The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, September 12, 1919 Page: 1 of 8
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BAST KOI', KASTItOP COUNTY, TEXAS. FIJI l A Y, HEUTEMIiEIC IU. I l .
NUMBER. I f
exas j\ews
The Ht'd Croat; Christmas seal cam-
paign lu Texas will conducted thin
year lioni Due. 1 to 10.
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Adjutant tieneral James A. Ilarltjr
lata tendered his resignation, to be-
come elln the Oct. 1.
J- L. Hunter of tiulveston ban been
appointed an lnspe«tor In the state
food i.nd drug department
For the Mural year just ended th«
laucJ office- has issued 2435 land pat-
ents an compared with 3975 for Uiu
pr ! eding two year*.
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The grading and ruWwt work on the
Lee Couuty part of tin- Austin lloutitn
highway ha* been completed and i
now being traveled
1'ermanent organisation of the Tel-
a* dlvlslo,. of the Hubert K I.on Trans-
continental Highway Association will
lip effected at a convention to be held
at liouHton on Sept. 17 and 18.
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The new East Texas hospital for
'he Insane) at Husk U now completed
jud receiving patients To tin Insti-
tution will lie transferred all insane*
patients now m county jails through
out the stale,
I'lie governor has appointed J. V.
l.eak of Memphis, Hall County, din-
THE PRESIDENT'S
SPEAKING TOUR
, He Strikes Into Northwest
This Week For Week's
Speechmaking.
trici attorney
Judicial district
vacauey tanned
O T Warllck.
of ft;e forty sixth
of Texan to till the
by tho resignatmn of
liovoinor Hobby lias appointed E A.
"ill to In- district Jud^.1' for Eastland
County, vice Joe Fiurkett, resigned.
Eastland County was made a separate
Judicial district by the legislature at
the leccut session
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A national demonstration of rice
farm in);, the lii-nt tu ue rlwu in the
world", it is s.iid, will be • irried out
" ^"pt at) and Oct. 1 ami 2 on Hut 2000-
ore tract between I'u.sadi na and
I nun wan i, mar Houston.
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Id an opinion given I.ami Coinmla-
loner .1 I Itobison the a 11 o r 11 e\ ^en-
rat depart linn t hold- that employes
a th« department ot irvurari'e and
banking and the department of agrl-
culture are under tin- law eligible to
quire niineial land or rights thoiein.
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~ | he lndu.-ir.al Transportation Com-
pany ot W.ii-hington, l> capital
tot k |.Mi,(KMi,uOO has been granted a
permit to do business n Texas, the*
stale headnuai ter to be at Houston,
The corporation is or^anim-d for the
purpose oi making available feed sup
plies ot all sorts at cost plus lu per
cent profit, *
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Ui it I'ouse to a petition containing
•he names of more than six hundred
taxpaylng voters of Austin County, the
commissioners court has lust t ailed un
election throughout Austin County for
the people to vole upon the issuance
nt bonds in the sum of $ I ,500,000 tor
the construction of uood road." through
the county. The election it called fur
Oct. i.
Hexar County loads In the number
of motorcycles registered In Texas, ac-
lordiiiK to figures in the state high-
way department. There are 605 regit,
(creel from that county, while Dallas
County in second K| I'aso, with a
complete road system, has 170 and
Harris 177. There are lily in Jeffeisou
County; !ui are registered from (Jul
veiitoii County. Mo I .oil lion County has
107, Tarrant, Hi- and Travis 109.
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Hereafti r druggists will be required
by law to affix a special label on all
bottles of denatured alcohol offored
for sale, setting forth the danger of
drinking or applying this poison ex
trrnally In the pi.st f*w month#
denatured alcohol hnx been sold to
persons who, not realising Its danger,
have used It for a beverage. In most
t-ases tin1 result has 1 "en «oiuplei3
paraly^S. followed by death.
Fifty four banks have been added
to tin stale banking system since Jan,
I and more than 100 applications for
.4 ,iters handled by the state banking
board, many of which, over And above
the fifty four that were granted, are
-nil pending for completion of the
hTeetigalion of each pro Jed which
the banking board requires before
Uklng I ma I action upon it. These
fifty four batiks have added nearly
t'4,000,001) banking capital to the state
1NTHC INDJGHT
De* Moines, la After a day's rest
In I>es Moines Sunday. President Wil-
son went into the Northwest this week
for a week of speechmaking there In
tho interest of the peace treaty.
His schedule for tho six days will
take him through overy state that bor-
ders Canada west of the lukes and will
end at the Pacific Coast, where on
Saturday he will review tho Pacific
1 fleet
The president and Mrs. Wilson rest-
ed most of the day in their suito at a
l)es Moines hotel, where they hud
spent their first night off their ape
eiul train since leaving Washington
Wednesday In the morning they at-
' tended services, however, at Central
Presbyterian Church, and in the after-
noon went for an automobile ride
which took them out through the coun
try about the Iowa capital.
!>r. (irayson, the president's physl
dan, said Mr Wilson had been much
refreshed by his Sunday stop and was
in icoocl trim for the strenuous week
before htm. He said he would urge,
tiowever, that the pivaJdent make few
ear platform speeches along the way,
saving his voice for the eleven sched-
uled addresses that are to lie made
iiefore next Sunday.
In making his address In Ues Moines
-Saturday the president spoke in the
Dos Moines Coliseum, said to seat
;,50U. Every chair was taken and
u;an> were standing Earlier in the
lay he had spoken at Kansas City.
Mo, uioru than three hundred miles
w u>
An escort o' airplanes dropped flow
■rs 011 the president's special train a
it approached the city, and he was
•heered during an automobile ride
hat (lacked the downtown rtrrets far
tut beyond the curb When he en-
ered the Coliseum no . as cheered
Again
The meeting was opened with an in
vocation, and Mr Wilson wuk Intro-
Iiicell by .) It Weaver, president of
the I'los Moines Chamber of Com-
merce, who spoke on tho "outstanding
figure in the life of the world today
Mrs Wilson was seated 011 the plat-
form.
Indianapolis, liul - l*r« ident Wilson
told a crowd of several thousand here
Thursday that no one belived the
league of nations would make all wars
impossible, but that he expected it to
make war ' improbable."
The economic and arbitration sec-
tions of the covenant, he asserted,
would "keep war on the out kills" and
make it only a last resort.
Calling on opponents of the league
to present a "better program" for
peace, President Wilson il ■elared it is
a case of "put up or shut up."
Opponents of the league of nations,
lie said, had discussed only three out
of twenty-six articles of the covenant
The articles which would make war
improbable had been overlooked
The president said his speaking trip
was partly to point out how "abso
lutel> trnorant" of the contents of tho
covenant some of thoic '"t-ro who op-
posed the league.
'I am an American," ho declared,
"and a champion of the rights which
America believes in "
At ibis the crowd cheered and there
was another outb irst of el eering when
he declared he had "not tho slightest
doubt" what the verdict, of the people
would be.
"At present," he salu, "we have to
mind our own I isliiess, but under the
covenant of tin league wo can mind
other people's busineur, "
There wa.i not an oppressed people
anywhere, he said, that could not get
attention for Its case under Hie league.
K-ferring to the Shantung settle
merit, the president pointed out that
Japan repeatedly had promised to re
turn the peninsula to China He; did
not ro into the subject at length, how-
ever, but mentioned it in emphasising
that the covenant would refuse to
recognize tho validity of secret tn-a
ties
The president said he could look the
mothers of the country In the face
1 roudly, because he hac' kept his prom
ioo to do «!! he could to prev nt any
more war
"This league," ho said, "Is the only
conceivable arrangement which will
prevent our sending our men abroad
again very soon."
The president traced tho Incidents
from which the great war started,
Hidden Bodies Discovered.
London.- Several hundred bodies
which were hidden In Budapest have
been discovered by Roumanian troops
In that city.
C. D. WALCOTT AND THE SMITHSONIAN
Charles D Wslcott, secretary of
Hie Srulthsoii an Institution In Wash
lllgton. Iiiiv smioiI ail Hie eel lie
count of the ili iii work of tl .. <t year
by Its stalT und collaborators. The
Smithsonian was established by fed-
eral staiutf lu 1K-W under tin terms
of the will nt .lames Smitiison (t
IK'JW). who hi'i|ueuthed In iH'Jtt the sum
of $540,000 t• ■ tin- I'nlted Stales "for
the Increase and diffusion of knowl-
edge among men." Sinlthson was the
rmtuml son of the duke of Northum-
berland ii 11 • 1 said thiit his becjueMt
would make his mime better known
than his father's. The income of ttle
Smithsonian is now about $100;000 a
year,
One of the most Important actlvl-
tloa of tl>.- Smithsonian Institution Is
the exploration of little-known regions
of the world. Among the regions
visited 11 v the "'J separate expeditions
are miiir. -tntes in this country. Chile,
Ecimcloi, Peru, Bolivia, Africa, Borneo and f'elel The explorations, all of
w hich were In the Interest of science, iuHude work in geology, botany, zoology,
anthropology, archeology, ethnology and astrophysics
WILL JUDGE LINDSEY GO TO JAIL?
Two hundred and fifty days In Jail
for a principle. That is ttie penalty
that Judge Ben B. I.ltulsey, the fa-
iiiius "klcls' Judge" of Denver, expects
to pay for holding Inviolate the con-
fidence of a small boy. The supreme
ourt of the state has ruled that lie
must carry out the sentence. Judge
I.itulsey has taken an appeal to the
I'nlted Stales Supreme court, but Inw-
\ers say there Is no federal question
involved and they expect the Supreme
court to deny jurisdiction.
The only allermitive is the pay-
ment of II tine of *50(1. Judge Kind
has Iliitly refused to pay tins line
vu,\s that lie will gci to Jail for
rather than do so. He maintains that
in spite of Ids conviction he Is not
guilty of contempt ol court. Friends
have offered to pay the line and costs
for him, and even the children have
altered to raise ilie money,
I he "Kiel" in the case Is Neal
Wright, who is now In the United
Isey
and
life
murdered. His mother confessed to the murder,
killed his father. What he told Judge I.tnd.se.v
state contended that tin* boy's confession to the
his mother.
SENATOR KELLOGG'S LICENSING BILL
ASTOR GIVES HIS SONS _
Deeds of trust have been tiled In
the registrar's office In New York city
on behalf of William Waldorf Astor,
conveying all of l >s real estate In New
Vork city, or elsewhere, to the Farm-
ers' Loan and Trust company as trus-
tee in trust for lifs two sons. Waldorf
\stor and ('apt. John Jacob Astor.
No statement could be obtained
from Viscount Astor's lawyers as to
the cause of this big transfer, but It is
evidently In keeping with Ills policy to
escape a heavy inheritance tax law,
which Is r. per cent on bequests over
Sl.oon.ooo.
Under the transfer In trust are
land and buildings valued at more than
$oO ink),000, this would menu a saving
to the estate of f'J.TiOO.OUO in inherit-
ance taxation.
Among the more valuable proper-
ties transferred sri> the Hotel Astor.
assessed at $4,050,000; the Astor thea-
ter, assessed at $ I .OO'J.OOO, and the
Astor upartments. assessed at $l,Gr2i.UUU
Minimum Cotton Cost Is
Fixed at 44 Cents a Pound
States army In France. Ills lather was
Then Neal confessed that he
s the nub of the case. The
Judge would have convicted
Austin. Tei The committee select-
ed by the Texas department of agri-
culture to investigate the cost of i
producing the l!Hi> cotton crop in
Texas, with the view of arriving at
a fair price, met Thursday with W. B.
Yearv, cotton specialist, setting as
chairman, and recommended that tho
minimum price be fixed at tho cost !
of productirn The committee figured
the cost of production at 44c a pound
and recommended that the merchants,
bankers und buyers do all in their
power to co-operate in ussistinK and
impressing upon the farmers the ne-
cessity of marketing tln-ir cotton slow-
ly in order to obtain ari equitable
price. Farmers «re urged to sell only
as cotton is needed for export or do-
mestic use.
B E. Harris of Galveston, president
of the Texas Cotton Association, at-
tended the conference and explained
the foreign financial conditions, stat-
ins that it was necosmary to sell for-
'■luii spinners cotton on twelve, months'
time, and that such sales could be
w ell secured and foreign spinners
would be willing to pay much higher
prices for the cotton
Convictions Under the
Food and Drug Law
Austin, Tex A greater number of
convictions for violations of the pure
food laws of Texas were secured dur
ing the year ending Aug ill than In
ny year sin e the creation of the
Tt xus drug and food department,
twelve years ago. Commissioner R.
II Hoffman, Jr., in his annual report,
records . m; convictions, all of which
have be i n officially reported by the
1 ourts The record for convictions up
10 this year was 150. Fines to tho
imount ot lli.,028 were collected.
\t the request of the attorney gen-
eral's department and district attor-
neys in various sections oi' the state,
the food and druu department made
an Miml' s-U of l".'i amples of lever-
a^i . and a rrrcat majority or them
showed alcoholic content sufficient to
prod i • into\ i at ion. i'ie alcohol rang-
in.-- from ",.'i Ici 14 per cent Twent.v-
i e toxoiouii il i v.imination.'i were
ii- tii« at the request of district courts.
11 -■ -tor made inspections dur-
ing the year visiting ;«•."> towns.
Tie1 inalytical work included .1297
sample of milk; 157 of incut, !•!) of
ice i ream. 126 of drugs, '.81 mlseeUa- ! missioner !<
neon examinations and 223 bacteriolo-
gical examinations of water.
AGENTS PASSED
35,468 ALIENS
Border Inspector Calls Atten-
tion to Smuggling of Jap«
Into United States.
El I'aso, Tex Thu alivgwei saiiig-
Kllng of Japanese from Mtxito nit* the*
United Mates In the wesiwrn border
regions is dealt with in tfaa aaaaaf
report of F W* Herkahir*. supor*isiaii
Inspector of the federal Immigration
service, Just made publia Ifr Berk-
shire made a reooinmeridalkia tor an
increase iu the personnel of w.w serv-
ice here at El I'aso
The report shows that the Utt&l
number of aliens passing threo«k tli
port *as ,'i5,4tiN, while the number ex-
•ludcd was 2057, or 6per ««ut. A
total of 12,106 persons paid tliu a**d
tux, amouuttng in ull to $l>r;,840
During the year 106.078 aliens ap-
ilied for admission to the ffaitod
States along the Mexican border, itad
i if this number 3M1 were cU-a^«d
I'hose figures Include those swekiag
residence lu this country and those eu
| tering under the contract kilsir law
I'otal exclusions amounted to only .l.aa
per cent Fifty-three Japamsa «#rci
id mil t ed Tho chief cause of e ti lusiaa
was th probability of the applicaat.
becoming a public charge One l*p <r
was refip.ee! admission Physical de-
fects, admi don of crimes invfilving
moral turpitude and failure to sieei
ige requlrementa were among cauaoa
for denial for udinittun e
On the entire border, head taxes
amounted to I25O00. Total arr^ats
made aionr. the border n urn be red
w« 41 und of t!.i-i number 11.10 waro
leported. Mb" e(| draft evaders and
■(lackers art' sted during tho year uam-
bered 'i.'IM. while sixty-two alien cutjuiy
suspects were detained.
THOUSAND OF POUNDS OF
UNFIT FOOD SEIZED IN YtAR
Senator Kellogg of Minnesota has
Introduced a hill that has stirred up
much discussion. In presenting It Sena-
tor Kellogg said, among other things:
I'he bill requires all corporations
engaged In Interstate commerce anil
having a capital or asse'ts of $ 10.000,-
000 or over to take out a federal II*
e'ens' It further provides for a for-
feiture of the license If the corpora-
tion shall enter Into an\ con: met, com-
bination or conspiracy In restraint of
trade, ir shall monopolize commerce,
or attempt to monopolize it. This
would give the federal trade commis-
sion a supervisory Jurisdiction over
such corporations, and their license
would be subject to forfeiture if they
engage In n combination to raise or
fix prices, engage In unfair methods
e f ci" ii pet 111 oil for I In* sake of crushing
enit i -lr competitors, or any of the
other buses which have been in the
past 1 -tinnonly employed to monopo-
lize commerce it |h my opinion thiit pros' - "n under the present antitrust
act is not a sufficient remedy. There slum <• a department of the govern-
ment having power of supervision, not no. • irilj interfering with the busi-
ness of the country, but possessing the powei ■ Investigate, publish the facts
and take Immediate action to revoke a ll< • >■ if « corporation abuses its
power."
Territory to Be Held by U. S. Forces.
('olden/,. Marshal Foch, the allied
commander In chief, has decided upon
the extent of the territory In the
Rhlnt'iand to be held permanently by
American forces. Its area will bo
twice as large as that which has been
under American Jurisdiction since the
last combat division left for home
D. S. C. Awarded Texans.
Washington The war department
announced Tuesday Heneral Pershing
had awarded the distinguished service
cross to Lieutenant S. M Hankins,
Quanah, Tex ; I'rivates (iravlel (lar-
da, Davis, Texas ind Charles F.
Kearns, Druruwright, oic.
Banjo King Dead.
New York Kdwartl C. Dobson.
known along the (ireat White Way as
I.lobby, old-time minstrel and Banjo
King, died Thursday at tin age of (It
years Dobbj .von th" world's banjo
"lianiplonshlp In 1 SSI?.
Austin, Tex. An unusuail.r largo
unount of food products unfit for bu
man consumption wras seized by
igentB of the Texas food and drug de-
partment. and destroyed under orders
if the court during the fiscal year
tiding August 31, as shown ia tho
tnnual report of Food and Drug Com-
II Hofrnmn, Jr which
was filed with the Governor Thar*-
' lay. This food was of various kiads.
Including 20,190 pounds of au article
used in adulteration of aoffaud
which is nothing more than groaad
pecan shells Other food destreycid
wis as foilov-s
Sweet potatoofi, 2f 1,1317 poaaJ*.
Irish potatoes, 15,000 pounds; oiMaa,
ir..tiou pounds, vegetables. 300 povada:
fish, 16,350 pounds, shrimp. l.JdO
pounds; lobsters, 501 poinds, ara'aa,
1-tr. pounds, sail herring. .* poaada.
i oysters. S.O.m pounds; aieat, J
pounds, sausage, 77 pounds, ba««u.
577 pounds, rabbit meal, M« paaatfa.
deer. 2; ducks, 147; geese, 1. arane,
l; mudhens, Id; niinomaat. 134
pounds; diiod fruits, 9,800 pounds aai
meal, 75 pounds; corn meal.
pounds, flour, 1.600 pounds; aracikara,
1.500 pound', spaghetti, 5'Hi poauda.
I cheese, 2pounds, peanut aaady,
i.'.U pounds, peanuts. ,'I7S pounds; ajrr-
up, 900 pounds, eggs. ;!()."! aasea; uan-
1 ned goods, 167,338 pounds.
Urged Against Signing.
1 'ari; The state council of Czecho-
slovak i has urweel tin government of
that country not to sign the treaty of
peac with Austria if the solution of
questioi - relative to 'i esc hen district
is not satisfactory.
Secretary Redfield Resigns.
Washington William (' Us Ifleld,
s' cretai > of c eininicrce, has tendered
his resignation to President Wilson,
and It has been accepted, effective
Nov. 1 Thin was announced officially
F iday.
Signs Bdl for Rank.
Washington. President Wilson
Wodnejsd. y before leaving on his tour
of the country signed the bill to make
permanent the rank of general for
John J Pershing, commander of the
American expeditionary forces, and
sent the nomination to the senate
Confirmation of the nomination is ex
peeled before General Pershing
rem lies the United States aariy next
week.
Wants Bnuge Acriss Red River
Washington Representative Black
Thiii 1 a> Introduced a bill giving pe*-
rnl-sion for ''instruction of a bridge
a- 'c>ss lied Kiver at Arthur City, w'nre
the Choi"aw trail crosses the stream
Anti-Italian Demonstrations.
Paris. — Anti Italian disturbance i
continued to spread iu Albania, ac-
cording to dispatches, it being report-
ed that a detac hiiicni ol 3uu Italians
was annihilated at Kastrall recently.
Viscount Astor whs born hi ISIS.
Evacuation of Archangel.
London. Evacuation of Archangel
bv the llritish expeditionary forces Is
in progress it was officially announc-
ed here Monday.
Last Report of Aviators
San Diego. Cal Searchers for l.itid
tenunts F. II. Waterhouse and (* H
Connelly, army avluiois, who have
been missing from Itockwi II rt"ld
since Aug 20, reported by radio this
week the men were Inst seen while
flying 'ivrr Sail Juan do Dios, a iaiwer
California settlement (10 miles south
east of San Oaentin, 162 miles doAU
the coast fri .n Sau Diego
Charter for Panhandle Line
Austin Tex - The charter t* C e
Panhiindl" Short l.lne Hallway < un
pan>. cupltal slock $300,000, principal
office at Dalhart, was approved Friday
b> the attorne\ generals departmea:.
The company proposes to construct a
line of railroad from Dalhart through
the counties of Dallas Hartley, Old-
ham. Deaf Smith, Castro, l.amb. Hale
and laibbock. to the town of Lubbock,
iu Lubbock County, a distance of *00
miles.
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