The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 23, 1910 Page: 1 of 8
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J. R. PFEIFFER,
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DEALER IN
Yellow Pine Lumber
CONDENSED ITEMS OF INTEREST
TO EVERYBODY.
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end everything
necessary in the
building line.
A share of the
patronage of the
peopled Bastrop
and county is cor-
dially solicited.
Contractor and Builder. For orders call ;
Develops your Plans. and see ma.
J. R PFEIFFER.
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OF BASTROP, TEXAS.
Capital, S5o,ooo.oo. Surplus, $lo,ooo.oo.
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Cll hTliH ERII A1ID, Cashier.
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Organized, developed itnd conducted nlong progressive
linen. Governed by the snnie principle. With twenty
ye rs successful business record, with ample capital, with
every tacilitv to properly cure f..r nil business entrusted to
it, mid operated along oonst-rvate linen, it expects to con-
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time, winter or Bummer,
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Bagging—Ties Buy and Sell
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The Right ffmd of
Reading Msitter
The home news; the doings of the people in this
town; the gossip of our own community, that's
the first kind of reading matter you want. It is
more important, more interesting to you than
that given by the paper or magazine from the
outside world. It is the 5rst reading matter
you should buy. Each issue of this paper gives
to you just what you will consider
T'te Right Kind of
Reading Matter
Important News of the WecK Boiled
Down for the Busy Reader.
State and Domestic.
DUiti^a 1 IU
Tin* largest shipments of peat hes
(•m i received in Si. Louis within tweu-
ty-four hours glutted the market on
Tu> -ua: 11 i.i 1 • rt 1 :i<a cars fur through
trail a*, loo earn wvih ret elved for lot al
consiliumion, causing prices kj drop
lo bedrock, The receipts consist al-
ine 1 entirely of Klbctta. from Tex-
as, Hcorgiu unci Arkansas.
Theodore Roosevelt hopes the re-
publicans in Ohio will adopt a pro-
gressive platform, hut taking an attl-
tude in line with that of President
Taft he dec! lues lo exert intlui ucu
for any candidate in trie anti conven-
tion situation, lie mailt1 this plain in
New York Tuesday after a conference
with Judge Reynolds Kinkailo of To-
ledo, who is regarded as the setond
< hob e of those Ohio republicans \\ iu
are support inn James II. Harlleld lor
the gubernatorial nomination.
Whit Held McKinley, a negro real eB
fate agent t f VVasnington, has been
appointed collector of customs, the
technical designation of the office be-
ing the port of Georgetown, l>. C.
Finger marks found 011 a rilled safe
Liege, Belgium, last January, and
duplicated in u little photographic
print sent from Liege to the central
ollice in New York and linger marks
freshly imprinted before the central
offite detectives Tuesday, led to tlio
detention of a man giving the name of
Louis Meiidelbaum. lie is charged
with robbery.
Following Sunday's wreck on the
St. Louis b San Francisco Railroad
near Toiar, Tex , in which lOugiueer
Dttamp wan killed, two small boys
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spikes in the ties next to ihr rail to
"see what would happen." The boys
are Harvey Kavis, li!, and Daniel
tiage, 11.
Thirty-three «ic"ks of rough rice, the
first of the new crop, was sold at the
Hoard of Trade at New Orleans Mon-
day at $t> per barrel. The lot was
shipped by p. A. Conrad of New Iberia
who is said to have been the tirst for
several seasons to get rice into the
market
Old Tom Hint
est negro and
bodyguard to <i
c'iiil Sunday at
burg at tie airt
Harris County's old-
aid to bo a former
iteral Sam Houston,
h s home tit Iltirri
of 1^0 years. Illuo
old slave and ami-; brought
niiessei by (ieneral Houston
alter the battle of Siiti la
was an
from T<
shortly
1 into.
J, Howard I.owery, alias Jati" s II
John-on vAaii11 | in I'lba, N ^ tor
allegeil eml t'/zlt nioni of more than
$ 11)0,0111) from the I tba <"it> National
llank, w as betra t d into the liatui - 01'
a (JetectiAe a< H!illatlel|)hia Montla> bv
a woman and taken to New York
State by the local authorities Loaa
er> was a note teller in the bank,
ami disappeared la^t April .bile an
cxdiniiicr wa . Kuiiii.: Atver lie boo..
Results nt Sunda.A s imuii in Hie
Southwest Texas Leaiiue Itecville
■I, Laredo II Corpu Cbristi •. H.i ■
I'ity l Hrowmvillc .: 0. Victoria "
Despite the fait that he wa - tiver-
come by the beat while delivering a
t bautauipin add re ; it Unite Id Kan
bus, Saturday. Joseph '■ Cannon,
M'eaker ol the h.' 1 1' i>t reprt etita
lives, w '1 s fee lini; ji Vii'toou i a 1 ver
Sunday, ami. tie pile tie advice of
friends, tletermin. >1 to b< in a erics
ot eighty sptWeill's in the Fourth
Kansas t'otiKres .nmal District.
Following a conf' iftice of the repre
sentatlMs ol the different labor or
giuu/.ations in lloi.ioti, it has been
determined that there will be no La
bor Day parade this >1 ar The tied-
slon vaas reached alter considerable
discussion, but owing to the warm
weather about Sept 5, next Labor
Day, It was tinally decided that In
stead of a Labor Da) parade the as
semblcd labor organizations would
give a big picnic.
Complete harmony prevails and
there Is a general disposition, cape
(tally friendly lo the I lilted States
at the fourth Han American confer
1 tice now in session at Hueiios Ayres,
This Is 1 be report to the -<taic dc
pat intent from llenry White, chair-
man of the delegation from this couti
try.
The bulletin of the state board of
health for June reports that while
the average death rate from tubercu-
losis In the registration area of the
1 lilted Stales Is 174 per HH'.OOIl pop
illation, the present mortuary reports
ot the staiAt board of health shoAv a
death rate for Texas of 1*7 per 1 u< .-
000 iopulution
Acting Secretary ( able of the d(*
partition' of commerce and labor at
WasliingiDii, has directed the admis-
sion in this country of forty-eight out
of eighty-two Russian Hebrew Immi-
grants, who. In company with others,
came to this country by the steamer
Hannover, whhh arrived at Halves-
Ion uiine L':i, in response to advert I so-
men t of tht Jewish Immigration Infor-
mation bureau.
During a storm at i'ltllmau, 111 ,
Sunday, lightning struck the freight
tar shops of the Hullman Company,
causing a tire that resulted lu damage
of morn than $l00,<m0.
The Matagorda Hay congress of re-
ligion, education and social service,
an Interdenominational organization
and outgrowth of the great, laymen's
movement which recently aroused
churchmen ull over the country was
organized at Houston Thursday by a
council of prominent laymen from >*-
rious points In Texas.
Mack Collins and John Casson, ne-
groes. cotivb ted of murder and sen
fenced to be banged In the Nashville
penitentiary Aug. 10. escaped from the
Shelby County Jail Friday. It Is claim
ed thai the prisoners bad aid from th«
outside.
tiifford l'inchot and Speaker Cannon
engaged in an extemporaneous debate
on the subject of conservation before
the Knife and Fork Club in Kansas
City Friday, and while each man gave
expression to ihe highest personal re-
gard for 11.-1 other, and both agreed
that con ervation of the nation's natu-
ral re nut ' c.i should be encouraged,
they differed on Ihe question of who
was the tat her of conservation.
Secretary Flower of the state live
stock sanitry board has issued formal
notice that the state of Texas has put
Into effect a quarantine against the
shipment of live stock from points in
Louisinana to Texas on account of the
chart.on cases which have developed
in Louisiana.
President Taft Thursday withdrew
more millions of aires of coal land
in different stales of the West, bring-
ing the total of coal land withdrawals
made by him up to the enormous to- 1
tal of 7t.fi18.588 acres. Somethingl(r
lise^'iioi'o! . ' . .1 .'.uUUt ft! 1) uwv wUIa-
drawals.
Conforming with the report on
Tuesday that every effort was being
made by the Texas & New Orleans
Railroad officials to supply an ade-
quate number of refrigerator tars for
the handling of the great quantities
ot Liberia peaches at Jacksonville,
comes the notice Wednesday at the
headquarters of the Sunset-Central
lines that a large onsignmcnt of big
fruit cat's moving from New York to
California had been ordered Intercept-
ed at Kl Paso and diverted back to
Jacksonville.
FOREIGN
Huron do Rio Hranco, the Hrazilian
minister of foreign affairs, it is an-
nounced, has decided to decline to
take part In the arbitration of the
Peruviaii-Kcuadorian grievances.
The expulsion of Jews from Kiev,
I nt. t oiitinm at tin rati of l.< in-
dividuals a day. From July 1 un'il
July L'i, 497 were • xpellcd by what
is known as the second method"—
that Is, they are forced actualH to
have town. During tin same peritAl,
1,1-1 persons expelled by the tirst
method, which effect warning lor their
departure, but permit tli' in lime for
the settlement of tin ir private affairs,
A'hito Hacu, "a ho aa ii-- tint of Zela
ya closest aupporteis, has resigned
II minister general ol thu Madriz cab-
inet. In Nicaragua. There is a divi-
sion of opinion as 10 whether this was
due to 11 falling out between Madriz
and Haca. or whither the pa sing of
the latter is onl> temporary, being
:','irt of a plan to remove all appar-
ent influence of the 50 el ay a regltns
while the Matin/, commh -ion is at
Washington trying to seek a settk!-
meiit of the Nicaragua!! imbroglio.
BOTH HOUSES ADJOURN j
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UNTIL MONDAY—HOUSE IN SES- •
SION A SHORT WHILE.
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE READ
Routine Bunnes* Taken Up -Milesgs
and Per Diem Bills in Both
Houses Carried.
Wm. I. rru
IT'-hl-li III
Ai.rnKn MAi<soii\i<s
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Recommendations in Governor's
Message.
Repeal of the present fire rat inn
law.
Knactmeut of a new law regu-
lating and controlling tire insur-
ance companies ami fire insurance
rates.
Knactment of a law refusing per
mils to do business in Texas to
insurance companies which have
withdrawn from thu State, threat
ened to withdraw from ihe Stale
or refused lo do business under
the board's reduced rates.
Knactment of a law prohibiting
exhibition of prize tight pictures
Provision for an enlargement of
the negro quarters 111 the State
insane asylum at Austin.
Austin, Tex. The house was In ses-
sion a short while Wednesday, fallow-
ing the recess from Thursday night,
but soon adjourned until Monday morn*
ing, which carried adjournment of
both houses to that day. This means
that, all legislation goes over ni.tll m xt
week, as had generally been expo 1 d
and forecasted. A handful of reprt*
Bentatives will remain i.1 'he city, a
will leas than half a dozen senu'ors.
Two Bills Introduced.
Two bills of minor co!. «equence were
Introduced in the house "'■•inoMtlay,
one to prohibit the prize fight pit res
and the other to prevent lewd pictures
rom being exhibited. Whether or not
,'j>e Salome dance I2 reached by the
r remains to be seen. Over In the
ti .t-i ,V' bill to
!".')hiblt ihe prize fight plci ircu, and
says he will have other bills when the
governor Is heard from later. Senator
Ward would not say what the bills
were.
Austin. Tex. The third called ses-
sion of the thirty first legislature con-
vened at " o'clock Tuesday In re-
sponce to the governor's proclamation
and soon after organization u mes-
sage 1 rom hi^ excellency was read
Healing the lire insurance rate law
situation. Kach house had a quorum
an even loo in the house and in the
senate. Organization was soon per-
fected and bills introduced and passed.
However, the latter wore mileage and
pi r diem and contingent expense bills.
So great was the hurry to get down
to business thai bills were introduced
In the House before ii had been ofll-
t ic.li.v 1101 ilied 01 the senate's organ!-
in fact, the senate had not utl-
Htai it had a quorum. In the
bills were pi 1 ictited before the
governor's proclamation convening
the legislature, was read and before
the message submitting the several
ibjeets was read. Hut the official
ret"i;*ds will be made to show every-
thing in ilin form, it was another il-
znt Ion:
A tseil
St nille
haste iu the legl: la
Leon Morane, the French aviator
has been of lie ml I > awarded the llr.it
prizes at tin meeting Just ended at
Hournemouth, Kngland. for speed, al
tlttide. sea flight and general merit.
J. Armstrong Drexel, son of Anthony
Drexel, comes next as the liigbi. t
prize winner, while Hrntiam White, the
Hnglish aviator, takes third plan'. Mo-
rane reached an altitude of 4,100 feet
ami covered the distance of eighteen
miles around the Needles lighthouse
and return In twenty-five minutes.
The recent arrest and Imprisonment
of three Americans. R F. Horton
general manager of the San Jose Lum-
ber Company, and two assistants
ami the subsequent treatment which
they received from the local author!
ties has caused unusual exi itement
among the foreigners at Collma, M x
ico. The men were arrested on
charges of trespass for moving ma
1 hinery over the land of M. Hellion,
and were photographed as criminals
and Imprisoned In underground cells.
Several of the legations have cabled
their governments that there are a
few suspected cases of plague at a ara
« as, Venezuela.
FIRST ST ATI: BAUK
OF R8X> LOCK
Wm MnlU*lt it stiniv of > « ur r> m«
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Utlhi-i'ilrpU of lliU Hank
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ifuuniniy fuatl uf Hio Miui« uf
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FIBST STATE HANK Of BED ROCK
Professional CardsJ
Lawyers.
D. B. OKCAI.N. W. E. MAYNAKQ^
QKGAIN A MAYNARD,
Attorneys at Law,
Bastrop, ff*T«ei
Will practtcA Is all Wis higher an4
Inferior courts.
/. P. FOWLER. J. P. FOWLKR, JR.
FOWLER & FOWLKR,
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Attorneys at Law,
Bank Building, Bastrop, T«ra«^
Will jracfos la all toe higher ao4
Inferior aouru
P~AUL D. PAGE, "
I.awypr
Krhard Building, Ba trop, Terns,
G i'n Kit a t. Pkactition lu.
Will iiiieUcH in all Courts
J. ts. JONfc
Attorney at T.aw,
runt op, t't-s,
Will In ail the bigusr aLd
Infers* opurts.
JACK! JENKINS,
Attorney at Law, .
Bastrop, T'Xas.
Oily eomplo'e Bel of Ausuaal
In Die eouniy.
Physicians-Surgeons.
H P. LUCk'ETT.
Phybician and Pitireenn,
Bastrop. T<>t«!^
Offic* -W, J. Mlley'ii Drug Store,
Phonh 24.
H. 8. COMBS,
Pbysioian and Surjfaon,
Bastrop, T«rss.
Orri'T.—C. Frhard St Son'* drug fii<rs
KasiDENCE— Last Bmiirop. PUOMK 68.
Gamble Lodge, No. 244,
A. F. A A. M
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Regular mi*e*
lrtf Fourth Ha*.
urday night ia
9 each month.
Visitin brcth*
ren cordially iu.
i'At'L D. Paqe, W u.
A. C. Ehiiard, Secretary.
*lted to at'end
Bastrop Chapter, No. 95,
lustra''on of the
Hire of this state.
The mileage and per diem bills In-
troduced ill both houses carried
$T> 1.000 and the contingent expense
bill $111,000 The I'll,000 a\:ih arrived
at In this w a a : At the last special
session J-'!." '0 was appropriated and
a deficit of $1. no resulted. In addition
the mlleuge amounts to $H,00o. mak-
ing a total of $.11,000. The hou e hills
a ei'a passed in both branches under
ii suspension of the rules, ami the
members will get their mileage at
nine
Memori.il Resolution.
Introduced by Senator Willacy and
signed by all the senators present,
the following resolution of sympathy
with Lieutenant (lovernor A B Dav-
idson was adopted by a rising vote
Whereas, Almighty Hod In his win
tlom. has seen fit to t nil Into his king-
dom the beloved mother of our lien
tenan governor, the Honorable A B
DaA bison, and
'Whereas, We, his colleagues, deep
ly sympathise with him. the prisident
of the senate, In this, his hour of
grief
"Therefore, be If resolved That ■<
senate extend It sympathy to our <*■
loved colleague and presiding offlc r,
and that when adjournment Is taken
Ibis day It shall he as a token of re-
spect for him and for his loved one,
now (ailed to n higher home."
Measure for Repeal.
Following the reading of the mes-
sage bills .vere Introduced In both
houses to repeal the law but went no
further. They were not formulated to
rt ai h the other subjects In tin mes-
sage. Mr. Baker of Hood and Mr. Jen-
; iilngs introducing a bill In the house
repealing the law, as did Mr Ray.
R. A. M.
R"K'ilar rti i e tlnf
F" 11 1 Sat urday r.i^al
m each month.
Visiting Oomrisn-
Ion h in vI ted to*uen4
all regular and call,
od convocations.
j h jon kb,
M K H. P.
A. 0. Errafau,
Secretary.
iastrop Camp, No
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2nd and
4vh W td
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each
month.
V Is it®
IrR Sov-
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ire m )st
cordially
I n v h<mI
va attend the m"eungs of Bastrop Camp,
Mo. 78.
J P FOWLER, JR.. C. C.
R. J. WARPCN, C'erk.
Bar ^p Camp No. 12522
Regular
meeting
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