The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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Sensational Arroate.
merger of the Mexican Central and
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Cigar Factories. Rertaur.nta, Saloon.,
Boarding House, and 200 Resi-
dence. Burn.d.
The Pullman Patace Car Company
has decided to cut out liquors from
the buffet supplies, and already the
new rule la in force on many roads.
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Ingenious Bank Swindle.
Paris, France: The Paris police are
investigating a most ingenious bank
swindle. >
obtained a letter of credit from a large
banking house there, and made excel-
lent duplicates by means of photo-
graphs, which he forwarded to accom-
plices in London, Parte, Rome, Vienna,
Marseilles, Genoa, Hamburg and Mu-
nich, who cashed them simultaneously,
netting 1100,000.
In the Dark and Bloody Ground.
Hopkinsville, Ky.: Night riders set
fire to the residence of Broussais
Gregory, one mile west of Hopkins-
Pat Garrett Die. In Mfr Bocta
HI Paso: Pat garrett, famous over
attorney
u Heany »*- *
NERAL WELL* LINE ’
TO TRINIDAD.
NOCONA, - .
of his presence.
Mississippi After Lumber Trust
Jackson, Miss.: Chancellor Garland
Lyell has rendered a decree declar-
ing that the Mississippi and Louisi-
ana Retail Lumber Dealers* Associa-
tion is a trust and combine, and or-
ders that the said organisation be
ousted from business in Mississippi.
The association has been operating
under what is known as the ‘'Missis-
sippi plan,** which' provides for the
boycotting of wholesalers or manufac-
turers who sell direct to consumers.
WANTS COLORADO TRAFFIC "Z and
SSLS
Catfish, says a
scream before daylight Thursday
morning. He rushed over in time to
catch Scott emerging from the house.
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The marquis of Anglesey, who has
an Income of 0*00,000 a year, is said to
have decided to marry an American
_ girl. The reason is not given, but It
ibered that even $600,-
not seem very much to
Verdict for $25,000.
Sherman: The largest amount of
damages ever awarded by a Grayson
County Jury in a personal injury dam-
age suit was rendered by the verdict
Of a Jury to the case of Mrs. Ellen Wil-
liams and three minor children against
the Katy for the death of husband and
Santa Fe Construction Continues.
Phoenix, Aris.: It is announced by
Santa Fa officials that President Rip-
ley has rescinded his orders stopping
new railroad construction insofar as
the Arizona and California railroad
is affected. The building of the bridge
across the Colorado River at Parker
will be resumed as well as the con-
struction of the remainder of the line
aeros. the Mojave Desert to its con-
ot deposits in 1
... and he took occ*-4™* *
ly criticise the present bankli
eds.
Declairing that the trouble
country during the recent <
exigency was not caused by
of money, but by the difficulty
Plans * ow Prsqtlcalty Completed to
Extend Mineral Well. Lin. at
Once.
Chicago, nt,Feb. 28.-—Authoritative tag it-in circulation, Mr.
announcement has been made that
while the financial depression has
caused delay in the carrying out of
the Gould plans for building an exten-
sion of the Weatherford, Mineral Well,
and Northwestern division of the sys-
tem from Mineral .Wells, Texas, north-
west to a connection with the Denver
and Rio Grande at Trinidad, Colo., the
projdbt by no means has been aban-
doned. Preliminary work In connec-
tion with the survey is in progress.
More than 400 miles of the route has
been decided on. The extension Is
to be almost an air line, of lower grade
than the Fort Worth and Denver or
the Colorado and Southern, both of
which it will parallel tor a consider-
able portion of the distance.
The distance from Mineral Wells to
Trinidad is about 700 miles. This at
present is the largest railroad enter-
prise on hand in the Southwest
Committee May Reconvene.
Dallas: From an authoritative
source comes the announcement that
the indications are that the Democrat-
ic State Executive Committee would
be reconvened within the next two
weeks. The purpose of the meeting,
if held, it was stated, would Ije to con-
sider the question of ordering a spe-
cial State primary Section to select
four delegates-at-Iarge to the National
Democratic Convention at Denyer,
Colo. Efforts are being made to hate
the members of the State Committee
a.k Chairman Carden to call the com-
mittee together, so that he may have
some tangible reason for issuing a
formal call, and it is considered prob-
able that such a call will be issued
within the next few days.
- Broken Flange Csum. Wreck.
Longview: A serious freight wreck
occurred Just inside the city limits.
Seven cars were'off and five badly
smashed; two cars containing, con-
taining fifty deed cattle and a fifty-
foot bridge are broken up and will
divert traffic for a couple of days. The
train was known as the Fast Denver,
composed of fresh meat and livestock
for New Orleans. A broken flange
caused the wreck.
Three Are Kilted; Four Hurt.
Evelyn, Ky.: Three open were killed
and • fourth mortally wounded in a
battle with revolvers following a quar-
rel tn the lumber camp of Congleton
and Williams Brothers, near here.
John Hamilton. James Bowtea. Rich-
ard Spicer and George Frasier had
been working with about seventy oth-
er men hauling lumber and staves. The
children of Bowles and Frasier had
fallen out with those of Spicer and
Hamilton.
Hous. Breaker Ha. Short Shrift Down
at Conroe.
Houston: "A warning to negroes
found prowling in white folks’ houses.”
This placard was tied to the feet of
a negro, Charley Scott, vhose dead
body was found swinging .to a big elm
tree at Conroe Friday morning. The
negro, who was eighteen years of age,,
and regarded by many as feeble-mind-
ed, was quietly lynched Friday night
by unknown parties. No noise was
made, and nothing was known of the
lynching save by those taking part
until the morning aun revealed the
gruesome sight of bis dead body dan-
gling and waving pendulum fashion
in the breeze.
A neighbor named Willett heard
Mrs. Powell Alley, the wife of a lead-
ing white citizen, who was known by
A. and M. College Rm
College Station: A
i of the Oom:
I were 5<a cadets
the A. and M. College
trunks were put off
cm are. were made, maki
records, rollment 2SM. More st»
Td* <wta Mir.
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Davidson I. Sustained. - J
Austin: The Supreme Court has re-.9
fused the application for a writ or er-
ror of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company
in both the receivership and ouster
suits of the defendant company, thus
ending the litigation of the Statd
against this corporation so far as thHifc
State courts are concerned. This is 4
considered a great victory for Attor- I
ney Gen?ral Davidson and his assist- ]
ants.
St Louis, Mo.: Judge H. S. Priest,
attorney in St. Louis for the Watern
Pierce Oil Company, says that the ac-
tion of the State Supreme Court of
Texas in denying the writ of error to
the Waters-Pierce Oil Company in the
ouster and receivership suits against ■
it merely meant that the case was '
ended in Texas and would now-go to
the United States Supreme Court Th.
company will have fifteen *days in
which to file a petition, and, accord- '
ing to Judge Priest this will be doii?#
An Individual in New York road to the appointment of a receiver^
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President D. J. Neill of the Farmers*
Union has so far recovered from his
recent illness that he has decided not ;
to take his intended vacation, and an- J
nounceg that in a few days he will 1
begin a tour of the State which will
last until August.
T. J. Robertson Found Guilty. 1
Galveston: After Seventeen hours* |
deliberation a jury ta the Criminal I
District Court Wednesday morning 1
brought in a verdict of guilty to the 1
case of T. J. Robertson charged with I
killing W. T. Owta on August 18.1
1M7, and assessed punishment at
teen yoars* confinement ta the Stat#H
father. The judgment aggregates $25.- penitentiary. Notice of appeal wanl
immediately given, and It is under-
stood that a motion for a new trial ]
will be filed Friday. The
trial Monday morning.
For Immense Harbor.
Washington, Feb 29—Mr. Gregg
has introduced a resolution which
looks to the enlargement and deepen-
ing of Galveston harbor until it shall
become one of the greatest harbors the negro to be away from home,
of the country. Its purpose is to uni-
fy all the navigation interest of Gal-
veston bay and make one grand proj-
ect of one large and two small inter-
ests. Instead of treating Galveston
channel, Bolivar channel and Texas
City channel as Independent and rival
enterprises, .the resolution would
merge them into one great engineer
ing project.
To Establish Cotton Grades.
Wash tagton: The agricultural ap-
propriation bill which will be report-
ed in a week or two, has a provision
directing the fixing of a standard of
cotton classification, fa accordance
with a bill Introduced by Mr. Burie-
Sun of Texas. The provision calls
for the mnployment of three expert
classifiers. They are to fix a standard
of middling cotton, and, using this as
a baste, fix a standard tor tour grades
above and four below middling.
•r thaa w« Inspire.
Tim. to th. glorious curs tor all
1 ■■ headache* and heartaches.
«. ■*n<1 Bo* tb* IMD wlK> B0** ****"
tarty to th. gymnasium can show his
muscular ability by shoveling snow.
Catfish, New Jersey man.
prefer a dark place at night. Evident-
ly even catfish have to steep some-
umea •
Boambod) ha« figured it out that
congress costs the country $1.50 a
minute. But look at the oratory we
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In China girls are not permitted to
|to to school after they are 15 years of
age- That must be a poor country
for sororities.
All China asks Is another year or
two before gasing across the Yellow
sea and suggesting that the neighbors
try it again.
smew .....g--.tr.-ru
Assertion, by a Chicago physician
that laughter is the best cure for the
grippe are unrMMnable. A man who
- can laugh hasn't the grippe.
■E=ss®as.na-~-ss
Every now and then some traveler
sleeks in such high term, of Rai.uli
that Moroccan, who are not brigands
seem to suffer by comparison.
.A Clncinnati^girl. captured* a masher
'< and locked him up until a policeman
v oama Leap year method, appear to
be rather violent contrariwise.
The Smoky city \hief who left gold
J*w*te untouched to steal the pic-
ture of a pretty girfmu.t have been
a Pittsburg millionaire in disguise.
According to an ArkanM. minister
hell tea large city. This will be pleasant
news to the grafters, who msy be ex-
pected to fee) completely at home.
Dalny was a model city. This may
be why it keeps modestly out of print
even when a RuMlan writes another
article on the .lege of Port Arthur.
A poet has written a sonnet to Tet-
rasini. He says she Is a "sweet
cousin to the nightingale.” We hope
this doesn’t mean that she is a whip-
poorwill. » ' • -
Diamonds are falling in price, but
they are not so vulgarly low that the
ladies who live at the hotels Jeel
I. & G. N. In Hands of Receiver.
Dallas: Acting on a bill filed in be-
half of the Mercantile Trust Company
of New York, at Fort Worth, Judge A.
P. McCormick, United States Circuit
Judge for the Fifth District-, has ap-
pointed Judge T. J. Freeman receiver
for the Internatlohal and Great North-
ern Railroad, the bill as filed alleg- ■
ing default In payment of interest on
certain bonds, and the railroad’s taw- I
yer, Judge N. A. Stedman, filing ap- 1
pearaoee for the company and there ||
being also filed the consent of the In- I
ternational and Great Northern Rail- I
AREA OF FORTV-ROUR
BURNED.
The negro equid give no explanation vlIle> and flred gunB tato bedroom
in which Mr. Gregory and his wife and
-baby were sleeping. Mrs. Gregory was
’shot at as she telephoned into town,
but not wounded. The residence was
burned; A detail of militia under
guard here hastened to the scene, but
the night riders bad disappeared.
0M, apportioned as follows: Mp. Wil-
■1 ... , Items, 110,Odd: eldest daughter, |40W;
nectlon with the Santa Fe near Bag- second daughter, $5000; infant son,
Tampa, Fla., March 2.—The entire
extreme northern .ectlon of this city
was destroyed by fire which broke out
la a boarding houM early yesterday
and raged uninterruptedly for four
hours. The are burned covered fifty-
five acres, or eighty and one-half city
blocks, and 808 buildings were de-
stroyed, with a total loss eitlmated
at 8000,000, and one woman is dead
from excitement.
The burned section included four
targe aad one smaller cigar factories
and numerous restaurants, saloons,
boarding hdb.es and over 200 dwell-
ings occupied by cigar makers. The
factories burned were M. Stachelberg
* Company, loss 8100,000; M. Perea
A Company, loss $50,000; Gonzales,
Fisher A Company, loss $40,000; Es-
ters Gunst & Company, branch of
dtacbelberg, Ims $40,000; Fernandez
A Brother, loss $20,000.
All factories carried large stocks of
tobacco and cigars. TM are swept
by fire embraced- all tKat 'portion of
the city between Twelfth and Michi-
gan Avenues and Sixteenth and Twen-
tieth Streets. It originated in the
boarding house of Antonio Diaz, 1714
Twelfth Avenue, and, fanned by a
strong wind, spread fan-shaped, defy-
ing the efforts of the fire department,
which was crippled by very weak wa-
ter pressure, to check IL
Occupants of over 200 dwelling
Houses, thrown into a panic, rushed
attempting to aave but little of
their belongings.
Fully half of the people rendered
homifieu were out of work, and their
shelter became an immediate prob-
1«B»- > .
St Joseph’s Convent was opened to
them by order of the Jesuit Fathers,
and many found lodging there, while
others were accommodated In homes
throughout the city. Besides these,
thousands of men will be out of work
on account of the burning of the fac-
tories.
bwas 87,000 troea. __ M w _____ __
day near Las Craees tn a dispute over
A .ttftth tease. J. Wayuu BfWel, »
young ranchmaa. has * ‘
the floor of the Houta
fives, former Governor
nell Bradley, Republican candidate
was yesterday eieoted to succeed Sen-
ator James B. McOreary ta the United
States Senate tor a term of *1* years,
beginning March 4, 1009. He received
sixty-four votes, barely enough to win,
and was enabled to gain victory
through the assistance of four anti-
Beckham Democrats, Senators H. C.
McNutt and Albert and Representa-
tive Chris Mueller of Louisville and
Representative E. W. Lillard of Boyle
County.
The balloting for Senator began on
January 15, and ballots were taken
each day thereafter when a quorum
was had. Yesterday's deciding ballot
was the twenty-ninth.
The completion of the first roll coll
showed Bradley, «4; Beckham, 60;
Blackburn, 1; James, 1. Before the
Speaker could announce the result the
Democrats obtained a recapitulation,
and attempted to break quorum by
leaving the ball, but came -back, ac-
companied by Beckham, who author-
ized the withdrawal of bls name, and
released the Democrats from the pri-
mary nomination pledge to him in the
hope that some other Democrat would
be named who could defeat Bradley.
The ballot was finally completed
after the Democrats finished changing
the vote, which was as follows;
Bradley; 65; Beckham, 16; James,
15; McCreary, 10; Mayo, 5; Allen, 2;
Smith. 2; Peak, 2; Newman, 1; Hunq
1; Elliston. 1; Stanley, 1; Blackburn,
1; Cantrill, 1; Ellis, 1; Cammack, 1;
Sullivan, 1; McElroy, 1;
000 a year
a marquis.
A CbioawUa Northwestern engineer
has been on the road for 50 years and
has sever bad a wreck. He is a rar-
ity, but h. serves to show that what
has been considered an impossibility
may. after all. be easy to th. right
kind of man.
msBessssssssesMow
French road* are generally recog-
nised as the beat and most complete
tn the world. The highway, of
France are not good because of any
speetai talent for road-bulldlng but be-
cause of the constant, intelligent su-
iwrrteion of the department having
charge of them.
Per«oua!^*^w~Yofk~who Intend-
to marry were able, until January
to tak. the Important step without
first securing a license from the civil
•uthorttles. in all other state., save
South Oarottna and New Jersey, cltl-
r have had to* secure a permit
York, the largest of the states,
beta slow la adopting thia droir-
rate for the prevention of hasty
that they should leave them off at
breakfast time.
Pigeon toe. betrayed a 9$ Louis
man. long sought by the police. Any
person with such a fatal defect should
make it an early aim In life to toe
the mark of rttfbteouraess.
The advantages oC Denver as a con-
vention city in July are at once dem-
onstrated by the offer of one of the
railroads to deliver a carload of snow
•Mh day at the convention ball.
A man in^CaUtomta^uVoff bis foot
while chopping wood for a kitchen
stove, He will doubtless join the as-
eoeiatton of men who believe that
wives wars made for that sort of la-
alyzed the banking conditions last'
and drew the inference that the ci
originated in the'East and not in
West. . -• . /
He spoke of "loafers’* in New
who live on stock manipulation,
ty-eight per cent of the money in
oYrk was, at the time of the panic,
he declared; loaned on eall or demand
notes, a kind of loan, he said, that ta
only made on stocks, and is not avail-
able for business men.
Saying that the banks had taken a
great deal of credit for the importation
ef gold during the panic, he undertook
to showjhat the $100,000,000 of gold
Imported was sent here upon bills of
lading to pay for wheat and cotton
that had been vent abroad and con-
tended that, therefore, the banks de-
served no credit in that connection.
"Great God!” he exclaimed, “The
panic demonstrated that the big bankJfe
ers are on the lowest level.”
In conclusion he said: “Let us meet
the necessities by protecting deposit
ore, stop the runs on banks and pre-
vent the big -banks in the reserve cit>
les from tying up the funds of local
funds.” •
M«xic«n M.rpw tlgnwd.
City of Mexico: The papers in tba Washington: Ned W. Barton, an as-
Satur- National Unro have be
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Parker, T. W. The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 1908, newspaper, March 5, 1908; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1372499/m1/2/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.