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niKK HKAHTS, PRKB MINDS, KKXK pkoplx, ARE THE MATERIAL* AND THH ONLY II \TKH1AL, OCT OP WHICH PRE* QOVKKNURNTS ARZ OO.NHTkL'UTKD.— JKPPKRSOW.
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COTTON SEED
«jE will pay the Highest Price, In
Cash, give Honest Weights, and
buy at any time, winter or summer,
all Cotton Seed offered to us at our
Mill.
Bagging and ties.
To exchange
for Seed only
We buy and sell
everything for
CASH.
Poojell Oil jVIill Co.
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Insurance and
Real Estate.
Represent# only FIRST CLASS Companies,
aud t ill appreciate your business.
11 you want to soil, list your property with me
aud I will liud a buyer, II you want to buy, toll
mo what you want and I will oet it for you.
Ofliee with Oi^ain & Maynard.
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Fresli Family and Staple Grocerief.
^ . . . CALL ANI) SEE . . . Jfr
t MAX M. BLOECKNER, t
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New Store. New Goods. 4^
And therefore FBKSII (JROCEKIKS run be hod at Lowest
possible flgurra. Quick Sales and Small Profit* in ray motto.
•bT" Frr*h Foaming XXX Lager Beer alwa>a on lap.
Best aud pnreut Na Ive Wiuea from the cultivated grape.
x M. Gloeckner, Prop'r.
Avenue Hotel,
Austin, Texas.
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On American Plan."^^4.
D. M. WILSON, M g r.
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CiL MEN ORDERED OUT
UNION MEN IN TEXAS FIELDS
TOLD TO QUIT.
THE ACT STOPS PRODUCTION
Grounds of Action for Discharge of
Two Foremen, and Then Addition-
al Demands Were Made
INVESTIGATION UNDER DIFFICULTY ?.
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T. A. HiSLKI, Vlon- Pra*.
Wirst JSI a.tiona.1 Bsnlc,
or baflthop, TE1JLB
CAPITAL STOCK PAID UP, $50,000.
AUTHORIZED, $<50,000
Drafti drawn on the Principal R nh in the United Ntate* In atnannt* cl PWa
Dolliri and upward. Meney received on dspiiit iu large or muall amount*,
•ublect io oheek. TUl* JartW i« fully equipped and prepared *nd will ba
faithful correspondent It y«u latruat any part af your buair>« « witb It.
ritn oas of oca fire-proof y\ult v customers to stor*
I'll El K VAJ.l'A BLK PAPERS.
J>UU;OTORS 1
t loc**TT. . p. oho air, r a. hablk* w. a iiccord, w. n hsiomi
1 Il<murn<in 1. Tix It is utid'THtood
Iji-iv that ill I strike <■<uiuultt«■<■
: of tIk* Oil and flan Well Workers
which met ai 15;it: • >ii Wi'd 11. -i!:i\ has
■ irdercd out all union men in all Tex
as fields Irrespective nf whom the em-
pi oyer may be
The order affecting Spindle Top has
not been received rather, li could not
be learned that it had been received,
but it was announced at Saratoga
Wednesday afternoon that all uuioii
men had been ordered out there at
ti o'clock and the i.wnt action in cx-
pecieii to be taken on Spindle Top.
1 This make? the strike ; iii:_tlim more
serious than it tin been at any time
linci the walkout at l(at on two week*
jco It inean.s that production will
be stop i'_j in the four largo produc-
ing Center; ill k.i t Texas, It.llson,
SaratoK 1. Smu I..ik. ami Spindle Top.
The order will not be effective at
Humble, il. tin event it applies there,
becau. e t here i.v. Mil'h II Slllltll per-
ccntiiKc oi union men in the Held
The ground upon wlilch this action
v.an ba-i'd is unknown The • who
were at I (at.sou Wednesday state there
was a iiieeiinn of tin central commit-
tee or federation 01 the Oil Workers,
but the aetlou taken remains a secret
Km ii til. fact that Saratoga men had
bc.11 ordered out was news to the ar-
rivals from liaison. Spindle Tup op-
erators. however, state that they fully
expect all utiiou men on Spindle Top
to j;o out Thursdaj Tills making of
the Mike a geuer;«| matter will work
a tevere hard. !ilp on uian\ product•: -
who have be. n .staunch union sup
porters, and some of the iiiklu.: men
ill the cit> were Uini'de to \plllin
the act fur'1.ei than to presume n v 1
don. .111 1 lie ba.a. Chat 11 wo.ud a:
Kia\ it- tin situation and force a com-
pliance wlih demands
FALSE IMPRISONMENT.
Election J.'dcjc Fined for Excecdinrj
His Authority.
An-tin, lev T he Court ol Criminal
Appeals Weiiue; daw affirmed fSo
Jud. ineiu ef the District Court <|f M<
I.. 111.an County In imposing a line <>r
110<t upon K It Smyth of Mart u
false imprlso uuent Smyth was a
Judge of electiou at the election of
K-hool trustee at Mart. The pro."
cutor lit th< . e w.nt to the polP
while Muyth was a judge. iw vote i>
carried with him 11 paper on which
hi' had notes the initials of the cau
Uidates he wished to substitute on the
ballot, Smyth informed htm this was
Illegal, whereupon Shaw went avra>,
Kaying In- guessed he would not vote
Later he came back, asked for his bal
lot and siit down at a fable, tni'ildng
on his ballot the names of the eandi
dates from the memorandum Smyth
ordered Charles itcckaham, the eit\
marshal, to arrest SIihw and f.tk.
htm to jail Shaw was taken to tin
Jail, where he was confined in at
apartment until after the polls had
closed. .linUe Henderson, who wrote
the opinion, held that Smyth's stithc
fly as Judge of the election extend
ed only to the issuing of a warrant,
and that he had no power to order an
arrest Kor this reason the Judgment
was affirmed '
Killed in Self Defense.
I'iT Itio, lex. The cast, of Nntivad
Calderon, for killing anothei Mexican
nt Hlnhbrlilge, was tried T uesday t>\
the district court, and he was ac<niP
ted, as the jury decided that th<
killing had been in self-defense The
verdict was not given until late at
night
Teachers' Examination*.
Palestine. Tex On Friday and Sat
•'day of Mils week, at lb ' Central
High School building an exatninat m
Will be held for County teaclu::. eel
tificales l^ulte a nmiibei of apt i
cants for lenchers positions in f;,e
1 1 ouuty Intend to take the exaiiim.i
i t on
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Cupid in Ber County.
" ' Vllle, lex In the fir.-t f.iui
IllOIltllS of flic pie .lit Ve.ll fort V IIVI
licenses lo wed have In n i • aieil < > I
these the culmed po| ilulon use.i
> three and the halano w u evenly d
v'ded between M< xU'iins aud whiti
twenty ouo each
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lerrill (tain hiuI hail C'insldeia
hie damage in the county from ruin
I and hail.
Athens drop ol fhirtv degiee* and
{ Detinle are HiilirMhciivlvM
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GR0VETC:i TRAGEDY.
NORTH TEXAS TORNADO.
RANGER DUNAWAY AND COUNTY THE STORM TRAVELED DOE EA5T,
ATTORNEY R0BE3 SHOT. LEAVING SEVERE HAVOC.
Tired From Officr Windaw—Repeating
Shotgun and a Winchester Rifle
Feund in Kenley's Office.
Grclfcton. Tex Kriduy .1 1> Ouna-
| way. State Itanger, and 11 I, Itobb,
ex-count attorney. Were -hot down
I n the main streets of (Irovcton and
It. O Kenle>. a prominent attorney
ti"f<*. has mads .1 statement a - to the
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jity. wl, a M t mil;' s ihUi.x, ar.l
. a me out !•': uin> morniutf 0:1 • .1
i'lrriving 1.' re alioui s : .'10 a. in All the
! ji.ortiing he *.1.- .baking hands wi ll
bis many friend:- here and was In lite
'■ ■■ 1 ol spirits, .lust alier dinner Dun
. way and Kobb start'
office, wliich Is on ilu
I slreel, lor the court
proceeded ahoill ten
.Man. inn's store on
d from the post
east aide of the
house, and had
feel from ii J.
the corner and
.into the court house common when the
I shooting began in rapid - ucce- ion
iroin the ofliee window of |{ O Ken
! ley, whili is in front of the second
id or* of tlie brick building, the leeond
ironi the corner next tin court house
;.i|ua re.
Three men Were ecu by different
parties at the window In Kenley's of
rice during the shooting, but Mr Ken-
lev sayn he alone is the man who did
the shooting Immediately upon the
shooting ltol.li fell in the street slioi
iii the head, the ball entering above
the left eye and ranging round com
I Iiik out above the left temple
Kobb was at once tnkeu into Collins'
;tore and the wounds of both men
; were dressed It is not known b* the
doctors whether the wounds will prove
fatal, it being necessary to probe Dr.
lames A ilall believes that Kobb's
wounds are not fatal and that he will
probably recover Punnway was taken
to Trinity Friday to Or K I. Ilurnes'
,anitariuni where an operation will be
1 performed He is hit six times, once
in the left shoulder, through the left
1 part of the cliln, once In the abdomen,
once in the throat, and In both legs
below the knee. Itobb Is shot over
h> left eye and in the left leu ahmu
lie knee Ixinaway's wounds are con-
sldeted serious by physicians here.
j TARRANT WENT WET.
Majority in the County U Estimated
at 3,000
port Worth, Tex Tarrant county
; with bin two small boxes in the coun-
ty unheard from, went wet at today's
election by a majority of '.. The
principal strenn h of the ami " i>
carried by a vote of t • T1 > 1 li
wit: generally expected hat the eoun-
I try boxes would give a tame major*
:t\ for prohibition, but out <M the thir
1* nine country precliu's hi ml fnn
at l( o'clock Saturday night hi ma
i<"ity nlven b* all ol t lit - tn . 11 ■ 1'. 11 n t • J
to only about l.U'tu vot< On oi the
totnC votes cast prohibition receive I
:!. •< and the on.I tl.iilfi
Celeste Cotton Mill Damaged.
(Jrcelivllle. lex A ten tile al'd ll.ttll
aging ralti fell liere between 'i and !)
o'clock totilKht The rain was hard
| enough to greatly damage crops Con-
siderable hall fell It Is reported that
the cotton mill at Celeste was blown
down or damaged by wind.
Between 25 «nd 30 Were Injured—.
Rescue Party of 50 Persons
Render Assistance.
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Denton, Tex Kive persons *ver<
killed and bctwec.i twenty live airJ
llilrly were injured In the lornadt.
which wiped ou: the hamlet of Hem
tiling. In Cooke count*, late Saturday
afternoon. The town Is eight miles
northwest rJ I Hot Point, oil the rail
l ilij (.-'<■ , i • 'v;l
(l., off by tile SKlilil |IUtliilf'. t'.e wire
out of commission New of the storm
reached Pilot Point via telephone
from FHoomfield and a rescue p;■ rt >
consisting of almout every physician
of the town of Pilot Point and about
lift* eltieziis, went limited ately to the
scene The path of ihe storm was
JoO yards wide and covered u scope
of territory about live i lib in length
A phenomena about it was that In-
tend of from southwest to no:!h*vr t,
tin path oi tii" storm cut directly
eas' inn! left -havoc and destruction in
its wake.
The dead are Willie Ylcxander.
aged 12. son of John Alexander l.eo
na Nell, aged years; Painter Wilkin:',
the small son of Henry Wilkin
Hoydston, aged T y« ars. daughter of
f| <; Hoydtit.or., Orover Iteaver, aged
la years, son of P. D Heaver
Of the twenty live i,r thirty injured
niost of them are from cuts and bruli -
es from flying timbers, but two or
three of them are thought to he fatal-
ly hurt Among the worst hurt i.«t
John Alexander, whose son was killed.
In addition to the fatalities at Hem
nilng, one man named Nichols is re
ported to have been killed east of Val-
ley View The town, consisting ol
four stores, a gin, « blacksmith shop,
two churches and a school house and'
a railroad, was utterly destroyed ex-
cept one of the c hurches which has
hern converted into a temporary hos
pltal wherein the wounded are being
cared for.
A full list of the injured will not bn
obtainable before the rescue party In
exported fn reach Pilot Point wittj
those most seriously injured
NECROES ORDERED OUT.
Tragedy at Big Springs Resulted in
Drastic Action.
Mm Springs Tex. City Marshal Snl
II* an and Deputy Park went down >c
a negro house Wednesday night to ar
rest some negroes, and about th> tlim
they arrived at the house Mr Itutii
was shot and killed by a ne,;ro \lr
Iturk died in the . it* marshal arm:-
Marshal Sullivan phoie T Sheriff M> I
ley and ihey am • d tlit .. m c .n >
and placi 1 them In tin- county jail
Large crowds fo m -il on tie <tn t
all the inortiitm talkltic negro iiul a i
meeting of about a tlton and clfizen-
* as held in the public streets T in
negroes that have no prope.fy are or
dered to leave at one. and those that
hn*t are gl\ n llfu .-n dn* s to wind
up and leave
Child's Skull Fatally Crushed.
Lumpftsas. l ex Tuesday afteru<Kui
at Izora. Tex the Hole (year-old
won of Mr (ieorge Fowlkii fell nut
of a tree and crushed his skull, kill-
ing him almost instantly
NEGRO PO'.VE' L SHOT.
A.o'HUJ, a LROTHER OF 1-L1!^,
KILLED JY SHCRIFF EGG.
THHBTENEO TO KILL SHERIFF
Pov/ell's F.-thor in-Law. G'orrje Alex-
ander, Told the Sheriff What
Powell Threatened to Co.
Kdua, Tex • Arthur Powell, a hroth-
er of Pelix. who wa hau.'d in Vie.
torla a short time ano for Ihe mil .. r
of the ('ondits at this | l ie. w.w
killed today by Sherift \ C I*
Thero li.ts b '.'ii some dl o:itni.|
mrionu tin; Powell tie oe who .lie I
hail lot. ever .slnec Felix l\>w. II wart
confined t Jail ' Moiul * morning
Arthur I' <. -.*«> 11 and his t ith in-law,
George Alexander, a re; ported old
time negro, came to town together,
and (leor e Alexander, upon their ar-
rival, Inquired for Sheriff K who
was then out of town. When he rum a
back George Alexander told him that
Arthur Powell hud said :' at he was
going to kill him for ha igiip; Fell*
l'owell If he had to waylay him to do
It. that he was goli:'. to kill hint It
he ever saw him again, and other
statements of Imilar Import, aud thai
Arthur Powell had come to town with
him Monda* mornin:' and brought bin
gun and ammunition ahum wi lt him;
that he was then in iowu with lii
nun.
Sheriff Kgg and d< int'i. then went
out in search of th ■ m :ro and walked
up on him In J II Kopp'a grocery
store Sheriff !•>•" walked In at the
side entrance and the neuro was sit-
iing on a sugar barrel near the nihldlo
of the house When the sheriff ap-
proached he whirled around faring;
him, and n: lie diil so She- iff Hirr shot
hlni Six shots were fired fr<iiii a 38-
calibre W'iin he.- ter automatic rifle, and
all fixik effect, the in ro .lying In-
stantly. The negro's gu .. a double,
barrel shotgun, was lying clo: •• at
hand, and I" hud about twelve or fif-
teen loaded shells In hi • p •' —• ij
a tcJ h-ix i w , v ii ..tg
waliyd directly from the scene of tho
shooting to the court house and in-
formed (Vainly Attorney McCrory and
County .Itii' e fJuy Mitchell of Ihe clr-
cumstnnci
In rounecti i with the trial and
hanging of I'Tix PowiTI it will be re-
membered t! he stated tlim if ()«
was han/'d nine one else > otih! have
to die also. In view of tills tragedy
the words or declaration
seem significant.
of Fell*
BURCLARSJjlCH HAUL.
Texarkana Home Robbed of $10,000 In
Jewelry.
Texarkana, Ark Th" home of Mrs
Kllen N Deary on Spruce street w,m
entered by burglars Friday night and
diamonds valued at. $](i,()u(i tnken.
Some of the Jewelry were heirlooms
and had been in the family for sever-
al generations A stranger in the city
was found with one of the gem in his
possession and wag lodged in jail pend-
ing developments Mrs. Deary is a
close blood relative of Francis Scott
Key, who wrote "The Star Spangled
llanner."
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BOILER EXPLODED.
Engineer Bruised—It Flew About
Eighty Feet.
Saratoga. Tex A boiler belonging
fo the Produrers (Til Company, and
situated ou the little Tap Peftle lease
well No 7. exploded Monday, painful-
ly bruising the fireman. Pal Ma'hews,
The boiler was blown through a der-
rirk and landed about eighty feet
from where It was situated. Mr. Mi*
thews had Just left the boiler and
had gone about twenty feet when the
explosion tiwik plsiee, blowing htm
half way into the Standard rig ho'i u
through the opening
DEVASTATION COMPLETE.
Denton, Tex The total death list
from the tornado at II' nitnlnv r> id ed
eight Monda* when the s v> old son
of Henry \\ llklns and a w-unai whose
name is unobtainable, *\ ■. buried.
Among the injured Dr ICih > 1; i ,..
Heved to he finally hurt and Mrs.
Hovdston Is expected ti d<< at anv
tin" Another child of Mr Wilklna
is also re|toned seriously hurt.
Dropped 29 Degrees at Deniaon.
Denis..a. I'< x A drop 0( ^><i degn ■ a
in temperature occurred Monday be-
tween noon unit 7 :?o p. m At n.Htn
• he thermometer "eglstered 7s ,tt
o'clock a cool hreetM sprang up unit
the mercury ran down and at ■ '
was at 19 High winds from the
north still continue, and from a) i.p
.learances it will gut (ohlei
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Cain, Thomas C. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 4, 1907, newspaper, May 4, 1907; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth205695/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.