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The Matagorda County Cribun
TO OUR COUNTT, OUR WHOLE COUNTY AND EVERY SECTION OF OUR COUNTY. TO OUR PRIDE IN ITS PAST AND OUR HOPE FOR ITS FUTURE, ADD VIGOROUS WORK IN THE LIVING PRESENT.
Sixty-fourth Year. No 43
BAY CITY. TEXAS, FRIDAY. SEPTMBER 29, 1911
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INFORMATION FOR GUIDANCE OF
HUNTERS.
HEAR BICE BATE CASE.
PREPARING TO DRILL FOR OIL
BICE CONDITIONS. -
BICE SUCCEASRU anown I
Burton D. Hurd of Collegeport Speaks
of Possibilities Through Texas
Exhibits.
Railroad Traffic Officials Arrive In
.Chief Game Warden Cox Has Prepared 4, Houston—Interstate Commerce
An Epitome of Laws of Interest
• to Texan Sportsmen,
Commission earing Today
One Field Will See Derricks Raised
This Week: Other Will See Ma-
chinery On Ground.
Statement issued by the Association.
“In attracting Eastern and North-
ern capitalists to Texas and in bring-
ing them down to this country to in-
spect first hand the possibilities of
the country lies the greatest and most
immediate advantages to be gained
from the Texas products exhibits
Austin, Texas, Sept. 23—Due to the
fact that the open season for hunting
in Texas will soon be open, Chief Game
Warden Cox has prepared a statement
for the guidance of hunters over the
State and all others interested in this
kind of sport, in this statement be
says:
“To hunt in any county in this State
other than the county of one's resi-
dence it is necessary to procure a non-
Houston, Tex., Sept. 25.—Railroad
traffic officials from nearly all of the
Texas and Louisiana lines and rice
millers and distributers from New’Or-
Jeans, Galveston and other points, but
principally form New Orleans, came to
Houston on Monday to attend the
bearing of the interstate commerce
commission before Commissioner F.
K. Lane in regard to the complaint
which was filed last March by the Mu-
tual Rice Trade and Development As-
about to be placed at the land shows
at Pittsburg, New York and Chicago,”
said Mr. Hurd of CoHegeport while
in Houston Isst week.
"It is not so much how many home-
seekers and settlers will be interested
* in Texas through the exhibits," he
said. These are already pouring into
the State and will come in greater
numbers this fall and winter than ever
before in the history. Capitalists will
the exhibit of things actually produced
in the State. These objects will mean
more to them than all the literature
and newspaper publicity that could be
given the country. Many of them will
be induced through these exhibits to
come to Texas and inspect the coun-
try first hand.
Money is the most incredulous
resident county hunting license. This sociation against the railroads of Tex.
license costs $1.75 and can be pro-
cured from the county in which the
person resides.
“A non-resident of the State must
procure a non-resident State hunting
license. This costs $15 and can be
procured from the State game, fish
and oyster commissioner at Austin or
from any deputy warden in the State.
“The open season for hunting deer
begins November 1 and ends Decem-
ber 31. Only buck deer, or deer with
horns, may be taken; provided, that
any one person shall not kill more
than three bucks during the hunting
as and Louisiana, in which it was al-
leged that the railroads were discrim-
inating against Houston in favor of
New Orleans. After reaching the city.
Commissioner Lane decided to take
the testimony of some officials of Tex-
as and Oklahoma oil pipe lines in an
investigation which is being made in-
to that phase of the oil business and
the rice rate hearing was postponed
until Tuesday. A report of the pipe
line hearing will be found in another
column. •
The rice rate hearing before the In-
terstate commerce commission is th
thing in the world. The moneyed in-season. 11 is unlawful to kill or take outcom of a rate quarrel of long
terests are the slowest to show will-a doe or spotted fawn. Hunting with standing between Houston and New
ingness to look into newer and greater I lamp or lantern 18 prohibited.
’ possibilities, it requires more showing "The open season for wild turkey
than any other element, and it is the begins December 1 and ends March
most needed factor in developing Tex-31. The limit is three turkeys during
as the open season for any one person.
"The individual farmer is helpless "The open season for shooting quail
to better his conditions, develop the and doves begins November 1 and ends
land efficiently and bring about the January 31, it 18 lawful for any one
necessary improvements required to person to kill as many as 25 of these
put a new country on a paying basis birds in any one day, during the open
without successive failures. He has seascon, but no more.
to go at it blindly, and his only way "There 18 no closed season for wild
to acquire experience is through fail-i geese, ducks, plover snipe, jack snipe,
ures curlews, robinssoy chacaleca. How-
"Irrigation and drainage are requir-ever, it 18 unlawml for any person to
ed, and the latter is as important as’kill more than 25 of any of the above
the former. This should be done by mentioned wild fowls or birds in any
communities and capital should be ex-one day of 24 hours.
■ Orleans. Since the rice industry in
Texas the Houston rice men have been
complaining that New Orleans had an
advantage. On the other hand, New
Orleans complains that Houston has
an advantage over that tity. Both
are complainants before the commis-
sion and it is understood that Com-
missioner lane proposes to open wide
the gates and give the counsel for
both sides the fullest latitude. Both
sides are well equipped with figures
and legal counsel and a battle royal
is expected.
TIJBERCULAR COLONY PLANS.
“It is unlawful to kill any wild Mon-
pended in engineering work prelimi-
nary to putting in the drainage sys- golian or
tern along the most economical and ad- rie chicken (pinnated grouse) wild
vantageous lines. Engineering is as antelope or Rocky Mountain sheep at
necessary to successful land devedop- any time for five years. (June 11, 1911
ment as the work of an architect is to June 11, 1916.)
to the building of a house, and the "It is unlawful to take any wild
man who starts out to develop his birds or fowl by netting or trapping
English pheasant, wild prai-
Consumptives’ Home to be Established
at Carlshad, Near San Angelo.a
There has been considerable activ-
ity in oil circles in Bay City for the
past week, due to the fact that cer-
tain active preparation for the sinking
of two wells in the new fields are well
under way. In the Cash-Griffith
leases west of the river near the
Markham or Hardy fields, the timber
for the derrick is being placed on the
ground and active drilling will begin
by Saturday it is thought
The well will be sunk under the
personal supervision of Dr. P. S.
Griffith and strong hopes for a gusher
are entertained.
The oil venture, however, that is at-
tracting the most attention and inter-
est is the one which will go down
near the city limits. This field is al-
so the leased property of Mr. Cash and
a company to finance the enterprise
has been formed and every possible
assurance that the well will be drill-
ed in the near future is in the hands
of the promoters. In fact the machin-
ery is being gotten in shape and will
go on the grounds this week. All oil
men agree fully that the surface indi-
cations in this field are excellent.
There is no fever of excitement
here over the situation, but it will be
a surprise if the eyes of the oil world
are not turned Bay Cityward within
the next 60 days.
For the well near the city there is
only a small sum of funds necessary
to be raised. About $400. Is the
amount needed and there is no doubt
but that it will be well in hands by
the time the machinery is on the
grounds.
This new oil field when developed
will be a great thing for Bay City and
if it comes up to expectations of its
promoters, property in this city will
be worth something within a very
short while. We should all encourage
this work. .
, ---o—o——
MATAGORDA LODGE BEGINS WORK
land without first investing some mon-at any time.
ey in running levels and cross sections' "It is unlawful to kill wild geese,
is wasting time and energy and is or wild ducks, by any other means
paying double for what he will ever than by the ordinary gun capable of
receive in return. To do this capital being shot from the shoulder.
Austin, Texas. September 25.—The
state anti-tuberculosis commission to-
day selected the plans of Henry T.
Phelps of San Antonio for the colony
to be located at Carlsbad, fourteen
miles from San Angelo. Upon com-
Organised In 1838. Demised In 1865.
Revived In 1911,
pletion of all specifications bids will
be asked, followed by the awarding of
contracts and then work on colony
No. 1 will start.
The cost for all purposes will be ap
proximately $65,000 and the colony
Is needed. | "It is unlawful to sell or offer for
“Texas also needs facilities for ob-sale, or have in possession for the will accommodate go patients.
Such a brief might cover the history
of one of the oldest Masonic lodges in
Texas, and such is the 'history of
Lodge No. 7 of Matagorda county Tex-
as, which was organized in 1838 and
demised ip 1865.
Recently, however, the Worshipful
Grand Master of Texas granted a
The conditions for harvest for the
1911 crop have been about as bad as
they could be in all parts of the ter-
ritory except for Houston, Texas, and
West, including Eagle Lake, El Campo,
Bay City, etc. In this territory prob-
ably two-thirds of the entire Honduras
rice crop has been harvested, and sold
Conditions of the Arkansas crop are
very good at the present time, and
with good weather their rice will be
harvested in good condition, but there
will be no rice on the market from this
territory until October, first The con-
ditions that exist in East Texas, and
Southwest Louisiana and the river dis-
trict sre that the probable loss on
Honduras rice will amount to 10 to 15
per cent; some of this rice having
stood in the shock for more than six
weeks. Owing to these conditions and
owing further to the fact that th Car-
olinas rice crop having been practical-
ly wiped out, and that the foreign rice
crip is higher than ever, it has been
deemed wise by the board of directors
to adopt the following prices to be-
come effective September 20th.
No. 1 .... $3.25 No. 2. .... 91.00
No. 3 .... $2.70 No. 4.....$2.40
No. 5.....$2.10... .No. 6.....$1.90
these prices apply on both Honduras
and Japan.
These conditions of the harvest have
made your rice cost you more than it
would have' cost if the weather had
been good, and the rice had been har-
vested in first class condition. In all
other countries contracts are made
for rice for future delivery, and the
phrase, “season quality," is adopted
in all contracts, and owing to the fact
of the extra cost that the rice has been
to you, we can see no reason why
prices chould not be advanced so that
you will get a reasonable price for
your goods, even though it be damaged
to some extent. Number one sound
rice is going to be very scarce, and
we see no reason why it should not
command the price adopted, and even
allow a further advance in price later
on.
We trust the action of the board of
directors in the foregoing will meet
with your entire approval, and that
you will lend your every effort to ob-
tain further support to your associa-
tion.
Yours truly.
SOUTHEERN RICE GROWER’S AS-
SOCIATION.
A. C. WILKINS, Secy.
The tract includes 239 acres, and
taining low loans on long time. No purpose of sale, or have in possession,
farmer can hope to develop his land after purchase, any game or game the altitude will be 2,150 feet. There
and bring it to a productive basis if birds mentioned in this article: will be an administration building,
hospital, subsistance, ice, light and
he is confronted with the necessity of
making immediate payments on the
money borrowed. If he has to pay
all he gets off his first years or two
crops back to the concern from which
he has borrowed his starting funds
the chances are practically certain
that he will fail.” Such a loan is not
as secure as a long time loan where
the farmer can use what he makes the
first two or more years In further de-
veloping his land. The State needs
capital at the present time far more
than it needs settlers, for the latter
are coming any way. Such conditions
should exist making it possible for
• them to build up and develop their
lands without the possibility of initial,
failures through lack of information
and knowledge as to the best methods
to pursue.” V ,
While In Houston Mr. Hurd met a
party of about forty northern home-
seekers who came down to look at
Matagorda county farm lands, where
the Burton D. Hurd company is now en
gaged in developing and settling 41,-
000 acres through irrigation canals.
“The present homeseeker business
' coming to Texas is bigger than it has
ever been before," he said. "I confi-
dently expect that by the first of Oc-
tober excursions will be something
tremendous. This fall and winter will
be a record-breaker of an astonish-
ing kind.
"The kind of settlers coming to Tex-
as now differs importantly from the
class coming in the past. Formerly
they were largely land tenants who
had no means with which to start.
They had nothing to lose by moving,
or at least not so much as the present
class. Now the people coming to Tex-
as to buy farms are owners of farm
lands in the North and East. They are
selling out these farms for the cheap-
er and newer lands in the South and
are coming with the experience and
some money to invest. It is one of the
healthiest signs discernable in the
present tremendous immigration move
"It is unlawful to kill or in any man
ner injure any mocking bird, whippoor
dispensation to twenty A. F. & A. M.
Masons for a lodge at Matagorda, and
last night, Friday September 22, 1911
under the power of District Deputy
Grand Master J. H. H. Dennis of the
32nd District of Texas, the lodge at
SERIOUSLY HURT IN AUTO ACCI
DENT.
Haywood Cobb, Prominent Stockman
Has Throat Cut By Barb Wire.
power plant.
Mr. Phelps made a special study of Matagorda—the successor to the his-% .
***** *****‘‘, VIUV’IALA _ ***** • 1 ‘----
finch, thruss, bobolink, catbird, non- the tubercular colonies other states
will, bullbat, nighthawk, bluebird,
pareil, scissortail, seagul, tern, shear-
water, egert, heron, or pelican.
“A person may ship to his home as
'many as one days' bag limit of his
game except of wild ducks, of which
he may ship as many as three days’
bag limit or 75 ducks; provided he
accompany the shipment on the same
STONEWALL JACKSON’S ONLY
SISTER IS DEAD. ,
Mrs. Laura J. Arnold Passed Away in
Buckhannon, West Virginia, at
Age of 85 Years.
toric old Lodge No. 7 was put to work
in the presence of Matagorda members
and visiting brethren, many of whom
were from Lodge No. 865 ofBay City,
in returning to his home near Mid-
field last night Haywood Cobb a prom-
inent Matagorda county stockman,
sustained an injury which, it.is feared,
(Continued on page t.)
train or common carrier. To make
such shipment the shipper shall make
the prescribed affidavit, setting out
that he killed the game within the
law, the place of-his residence, etc.
■ “It is not unlawful to kill English
or European house sparrows, hawks,
(except nighthawks) crows, buzzards,
blackbirds rice birds and owls.
"It is unlawful for any one person
to kill more than 10 squirrels in any
one day, or sell more than five squir-
rels in any one week. This, however,
does not apply to any county situated
In the second, fifth, ninth, tenth,
twelfth, fourteenth, seventeenth,
eighteenth, twenty-first, twenty fourth
and thirty-first senatorial districts
under the apportionment of 1901. It
Is unlawful to sell or ship squirrels In
Montgomery county, and it is unlaw-
ful to ship squirrels in Liberty coun-
ty.
"There is a heavy penalty for any
one hunting without a license as pre-
scribed. A land owner, peace officer
or game warden has a right to de-
mand to be shown one’s license when
found hunting.”
Oranges.
Do you know Fort Bend has a nurs-
ery? Can furnish 1 and 2 year old
oranges on 3 year Trifoliate roots, 11
to 48 inches. Trifoliata seedlings 1
to 3 years, six to 70 inches; valuable
for hedges, ornamental, budding and
seed purposes. Now offerd st $5.00
per bushel and 11.00 per pound, clean-
led. Want agents and club orders.
E. M. McGINNIS,
Katy, Texas.
Buckhannon, W. Va., Sept. 25.—
Mrs. Laura J. Arnold the only sister
of the late Gen. “Stonewall" Jack
who had recommended the Matagorda
brethren to the Worshipful Grand
Master for the dispensation and who
were especially invited to Matagorda
to see the lodge started under the dis-
pensation
Those who attended from here, go-
ing via automobile, were Dr. J. W.
son died yesterday at the City Hospit- Reed. Dr B. E. Beott, P. G. Secrest,
——— Raymond Cookenboo, T J. Poole, Jno.
al here from disease incident to old
age. Mrs. Arnold was 85 years old and
was active until a few weeks before
her death. She was born in Clarks-
burg, Va., now West Virginia, in 1826
and was married in 1843 to the late
John Athon Arnold of Beverly, Ran-
dolph county.
FRANK HATCETT PAINFULLY IN.
JURED,
Foot and Shoulder Jammed Between
Piling.
While engaged in work on a county
bridge over Live Oak Creek about
four miles south of this city yesterday,
Frank Hatchett, one of the men en-
gaged in the work was jammed be-
tween two pilings which were being
driven and sustained painful injuries
to his shoulders and foot. He was
brought to town and will be out in #
few days.
ERICKSON’S STOCK GROWS.
Now is the Time te Decide.
What you will plant the coming fall
and winter. Also place your order
night NOW because the freeze last
winter destroyed so much bud and
cutting wood that late orders may
have to go over another year.
There is no time like NOW.
ERICKSON BROS. Nursery
Bay City, Tex.
W. Gaines, W. M. Holland, R. R. Lewis
G. L. Berry,, J. E. Grace, Wm Walker.
Horace Fell, Ed Kilbride, George Ser-
rolls, Ned Hawkins, Hugh Eidman,
Ed Badouh, Amos Lee, Felix Granth-
am, Charley Baker, Thos H. Lewis, W.
C. Carpenter, Dr. B. E. Dickason, of
Lampasas, John Crawford and Mil-
ton Routt.
After the lodge had finished the
work the members and guests repair
od to the I. 0. O. F. hall where a
sumptious banquet was spread and in
waiting, consisting of fish and oysters
In every conceivable' style, condi
ments and coffee.
Some oratory afforded an embelish
ment to the brilliant affair and many
ladies graced the occasion with their
presence. W. C. Carpenter was se-
lected for toast master and the guests
at the banquet board were regaled
with pleasing and appreciative speech-
es appropriate to the occasion by
Thos H. Lewis, W. M. Holland, John
W. Gaines, Amos Lee and J. H H.
Dennis, of Wharton.
The members of this lodge will ask
the Grand Lodge in December for a
charter and to restore the lodge the
origins! number 7.
United cues Department of Agricul-
ture Will Soon Issue Bulletin Glv-
ing Results of Experiments. :
Charles IL Chanibliss, agronomist in
charge of rice investigations , United
States department of agriculture has
just returned from California, where
the department of agriculture has for
three years been conducting experi-
ments to determine whether rice can
be raised in the San Joaquin and Sac-
ramento valleys profitably,
Mr. Chambliss has not yet issued sa
authoritative statement concerning
the government experiments in Cal-
ifornia, but he is very enthusiastic as
to the possibilities there. Nearly 200
acres of rice was grown in California
this season, and the next your the
acreage may run up in to the ten
thousands. It. la not improbable that
in the next five years rice culture in
California may reach the proportions
that it has reached in Arkansas in the
past five years. It is known that the
soil is well adapted to rice culture and
in the San Joaquin and Sacramento
valleys there are between 100,000 and
150,000 acres of such land which can
be irrigated at small coat from rivers,
and deep wells.
In the last three years the depart-
ment of agriculture has been conduct-
ing elaborate experiments to deter-
mine whether all conditions necessary
for successful rice culture are present.
The success of the experiments are
shown by the fact that“with some
types of rice better results have been
secured in California than in the Car-
olinas, Louisiana, Texas or Arkansas,
where the department has experiment
stations.
Californians are awake to the pos-
sibilities of rice culture and are ready
to put money into the business with
the probability that the American rice
acreage will be increased several
thousand acres very shortly. They
have been restrained from planting
large areas only by the assurance that
the department of agriculture will is-
sue an authoritative bulletin on the
subject as soon as it has reached def-
inite conclusions. This authoritative
statement is likely to appear before it
is time to plant another crop
What the statement of ‘the depart-
meat of agriculture as to the possibil-
ities of rice culture in California will
be can not, of course, be foreshadowed
at this time, but it is known that Mr.
Chambliss declares that the rice acre-
age is bound to increase in the next
few years. According to the depart-
ment of agriculture there are 3,000,-
000 acres of land in the United States
available for rice culture. Mr. .Cham-
bliss is an advocate of advertising to
increase consumption.
will go hard with him, if it doesn’t
cost him his life. Mr. Cobb was driv-
ing a Hup and in attempting to cross
a bridge over a small creek near his
home did not make the right turn on
the approach and drove his car
straight through the railing of the
bridge. The car toppled over the edge
of the bridge but struck the ground
right side up with the engine unin-
jured and running. In the fall the
steering gear was rendered useless
and Mr. Cobb, therefore, lost com-
pletely, the control of the car which
ran into the bed of the creek up the
embankment over the railroad and un-
der the wire fence one wire of which
caught Mr. Cobb in the throat severely
lascerating it. The injury is serious
if not fatal, although the jugular vein
and windpipe escaped injury. The ac-
cident occurred near Mr. Cobb’s
home where he is now resting as well
as circumstances will permit.
Wanted—From 5 to 50 acres of land
ready for crops. Cash rent or share
from owner, No agent need reply,
Share rent prefered. .
1444 Champa St. Denver Colo. Dept. H. 1
Fire Does $500 Damage.
Fire broke out in the kitchen at the
A. R. Leckie residence st s result of
s gasoline stove explosion. The si-
arm was promptly turned in and the
fire department reached the place in
time to save the building. Mrs. Leck-
ie’s presence of mind in closing sll
openings in the kitchen, however, pre-
vented the flames from gainlag any
great headway before the fire boys
reached the place. The damage
amounted to about $500.00, which
was covered by insurance.
Material for Derrick Ordered.
The material for the derrick for the
new oil well on the Cash-Griffith
A MOTHER’S GRATITUDE
. /
Many a Mother in Bay City Will Ap-
predate the Following.
Many a strong man and many a
healthy woman has much for which
to thank mother.. The care taken
during their childhood brought them
past the danger point and made them
healthy men and women. . Children
are generally bothered at some period
with incontinence of urine, and In-
ability to retain it la ofttimes called
a habit. It is not the children’s fault.
The difficulty lies with the kidneys,
and can be readily righted if taken in
the proper way. A Bay City mother
shows how.
Mrs. W. V. Follis, Bay City, Texas,
says: "I gave a statement for pub-
lication recommending Doan’s Kid-
ney Pills several years ago and now
I willingly confirm all I .then said.
My child suffered from a weakness of
the kidneys, the kidney secretions be-
ing unnatural. Finally I procured a
box of Doan’s Kidney Pills at Ruge- *
ley’s Drug Store and gave them to
the boy according to directions. They
brought good results and he has no
return attack of kidney troubles.’’
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Milburn Company, Buf-
falo, N. Y., sole agents for the United
States.
, Remember the name-Doan’s-and
take no other.
Named Delegate for State Re-Union.
At a meeting of the, E. 8. Rugeley
Camp Confederate Veterans yesterday ry
afternoon Dr. Batt Smith, Adjutant, /
General, and W. H. Presley, color
bearer, were named as delegates to
the State re-union which convenes
in Beaumont, Oct.,5th., and 6th.,
Some six or eight veterans and mem-
leases west of the river was ordered, bora of the camp have signified their
Mr. Cash says that actual work will be
willingness to attend the Beaumont
gin soon in the new field.
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 1911, newspaper, September 29, 1911; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1696316/m1/1/: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.