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The Post-Signal.
VOL XXXIV.
PILOT POINT, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1912.
NO. 23
SISIKIIli
NEW OXFORDS
Quality Tells!
For Men and Women, now on display. If you will take the time to look you will
buy, for they are pretty and they are good as they look. All leather, new toes and
all the new styles. Let us show them to you.
Ladies' New Muslin Underwear, White Goods and embroideries now on sale.
Remember, '.ve are always glad to show our goods, and this time more than usual
for never were they
PRETTIER AND CHEAPER
Price Sells!
H. M. RUSSELL & CO
PILOT POINT
TEXAS
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AND ALSO BURN
Former Popular Executive and
Noted Citizen.
MONTERO PUT TO DEATH
Drcggcd by the Enraged Populace
: t Guayaquil Into the Streets the
Corpse Is Dismembered, Head
Cut Off and Remains Set Fire.
General Pedro Montero, who lately
was the hero of Guayaquil, Ecuador,
«a shot by the angry populace and
his body dragged into the streets, be-
headed and bu n 'd.
In November last General Montero
was proclaimed president by soldiers
stationed at Guayaquil, bnt handed
over the leadership in the provisional
government to General Flavio Alfaro.
A revolutionary army went to meet
the government troops from Quito,
who, under the command of General
Leonidas Plaza defeated them and
eventually forccd Guayaquil to capit-
ulate.
Montero was captured and by court-
martial triai given peniteneiary sen
tence of sixteen years. When verdict
was announced crowds of angry peo-
ple rushed into the government palace
and after riddling Ge eral Montero
seized his body and dragging it intr.
the open air hacked off the head . gath
ered fuel and started a lire and into
the flames cast the bead and trunk.
Excitement lasted throughout niirht.
revolver shooting in many portion*
of the city.
PANDERING PENALTY.
By Peculiar Phase of Law Fed'
eral Statute Evaded.
A verdict of guilty, with five years
penitentiary sentence, was returned in
district court at New Boston, Tex., in
the ease of M. A. Stevens of Hopkins
county, a young man. charged with
pandering.
Stevens was accused of having tak-
en a girl of eighteen years from Hop-
kins county te Texarkana, Tex. Next
day they were married at the Miller
county (Ark.) courthouse and walked
at once across the state line to a baw-
dy house, where ne quartered the girl.
This fact became known when a visit-
or to the house complained of having
been robbed.
An interesting fact developed duriri!*
the investigation into this case. Had
Stevens and the girl not walked from
Arkansas into Texas across the state
line but had used a street car, back
or other convey ance, for the use of
which they had paid, the Federal
white slave act could have been in-
voked against him. As it is. only the
Texas law against pandering was ap-
plicable.
other person to eaable Tiim to "pay his
poll tax was on motion of Attorney
Lightfoot dismissed by the United
States supreme conrt. Brown had ap-
pealed from the Texas court of crimi-
nal appeals. He was not in the high-
est court when the case was called, his
name being called three times by the
marshal.
DUAL HANGING.
Two Men Swing From the Same
Arkansas Scaffold.
Forfirst time in the history of Miss
Issippi county. Ark., a double hang-
nsr has occurred. John McFlvain and
Henry Coates hf ing executed at Osce
ola, the cunty seat.
Mcllvain was asked by Jake Thom
as. a farmer, for whom he worked, to
remove his tied to the second floor.
He became angered and shot to death
liis employer.
Coates owned a gasoline launch
plying between a Miss ssippi river isl-
and and the Arkansas side. There
bad been complaint of illicit lixuor
dealing and Sheriff Hall sent Depu-
ties Ferguson and Dean to serve war-
rants on Goatee and others. Coates
killed Ferguson, his body falling in
ttie river and not being recovered for
several weeks I>ean was also shot in
the face, but recovered.
Poll Tax Law Upheld.
Appeal of Bud Brown of arrant
county, who attacked that portion of
the Texas poll tax law which prohib
itss a person furnishing money to us>
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Are You Aware?
In the course of a year the balance of your watch
makes 157,680,000 revolutions.
THINK OF IT!
In time the oil gums, produces friction, and wears
the delicate bearings, destroying their high finish
and perfect fit, thus ruining an accurate timepiece.
An ordinary machine is oiled daily. Your watch
should be oiled once a year.
Let us examine it; an honest opinion from us
WILL COST YOU NOTHING!
West
Side
Square
Pilot
Point
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6lok Short Time.
After an illness of twelve hours G,
A. Franklin, a San Antonio rea es-
tate man, died at his residence. Mr.
Franklin, wbo was a bachelor, and his
sister, Miss Carrie Franklin, resided
together. He was stricken while play-
ing golf at the Country club.
China Wants Texas Cotton*
Texas cotton is in great demand in
China, due to a short crop last year
in that country, according to a letter
received by the Texas department of
agriculture trom Yung Tai Sun. the
manager of the Chang Sing cotton
mill at Wusick, China. Manager Sun
writes that his mill has just purchase I
450,000 bales of Texas cotton and the
staple lie states he finds superior to
the home product. He wants the com-
missioner of agriculture to put him in
touch with manufacturers of cotton
machinery tor the spinning of fine
yarns. He writes that China is going
to bid extensively for Texas cotton.
Qurg-lara Foiled.
Four men attempted to rob the bank
at Cleveland, Tex. A telephoneSper-
ator in the upper story of the building
heard noises and telephoned Officer J.
W. Bradford. Several shots were
exchanord and B adford received one
bullet in a leg. All the men escaped
Two of them were at work inside the
bank and two on guard outside. Some
brick had been removed fromthevault
and the men were preparing' to place
explosives when discovered.
Bookhout Resigns.
Judge Bookhout, for fifteen years a
member of the Texas court of civil ap-
peals, Fifth district, has resigned. C.
A. Rasbury of Dallas succeeds him.
INSANE BUT GUILTY.
Frank Hursh Given Quarter of
a Century In Prison.
After being out thirty-eight hours
the jury in the case at Wichita Falls,
Tex., of Frank Hursh, charged with
the murder of his wife, returned a ver-
dict finding the defendant guilty ol
murder in the second degree and giv-
ing him twenty-five years in the peni
tentiary.
Jury also returned a verdict that
the defendant was ''insane at the time
of his trial."
Fine Apartment House.
A five-story apartment house, to face
Sail Boss park and to cost $125,000,is
to be erected at Waco. Location will
be at Thirteenth and Barnard streets
and the dimensions 100x165 feet.
Purchase* Goat Ranoh.
County Clerk Lucas of Val Verde
county, Tex., has purchased W. O.
Jolly's goat ranch, consisting of six-
teen sections, near San Angelo, with
1,600 goats. Consideration was $7,000.
The Post-Signal
News for $1.85.
and Dallas
DOES
DREADFUL IRK
Deliberately Shoots Woman and
Accidentally Hits Man.
BOTH MORTALLY INJURED
Firing Occurs on Main Street In
Dallas Between Praeorian and
Wilson Structures While Scores
of Persons Are Passing.
With throngs oassing along, Bob
Duvis, while walking along Main
street, Dallas, with Miss Maud Ahl-
linger, the man fired four pistol shots
at the girl, both lungs being pierced.
She ran into a theater, Davis follow-
ing and beating her over the head
with the weapon. Physicians stated
the wounds were mortal.
A stray bullet hit J. W. Whaley, a
half block away. He soon died.
DIES DENYING.
there until it I ecame convenient to
remove it in a bag to a gre escape,
from which it was taken down to the
ground.
LARGE LAND DEAL.
Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars
Is Involved.
By a deal just closed betwee' the
Mercedes Land company of Mercedes,
Tex., and the Kio Grande Land and
Irrigation company 5900,000 was paid
for a tract of 0,000 acres of irrigated
land near Mercedes.
The deal was closed in St. Louis a
few dn.vs ago. R . . Porter, general
manager of the Mercedes coinpanv,
representing the buyers. The deal is
the larsrest, purchase of improved land
in the lower Hio Grande valley H at
has taken place for some time. Price,
$150 per acre, is the highest pric ! > et
I paid in that section of the country for
land in srich a large block.
Mr. Porter says the land will he cut
up into forty-acre tracts and marketed
| for truck-growing purposes. The tract
will be named I'alin Place and will lie
' traversed by broad avenues of dates
I and cocoanut palms.
Albert Wolter Says He Did Nol
Kill Ruth Wheeler.
Albert Wolter was electrocuted id
Sing Sing prison, N. Y. He was con
victed on the charge of causing the
death in his flat at New York city of
Ruth Wheeler, fifteen years old,nearly
two years ago. The girl, it was al-
leged, went to Wolter's flat in search
of employment and that after she had
been mistreated she was killed.
Wolter left a statement with War
den Kennedy in which he denied com-
mitting the crime.
The execution was without feature
and Wolter was declared dead after
one contact of 1,960 volts. The state
electrician said that Wo'ter showed
less resistance to the current than any
person put to death by electricity at
Sing Sing prison.
A few hours before he went to his
doom Wolter wrote his denial of the
killing. It was ou a single sheet and
so even and clear were the letters that
the writing had the appearance of cop-
perplate.
Evidence indicated that the girl had
come to her death by strangulation
and burning after her body had been
thrust into a fireplace. It remained
QUINTETTE STRUNG UP.
Mob Break Into Quito Prison
and Lynch Five.
An infuriated Fcuadorean mob got
into the penitentiary at Quito and in
spite of a double guard lynched Gen
erals Elvoy Alfaro, Medardo Alfaro,
Ulpiano Paez, Manuel Zerano and'
Flavio Alfaro, all promineut revolu-
tionists. With the putting to dentin
of these men the leading lights in the
latest revolution in Ecuador have been
* snuffed oui.
Second Endowment.
The second contribution of its kind
for the endowment of a memorial
chair for the Southern Methodist uni-
versity at Dallas was received by the
bursar of the institution, Frank Bee
dy, in the form of notes for $25,000,
By tequest, the name of the donor is
withheld. First contribution of kind
was by Mrs. Dora Roberts of Big
Spring Mr. Reedy also received a
letter from a layman in south Texas
who proposes to raise $60,000 for the
university. At this time a great cam
paign for funds is being carried on
throughout Texas
% CALL ON
SCOTT 6c FLAKE.
FOR
$ Horses, Mules and Mares, flule Colts, Second
Hand Wagons, Second hand Cultiva-
tors and Cotton Planters
KAFFIR CORN
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The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 1912, newspaper, February 2, 1912; Pilot Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291202/m1/1/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Denton Public Library.