Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, September 3, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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UNDER A DARK MOON.
BIG DEAL IN ORE LAND
COLLINS A SMITH
4
C.
DECATUR,
TEXAS
$
TEXAS NEWS ITEMS
ITEMS FOR BUSINESS PEOPLE
36,000 ACRES IN THE TRACT
The crowd at Old Settlers’
Park
Preparations already under
way
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own-
ers.
By allowing
$
missioners' Court,
The (‘olombia
figures of the
the Davis gin and consolidated it
Union
The Farmers’
will
town.
bitration board of the Texas Grain
Railroad
the interest of the Socialist
party.
made the statement
she would go to El
with the Com-
by non-resident
swarms
the bare
Tuesday that
Paso and do
Moore gold mine, located
Cleburne and Godlev, is
everything in her power to prevent
the meeting of President Taft with
President Diaz.
the Bud
between
reported.
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was
was
The
loan of $30,000,000, but has been
given assurance at Pekin that she
will have a portion of the next loan
for railroad construction made by
China
A Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
Domestic and Foreign.
A Surprise.
Bystander—Where’s the chauffeur?
Arrest him!
“Hold on, gentlemen, I’ll tell you
how it was. I was trying to cross the
street and a chauffeur stopped his ma-
chine and motioned me to go by—the
—shock—was too much.”—Life.
such a
For Women-Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound
Noah, Ky. — “I was passing through
the Change of Life ana suffered from
THE
BEST
REMEDY
President Ripley of the Santa Fe,
in response to a telegram sent from
San Angelo, states that the report
to the effect that the Santa Fe will
build to Sterling City and connect
with the Coleman cut-off, is true.
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and effect the judgment cancelling
the Texas permit of the oil company
and perpetually enjoining it from
doing business in Texas.
It is claimed by the Hill County
authorities that the advalorem tax
TANT NEWS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
than 50 per cent of a normal yield i tion in Oklahoma in recent years was
The Abilene and Southern Rail- that in which W. A. Holden, presi-
i
sting him on
of bees to
arms and
Roxbury,
ham’s Vegetable Compound is the most
successful remedy for all kinds of
female troubles, and I feel that I can
never praise it enough.”—Mrs. Lizzik
Holland, Noah, Ky.
TheChangeof Lifeisthemostcritical
period of a woman’s existence, and
neglect of health at this time invites
disease and pain.
Womeneverywhereshouldremember
that there is no other remedy known to
medicine that will so successfully carry
women through this trying period as
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeable Com-
pound, made from native roots and
herbs.
headaches, nervous
prostration, and
hemorrhages.
“Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable
Compoundmademe
well and strong, bo
that I can do all my
housework, and at-
tend to the store
and post-office, and
I feel muchyounger
than I really am.
“Lydia E. Pink-
Chicago has stepped into the two-
1 and-a-half-million class, according
Aeronaut Falls to His Death.
Coffeyville, Kan.: Harry H. Hoff
man. aeronaut, was killed while mak-
ing a balloon ascension here Mon-
day. He was about 500 feet in the
air when a bag filled with sand, used
as ballast, fell from the balloon
above, striking Hoffman. who was
hanging on the trapeze, knocking
him loose.
M. SCHWAB BELIEVED TO BE
INTERESTED IN MARION
COUNTY PURCHASE.
। dent of the Stroud Cotton Oil Com-
pany, acting for his company, pur-
chased 1,800 head of 3 to 5-year-old
steers for $71,000.
The material for Mexia's new tele-
phone company is arriving and in a
few days work will begin. The new
company has bought the old plant
and its franchise and will assume
charge on Sept. 1.
Russia has dropped out definitely
from the competition for a share in
legs, J. B. Webster of
Five thousand visitors spent Sun- i
day in Galveston.
Walter Lee Thornton, eight years !
old, son of Stephen Thornton, was
run over and killed by a street car j
in Dallas Sundav.
German Lloyd steamer Schlesien
collided at the entrance of Monte-
Cold Wave In Nebraska.
Norfork, Neb.: The tempera-
ture dropped 58 degrees within the
last forty-eight hours here, falling
from 98 Friday to 10 Monday. It is
said to have brought light frosts on
the lowlands, though not damaging
ones.
The boll weevil is doing great work
in different parts of Texas. The cot-
ton has had the dry weather to con- i to the new city directory, which will
tend with and now the fruit is being j be issued in a few days,
ruined as fast as it forms. "ho : --d at Old S.
and city hall bonds.
A negro hosue near Bryan burned
I late Sunday and a 6-month-old negro
1 baby burned to death.
The temperature dropped 58 de-
। grees at Norfolk, Neb., from Friday
to Monday. It is said to have
; brought light frosts on the lowlands,
though not damaging ones.
Carpenters, painters and decorat-
ors who are preparing the Juarez.
Mex.. public buildings for the meet-
ing of the Presidents of the two Re-
publics, are hard at work and many
of the citizens are busy putting their
grounds and sidewalks in order.
Dry Farming Association.
Alpine: The first annual con-
vention of the West Texas Dry
Farming association convened in this
city Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock.
Fire broke out Tuesday in the
mercantile house of W. E. Skeen, in
Wichita Falls. The building was in
flames before the alarm was given.
Damage was $12,000.
company were in-
Rain Comes Too Late.
McKinney: A good rain fell here
Tuesday afternoon, but it comes too
late to be of any benefit to crops,
except late cotton. Not enough has
fallen to give a supply of stock wa-
ter and a great many farmers are
hauling water.
County has purchased the old gin
property in Mt. Pleasant known as
the Hankow-ze Chuen
way began excavations for the new J
depot and freight house Tuesday in
Abilene with a gang of several teams
and eighteen workmen.
Bennie Fields, the 1 1-year-old
son of T. M. Fields of Maxey, near
Paris, was kicked by a mule in the
face and seriously injured Friday
evening while leading it to water
with a rope.
“Mother” Jones, who is holding a
series of meetings in San Antonio in
Postal Receipts increase.
Dallas: Postal receipts at the
Dallas office for the month of Au-
gust were $44,512.40. This shows
an increase of $3,713.74 over the
corresponding month of 1908, when
the receipts were $40,858.66.
Line Out of Miles.
Miles: Tracklaying has been com
menced on the Concho, San Saba
ami Llano Valley Railway out of
Miles in the direction of Paint Rock.
Masons to Build Temple.
Dallas: The two blue lodges of
the Masonic fraternity in Dallas,
Tannehill Lodge and Dallas Lodge,
have architects at work on plans for
a five-story temple, to cover a space
of 100x100. Work on the structure
is to be begun within three months.
coast Friday, with slight damage to
property. Wires to Tarpon are down
and it is thought some damage has
been done there by high winds and
the tide.
Elbert Greer of DeLeon was run
over by a freight train Friday about
one-fourth of a mile from Scotland,
about twenty miles from Fort Worth,
almost severing both limbs. He
lived about thirty minutes.
Y. Y. Beasley, engineer on the
Marshall and East Texas Railway,
had his left foot cut off at Winns-
™ SUMMARY OF THE WEEK
to Kentucky was given out Tuesday '
by James Blackburn, his brother, at
| Louisville.
Reports from the cotton growing
counties of Alabama show the crop
is in an exceptionally poor condition,
due to the continued drouth and hot
winds. There lips not been any rain
in Middle Alabama for three weeks
and in many sections the cotton
plant is parched.
Five persons were killed Sunday
when an automobile in which they
were riding was struck by a fast pas-
senger train of the Chicago, Rock
• Island and Pacific Railroad, two and
a half miles west of Vigus station
on the Creve Couer Lake road, St.
Louis. (Mo.) County.
Pledged to urge every State in the
I nion to work for more drastic pure
food laws, the annual convention of
the Association of State and Nation-
al Food and Dairy Departments ad-
journed Friday at Denver.
Fear that the bubonic plague may
be communicated to Mexico has
caused the superior board of health
to order the rigorous examination of
all persons from San Francisco
touching at the west coast ports.
Calling her'husband in from the
street Monday Mrs. Vernon Shane
of Rector, Ark., tried to induce him
to take a dose of carbolic acid with
her, and when he declined she shot
him dead with one barrel of a shot-
gun, after which she ended her own
life with the othe r barrel.
The two-year-old baby of George
Light, who lives six miles west of
Snyder, died Wednesady es the result
of burns received from pouring oil
on fire. The child got hold of a
can of coal oil and in the absence of
other members of the family poured
the contents on a fire that was burn-
ing around the wash kettle.
The State of Texas Monday filed
a motion in the Twenty-Sixth Dis-
trict Court praying that Judge Wil-
cox issue the necessary orders to sell
the property of the Waters-Pierce
Oil Company and to make such oth-
er orders as will put into full force
A RESUME OF THE MOST IMPOR- $100,000 water and swer extension
The- ore sent off assays more than the
first specimens, some going to from
$25 to $30 per ton.
For 80 years it has been caring
women from the worst forms of female
ills—inflammation, ulceration, dis-
placements, fibroid tumors, irregulari-
ties, periodic pains, backache, and
nervous prostration.
If you would like special advice
about your case write a confiden-
tial letter to Mrs. Pinkham, at
Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free»
and always helpful.
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Ford’s School
AUSTIN, TEXAS
Pre pare, especially for theUntverstty of Taxaa.
Oraduates enter witbout examination, six
teachers, all universig men. Hnp annual
session begins Oct. 1. J. StanlTrd, B. A..
M. A., Prlcipal, ei9 Wsst Nmeeenu Streew
A general soaking ruin fell over
Eastern New Mexico Sunday night,
tlie first in weeks.
Weatherford, Okla., has voted
have charge of the gin this season.
It is understood that if the union
makes a success of the gin from a
business standpoint they will install
gin plants in every precinct in the
county.
Until Rev. Father Albert Negahn-
Colombia sank almost instantly. Be-
tween 150 and 200 persons were
drowned.
Within less than ten days San
Saba has raised $60,000 in order to
get written contracts with represent-
atives of the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe Railroad and the contract
was signed Thursday, work to begin
at once on the line, which will run
from Lometa, a station on the Santa
Fe in Lampasas County, to San
Saba, and which, it is understood,
will extend to Brady, Eden and San
Angelo.
The Farmers’ Union of Titus
ar- never been ’a full-blood Indian ad-
i mitted to the priesthood in the Ro-
Dealers’ association, in Fort Worth J man Catholic Church.
the corn crop of the state will be less > The largest single cattle transac-
Friday in Sherman passed the 15,-1 Land Commissioner Robinson, at
show there will be a big increase in 000 mark at noon. and in the after-; Austin, has for free distribution
the wheat acreage in Denton Coun- noon the number had been materially printed copies of the List of school
ty the coming year, and planting will ( increased. lands forfeited for nonpayment of
be begun in a few days now. : Confirmation of a report that Gov. interest, and which will be sold in
Shortly before noon Thursday on J. s- Blackburn of the Panama ( a- October. Some desirable land has
the Coffman ranch, near Abilene, nal Zone is about to resign to return been forfeited by oversight of
Mat Thomas, a Deputy Sheriff of te " e4 ’ 1......- -- ’ 1
the community, was shot and per-
haps fatally wounded while attempt-
ing to make an arrest.
Storms and rain prevailed on the 1 walk a mile.
Affidavits filed
creased on the tax rolls, and the in-
crease shows a total of $6,000,000
more taxable property than last year.
While Ben Wright was at work in
his field in the Chambers commun-
ity, near McKinney, Thursday, and
his wife had gone to the field to
take him water, their house caught
fire and burned to death their 18-
month-old baby boy, who had been
left asleep in a cradle.
The people of Mineral Wells and
■Weatherford want the portion of the
proposed railroad between Oran and
Jacksboro built, in order to get an
cutlet to Northwest Texas, over the
railroad now under construction
from Jacksboro to Olney, where
connection will be made with the
railroad to Wichita Falls, on the Ft.
Worth and Denver. The movement
for a railroad from Gainesville to
Mineral Wells will materialize this
fall and the road will be continued
to Palo Pinto, where it will connect
with the proposed road to Strawn
and the south.
Mayor Sweeney of El Paso left
Friday for the City of Mexico to of-
Stated that Development Expected
In Cate, Upshur, Cherokee, Rusk
and Harrison.
New York, Sept. 1.— It is report-
ed here that Charles M. Schwab and
his associates have closed an option
on 36,000 acres of iron ore fields
near Hughes Springs, in Marion
County, Texas, and that he also
holds options on other tracts in Cass
and Upshur counties.
It is also said that on the promis-
ed development of these ore lands
about 2,000 acres of mineral land in
Cherokee, Rusk and Harrison Coun-
ties will be taken over by another
syndicate, composed largely of Texas
capital. but in which some of the in-
dependent steel concerns will have an
interest.
Another report states that a steel
mill will he erected at Port Arthur
with John W. Gates interested. Also
that a Duluth syndicate will build
a steel mill and ore docks at Texas
City.
Another report is that Port Boli-
var is to be made the concentrating
point for the ores. It seems that
there are two or three different syn-
dicates at work, and the whole
scheme seems to have been brought
to a head by Mr. Schwab’s recent
visit to Texas.
quet, of Guthire, completed his four-
ficially invite President Diaz to be year course in the propaganda at
the guest of El Paso Oct. 16. . Rome. three years ago, there had
According to members of the
county levy is, altogether, 20c on the
$100 valuation, which, with the State
school tax of 16 2-3c and the State
tax for general purposes of 5c, makes
an aggregate of only 4 1 ?-3c on the
$100 paid on property in this county.
Commencing Monday the Santa
Fe Railway Company began the dis-
patching of all trains between Tem-
ple and Gainesville by telephone, the
system having been finally success-
fully installed.
The Kaufman County Corn Grow-
ers' association will hold its first corn
contest at Terrell early in October.
A large number of boys have entered
this contest for the best corn grown
this year. Much interest has been
shown in the contest and a large at-
tendance is expected.
Two men arc dead and a score in-
jured. six dangerously, as the result
of a head-on collision on the Wa-
bash Railroad, one mile south of
Glenwood, Mo., Saturday morning.
The State Board of Education at
Austin, Tuesday. purchased from
the State Penitentiary Board the
issue ot $200,000 bonds authorized
by the Thirty-First Legislature for
the completion of the State Railroad
and the refunding of the issue of
$150,000 authorized by the Thirtieth
Legislature.
Bartlett-Florence Line.
Bartlett: The secretary of the
Bartlett Commercial Club states
plans have been formulated and the
material purchased for the construc-
tion of the Bartlett-Florence Rail-
road. The right of way has been
surveyed and work will begin soon.
Great development at
rate on property in that county foi
this year is, as far as can be learned,
with the Hutchings gin just west of lower than exists in any other county
"...... "h" "n"....." in this portion of the Slate. The
Big Sugar Mill For Texas.
Mercedes, Hidalgo Co.: One of
the largest sugar mills in the South,
having a capacity of 3,000 tons of
cane sugar daily, and costing $?,-
500,0no. is to be erected here in time
to handle the eane crop of 1911. The
company putting in the mill will
plant 6,000 acres in cane.
Mas.-., is recovering from an attack
of paralysis, and already has regain-
ed the use of his left arm and can
boro Saturday. He was walking be-
side his engine, which was being
moved slowly backward by the fire-
man, and stepped on a pole, from
which his foot rolled under the
wheels.
Disguised as a laborer, the Tax
_ Important to Mother*.
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for
infanta and children, and gee that it
Bears the p? .“if*
Signature
In Um For Over 30 /earn.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Working the Brain.
Church—They say fish is a great
stimulant for the brain. b
Gotham—Well, I know just catching "
them makes the imagination more ac-
tive.
From the Life of the Protector.
Cromwell wished to be painted with
the wart
“Don't you mean the warthog?"
they asked anxiously.
For Colds and Gripp—Capudine.
The best remedy for Gripp and Colds le
Hicks’ Capudine. Relieves the aching and
feverishness. Cures the cold—Headache*
also. It's Liquid—Effects immediately—10,
25 and 50c at Drug Stores.
Equipped for Fast Travel.
Sorrow is an evil with many feet.—
Posidippus.
Look sharp! See the point?
It’s the spear on real WRIGLEY’S
SPEARMINT!
And occasionally a man throws off
trouble by putting on a bold front.
Assessor of Bayonne, N. J., worked
in the Standard Oil Plant and in video harbor
way secured data whereby the j entering port’and the Schlesien
outward bound for Bremen.
” el
A
Dolly—The motor boat is superior
to the canoe even if we do have to
carry a chaperon.
Dick—I should say so. The “chug
chug” makes such a racket she
couldn't hear a smack to save her-
self.” ________________
With a smooth iron and Defiance
Starch, you can launder your shirt-
waist just as well at home as the
steam laundry can; it will have the
proper stiffness and finish, there will
be less wear and tear at the goods,
and it will be a positive pleasure to
use a Starch that does not stick to the
iron.
citizens who on Jan. 1. 1909, had
goods and wares stored in Houston
warehouses, revealed that the stocks
on which no tax has been paid repre-
sent the sum of $181,000.
President Roosevelt’s famous Rem-
sen “referee board of consulting
I scientific experts” was indorsed by
the convention of the association of
the State and National Food and
Dairy Department Thursday, in
Denver. After a fight on which the
term “medical garbage” was used,
the association approved the use of
benzoate of soda as a food preserva-
tive.
In a driving rainstorm Tuesday
morning the Argentine excursion
steamer Colombia and the North
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