Mexican gatherers can
now be seen daily about daylight wend-
ing their way toward the Reef, where
the luscious bivalves are to be found
in a mndance. On account of the re-
ent rise in the Neuces river the oy-
■tera are in poorer condition this year
lias in many seasons past and will
to! ibly remain so until cold weather
cts n.
Negroes Want Recognition.
Havana, September 5.—La Dacha
yesterday published an item from the
eastern part of the island asserting
ihqt the colored population intends to
be heard in the event of the independ-
ence of Cuba, as colored leaders claim
that their race did most of the fighting
and has been unfairly’ treated.
In the country7 districts of Puerto
Principe and Santiago de Cuba colored
clubs have been formed to promote the
thi oryr that “to the victors belong the
spoils” and a-slate lias been prepared
with Gualberto Gomez, a mulatto, as
president; Demeterio Castillo, a white
man, as vice president, and Quintan
Bandera, a black, as commander iu
chief of the army.
The epi-
diminished
This is the first outbreak of
the fever in this part of the republic
for fifteen years, but it is expected
that with the approach of cooler
weatLer the disease will utterly dis-
appear. The authorities have taken
extraordinary measures to prevent its
sp read.
Bo !’> T > lie eld
London, September 5.—The .Johannes-
burg correspondent of the Standard
say s: “I learn from an official who has
been earnestly striving for peace that
the matter is now hopeless. The Boers
will probably' declare war at forty-
eight hours’ notice and will try to raise
troops on the borders. Many’ will join
the Transvaal army.
“The Boers have full confidence in
their magazine rifle and their skill in
marknianship. State Attorney’ Smuts
is chief of the war party. Thirty
thousand people in t’he Transvaal and
20,000 men in the Orange Free State
will take the field.”
The Times prints a letter from Pre-
toria asking fcr funds to relieve the
terrible distress caused by’ the pro-
tracted tension and the fears of war.
A dispatch to the Mail from Delagoa
Bay’ says the refugees from Barbes ton
declare they were warned to leave, as
the Boers intended to cordon the dis-
tricts. There are numerous other dis-
patches giving rumors as to the war
plans and operations, the probable at-
titude of the natives and possible de-
velopments. .
San Antonio, Texas, September 5.—
General Freight and Passenger Agent
Martin of the San Antonio and Aran-
sas Pass railroad returned yesterday
from a trip over his line. He went to
investigate the cotton crop through
those sections penetrated by the Aran-
sas Pass and his work was very vhoi-
ough and systematic. His prophecy
is that the cotton crop in the country
he visited during the past week will
be at least 15 per cent short of 'that
raised last year. Mr. Martin says,
however, that business conditions are
bright, caused by the fact that cotton
is higher than last year.
Asked for his opinion on the cotton
crop outlook Mr. Martin said: “After
spending a week along the line doing
nothing but interviewing the local
agents, local merchants and cotton
buyers retarding future prospects
based on present conditions, I am sat-
isfied that the cotton crop along the
route of the San Antonio and Aransas
Pass will not be more than S5 per cent
of last season’s, although the South-
west Texas territory generally’ has the
best crop in the state. My estimate
is that tlie cotton crop of Texas will
be, as a whole, 25 per cent short of
that of last year, caused by the long
drouth.
“The business conditions of these in-
terior points, however, are very good,
notwithstanding the decrease in the
production of cotton, as the farmers
are getting about $5 per bale more
than last year.
“We anticipate a very short ship-
ping season from the large receipts rt
our shipping points thus far. Unles s
the far ners hold back from this time
on the crop will be practically moved
by' October 31, while in ordinary years
tiie movement extends to December 1.
“I struck nice showers at most all
points on the line during the week, but
do no; anticipate that the recent ra ns
will benefit the cotton crop a particle,
excepting on that portion of the line
south of Kenedy’ where the soil is light
and sandy. In that section the show-
ers may help to make a top crop. Still,
the rains will be beneficial in other di-
rections.”
Gi'L.'ral '-trike Is on.
London. September 5—The general
strike of seamen and steamer firemen
which has been threatened for some
; time was declared today, the ship own-
ers refusing to accept the invitation of
the seamen and firemen unions for a
conference in regard to the fixing of
rates for seamen and sailors on steam-
ers at 6 pounds and for sailors on ves-
sels at 4 pounds monthly, a slight ad-
vance in the average wages now paid
at the various British ports.
Reports as to the effect and thoroug'h-
ness of the movement have not yet
been received except from South
Shields, w'here it is stated 2000 men
have gone out.
Many meetings have been held in the
vicinity' of the London docks. the
speakers expressing the determination
of the men to remain idle until their
demands have been granted. But traf-
fic at this port has not yet been affect-
ed. It is not likely the strike will be
completely organized tor several days
and until t’nen its extent wili not be
known or its results keenly felt. The
maiiiiusio of the union ordering the
strike includes all the ports in the
United Kingdom.
Corn Shelter al Grocshfck
Groesbeck, Texas, September 5.—iS.
S. Walker & Sons are now shelling
corn, having completed their elevator.
The Houston and Texas Central Rail-
road company has built a switch to
their plant for their exclusive use in
loading cars. This has been a very
much needed enterprise and great
good will result to Groesbeeck and sur-
rounding country in thus opening up
an outlet for all surplus grain.
Younjr Lady Killed.
Cameron, Texas. September 5.—Miss
Mattie Sampson, daughter of Mr. T. G.
Sampson, one of Cameron’s prosperous
citizens, lost her life by a pistol shot
through her head about 10:30 this
morning.
Dr. M. K. Lott was summoned to the
scene and a correspondent learned from
Dr. Lott the following circumstances:
There was no one at home except
Miss Mattie and her mother. Miss
Mattie had been busy all morning pre-
paring for some company and was
dressing to receive them; she went into
her brother’s room to get a tie; her
brother's pistol was lying on the dress-
er and had been there for some time;
how the accident occurred no one
knows, as she was alone in the room.
The ball entered her forehead and
death was instantaneous.
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Gartrell, L. J. Weekly Visitor. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, September 8, 1899, newspaper, September 8, 1899; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1329957/m1/5/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.