The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 24, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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Yellow Pine Lumber,
i Brick, Lime, Cement, Guttering,
J. R. PFEIFFER,
f Professional Cards. ITEMS OF INTEREST
DEALER IN
and everything
necessary in the
building line.
A share of the '
patronage of the
people of Bastrop
and county is cor-
# dially solicited.
Lawyers.
B. B. OHGA1N. W. E. MAYNARD.
OKGAIN 6 MAYNARD,
Attorneys at Law,
Bastrop, Ttiu.
Will practice la U the higher and
Inferior court*.
J. P. FOWLER. J. P. FOWLER, JR.
FOWLER & FOWLER,
Attorneys at Law,
Bank Building, Bastrop, Texas.
WUI praotlce In ell the higher aad
Inferior eourte.
PAUL D. PAGE. J. H. MILEY.
PAGE <fc MILEY,
Attorneya at Law,
Ethard Building, Bastrop. Texas.
Will practice In all the court*. Com-
plete Abstract* of Land Titi«* of Baa*
trop county. Abstract bumnen solio-
Itea.
Contractor and builder. For orders call ;
Develops your Plans. and see ma.
J. R PFEIFFER.
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J. S. JONES,
Attorney at Law,
Ba*trop, Tei**,
Will practice la ell the higher *Ld
Inferior court*.
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The First National Bank/1
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lines. Gover by the name principle. With twenty
ye re Bticces a business record, with ample capital, with
every lacility .o properly care for all buaineaH entru "d to
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Bastrop Camp, No. 79,
Bagging—Ties Buy and Sell
to exchange for the
Seed Ouly.
everything for the
Cash Only.
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Monument Business, together with my will-
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Good Work, Right Prices and Courteous §
,j| Dealings is my idea of business. I guaran-
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MAKE YOUR APPEAL
fto the public through thr
columns of this pap''''.
With every issue it carrie*
its message into the homes
and lives of the people
Your competitor hue hi*
store news in this issue Why don't
you have yours' Don t blame 'he
people for flurkinp to his store
M'hev Wrtr.w what ite has.
NEWS THAT IS NEWS, WHEN IT IS
NEWS, FOR ALL.
DOINGS OF DAY AND WEEK
JACK JENKINS,
Attorney at Law,
Bastrop, Texas.
Only complete Set of Abstract Books
In the county.
Physicians-Surgeons.
H. F. LUCKETT,
Physician and Surgeon,
Baatrop, Texas.
Okpice - W. J. Miley'* Drug Store.
Phone 24.
H. B. COaMBS,
Physioian and Surgeon,
Bastrop, Teia^
Officr—C. Erhard 3c Son'* druR *iura
Kehidencb—East Baatrop. Puone 50.
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A. F. Si A. M
Re ular rapflt-
Irg Fourth Sat-
urday night in
eaoh month.
Viaitlng breth-
ren cordially in-
vited to attend.
Paul D. Paok, W. M.
A. C. Erhakd, Secretary.
Bastrop Chapter, No. 95,
R. A. M.
Regular m o e ting
First Saturday night
•n each month.
Visiting Compan-
ions invited toattend
all regular and call*
e<i convocafons.
J S. Jones,
M. E H. P.
A. C. Eriiahd,
Secreuirf.
Kogti-
l<tr meet
i n gg on
2nd and
4th Wod
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1 mights ia
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I month.
V sit-
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are most
cordially
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*'^nd the meetings of Baatrop Camp,
P. C. MAYNARD. C. C.
R. J. WARREN, Clerk.
■ The Buyers'
Guide
The Arm* whoa* ninim *re rspre.
seated in our advertising columns
are worthy ol the confidence of every
person in the community who has
money to epend 'The fact that they
•dvertiae stamps tkem a* enterpris-
ing, progressive men of b' unres. a
credit to oar town, and decei ving of
eupport. Our adv*rt>eing columns
comprise a Ruyeis' Guide to fau
4eallng, good goods, honest prices.
Happening* the Wide World Over of
Important Event* Condensed to
Good Reading.
WASHINGTON.
Representative handell Tuesday re
Introduced his hill of lust session seek-
ing to prohibit senator* or representa-
tives In congress from accepting nitts or
favors from corporations, or acccptiug
employment at the hands of corpora-
tions while members of congress. The
hill will have to lake its regular course
at the regular session in December.
Joe L Morris, chairman of the Okla
lioma Republican State Central Com-
mittee, was Tuesday sworn in us In-
dian Inspector, vice Lewis Z Dolby,
who will resign on Aug. 1. Ills tern-
lory will cover California, Nevada. \n
zona anil th«• southern parts of Ore-
gon ami Utah.
Letters from Governors of twenty-
five states in the Middle West and
South urging President Tuft to take
a trip of inspection down the Missis-
sippi when he goes to atti'tiil the an-
nual convention of the Lakes to the
Gulf Deep Waterways Association in
New Orleans, were presented to him
Monday
Legislation was halted in the house
Monday while several of the members
Indulged in a series of personalities
which assumed such proportion that
Mr. Macon of Arkansas announced his
willingness to resign from congress
If the statements affecting him wore
proved.
Representative Burleson, who his
gained for the cotton grower a dis
tinet boon in the direction of a more
honest grading of his cotton through
the enactment of the inirieson bill,
providing lor a governmental stand-
ardization of wool by the government.
There are u lew details of his cotto'i
standardization scheme yet to b"
worked out before the cotton grower
. p.,' ,I..I te"elltK will! h
hat | •ice or legislation Is designed o
bestow.
As impervious to downward revision
suggestions from the White House u •>
a dm k's buck is to water, Benatoi Al-
drlsh and the other stand-pat leaders
Saturday declared they could do noth-
ing to help the president to get lowc
duti* s.
An effort to amend the constitution
so that future presidents may be In-
augurated on the 4th of April Instead
of the -1th of March was defeated in
the house Friday. The amendment
whs offered by Representative Hardy
of Texas, who asked unanimous con-
si nt for its immediate consideration
and submission to the suite. Objec-
tion \'iis mad * by Representative Kei-
fer of Ohio, and the amendment sv.is
taken olf the calendar.
With "t'nel • Joe" Cannon lookln;
on and powerUis to call the minority
to order or bring in a special rub* shut
ling off base hits, the Democrats if
tin house of representatives wallopi J
all sorts of tariff schedules out of the
l(i publicans at Amcrb an League Pats
I'' i id ay and won the most hunous emi
gretsional baseball game on record
by the thrilling score of 20 to 10.
STATE and DOMESTIC.
San Antonio fell Into second p! h
It the percentage column with a dull
thud Tuesday afternoon, while Hous-
ton igaln took the lead in tie T> \as
League pennant race. The score was
,> to I, and 2,500 people saw the pet
tonnance.
The Pullman crmpany Tuesday paid
Its Texas gross receipts tax for the
past quarter, amounting to $V2."U 0.1.
on a business of $015,11(2 57 for that
quarter.
I-...Iimates of the taxable values of
counties over the state of Texas re
ceived Tuesday in the controller's de-
partment showed the following Hemp-
hill county, estimated value $2 nT.t.Oo.i,
Increase t0S5.H2-l; Colorado countv
estimated value f 12.ft'.:!,Ii42. Increas.
$l.tisl.S4(5: Midland county estimated
\ a I ii' |7.5iio.o(ni. increase $l.'.ils.tS2.
A new world's record for taiget
shooting was made at the Waketleld.
Musk., range Tuesday It Is claimed,
by Midshipman Andrew D Df■ mtl< k
P S N.. naval team, who scored
out of a possible M5()
The Klrby sawmill at Hrowndel was
completely destroyed b\ lire Tu<*s<ia>
Mill, planer, dry kllti. dollies, sheds,
twelve million feet of lumber In yards
one two-story hotel ami five dwellings,
ten curs of lumber at the Santa Ke
depot, were burned Loss J'Vio.uoii
A 'tual work on the causeway tn.iv
be i> d to have been started Monday
men n« when erection of a * ih of
lit' and sonstntetlon camp was com
mei.ced tu ;ir ll.e Gnl* S'On, !i<e.|St' ti
\ Henderson conipuny's old bridge i
Virginia Point, on the mainland f
of the causewty.
' American participation In the llan
kow railway loan of |27.&<*o.uoo. about
to be negotiated by the Chilli gov# i-
ment, and other enterprises, will be
arranged to the entire satisfaction of
'this government, thus assuring tho
maintenance of the "Open door" lit Chi-
na. Assurances to this effect came to
the State Department Tuesday from
i'eklu. American bankers are expect-
> d to lie given a quarter of the loan.
A destructive lire occurred Sunday
In fWaco, Texas, on the west sld.
of city hall square, causing an aggre-
gate loss of about $ tin.000. probably
i two-thirds insured The old Masonic
Temple, built in 1875. was the center
of the conflagration. It was occupied
oil the upper Moor by the local Mason-
ic chapters, the Knights Templar an.1
the Order of the Eastern Star.
Ten persons were drowned Sunday
atternoon. two of them llitle girls,
when the excursion sloop Roxana. car-
j rylng twenty-two pasetigers, was cap
i sized by a sudden squall in Lower
New York Hay.
Immense quantities of aspliultum
have been found on the Shoshone In
dian 11 sen at ion and a stampede from
Lander, Wyo„ to stake out claims and
secun lands from the Indian Depurt-
■n- lit is taking place.
Monday morning, at Houston. Texas,
the Simla Ke roundhouse 'aught lire.
Cause unknown. Five engines and a
'quantity of fuel oil were destroyed at
in estimated loss of $75,000
Mrs. J. Addison Hayes, daughter o;'
the late Jefferson Davis, president of
the confederacy, died Sunday at her
home in Colorado Springs, after au 111
| iioss ill several months.
A sharp earth tremor was felt at
Santa llarbura, Calif, Friday. It
shook buildings, but no damage was
done, so far as known.
/ion City, the town of one religion
is to have under the city government
| a touch of deiiomlnatiouallsm. The
Methodists and Baptist* have gained
| a foothold In the territory that was
closed to every faith but one during
! the lifetime of John Alexander Dowle.
Kila (lingles was cleared by a jury
In Chicago Monday from the charge
of stealing lace, but the story she
told on the witness stand of being a
"white slave" victim was denounced
as untrue.
\ frly"''- i- d amnfenr s'ttiir H-;- i
wooden man went up at dawn Sunday,
| in New York, in Glenn II Curtlss'
aeroplane, which hovered a moment I,,
midair and then crashed to earth. The
I I.eautlful craft in which Cur'iss made
his remarkable tlight was badly
wrecked and the would-be aviator w-as
lifted unconscious from the twisted
frame, his left arm broken, his left
thigh dislocated, his body bruised and
I tils brain reeling. His Injuries, how
i ever, are not serious.
Cnpt. J. A. Herring, superintendent
of the Texas penitent'arles Friday
told the Investigation committee pro-
' vided by the legislature Hint ho
thought Texas was "somewhat behind
in its prison management;" that ho
thought the iron industry at Rusk
prison would now have the best chain e
tn succeed that it ever had, because
for one thing it had a better organiza
tion than before, and that separate a
counts were kept for each of the pris-
on indie tries.
Harry K Thaw 's pretty little wif •
formerly the chorus girl. Evelyn N'es
let. Wert on the stand Tuesday a'
White Plains V Y . and gave damn:.
: ing testimony against him It waa
I the strongest point scored by the sta ■
in its flght to keep Tha.v in the asyt
um tor the i timieal Insane at Mattea
wan. Ii demands his reica.e h> ha
icas co: tuts on the ground that b U
i .-me man. When today's session
was concluded adjournment was tak"ii
until J |y 20
The National llntik of Commerce ( f
\'ew \ ■ t k Tuesday engaged $7:ii),0ui
ill gold for oxuprt to Buenos Ayres.
The t'lenienceau cabinet fell sud-
denly in Palis Tuesday at the conclu-
sion of i violent deba'e over the nasal
#undnis. extending er several days.
Half a battalion of Turkish troops
have been ambushed by Mamavein
tribesmen near Korkuk In tie vlllayet
of Mo ul. Forty of the Turks were
killed including the commandc. whose
futniU was carried off Into slavery The
tribesmen retired toward the Persian
irontb r.
Heihert Latham, the French avia
tor, made a daring but unsuccessful
attempt to ( toss the Kngllsh < hauiiel
in hi- monoplane Monday. He got
away splendidly under perfect coiuli
Hons from the top of the chalk cliff
st Sanganette and bad covered over
balf i lie distance at an average height
of poo f«M't, when the motor slowi d
down and he was obliged to descend
Mr I .itham was not wet and still -at
In thi saddle, which ia local id above
the wings and behind the motor calm
ly smoking a cigarette wl.en the
Frenc h torpedo boat destroy*! Hur
pon, which had kei>t abreast through
nit the journey came alongside and
picked him up
A ferry boat on the Kama t ver In
a capsized Monday Twenty
V* hauda were drowueU.
THE GALVESTON STORM
THIRTY EIGHT LIVES SAVED BY
HEROIC WORK.
WRECKAGE PILED ON BEACH
Captain Bettison and Gue«t* at Pie*
Lost in Storm—Seawall Stood the
Storm Well.
Galveston, Tex.- The storm Wednes-
day which was pronounced by many
as being ulinost equal iu severity of
the storm of l'JOli, gave to the Galves-
ton seawall a severe and thorough
test, and after the storm had pussed
it was found that the wall did Its duty
nobly, and It is a fact that lusldo
its protecting confines little property
damage was done
The greatest damage done by the
slot hi was to the structures outside
the seawall, the new $5000 fishing
pier ol the Beach Fishing at:d Amuse
incut Pier, which • xtends BOO feet out
Into the gulf, being destroyed, as wua
the Breakers bath house and the Mur-
doek bath house, .u addition to Uim
old fishing pier erected some time ago
by private parties These structures
•veil ail Rented opposite the heart of
the city, between Nineteenth and
Twenty .-ixtii streets. The new ba'-h
house oi the Surf Bathing company es-
caped serious damage.
Seven miles out In the gulf the fish-
ing pier of J. \\ Chapman, known as
the Bettison pier, was badly dam-
aged and is reported as being de-
stroyed At the i ler was a party of
thirty-eight persons, who bad passed
the night on the resort. Wednesday'
morning they were rescued In the
height of the storm by the pilot isiat
Texas, the officers and crew doing
work <if rescue that should entitle
them to medals ol heroism, six of the
men on the pier being taken from the
water after the landing had gone to
ple< es.
The tugboat Clark and the pilot
boat Texas, which Wednesday after
the torni had abated, made a scroiid
trip to the vb inlty of the '1 arpon t-'isti
Ing Pier III the hope of rescuing tho
persons confined there by the storm,
brought hack the news that the storm
had claimed human life among its
tolls. Captain It. L. Bettison. manager
and owner of the pier, and Mrs. Betti-
son. besides eight or ten others, em-
ployes of the place and visitors to thu
resort.
It is impossible to get an accurate
list of the lost, owing to the fact tho
register has always been kept ut tho
pier, but the best Information obtain-
able Is that the dead are: Captain
and Mrs. Bettison. Edward Lewis, bar-
tender, C. H. Daily, circulation man-
ager of the Galveston Tribune, lor.
merly of Chicago, Charles Johnson
| and wife, negroes, of Houston. C. D.
1 Hopkins, negro, of Galveston. John
j Forrest, negro, of Galveston.
Mr. Daily was a guest of the pier,
| and it is also stated that a young maa
j natried Teetshorn of Houston, son o[
j M E Teetshorn, a book dealer, was
also among the guests. This report
! ( nul l not in confirmed, however.
The scene along the beach is a most
remarkable one. the entire boulevard
1 being strewn with the wreckage of
I the tvvo bath houses and the two fish-
i Ing piers ten !• t tn height, entirely
i blocking the highway. The railing
along the sea wall was torn away foe
| almost Its entire distance and inter-
i mingled with the wreckage Is a num-
| ber of logs and pieces of driftwood,
some oi the logs and stumps weighing
as much a three tons.
About fifty leet of the railroad
bridge across the bay went down In
the storm.
I he total dam aye done to Galveston
alone will amount to Jino.uiin
Placedo Plantation Sold.
Houston. Tex The Placedo planta-
tion near Port Lavaca, consisting of
It,one acre- of Irrigated iutid. has bi m
sold to Mt George it Peck of Kiiiinhh
City and Mr E. E Gregory by Mr.
Ross 1 Clark of Port Lavaca ami Mr
W T Campbell of San Antonio. For
many years the plantation was 'lie
show place lor tie Southern Pac;fi,
road The plantation is ;• model of
landscape beauty Vn artificial lake
six miles wide embracing U.ooo acres
of land, is one of it- main features
Improvements to the extent of $lun.uni)
go with the place which Includes :i
puiuptiig plant that hund'es vi.oou nat-
ion- of water per minute The luka
is said to b> on" of the most beau•
tiful artifh ial bodies of water In Texas.
Bee County Good Roads Move.
Beevllle Tex At a called meeting
of the Commercial club Wednesday It
w. s decided to petition the cumnitK
•toiler* court 'o order an election 'it
a lioiid issue of $mI,UOO to $11)0,000 for
the construction of good r"..ds.
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Cain, Thomas C. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 24, 1909, newspaper, July 24, 1909; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth205801/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.