Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 28, 1901 Page: 1 of 16
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VOL. XXI. NO. 9.
DALLAS, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28,1901.
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Texas News.
Fort Worth is to have another
packing house.
shows a healthy financial condition.
There were on hand in the several
funds $65,599 in cash. The county
also owns bonds and securities
amounting to $28,000.
News Across the Waters
:rs. |
The North Atlantic Squadron will
visit Galveston March 9 and 10.
There has been $20,000 subscribed
for a cotton seed oil mill at Garland.
The citizens of Texarkana are going
to have a hundred thousand dollar cot-
ton mill.
Representative Talbot says there is
small hope for a libel law at this ses-
sion of the 27th legislature.
A resolution has passed the House
calling on Congress for liberal assist-
ance to the agricultural department.
The Cotton Belt Railway Company
is losing considerably by not rushing
the steel rail laying on the Tyler and
Lufkin branch.
Corsicana claims to have the larg-
est cotton ginnery in the world. • It
embraces twenty-five gin stands and
two round-bale presses. Its cotton re-
ceipts from wagons is not surpassed
by any inland town in the union.
Last season there were raised in Na-
varro county something over 100,000
bales of'cotton and most of it was sold
in Corsicana.
A deal was closed Friday last be-
tween- T. M. Cunningham, of Miami,
Texas, and Harrell Brothers of John-
son county, Mr. Cunningham selling
his ranch of twenty-four sections of
fenced pasture and 1000 head of stock
cattle, the consideration being $52,-
000.
This ranch lies two miles west of
Miami, Texas.
Russia is condemning her socialist
students to serve in the army.
Quite a number of Texas towns are
organizing and reorganizing their mil-
itary companies getting ready for the
State encampment.
A new voting precinct has been es-
tablished at Rushing, in Navarro
county, which makes the total voting
places in the county 56.
The state agricultural experiment
station advises all farmers who have
a strip of dry poor land on the farm
to plant it in Kaffir corn. It produces
well with or without rain, on poor soil.
Seamen have known for many years
that there was an "oil pool" in Sabine
harbor, and now a company has been
formed and permission obtained to de-
velop oil in the Gulf of Mexico. The
secretary of war at Washington has
granted the necessary permit.
The stockmen of Northwestern Tex-
as are loud in their demands that the
present estray law be so amended
that it will prevent fraudulent valu-
ation of estrayed stock. They claim
that in several districts stock is driven
to out of the way sections estrayed
and then sold and bought in by the
members of a clique organization for
that purpose at less than half their
real value.
Worley's Directory of the City of
Dallas for 1901, which has just been
issued shows the population of the
city to be 69,689, an Increase during
the past year of 1,317. It records 200
factories of various kinds with capital
aggregating $3,700,000; four national
banks with resources amounting to
$12,550,000, also more than fifty news-
papers and periodicals.
Gov. Sayers has signed the bill ap-
propriating $200,000 for the establish-
ment of a State Epileptic Asylum at
Abilene, Texas. The bill takes im-
mediate effect and plans for the build-
ing will be adopted and work com-
menced at an early day.
The report of the commissioners of
Navarro county rendered February 9,
Baron Robert von Massow who
fought with Mosby in the late Civil
War, has left $2,000,000 to be divided
among the survivors of that command.
Confederate soldiers in Dallas esti-
mate the number of survivors at from
100 to 400, which would make each sur-
vivor entitled to from $5000 to $20,000.
The names of survivors may be sent
to Commander Charles L. Martin of
Camp Sterling Price, United Confed-
erate Veterans, Dallas, Texan, or to
Colonel R. B. Parrott of Waco, who
was a members of Mosby's command.
So far from cooping and catching
De Wet, Kitchner himself has escaped
being pulled in by a very close shave.
Oreat anxiety is also felt in London
about a portion of his command which
has not been heard from in two weeks.
Its capture is feared. Meanwhile the
agile Boer has got away and left the
Britishers guessing where he is at.
The Irish members of parliament
are going to make it lively for the
British. Heretofore, they have taken
no part in any legislation which did
not have reference to Ireland. From
now on, they will take an active part
in all English legislations and make
trouble, divisions, and factions where-
ever they can.
Russia has occupied Manchuria, and
there is a likelihood of a Russo-
Japanese war in the spring.
A general uprising against the Sul-
tan of Turkey has occurred in Arabia
and troops are being forwarded to the
scene.
Doings in Other States.
Hon. W. M. Evarts, a distinguished
lawyer and statesman, died at his
home in Boston yesterday in the 80th
year of his age.
As usual the formal reading of
Washinton's Farewell Address was
gone through with in the Senate on
Washington's birthday.
Boer women and children are turned
out upon the open veldts while their
homes are crumbling to ashes. It
means total ruin. The Boers may re-
taliate on the English in Cape Colony.
Immense mass meetings of the cit-
izens of Kansas are being held to as-
sist Mrs. Carrie Nation in her cru-
sade against the saloons whiskey
joints in that state.
High personages in England are fig-
uring in the divorce courts, and the
filth and corruption in families among
the high aristocracy equals in crime
the outrages against the Boers and the
Chinese.
There are strange reports about
Croker in London. He is reported
sick and that his sickness is rather
mental than physical; in factj that he
has lost his reason.
The present Congress will break the
record in the way of extravagance.
The per capita in taxation will reach
ten dollars, all to be paid on a gold
basis.
Thomas Vital, a negro, who crimi-
nally assaulted little Nora Miller, near
Lake Charles, La., on February 20,
was lynched near Fento last Saturday.
Samuel Maddox, who attempted to
defend Vital, was shot dead.
The Shanghai Mercury asserts that
"the allies are preparing a move that
will astonish China and bring her to
terms quickly." According to the
North China Daily News, the Germans
are planning an expedition on the
Yangtso Kiang.
A meeting of cotton spinners at
Charlotte, N. C., representing 4,000,000
spindles, adopted a resolution to shut
off night work for four months, and
to shut down day mills one day in
each week in order to reduce product-
ion.
Taunecchie, a full blood Cherokee
Indian, died at his home in Vineta on
Thursday last. He had been a Baptist
preacher for many years and was held
in high esteem by all the full bloods.
He was 80 years old.
A sleek young St. Louis dude, Louis
C. McDowell, who had little sense
and less money, has gotten himself in-
to trouble by obtaining money and
merchandise under false pretenses. On
St. Valentine's Day he obtained a $300
diamond from a prominent Cincinnati
jeweler, by claiming to be a son of
W. J. Lemp, the millionaire brewer
of St. Louis. He worked the same
game on a Philadelphia diamond deal-
er as a son of Pierpont Morgan, but
was "pulled" "by the Cincinnati po-
lice while trying to pass himself off
as a brother-in-law of the Duke of
Manchester—the young English snob
who married old Zimmerman's daugh-
ter a short time since.
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