Texas City Times. (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 8, 1909 Page: 4 of 4
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Bay Lumber Co.
CITY HOTEL
JOHN H. SIEBER, Mgr
Under New Management of
25,000 PEOPLE MASSACRED
Scrren Boors, (Dold nos
Up&to^Date Service.
RAILROADS NOT HARD HIT
Brick, Lime, Cement, Roofing Materia
Hotel and Meat Market under •tame management.
TEXAS
TEXAS.
VEX AS CIT^.
ADMIRATION!
UUholesale Grocers
Cotton Jfactors
stablisbed i860
Real Estate, Rentals, Insurance
WOODLIFFS
First-class Companies
Wholesale FHL "Retail Ice
PHIL. SIMON
TAILOR
MERCHANT
A Self-Evident Fact
I Cleaniug and Dressing a specialty
TEXAS
GALVESTON
W. F. KELLY
Tepcas
Galveston
Z. L. White
A. B. Wood
T. L. Cross l Co.
Wood and White
(Incorporated)
Ceras Citv Realty Co*
and
Security Building, Galveston
Che (Mecca
SamTRobson, Proprtetor,
A. J. HENCK
Destrable Cexas Cty TReal Estate.
213 23rd Street, Galveston, Texas
Doni Wait or Delay. Noke is your Chance
Tug
Texas
Texas City,
4 P.M.
W. B. Adams & Co.
Subscribe for the Texas City Times.
Subscribe for the Texas City Times.
Steel Contract for New Building.
Houston, Tex.—The old building for-
Hungry, tired, hot?
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H. R DOLARD & CO. ,
FORWARDING AGENTS
LEAVES GALVESTON DAILY..
SUNDAY EXCEPTED
Attorney at Latu
'Room 200. Security Uldg.
New schedule, providing for double daily service and Sunday service,
will be published May 10th, 1909.
REAL ESTATE, LOAN and RENTAL
AGENT
F. R. Amburn
Contractor & Teamste
Plowing, Scraping, House & Furniture
Moving. General Team Work.
Vejeas City Galveston Ferry-SerVice
LEAVES TEXAS CITY DAILY......12 M.
Real Estate Agents
211 22nd St. Phone 1075
Galveston.
G. A. Infernaise
Contracts made for
jonse ainting.
Paper tbangtng
Sign painting a Specialty
The fact that the business of this bank during the past year has increased
more than 100 per cent is evidence of an increased number of depositors, of
satisfactory service and facilities, that the accomodations extended have fully
met the demands of our patrons and tkat all this is appreciated by them.
With a Reserve of more than 50 per cent, with Deposits of more than
$70,000.00 and with Resources of more than $85,000.00, we will welcome an op-
portunity to serve you, also.
All money carried in safe is fully covered with burglary insurance.
eras Cily State Jank, Keens Cilu, eras.
J. H. Kempner, President, C. D. Gustavus, Cashier, H. B. Moore, Vice-President
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GEO. E. WHITJ^EV^
Ship Chandlers&Grocers
Agents for
PLYMOUTH CORDAGE CO’S ROPE
A. LESCHEN & SON’S WIRE ROPE
Phone 844
2014, 2016, 2018 Strand, Galveston, Tex
WRITE OR CALL ON DR. HEAD
“MISTLETOE”
--***-- TEXAS CITY.TEX.
We attend to the re-consignment and billing out of goods shipped via
the Texas City Steamship Company., to and from New York; in
our care to this point, securing railroad bills of lading, giving instructions as to
shipments and attending to other matters necessary to secure good services in
movement of goods via this route. We will be glad for you to have all ship-
ments made in our care mailing us advices.
©eneral Hlerrhandise
EVERYTHING FRESH & FIRST CLASS
Our merchandise supply consists of the various lines which appeal to all close
buyers of first class goods.
Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Men’s Douglas fine and working shoes, Women's and
children’s Radcliff shoes, Groceries, provisions, Feed stuffs, crockery,
glassware and hardware.—Our motto is
HONEST AND FAIR TREATMENT TO ALL
'Place your orders now!
Man Killed at Laredo.
Laredo: Tuesday in front of the
Sheriff’s office, Will T. Hill, ex-sheriff
of La Salle County, met Jim Pierce
Wright, and fired five shots at him, all
taking effect, killing Wright almost in-
stantly.
Information gladly furnished on
these subjects to all callers at this
office.
Capt. Getzendaner Dead.
Waxahachie: Capt. W. H. Getzen-
daner, a pioneer of Waxahachie, died
Monday morning at his home on West
Franklin street of an acute attack of
asthma.
FOR INFORMATION ON
Groom 65; Bride 18.
Battle Creek, Mich.: Samuel Eber-
ly Gross, formerly of Chicago, was
married here Monday to Miss Ruby
Louise Haughey. The groom is 65
years of age and the bride 18.
To Seek Oil in Lamar.
Pars: Prominent oil men from Mus-
kogee, Ok., have secured leases on
land belonging to Col. E. L. Dahoney
in the northwest corner of Lamar
County and will begin prospecting for
oil in a few months.
merly occupied by the South Texas
National Bank has been torn down and
W. H. Dutt erfield (& Co
Drugs, Perfumes, Toilet Articles
PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED
Humber, Sasb, Boors,
“l prithee, Antonio, what news on the
Rialto?”
“Ods bodkins, good Bassanio, there’s
nothing new, but hark ye! dost see yon
building?’’
“I dost.”
“Thee fly thither and purchase thy
rubber stamps and stencils from J. W.
Love, 2205 Mechanic St., Galveston.
Tarsus.—Authentic details of th®
atrocities committed by the fanatical
Mohammedans in the villages and
farms in the districts are now coming
Into Tarsus with sickening abundance.
The worst particulars of these narra-
tives can not be mentioned, but they
set forth without doubt that at least
10,000 lost their lives in this province
and some estimates place the total
casualties at 25,000. Villages like Os-
manneh, Basiche, Hamadieh Kara,
Krystan, Keoy and Kezolook, were ac-
tually wiped out. Each of these places
had populations of from 500 to 600
people.
Young Turks around Tarsus are
trading Armenian girls for horses and
modern repeating rifles.
In the massacres of fourteen years
ago there was no such desire to kill
women and children as has been evi-
denced in the last ten days. Now,
however, there have been numerous
instances of the murdering of women
and children with deliberation and
there are other instances where wo-
men were brought out one by one and
shot down, the bystanders clapping
their hands at each fresh execution.
The local authorities are giving 4
cents a day to each refugee in Tarsus.
There are about 400 refugees and this
sum does not suffice. The government
allotment is being supplemented by
funds from the American mission. The
local officials say they are soon go-
ing to discontinue their contributions
and if this is done there will be a fam-
ine.
The yard of the American mission
house looks like a prison pen. The
men wander around all night trying to
keep warm. The women and children
sleep at night on the floors of school
rooms. Very few of them have beds.
In the day time the men sleep, usu-
ally curling up in the sunshine outside.
There have been four births at the
mission since the refugees came in. In
the meantime the Moslems in the wast-
ed country around about are pastur-
ing their horses and cattle on the
green crops of the Armenian victims.
the subcontract for supplying the steel
for the new building to take its place
has been awarded to the Belmont Iron
Works. The new bank building will
be two stories high, of marble and
granite. It will be devoted entirely
to banking purposes, and when com-
pleted will be one of the finest in
Texas.
Texans Visit Panama Canal.
Washington: Representatives Hen-
ry, Burgess and Stephens have return-
ed from a tour of the Panama Canal
zone which they visited with a party
of Congressmen. They were in the
canal zone about a week and made a
general study of the work and condi-
tions along the canal. Representative
Stephens expressed himself as pleased
with the progress and character of the
work and said the general impression
appears to be that it is too late now
to switch from a lock to a sea level
canal.
LAUNCH “RONA” MAKES ABOVE RUN
Leg Broken by Horse’s Fall.
Mexia, Tex.—Miss Carrie, the 14-
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.
E. Bonner, while out riding Tuesday,
had her left leg broken by her horse
falling on her. In some way the ani-
mal fell and caused the trouble. The
break is between the knee and the
ankle.
Limestone County Strawberries.
Mexia: Each day that passes gives
evidence that Limestone County is
coming to the front on raising straw-
berries. F. B. Bond, living three miles
east of Mexia, had sold up to Tues-
day 110 crates of berries that netted
him $2.50 per crate, or $275 for what
had been sold off of two acres of his
land, and he has no idea how many
more crates he expects to gather out
of this same little patch of land.
Says Apple Rate too High.
Washington: In a decision Tuesday
by Commissioner Lane of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission the rates
on apples, via the St. Louis and San
Francisco Railroad Company from the
Ozark fruit region in Arkansas to
points in Oklahoma and Texas, are
declared unreasonable, and a new
scale of rates is being prepared for
this commodity.
Fatal Fall of Forty Feet.
Galveston: The sudden twisting of
a small plank seat upon which he sat,
forty feet above the ground, painting
the steel uprights upholding the con-
veyor at elevator B, precipitated Willis
F. Moldenhauer to the ground at pier
Horrible Conditions Prevailing at
Tarsus—Young Turks Trading
Armenian Girls for Rifles.
Express Shipments Increase.
Alvin, Tex.—The express shipments
from this place for the month of April
show an increase of 75 per cent over
the same month last year, and ex-
ceeds in gross receipts any previous
year since the establishment of the of-
fice for any one month. This in-
crease is due to the fast development
and the increased acreage of truck in
the Alvin country. This section is
fast settling up with truck farmers,
and with favorable conditions for an-
other year the Alvxin country will
flourish as never before. The first cu-
cumbers of the season were brought to
town Tuesday, there being several
third-bushel boxes, which sold at $1.50
per box.
Corporation to Insure Deposits.
Denison: A company to have a
capital of $2,000,000, one-half to be in
surplus, is being organized in Denison,
to be known as the Southwestrn Sure-
ty Company. It will conduct a general
bonding and casualty business, includ-
ing the insurance of bank deposits,
and it will seek to do a National busi-
ness. The home office will be in Deni-
son, with branches in important cities
in this and other States.
Contract Awarded.
Houston, Tex.—A Columbus, Ohio,
firm Tuesday were awarded the con-
tract of draining 81,584 acres of what
is known as the Almeda drainage dis-
trict. The firm agreed to accept the
drainage bonds issued by the district
in payment for the work, and the se-
curities will probably be floated in
Ohio. Excavation in the district will
be made at the rate of 11.23 cents per
cubic yard, and the ground will be
cleared at a contract price of 40c per
acre. The cost of the work under con-
tract is $150,531. It will be complet-
ed as soon as men and machinery can
accomplish the task.
The Law Cannot be Invoked Against
the Coal Carrying and Coal
< Owning Railroads.
Washington, May 4.—Deciding today
that the commodities clause of the in-
terstate commerce law is constitution-
al, and thereby reversing the opinion
of the Circuit Court, the Supreme
Court of the United States at the same
time deprived the statute of all force
and effect by ruling that it does not
apply except in cases where railroads
actually own the commodities they
are engaged in transporting during
the course of transportation, and thai
such ownership does not exist when
the railroad merely owns the stock of
the corporation producing such com-
modity.
The definition of legal ownership
given by the court is such that the
railroads have only to organize sub-
sidiary companies in order to control
the production of commodities and the
railroads which have been operating
in such production through subsidiary
companies have not violated the law.
In other words, the law can not be
invoked against the coal-carrying and
coal-owning railroads of Pennsylvania,
with a view of breaking up their mo-
nopoly of the coal business, because
the railroads own the coal companies.
The court decides that such ownership
through stock holding does not give
the railroads legal ownership of the
coal itself, that ownership remaining
with the coal-producing corporations.
Write or Phone us for
HARDWARE
Boddeker & LyonsHardware Co.
Phone 132 GALVESTON, Tex
Died From Religious Excitement.
Gonzales, Tex.—Kizzie Simmons,
colored, overcome by the occasion of
the baptizing of about fifty negro con-
verts in the Guadalupe river ■ Sunday
afternoon, died Tuesday.
Oysters in any form. cool refreshments
28 Monday about 2:15 o’clock,
caused instant death.
Summer is here. Visit our ^Foda Fountain
$30,000 Schoolhouse for Henrietta.
Henrietta, Tex.—A $30,000 school-
house for Henrietta by a vote of more
than 3 to 1 Tuesday. Henrietta inde-
pendent school district voted $30,000
worth of bonds.
Paints, Oils, Etc.
TEXAS CITY
Win. D. Cleveland & Sons |
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SUPREME TRIBUNAL OF U. S.
GIVES RESTRICTED VIEWS OF
HEPBURN STATUTE.
G. H. Morgan 0 Chas. H. Cassel
MANY LINES EFFECTED FRIGHTFULATROCITIES
__ LATEST ESTIMATES OF LOSSES IN
• TURKISH ORGY OF BLOOD.
It comes if it is jicstifled. Trust a woman for
knowing zvhen a man’s tv ell dressed. Her good taste
neve7j tells her falsely•
We’re making clothes for the best dressed
men in town— men who demand perfec-
tion in the smallest details — practical
men who are not keen on extravagance
but want good values-are willing to pay
fair Prices for the best the inarket affords
Our materials are guaranteed pure Wool and pure Worsted—all colors & shades
CLEAPiyG, P'RESSiyG, (2 TiyEIJ^G.
J. H. SGHWRRTZ, TAILOR
4th Street, north of Longshoremen’s Building, Texas City.
W. H. GONNE & CO.
Groceries ano ....
Whn you land from the boat, drop in
for one of our business lunches or a
meal, home-cocked
309 22nd street, Galveston
Orders for Ship Supplies Promptly Filled. Telephone
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