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Free State Enterprise
*Y M. G. SANDERS-
EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL; SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
VOL. X
NO. 11.
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TEXANETTES.
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TELLS OF GALVESTON.
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Miss Mary Slagle shot and danger-
ously wounded Houghton Merriman,
assistant cashier of the Blue Ridge
National bank at Asheville, N. C.
persons living near claiming that
fumes of the chemicals poisoned
air and made life intolerable.
A Chemical Factory in 1811.
The first chemical factory opened in
this country was in Salem, Mass., in
1811. At first great objection was made
to the establ shment of the factory, the
K
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As a Shield Marched by a Squad of Po-
lice to a Safe Distance and Bade
a Mocking farewell.
The Sheriff Who Was Looking for
Them and His Deputy
A Delegate to the Convention Speaks of
Condition* h the Island City.
Stop at THE-TT
HOUSE HOTEL
......When in Canton.
ACODATxONa VIRET CLASS.
i iliu kalani in Polities.
Queen Liliuokalani is living quietly
in Honolulu. Last year she took a hand
in politics to some extent and made it
known among the natives that she fa-
vored the election of Delegate Wilcox.
He probably owes his election to her
assistance.
■uHf*' Gna"lhasrandTaksAg remained.
BALLAA, TEX
Matter* of Major and Minor Importance
Just Come to Pass.
Best Passenger Service
IN TEXAS.
4 IMPORTANT GATEWAYS 4
DIRECT LINE TO
NEW MEXICO* ARIZONA
AND CALIFORNIA.
Operators ol Magnificent New Train,
“Pacific Coast Limited,"
■easi-weekly, between
CHICAGO, Sr. LOUIS, DALLAS, FORT
WORTH, LOS ANGELES AND
SAN FRANCISCO.
“No troubls to answa questlons."
2 FAST TRAINS DAILY 2
Only Um Running Through
ETNEW ORLEANS "
Superb Pullman Vestibuled Buffet Sleepers,
Handsome New Chair Cars (seats free).
Gen. James Hagen, a veteran of the
Mexican and Civil wars. died at his
home in Mobile, Ala., aged 80 years.
He was a member of Col. Hays' Texas
Rangers, and was at the storming of
Monterey. In the civil war he was
colonel of the Third Alabama cavalry,
and later brigadier commander under
Gen. Joe Wheeler.
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hRAILWAY
J. J. Allen, a merchant, was shot
and wounded at Sarepta, La., by a man
named Baker. Josepn Sykes, brother-
in-law of Allen, shot and killed Baker.
The six large breweries of Louis-
ville, Ky., have formed a corporation
known as the Central Consumers’
company, capitalized at $3,50®,000.
...TO...
St Louis, Chicago
....and the East
Fled With Miss stone.
Sofia, Bulgaria, Nov. 11.—Informa-
tion has been recived here frot Doubt-
niz that the band of brigands uolding
captive Miss Ellen M. Stone, the
American missionary, called about a
fortnight ago at the village of Smet-
chevo and subsequently proceeded to
the monastery of Rilo, but the move-
ments of the troops compelled them
to flee toward the frontier, where
। they are now in hiding. Miss Stone
: is said to be severely treated.
In an encounter near Fayette, Miss.,
Morgan Hamilton, a prominent plant-
er, was killed, and a man named Tay-
lor fatally wounded.
Capt. M. C. Hazlett, commander of
the steamer Ferdherald, plying be-
tween Memphis and Cairo, was found
dead at the latter city.
The grand jury at Pine Bluff, Ark.,
refused to indict Myer Solomson, who
killed Carl Stubblefield, on the ground
that he acted in self defense.
Thought a Burglar.
San Antonio, Tex., Nov. 11.—The
murder of Theodore Granjean, around
which there was so much mystery
Las been solved at last and the so-
lution shows that it was the result
of a mistake. A Mexican boy was ar-
rested on information furnished by a
Mexican woman under arrest, and the
boy, Saragosa Bustamantes, who is
only 13 years of age, admitted that he
killed Grandjean, thinking he was a
burglar.
month. When he reached the fort he
opened his grip and found all the paper
money had been abstracted. The silver
6%&oU
ni elgnatnre it on every boot the gonutma
laxative Bromo-Quinine Tableta
Bhe remedu Sha emzem M am eme daa
The steamer Ethel sunk near Sav-
annah, Ga.
The court house and a number of
business houses at Livingston, Ala.,
burned.
Fort Smith, Ark., is to be connected
by a trolley line with several adjacent
towns.
After a two weeks' recess the Vir-
ginia constitutional convention is in
session again.
Capt. W. W. Grant, probably the
wealthiest man in Atlanta, Ga., is
dead. He was 63 years old.
The 3-year-old child of Mrs. Kate
Daniels was horribly burned at Jack-
son, Miss., dying in a few hours.
Fire destroyed the greater portion
of the business section of Richland,
Ga. The loss is estimated at $60,000.
Dr. W. F. Rowland of Bentonville,
Ark., has been appointed a member of
the Arkansas board of dental examin-
ers.
Incident < i sed.
Constantinople, Nov. 11.—M. Bap-
tiste, councilor of the French embassy,
received a satisfactory communication
from the porte regarding the remain-
der of the French demands. The con-
flict between France and Turkey, may,
therefore, be regarded as ended.
Paymaster Robbed.
Pensacola, Fla., Nov. 11.—Paymas-
ter Stevens of the United States army
arrived from Atlanta Saturday and
there placed in a hand sachel $200 in
silver and $4800 in paper money for
the purpose of paying the several hun-
dred artillery men at Forts Barrancas
and McRae their salaries for the past ;
In the Louisiana supreme court the
city of New Orleans won its suit
against the New Orleans Water com-
pany. The company’s charter is for-
feited.
Miss Helen Dutton suicided at New
Decatur, Ala., by shooting herself in
the mouth with a pistol. Mental de-
pression, caused by desertion of her
fiance, is the alleged cause.
In a collision between freight trains
at Palarm, Ark., both engines were
demolished and three cars wrecked.
While working on the wreck Brake-
man J. S. Matlock was killed.
The Albemarle (Va.) county court
decided that John A. Chanler, the di-
vorced husband of Amelia Rives, is
sane. The decision settled the ques-
tion of Chanler’s ability to manage his
own property interests in Virginia.
A four-story building at Richmond,
Va., occupied by several firms, burned.
Loss $100,000. Miss Emily Crump, a
stenographer, was seriously injured
by jumping from a second story win-
dow, and others were hurt.
The bank at Black Rock, Ark., was
looted by burglars. They blew open
the safe and secured $2200 in currency,
$1300 in city and county scrip and
pearls valued at $10,000. The latter
were the property of W. D. Byrd, a
pearl buyer.
The pardoning board of Alabama
has recommended the pardoning of
Fannie Bryant, a mulatto woman, sen-
tenced for alleged complicity in the
murder of Mrs. Hawes, her two girls
and son, in the fall of 1888, for which
crime Dick Hawes, the husband, was
hanged at Birmingham, Ala.
Fort Worth, Tex., Nov. 11.—The at-
tendance at the Saturday morning ses-
sion of the Baptist convention was
very large. The $5000 Burleson memo-
rial fund was half subscribed.
After the work on the Burleson me-
morial fund had been suspended. Dr.
Gambrell brought up the subject of
church building, which, he said, had
been mentioned in the report of the
board as the most important matter
before the convention.
Rev. D. G. Harris of Galveton was
called upon for a statement, and re-
sponded eloquently in behalf of the
stricken churches of South Texas. He
described the desolation of the storm-
swept region, and related an anecdote
to show how a correct and vivid mem-
ory of a great calamity soon fades from
the minds of men. There was there, he
said, such desolation as had never been
witnessed on the American continent.
Of the three Baptist churches then in
Galveston, two were now extinct and
the third had been crippled and
maimed almost beyond recognition.
His own church had lost forty-four
members and a $30,000 building. Some
of the members wer ecoming back, and
of the members were coming back, and
needed.
Galveston was at a point of destiny,
the speaker declared. One-fifth of the
entire export business of the United
States centered there. This was not
surprising, as it was the outlet for
Texas. "The future of that great coun-
try," he said, "is so great that it is
absolutely dazzling." Then he asked:
"Have we, as Baptists, any reason for
existence in that country? What are
we Baptists doing to do?”
sioners bave decided to put it out at
interest.
The jury in the case of John Doss,
on trial at Hillsboro, gave him twelve
years, die was charged with the mur-
der of James Barr near Aquilla, Hill
county, in August, 1896.
Ab Barnes, residing three miles east
of Paclo, Delta county, who was fear-
fully burned by a lamp explosion in
his hands, died from his burns.
The United Lumber and Export com-
pany of Beaumont filed an amendment
with the secretary of state at Austin
increasing its capital stock from $50,-
000 to $100,000.
In the Forty-eighth district court at
Fort Worth Fred Johnson, on trial
charged with forgery, pleaded guilty
and was given four years in the peni-
tentiary.
At Fort Worth, in the Forty-eighth
district court, Joe Johnson pleaded
guilty to the murder of Dave Johnson
in that city and was given life impris-
onment. The men were not related.
Rachel Moore, colored, was arrested
at Paris on complaint of her husband,
who alleges that the woman threw a
shovelful of hot embers in his face,
destroying the sight of one of his eyes.
Mrs. Caroline Edwards, alias Mrs.
Augusta Miller, pleaded guilty at Gal-
veston to using the United States mail
to defraud and was sentenced by
Judge Bryant to six months in the
county jail.
Mrs. Joseph Dun of Corpus Christi
had the remains of her son, buried at
boernenearly twenty years, taken up
and carried to Corpus Christi and in-
terred with other members of the fam-
ily.
John Killian, charged with being im-
plicated in the murder of I ncle Jackie
Roberts near Maxey, Lamar county,
was tried at Paris, declared guilty by
the jury and his punishment assessed
at imprisonment for life.
A number of negroes and a few white
people are said to have the smallpox
at Hallettsville, and the city council
will take action to prevent the spread
of the disease. Some physicians do not
think it is smallpox, but a skin disease.
An alligator was captured in a field
in the vicinity of Cleburne by a boy. It
was taken to Clebeurne by the boy and
sold. The alligator was under a hay-
stack when discovered and easily made
captive. It excited a great deal of in-
terest.
Thieves effected an entrance into the
Hearne Street Methodist church at
Houston and stole the communion ser-
vice. The service was kept in what
was thought a perfectly secure place,
but the miscreants seem to have easily
found the place.
"Take a collection," was the earnest
response of a voice in the audience.
Dr. Gambrell added that it was ap-
parent that the devil had much to do
with the storm, and the Baptists of
the state should unite in the work
of rebuilding th churches, on the
principle that when the devil attacks
one Baptist in Texas he has got them
all to fight. There was hearty amens
from all parts of the house.
Rev. F. C. McConnell of Atlanta, Ga.,
secretary of the home mission board,
was then introdued.
Members of the old board of direc-
tors of Baylor university were then
re-elected, as follows: A. J. Harris of
Belton, W. C. Lattimore of Denton and
Levi Anderson of Killeen.
Trustees for the convention were
| chosen as follows: Messrs. C. C.
Slaughter of Dallas, J. L. Smith of
Amarillo, R. L. Bowen of Van Alstyne,
George Murphy of Sherman and
Charles Perkins of Nacogdoches.
The following board of directors of
the convention was chosen: C. C.
Slaughter, George W. Truett, W. L
Williams, C. H. Briggs, A. N. Hall. J
B. Boone of Dallas; B. H. Carroll,
H. Jenkins of Waco, J. A. Ivy, Weath
erford; A. J. Harris, San Antonio; G.
8. Tumlin, Brenham; John T. Wafford,
Cuero; A. B. Ingram, Gainesville; Jeff
D. Ray, Corsicana; D. I. Smith, Grand-
view; E. E. King, McKinney; D. Y.
Bagby, Navasota; R. R. Gaines, Era,
I. T. Heard. Omaha; A. L. Montgom-
ery Tyler; Charles R. Perkins, Nacog-
doches; R. F. Jenkins, Greenville; C.
R. Johnson, Athens; J. B. Riddle,
Whitewright; J. F. Patterson, Cisco,
S, F. Baucum, Linn Flat; W. K. Pen-
rod. Ennis.
The large sum of $25,000 wm raised
to pay all debts on colleges.
Wheat is thriving.
Hall county farmers hold cotton.
Little cotton remains unpicked.
Silverton section reports abundance
of grass.
Wyoming sheep are almost free
from scab.
Wilbarger county will have a large
wheat acreage.
Cotton picking continues under way
around Stamford,
A large acreage of wheat has been
sown around Burleson.
A sweet potato raised near Sealy
weighs thirteen pounds.
Apple crop of Benton county, Ar-
kansas, is valued at $250,000.
The Wylie section of Hunt county
reports cotton picking about over.
Between 1500 and 200 acres around
Corpus Christi wil be planted In cab-
bage.
Many north Texas, Indian Territory
and Oklahoma localities have had
frost.
R. S. Campbell shipped from San
Angelo to Rosebud twenty-eight cars
of feeders,
A. J. Wilkinson of Menard county
bought 400 steers from Dud Moore at
San Angelo.
Some of Hill county's oldest settlers
say the earth has been drier this fall
than they ever saw it,
Pickle factories at Fredericksburg,
Va., will pay out more than $60,000 for
cucumbers this season.
Charles Schreener of Kerrville sold
twenty-one graded Hereford steers to
A. F. Schultz for $630.
J. M. Doble of San Antonio has sold
to H. T. Staples of Mathis GOO year-
ling steers at $15 a head.
Apples measuring twelve and thir-
teen inches are reported common in or-
chards around Cleveland, Ok.
Thomas Warren has sixty acres of
sweet potatoes near Oklahoma City
that he says will yield about 120
bushels to the acre.
David Hunter of Lincoln county, Ne-
braska, has an irrigated orchard of
5000 trees. From one acre this year
he sold $250 worth of peaches.
Owing to the increase in the apple
output in southwestern Virginia 21,000
barrels were made and shipped from
Lynchburg in twenty-eight days.
The blue grass belt of Kansas is
from ten to twenty miles wide, and ex-
tends from Olathe to Ottawa. The
crop brought as high as $67 an acre
the past season.
R. B. Masterson of Fort Worth pur-
chased of E. T. Ambler of Dallas 1045
acres of land about three miles north-
west from the Fort Worth stockyards.
The consideration was $20,900.
The Capitol Syndicate company has
sold about 6000 3-year-old steers to
Montana parties, the consideration be-
ing about $50,000.
H. M. Pegues has sold his ranch near
Metz, consisting of forty sections, and
also 1000 head of cattle, to C. D. Lewis.
The sale aggregated $30,000,
About fifty acres of peach trees were
blown down by the recent severe wind
in McLennan county. Corn in the ear
blew through the air with terrific force.
T. N. Smelkner, living near Kauf-
man, is raising a winter muskmelon
which he has been growing several
years. The melons are said to be
sweet, prolific and as easily grown aa
other varieties.
W. C. McCord. who farms on an ex-
tensive scale in Kaufman county, sold
his entire crop, 110 bales, at Terrell
one day last week. It was the product
of 698 acres. Last year the same acre-
age yielded 500 bales.
Some farmers in the Alma neighbor-
hood of Ellis county have been haul-
ing water nearly all this fall, a condi-
tion of affairs that has not existed in
that section heretofore for sixteen
years.
One hundred farmers are members
of the Camp County Frut and Truck
Growers' association. The organiza-
tion will put in 100 acres of Irish po-
tatoes, 100 of tomatoes and the same
acreage in cantaloupes.
Owing to the corn famine In por-
tions of the republic, the Mexican gov-
ernment put wheat from the United
States on the free list. The piriod
which this will be in operation com-
menced on the 10th of this month and
ceases on 31st of December.
Smith county growers are getting
good prices for fall tomatoes. Over
two carloads have been shipped from
Swan. They average 50 cents a crate,
and net the growers from $100 to $200
per acre. This is the second crop of
the year.
Vagrants must work at Corsicana.
Pecos river was out of its banks at
Pecos on the 6th.
Dr. J. R. Briggs of Corsicana died
at Beckville. He was 78 years of age.
The First National bank of Farmers-
ville has been authorized to do busi-
ness.
The grand jury in Concho county
could find only two misdemeanor in-
dictments.
Sip Alexander was killed at Overton.
John Wesley Johnson surrendered.
Both colored.
Rabbi J. Bogen of Houston has ac-
cepted a call to the Texarkana Jewish
synagogue.
The striking Texas Central railway
machinists at Walnut Springs have set-
tled their differences with the company
and resumed work.
A train on the Houston and Texas
Central railway ran over some mules
just north of Bryan. Five were killed
and two injured.
The Oak Fraternal association of San
Antonio has been granted authority by
the state insurance commissioners to
do business in Texas.
Joseph Pate, a resident of Hopkins
county for forty-two years, died at Sul-
phur Springs, aged 78 years. He was
several years county treasurer.
H. A. Lingrith, assistant agent and
cashier at San Angelo for the Santa Fe,
was arrested on a charge of embezzle-
ment. His bond was set at $500.
The commissioners’ court of Ellis
county has instructed the county judge
and county treasurer to invest the sur-
plus school funds in good county bonds.
The case of William R. Gaines,
charged at Sherman with the murder
of his brother-in-law, Charles Kirk, in
that city, has been transferred for trial
to Collin county.
Navarro county has had $4000 of her
permanent school fund lying in banks
at Corsicana and the county commis-
CANTON, VAN ZANDT COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14,1901.
Look at the Label* 1
Every package of cocoa or chocolate
put out by Walter Baker & Co., bears
the well-known trade-mark of the
chocolate girl, and the place of manu-
facture, "Dorchester, Mars House-
keepers are advised to examine their
purchases, and make sure that other
goods have not been substituted. They
received three gold medals from the
Pan-American exposition.
Held Up.
Corsicana, Tex., Nov. 11.-D. L.
Blackmon was held up by a masked
highwayman and robbed Saturday
night after mdnight near his home
on West Third avenue. He was re-
leved of $5 in cash and a watch and
> shain.
Tva lb* following papers for 1
llowing prices:
0.11m Nows, 8eml-weekly, 6175
Koqston Post, " J*
g, Louis Republlo, 1.75
*u. & Ranch.............1 “
*.iu Farmer.............175
Fome k Farm............1.25
Aanta Constitution........1.75
great Opportunities for
Hgnei in Texas.
Tbs country traversed by
the International & Great
Northern Railroad, embracing
ths greater portion of East,
South and Southwest Texas,
contain* thousands of acres of
fertile land especially adapted
to general farming, stock rais-
ing, rice, tobacco, fruit and
grape culture; trucking, min-
ing and lumber manufacturing
that can be purchased at low
rates and on exceedingly liber-
al terms.
The Illustrator
and General Narrator,
a handsomely illustrated
monthly magazine, published
by the I & G. N. R. R., each
number of which contains gen-
eral and specific information
regarding some county or sec-
tion io the I.&G.N, country,
Sent Free
to any address on receipt of
25c to cover a year’s postage or
2c for sample copy, contains
reliable information regarding
this matter. Address,
D. J. PRICE, G.A.& T.A.,
Palestine, Texas,
*|hh mention this paper, _
Topeka, Kan., Nov. 11.—Sheriff Cook
of this county and Deputy Sheriff
Williams were captured by two escap-
ed convicts from Fort Leavenworth
military prison Sunday afternoon at
Pauline, five miles south of Topeka,
and held prisoners in farmhouse of a
man named Wooster for several hours.
At 2:30 o’clock in the afternoon ।
some farmer boys near Papline learned
hat the convicts were in the neighbor-
hood. Hastily forming a posse, armed
with target rifles, pistols and clubs,
they gave chase. Neither of the con-
victs was armed and they were unable
to make a stand.
Later Sheriff Cook and Deputy Wil-
Hams arrived. Coming upon the con-
victs. both of the officers fired, and
wounded tae men, but not disabling
them. The men then fled through an
opening of timber land and then ran
into the house of Farmer Wooster.
Sheriff Cook telephoned to Topeka
for assistance and then took up the
chase. Thinking the convicts had run
around the house, he darted through
the open door, intending to surprise
them at the rear door, but instead
of this the convicts had gone Into
the house and the officer almost fell
into their arms. He was ordered to
give up his gun, which he did.
Deputy Williams by this time had
reached the house and entered with-
out knowing what had happened inside
and he, too, was made captive by the
convicts.
In the meantime Chief Stahl of
Topeka and eight other officers were
on bheir way. They arrived at the
Wooster house about an hour after
the officers had been imprisoned.
Chief Stahl immediately began nego-
tiations with the convicts to give up
their prisoners and to surrender them-
selves, but the convicts only laughed.
Farmer Wooster managed to get a
gun and was about to make an at-
tack on the convicts when one of them
laid him low with a blow from the
butt of a revolver taken from one of
their captives. The convicts broke
Wooster's right arm and cut an ugly
gash in his head.
One of the convicts told Sheriff Cook
that he would be killed if he made
the slightest move looking toward
their capture. In the meantime the
police officers on the outside had sur-
rounded the building, but were afraid
to make an attack for fear that Cook
and Williams would suffer.
Mrs. Wooster had fainted during the
excitement. She finally revived, and at
7 o’clock the convicts placed the wom-
an and Sheriff Cook in front of them
as shields and made for the door.
As they left the house, the frighten-
ed farmer’s wife and the submissive
sheric before them, the convicts pass-
ed a cordon of police, who could have
easily captured them, and started for
the railroad track. The sheriff had ex-
acted a promise from the police that
they would not molest the convicts,
and they did not.
After covering themselves a con-
siderable distance down the track the
convicts suddenly disappeared through
a hedge fence, bidding the officers a
mocking farewell.
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