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Mi l have ft ritrlu to ! Ueniocnits. ItcpiihlicaiiH
or Tl'inlpamiUs an.l the .ul.tn'asury bosses
eumiot previ'iit.-J''ort Worth Oa.ette.
IliiS the Gazette rend the "Ocala de-
mands?" Does it not know that the
"Ocala demands" represents the plat-
form of tin' Farmers Alliance of tho
United States? It is as much the
national triatfnrm of tho
Alliance
and states its principles
clearly as tho Chicago
Kt. Louis platforms express
principles of the Kepiiblican
as
and
the
and
Democratic parties. The national
platform of tho Alliance as adopted
at Octla demands subtreasuries and
any ono who cannot stand upon that
platform and accept it as true Al-
liance) doctrine is not and cannot he
a good Alliance man and therefore
not entitled to participate in its con-
ventions. There is nothing unreasonable
in tho expulsion of members from the
Alliance who refuse to accept tho doc-
trines as enunciated by its national
convention composed of representative
members of the organization from
each state.
Tho only difference hetweon tho
Alliance as an organization and tho
Democratic and Republican parties is
that th3 Alliance is a secret organiza-
tion organized for tho advancement
of a class and tho two political parties
are not secret and organizod for tho
advancement of the whole people
each advocating its own policies and
methods.
If the Democratic ami Republican
parties were secret organizations tho
one would incontinently bounce every
protectionist from participation in its
party councils and the other every
tariff reformer free trader or silver
man.
Members of tho Alliance are
also Democrats and Repub-
licans and can consistently
remain such until tho national con
ventions of those parties rofuso to in-
dorse the subtreasury scheme and
other Ocala demands and then they
must either auit the Alliance or tho
political parties. In the meantime
they ha vo a perfect right to expel all
members of tho Alliance who do not
indorse the subtreasury scheme or
refuso admittance into tho order any
man otherwise eligible who refuses to
indorso it.
The trouble with tho (iazette is that
tbo mou who have been "tired" out
of the Alliance belong to tho political
cabal in Texas of which tho (iazette is
the ablo mouthpiece and now there
will he no ono to "keep cases" on tho
political moves of the Alliance and re-
port to headquarters.
WO Ilk' OF THE It MX MA k'EltS.
Jnclo Jerry Rusk's corps of rain
makers have concluded thoir opera-
tions ia Texas and adjourned. Their
experiments have been treated by tho
press witli considerable flippancy; yet
they were of more importance to tho
people of this country than the elec-
tion or defeat of a presidential candi-
date tho building of a dozen trans-
continental railways or tho repeal or
preservation of the tariff tax.
Almost every sect ion of this country
is subject to drouths; there are vast
ureas where agriculturo is impossible
without expensive systems of irriga-
tion. The problem which tho scien-
tists sot about solving was whether
or not it is possible to produce copious
showers of rain by artificial means
to dispense with systems of irrigation
in the rainless or semi-rainless districts
and to make disastrous drouths a for-
gotten factor in the calculations of
crop statisticians.
Tho most reliable reports which
The Statesman has received are to
the effect that tho experiments were
eminently successful. Every assault
upon the atmosphere resulted in heavy
showers or dowupours of considerable
duration. That rain can ho produced
abundantly by means of explosives
seems to have been demonstrated
beyond the peradventuro of a doubt.
The only question now to bo decided
is that of expeuse. Is the game worth
the candle? Of what financial benefit
to an agricultural community is $1000
expended in thus compelling the at
mosphere to water the thirsty earth?
Over how large an area will a rainfall
thus produced extend?
If it bo demonstrated that the gain
more than compensates for the outlay
(and in view of the cheapness of ex
plosives and the little skill necessary
to their proper manipulation such a
conclusion seems probable) the agrl
cultural produce of the area now un
der cultivation may be vastly increased
and millions of acres that would
otherwise never be touched by a plow
made to yield bounteous harvests. It
is safe to say that with the power to
produce rain at pleasure and at
moderate expense the produce of this
country could easily be increased one-
third perhaps one-half.
Another question may arise how-
ever that will be somewhat difficult
to decide. Who is to determine when
rain is needed? homo crops require
moro moisture man ot uers. w nno
ono tanner may he praying lor
rain his neighbor may bo
equally as anxious for continued dry
weather. While the weather is alto
gether in tho control of Providence no
controversies can arise but when it is
only a question of touching off a few
pounds or tons of dynamite to deter
mine wet or dry who is to act as um-
pire in this country of diversified
;rops?
TifK six-shooter still cracks in
Texas; desperadoes thugs and cow
thieves still terroizo the inhabitants
of tho Rio Grande valley; it is two
years or acquittal tor Killing a man
and live years lor absconding witn a
mule; the Santone pulque joints run
on Sunday wide open like a boot jack
and Hogg is governor of Toxas. Rut
t would be unjust to charge Governor
Hogg's administration with the re
sponsibility of this deplorable state of
affairs. It may be to blame for that
niquity known as the alien land law
but a man was killed and a mule ab
stracted occasionally in Texas long
before James Stephen climbed tho
ladder of his political ambition and
planted his ethereal corporosity on
the topmost rung.
Fahmfu Hiime Shaw pays his
respects to the Alliance leaders in a
column article so hot that it makes
tho very column rules smoke and siz-
zle. Farmer Shaw is after isms in
general and the subtreasury ism in
particular with true Iconoclastic vig-
or; yot Farmer Shaw is a devoted
worshipper at the shrine of Kauf-
man's kindergarten statesman and
sits up nights to sing pieans in praise
of tho alien land law the most stu-
pendous piece of financial folly ever
perpetrated by free men. Farmer
Shaw is tho prize paradox of this cen-
tury of conundrums.
The San Antonio Express says that
the Southern states one after another
are adopting tho Ocala platform in
full and that it will bo necessary for
men to get out of tho Alliance or out
of tho Democracy. Now what does
the 'stcomod Express know of Democ-
racy? How does it know that tho
Ocala platform will not constitute the
linch pin of the Texas Democracy so
called in 1802?
It is painfully evident that Senator
Garwood is the only member of tho
I. & G. N. investigating committee
who heard any evidence or at least
the only one who remembered any of
it when the report was made up.
The majority of tho I. & G. X. in-
vestigating committee has wasted
considerable whitewash. The people
have heard the evidence and made up
the verdict. It will be delivered next
year.
THE TEXAS PRESS.
Tho Y aco Day suggests that from the
way tho six-shooter has been getting
in its work recently it seems that
thero aro people in Toxas who do not
realize the fact that 1 logg is governor.
Tho Reeville Bee says: It's getting
about time Governor Hogg should
"speak out in meetin' " and say
whether or not ho will call that extra
session. 'To which the Galveston
News replies. "No yet; wait till pro
tern Senator Chilton earns his mile-
age and a reasonable amount of salary.
Tho Reeville Picayune hits straight
from tho shoulder. It says: "Money
is what Texas needs now; let it be
alien money or not. We want and
must have money to develop the state
of Texas. If there is not enough home
capital why not borrow foreign money?
ii can oe nan at a low ratoot interest.
Tho Beevillo Picayune says: Austin
may bo a good town to look at but
( oil 1 lolp t he poor tel lo w w ho attorn pts
to conduct a first class newspaper in
thwse 'diggins. It is like trying to
go to heaven without wings." Ah er
what's tho cotton prospect down
down your way Mr. Picayune?
Snap Slops of tho Gal-Dai News Is
trying to figure out the length of
man's body before enough ribs" were
taken off to give woman a full set.
Snappy should devote more time to
his bible class and less to feeble at
tempts to be funny. He may then
learn that the paragon ot women was
manufactured from a single mascu
line bone.
The Dallas News says: "Dallas has
plenty of water which is not only pure
and wholesome but which lias valu-
able medicinal qualities by which
more than a thousand witnesses havo
been benefited." If Dallas artesian
water is as tho News intimates a
panacea for perjury it is a great pity
that a few bottles were not smuggled
into tho International investigation.
The Corpus Christi Caller is inclined
to believe that the Democracy should
not confine itself in tho coming cam-
paign to breaking down tariff walls
but "should embattle its power for
war on all evil." Would the Caller
man prefer to deal 'with a gang of
robbers one at a time or attempt to
whip the entire outfit in a bunch?
I here is a sensible way to do every-
thing. Thft Crrtclrff. liVnnnnilaf eoira ond
v. . Liwiivuuav anj o aiiVi
he Houston Port Dallas News etd
hasten to copy: "We observe t;w
Editor Urann bobs up serenelyha
different places now and then. Wt
presume that he is out in search o fe
new supply of putrid matter for the
Iconoclast." Now "Mr. Pessimistic
Iconoclastic Urann" the gageof battle
has been thrown fairly down. Load
to the muzzle with rattle snake fangs
and rusty nails and let 'er go.
The Houston l'ost jingles its cash
and chuckles audibly: "The people
of Austin know a good thing when
they see it and thirty-five new sub
scribers from there in one day show
that the l'ost has been well adver
tised in that vicinity." Yes; since
the Iconoclast cleansed the Post's
"persoual" column quite a number of
Austin families have consented to sub-
scribe for it. And yet the l'ost doea
not appear profoundly grateful to tis
benefactor. I
The Fort Worth (iazettee puts Docj
Macuno in tho role of lago: "Whether
Cassio kill Koderigo or Roderigo kill i
Cassio or each do kill each other;
every way do make my gain.'
Whether the alien law ruin thousands !
of farmers or bankrupt .thousands of'
men in other lines of business or;
whether it expel millions of cheap
foreign money to ho replaced by us-
urious New England millons every I
way makes tho gain of the subtreas-
uryites and tho law was indorsed
with a wild hurrah. Long live Ruin
and Misery!
The Waxahachie Democrat mis-
takes tho "rawhiding" that certain
fiery young Texas editors have been
giving each other for a yearning de-
sire to paddle around in top boots
through oceans of gore. The Demo
crat should bo "carm;" the boys were
but working their neighbors lor a lit-
tle freo advertising. They got it and
are now drinking pure spring water
out of the same jug dancing around
the divine temple of Racchus and glee-
fully chanting: "What fools these
mortals be."
Dr. George Byrne of the Waco Day
denies that Ex-Speaker Reed is the
originator of that beautiful musical
and expressive word "catawampus"
and says that it has long been one of
our most clieerished southwestern
words. "We have not used it often"
he says "only calling it into requisi-
tion upon occasions of great emerg-
ency then carefully dusting it off and
laying it fondly away until needed
again. Catawampus is not much to
look at but it is a holy terror in a con
troversy and we have it copyrighted.
Reed can only use it by paying a roy-
alty." The Texas Reformer (Afro-American)
says that Africa must be re-
deemed and that the instrument set
apart by God for the accomplishment
of this purpose is tho negro who is
born and educated in the united
States aud the San Antonio Express
replies that there Is a good deal
of poetry in tho idea if not much of
common sense. At present the Afro-
tVmerican is too husy with politics to
think about redeeming himself lot
alone his brothorn in the heart of the
dark continent.
The Galveston News strikes journal-
istic fakes a side swipe that would
make any concern within the pale of
its indictment and not entirely desti-
tute of shame curl up like a cutworm
beneath a sultry summer sun: Tho
difference in the scholarship gamble
and a gamo of faro is that in the
scholarship contest the candidate who
has bought the most chips gets about
5 per cent of the money paid in and
the owner of tho paper pockets about
!)0 por cent whereas at common faro
bank the winners get the i)0 per cent
and the banker's commission is only
10 per cent. There is nothing like
educating our orphan girls!
Gen. Dyrenforth Jubilant.
Spwiul to The Statesman.
Foirr Worth Tex. Aug. 27. Gen.
R. Dyrenforth in charge of the recent
government rain experiments at Mid-
land passed through Fort Worth to
night on his way to Washington
jubilant over the success of his ex-
periments. Ho says in three weeks
under great disadvantages six rains
were produced three of which were
downpours and the Jast one the
heaviest rain in three years. Dyren-
forth says tho principle is correct be-
yond question of doubt.
Accidentally Killed Himself.
Special to The Statesman.
McKinney Tex. Aug. 27. H. S.
Wade a young teacher accidentally
shot and killed himself at Anna a
railway station fourteen miles North
of here. He carried his pistol in the
rear pocket of his pants and in some
way it was discharged shooting him
through the body. Wade was well
liked and popular. He was from
Kentucky. His friends are caring
for his remains awaiting instructions
from tho old home.
Assaulted While Asleep.
Special to The Statesman.
San Antonio Tex. Aug. 27. Juan
Rivas a rural Mexican visitor was
found in a camp yard in the Westside
this morning helpless and with a
fractured skull. He had visited the
places of humble amusement with a
friend and having registered at differ-
ent camp yards they separated at the
gate of Juan's. He went to sleep on
his wagon sheet and was wakened
early about 2 or 3 o'clock by a lick
on the head. Then another followed
it quickly and he was senseless. The
assailant left an axe and a heavy
rod at the sceno of the violence.
iron
A Trackman Sues for Damages.
Special to The Statesman.
San Antonio Tex.. Aug. 27. Dock
Mays a trackman has filed suit
against T. P. McCall; sheriff of this
county and against Sheriff White of
Robertson county on a plea of false
arrest and imprisonment. He asks
for ten thousand dollars. Some years
ago a man named Mayes guarding
convicts in Robertson county killed
one on a slight provocation and made
good his esrape. Last March a man
named Lathmore pointed out Dock
Mays to the deputies here as the
guilty party and ho was arrested aud
sent to the Robertson county jail
where all efforts to identify him with
the convict guard failed.
REEKING WITH MAGGOTS.
BODIES NOW BEING TAKEN FROM THE
RUINS LITERALLY ALIVE.
While the Heads of the New York Depart-
ments are Disputing as to Who shall
Far the Bills the Unfortunate
Dead are Rotting.
New York Aug. 20. The
number of bodies recovered
the Park Place ruins up to
this morning was fifty-eight
more bodies were recovered at
this morning. At 8 o'clock tho i
total
from
i:;S0
Two
7::;o
body
of a man was found aud at 10:;i0
o'clock the body of a voting woman.
"Any ono hero looking for a sister
mother or friend? If so step
to tho collin and identify
this body." This was the command
that jarred the strained nerves of tho
watchers beside the death pit last
night as each body was brought out.
It was a niero form of law a niockin-
formula to shield tho fearful criminal
lty of incompetent authorities. It
the readers of the horrible tale which
this past night's vigil beside t he sod
den open grave of these unfortunate
men and women reveals could have
answered this summons of
the police
captain and mingling with the small
crowd of mourners gathered around
tho plain collin caught a glimpse of
the mangled remains or headless
trunk and sometimes a mere
handful of lotting bones held
together by shreds of garments
and torn flesh such readers would
realize tho awful crime resulting from
tho. incompetent management and
heartless Indifference of those who
should have taken tho fearful con-
dition of affairs in hand on tho first
night of the calamity. Every body
recovered last night was a reeking
nest of maggots. That human be-
ings should have so far forgot their
duty to the dead as to leave them rot-
ting and putrifying in this vast
mouldy pit for three days if presented
as an incident in a romance would be
condemned as a violation of
decency and an insult even to
man's imagination. Yet such were
the revelations which last night's
labor caused and further proved that
these horrors could have been averted
if proper decency and common hu-
manity rules at all among men. There
should be no mercy for such criminal
negligence. The heads of tho various
city departments seem to have been
more anxious that theexpenso attend-
ing the work should not be charged
to their particular accounts than that
the bodies of the dead should be re-
covered before all chance of identifi-
cation was gono. Ever since Satur-
day night the work of clearing
out the ruins has been greatly
delayed by the presence of a huge
mound of debris blocking up the
street in front and leaving no place to
deposit the wreckage taken out; and
yet it was not until last night that
any stops toward removing the block-
ado were taken and only then be-
cause the city contractor stepped in
and offered to pay for tho work him-
self if the city officials could not de-
cide which department should pay
the bill. The pile of wreckage in the
street is now rapidly disappearing
but no city official is to be thanked."
At 1:30 o'clock this afternoon Fire
Chief Reilly announced that tho
search for the dead in tho ruins
was completed and that no more
bodies remained there. The work
was at once stopped. The depart-
ment of public works will continue its
work of clearing the debris from the j
street. The polico records give the
1 ..... e .1 i i i ; i t V.
iiuiii.n-i in urau uoiiies taKcn lrom the
Park Place ruins up to 1 o'clock this
afternoon as sixty-one. Of these seven
oouies were identified immediately
after being discovered and were
taken direct to undertakers ov to
their homes. There were fifty-four
bodies taken to the morgue and of
these thirty-three were " identified
There remain twentv-oiie bodies un-
identified. THE ASSAULTED LADY.
She Skips Out Leaving Ker Trunk ana aa
Unpaid Eoard Bill.
Special to The Statesman.
Fokt Woirm Tex. Aug. 20.-Rev.
M. C. Brennan alias Smyth the
Catholic priest who was jailed on a
charge of criminal assault on Mrs.
Mary Gardner alias Shaffman was
released today on a $250 bond. The
woman in the case left the Mansion
Hotel at o o clock this morning goino-
no one knows where. She leit her
trunk and failed to pay her bill The
flight of the woman leaves the im-
pression on the public mind that she
was trying to blackmail the Catholic
priest who was somewhat tho worse
from over indulgence in beer and
whisky.
KILLED BY HER HUSBAND.
A Negro Smashes His Wife's Head Through
Had Jealousy.
Special to The Statesman.
Wallis Tex. Aug. 20.-Today a
negro woman was killed here by her
husband. They lived about one mile
from town. At 11 o'clock Jones Sherry
went home. He immediately attacked
his wife with a heavy piece of iron
about five feet long breaking her left
shoulder. She then ran out of the
house attempting to escape when he
caught her and crushed her ilead to
pieces with a hoe. They had fifteen
children only four of whom were
present at the killing. The cause wis
alleged intimacy with another hoto
placed
under guard for fear of other
lynching him.
negroes
SUES THE RAILROAD.
The Practical Workimgs of the Fellow-Servant
Law Shown Up.
Special to The Statesman.
San Antonio Tex. Aug. 2G.
Harry N. Wells a railway brakeman
for the International and Great
Northern road was killed on the 10th
of May last by striking a cattle guard
which the company maintained at
ono of its stations. His mother has
brought suit against the International
and Great Northern Railway com-
pany for S10.000 damages.
This is tho first damage suit filed
against a railway in Texas for three
months past in which the negligence
of a fellow-servant does not figure.
Tho last legislature passed u law
holding any corporation responsible
for injury to an employe where the
injury results from negligence of a
fellow employe.
If a drunken or sleepy telegraph
operator misreads a dispatch and
gives instructions to an engineer
wheroby harm occurs every con-
ductor brakeman fireman or porter
on tho train may recover damages
against tho company. Tho dockets
of the courts for three months past
have been crowded with damage
suits.
The Texas Commission Again.
Chicago 111. Aug. 27. President
Miller in his annual report of tho
Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul rail-
road given out today denies the
charge that the principal lines of rail-
way in tho west are over capitalized
and asserts that these roads cannot
be duplicated for the present capitali-
zation. At a conference between the
commissioners of tho Southeastern
Mississippi Valley association and the
Central Traffic association held
hero it has been agreed that
whenever tho southern lines
shall advance their rates on cotton
from Memphis to eastern points the
lines from Ohio river points East St.
Louis and relative upper Mississippi
river points will make corresponding
and simultaneous advances. It was
resolved however that if the rates on
cotton as fixed by the commissioners
of Texas prevent the routes through
St. Louis Cairo and Hannibal from
carrying their" proportions of 'Texas
cotton on a basis of tho advanced
rates east of the Mississippi river
then such lines will bo entitled to
such a revision of their rates as will
enable them to carry their proper
proportion of traffic.
SLICK SECRETARY FOSTER.
He Outwits the New York Banks and Re
plenishes the Gold Supply.
New Yokk Aug. 27. Secretary
Foster is credited with having played
a shrewd trick on the New York
bankers to represent tho gold in the
treasury. Western bankers were
notified that gold would be shipped
by the treasury department at 1 cent
per 81000 while the express
companies charged 75 cents
the banks therefore ordered gold to
bo sent to the treasury and when
tho New York bankers received
orders from the west tho treasury
made a deposit of gold or gold certifi-
cates. 'Then a telegram would be
sent to the subtreasury in tho west
and the gold paid to tho banks there.
The consequence was that the gold
reserves in the treasury increased
twelve millions in six weeks and the
banks wero depleted. The secretary
watched the banks closely and when
he saw lines wero being drawn too
fine gave orders to accept half gold
and half legal tender and the bankers
are satishou.
Respited by the Hogg.
Siicciul to The Statesman.
(lATESviijLK Tex. Aug. l!0. The
following telegram from His Excel-
lency tho governor explains itself:
Arsrix Tex. Aug. Ihsji.
To .1. W. llainimick shi'ritr Corvi'U roiml v. Tex.
A respite of tho death sentence
igainst Ed. Powell and Jim Leeper is
granted and you aro commanded to
delay tho execution of the sentenced
of death against them until Sept. 129
next. The papers have been forward-
ed by mail. Acknowledge tho re-
ceipt of this telegram immediately.
.1. S. Hone;'
( iovernor of 'Texas.
There is much excitement and a
good deai of talk. The county has
been at. much expense and the officers
in constant uneasiness. 'The gallows
stand ominous lookinir in the fail
yard. Many express the opinion that
tfiey will not bang unless a mob takes
them out and hangs them. Leeper
is connected with oiio of the best fam-
ilies iu tho county.
MACUNE GlSIS THUMPED.
The Mississippi Alliance Impeaches and
Expels an Ex-Lecturer.
Starkvillk Miss. Aug. 27. The
State Alliance has unanimously
adopted tha articles of impeachment
against Assistant State Lecturer W.
L. McAllister. He was charged with
conduct unbecoming an olficor of the
Alliance. It also adopted a resolution
condemning U. S. Hall; also a resolu-
tion endorsing the Ocala platform.
McAllister was expelled by tho Alli-
ance because of his opposition to the
subtreasury scheme and the exposure
of the official corruption of C. W.
Macuno. Macune delivered a lecture
today and his reception was very en-
thusiastic. THE EX-LECTCHKK GETS ACTION.
Dukakt Miss. Aug. 27. W.S. Mc
Allister ex-Alliance lecturer and Dr.
C. W. Macune tho editor of the Na-
tional Alliance organ at Washington
arrived here last evening from Stark-
ville. In tho hotel corridor McAllis-
ter after considerable worry in en-
deavoring to provoke a quarrel with
Macune finally struck him two or
three heavy blows about the face
dazing the doctor so badly that he
scarcely made any defense before they
"were separated. McAllister claims
that Macuno had a great deal to do
with the summary treatment meted
out to him by the Allkaice
today by whispering it around in the
secret caucus of the Alliance mem-
bers that he (McAllister) was bought
up by Wall street and was exerting
all his influence to destroy the Alli-
ance. McAllister states that last year
Macune sold out to Pat Calhoun in
the Georgia senatorial contest for
$2000 and that Macune had robbed the
Texas Alliance of $30000 or more
while manager of the Texas Alliance
exchange.
iiome Seekers
Ate invited to investigate th
advantages of the
Abi eno :-:
The best quaility of agricul-
tural lands can be bought at
f i om
C fn tO D 1...
These hinds will produce -0od
crops of "
Cotton Corn Wheat
Oats
aiul e ther small grain beside
all the forage crops. And we
believe that a greater diversity
of crops can be successfully
grown io the
ABILENE COUNTRY.
than in any other section of
Texas. Farming is compara-
tively a new thing in the
ABILENE COUNTRY
But during the last four years four
good crops have been raised. Up to
that time the cattle interest was the
important one but now the
"Man With the Hoe"
Has taken possession and it is be-
lieved that with proper cultivation the
fanuer in the Abilene Country can
make more clear money than in
nny other section of the state for the
lands aro easily cultivated improved
tanning machinery is in general use
and the great diversity of crops en -
nun-! me lanuer to plant cultivate
! and gather a much larger acreage in
J c-oph than in any other section of the
! stute. Besides the Abilene Conntrv is
Exceedingly Healthy
And chills fevers and
dis-eufces are unknown.
other malaria!'
There are good roads in all direc-
tions that do not get boggy even in
winter time and all the important
streams have been bridged. The farm-
er can haul thefr surplus crops to the
ii Hivst. railroad station with the
gM-.iii-Mi etise and realize the highest
miiiU t price for them.
Family Supplies Farm-
ing Implements
Lumber for building and everything
else that the farmer must buy are an
cheap in Abilene and in the other
tiwns in the Abilene Country as in
Dallas. Austin Bastrop or any other
town in the state.
Public Free Schools and
Churches
Are conveniently
neighborhood.
located in eveiy
The people living in the Abilene
Country are almost exclusively Amer-
ican born white people and a moro
energetic industrious intelligent and
law-abiding people cannot be found
anywhere.
The country is settling up fast val-
ves are rapidly increasing and the at-
tention of home seekers from south
Texas is especially called to the Abi-
line Country.
S F Steere S Lapowski
T O Anderson F E Bompart
JnoHoeny Jr (J W Smith
Henry Ssyles Geo P Phillips
O W Steffens E S Hughes
W F Flournoy J P Massey.
R E Carter J A Lowry
J G Lowden J G Currie
M Handerson D F White
K K Lepgett A H Kirby
P M DeVitt B B Kenyon
P H Carter W H Edrington
Will Stith J T Anderson
Directors Board of Trade and Mem-
bers of the Abilene Progressive Committee.
Country.
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