The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, May 24, 1907 Page: 2 of 12
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THE ALBANY NEWS
188USD ITPtT FRIDAY MORNING.
richard h. Mccarty.
Editor awn Pwomirrow
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ALBANY, •
TEXAS
W. J. Watson, an old citizen of
Tulsa, I. T., dropped dead on the
treets of that city ft few days since.
W. M. Holland, was elected Tues-
day as Judge of the new Dallas
County Court of Law, after eleven
ballots.
Mr. Reagan, a farmer, 65 years
of^ age, living five miles south of
Burleson, killed himself Thursday
by hanging.
MONOPOLY IS PROVEN
TRANSPORTATION ADVANTAGES
HELPED CREATE MONOPOLY.
STANDARO IS THE MASTER
The County Commissioner* of
Navarro County has ordered ft pro-
hibition election to be held in that
county June 15.
Six people were ^oisoned Monday
from eating canned salmon at a din-
ner given by Bob Debenport at his
home eight miles from Pittsburg.
All of them will recover.
In a storm near Martin, Tenn., a
limb fell from a tree and struck the
rdof of Pat Gardner's bouse, fright-
ening his wife, who was sick with
measles, to death.
Having partaken of a meal in a
restaurant, E. T. Curtis of Wil-
mington, Ohio, started for his resi-
dence in Oklahoma and fell dead on
the street.
The public school board of Waco
will proceed at once to the erection
of a number of additions to the
school buildings of the city, expend-
ing $60,000 in that way.
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Work upon the enlargement of the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas termin-
als in Didlas is expected to begin at
almost any time, and the work will
cost about $75,000.
A heavy rain has fallen all over
Haskell County, and the ground is
in fine condition, with the crop out-
look very good. Cotton and corn
are in fine condition and small grain
will yield well,
Commencing Saturday night and
lasting until Sunday night, May 19,
the Jewish people the world over
celebrated the feast of Shabouth, or
Pentecost. In ancient times this
was the early harvest festival, and
alao the traditional anniversary of
the revelation on Mount Sinai.
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Quanah has under construction
the erection of two blocks of two-
story brick buildings, a $50,000 oil
mill and a $50,000 courthouse.
Pavement of two business streets
and cement sidewalks in front of
every business house is also proceed-
ing.
Oklahoma cattlemen are report-
ing heavy losses among the cattle on
the range during and since the re-
cent cold period. The cattlemen
believe that death is caused by the
stock eating the frozen leaves and
blossoms on the small black jack oak
trees. -tv
Constable Perry Land rum, aged
about 60 years, wss shot and in-
stantly killed Friday morning on
the publio road about three-fourths
of a mile from Odella and about
fifteen miles from Beaumont Tom
Jackson, aged about 21, surrendered
to the officers.
An unknown whito man was
killed at Waskom Thursday evening
by an eastbound passenger train of
the Texas and Pacific Railroad. Just
as the train was leaving, the man
ran and threw himself on the track
in front oMh^engiivt^
Tulsa has secured the Henry Ken-
dall college now located at Musko-
gee. Tulsa's offer was 8 sits of
twenty seres two miles east of town
on the street car line, and ft cssh
bonus of $100,000.
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The 14-year-old son of John
(Nichols, foreman of the San Boie
Cool Company's mine at Chant, L
T, wss instantly killed by the acci-
dental discharge of a 22-calibor
rifle, with which young Nichols and
"8candalous Railway Favoritism."—
Half a Score of Men Dominate
• Oil Situation.
Washington, May 20.—:That th«e
history and present operation of the
Standard Oil interest "shows
throughout the past thirty-five years
a substantial monopolization of the
petroleum industry of the country,
a deliberate destruction of competi-
tion and a consequent control of that
industry by less than a dozen men,
who have reaped enormous profits
therefrom, largely through abuse of
the transportation facilities," is
charged in a report just submitted
to President Roosevelt by Commis-
sioner of Corporations Robert Knox
Smith. Part of the report has been
made public and other parts will
follow. Certain information ac-
quired is withheld for the present
in accordance with instructions from
the President, who fears that their
publication might interfere wtih the
prosecution of the Government's
suit pending against the Standard
Oil Company and its subsidiary
companies.
It is the first official statement of
the operations and methods of the
Standard Oil Company by which,
the report states, through "scan-
dalous railway discriminations,".and
other unlawful devices, they have
secured and maintained an "exclu-
sive domination of the petroleum
industry."
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Potato Crop Moving Rapidly.
Jacksonville: Up to Saturday
there had been sixty-seven cars of
potatoes shipped from this place,
ranging in prioa from 75c to $1.15,
there being a general downward ten-
dency. The vield is very satisfac-
tory. Very few have averaged less
than 100 bushels to the acre, and
many have gone considerably high-
er. Gallatin, Tumey, Craft, Dial-
ville, Reese and Mount Selman are
likewise reporting activity in pota-
to movements.
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Peter Hateman, Mississippi Choc-
Too Mean to Hanff.
Sulphur Springs: Saturday night
while Will Johnson and family, of
the Rockdale community, were at-
tending the carnival, some miscre-
ant poisoned both his horses. He
left the horses on the public square
hitched to his wagon, and some one
fed them poisoned chops, the poison
supposed to be strychnine. He went
to see how his team was standing
and found one horse dead. The oth-
er died in a short time. The horses
were worth about $250.
Brazil Feele Big.
Washington: Brazil has launched
out in a most extensive naval and
military program. Contracts have
been let for three monster battle-
ships of the Dreadnought type.
There are to be six "extra rapid"
cruisers with a speed 'of twenty-six
knots, the fastest in the world. A
large torpedo flotilla has also been
contracted for. The military in-
crease includes several new regi-
ments, more artillery, fortifications
and arsenals.
Cutting Scrape Over a Woman.
Washlnfton: Charles A. Edwards,
secretary of the Democratic consrea-
stoaal committee and minority clerk
of the House of Representatives, was
arrested Friday afternoon, charted
with ha vine cut Alejandro Garland of
the Peruvian Legation in a fight over
8 woman in front of the De Soto
apartment house in this city shortly
after midnight Edwards gave bail
in the suss of MOM.
Texas' OMsst Native Dies.
Blanco: Mrs. Katherine Hinds
died at 4 p. m., May 15, at the home
of her son-in-law, C. L. Pruitt Mrs.
Hinds was born in Gonxales County,
in the yes* 1826. She moved to
Blanco County with her husband
and two or three small children in
IMS. She hsa lived here almost
continually for fifty-five years, and
is said to W the oldest native iWn.
She raised a large family of ohil-
drok fa vhom survive her.
PAVILION AT HANDLEY BURNED.
Loss la Almoet *13,000— Will Be Re-
built Soon.
Fort Worth, Tex., May 20.—Fire
originated from an unknown cause
completely destroyed the pavilion at
Lake Erie on the Interurban at 5
o'clock yesterday morning. When
the flames were discovered by work-
men at the powerhouse of the North-
ern Texas Traction Company, the
entire structure was a mass of fire
and in a short time was a heap of
ashes.
The building destroyed was a two-
story structure that extended about
fifty feet out into the lake. It was
used as a summer theater, a danc-
ing pavilion and a cafe, and was
surrounded by broad porches. The
structure was of beautiful archi-
tecture and was one of the most
popular places of its kind in North
Texas. It was built four years ago
at a cost of about $10,000, but had
recently been overhauled, thus in-
creasing its value.
The scenery, stage effects, a pi-
ano and several hundred chairs and
the equipment of the cafe and kit-
chen were valued at about $3,000.
It is to be rebuilt at once.
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Considerable cotton land around
Mount Pleasant is being planted in
peanuts. ~
Edwin Heard Conger, former
United States Minister to Pekin
during the Boxer siege, died at his
home in Pasadena, Calif., Saturday.
Milano shipped five cars of Irish
potatoes Saturday. The shipment
would have been made earlier, but
inclement weather during the ear-
ly part of the week interfered.
Joe Jordan, a farmer living four
miles west of Melissa, dropped dead
in his field Saturday. Judge Osburn
of Melissa viewed the remains and
a verdict of death from heart failure
was returned.
Richmond offered a location and
a donation of $1,800 and Rosenberg
offered to donate a location and build
a warehouse and make it a gift to
the Farmers' Union. Rosenberg got
the warehouse, the committee vot-
ing unanimously.
Work on the Stephcnville, North
and South Texas Railroad is pro-
gressing at a rapid rate, and a force
of men will begin laying track June
1. If nothing happens to hinder the
work, the road will be completed by
October 1.
D. W. Ross, the $10,000 a year
purchasing agent of the canal com-
mission, has tendered his resigna-
tion. It is understood he has ac-
cepted a position with some Chicago
firm. He was engaged under the
Shonts regime.
The recent hailstorm, while it de-
stroyed all the cotton and injured
other crops beyond estimate, also de-
stroyed the boll weevils, which were
reported to have been very numerous
around Bartlett all spring, and with
the pest destroyed, it may yet be
possible to raise a fair crop.
Cameron is to have a $3,000
Farmers' Union warehouse, 100x160
feet, with a fourteen-foot wall. It
will hold not less than 2,500 bales
of cotton. The value of each share
in $5 and no stockholder is to have
more than ten shares.
Luke E. Eckels, one of the best
known citizens of Bowie County, fell
from a window of the second story
of the Berkshire Hotel in New Bos-
ton Thursday night, and sustained
injuries from which he died Satur-
day night.
The body of W. L. Davis, who
was drowned three miles from Irv-
ing about ten days previously, was
found Sunday about noon, nearly
three miles below the railroad bridge
where he was drowned.
Constable Perry Landrum, aged
about 50 years, was shot and in-
stantly killed Friday morning on
the public Toad about three-fourths
of a mile from Odella and about
fifteen miles from Beaumont. Tom
Jackson, aged about 21, surrendered
to the officers.
An unknown boy, about 16 years
old, was found terribly mailed on
the track six miles east of Del Rio
Sunday. In his pocket was found a
pawnbroker's ticket for a watch in
San Antonio, May 7, in the name of
J. M. Clean. ,
The bodyof Captain George W.
Roosevelt, cousin of the President,
who died whila serving as consul-
general at Brusttla, was laid at rest
in Oak Hill Cemetery, in Wsshiny
ton Ssturday. _
ANOTHER UN WRECK
THREE KILLED INSTANTLY
AND MANY INJURED.
WATERS-PIERCE CA8E
CAUSED BY DEFECTIVE SWITCH
Exploeion Spreads Death and Terrible
Destruction.
Chattanooga, Tenn., May 17.—
Three men killed outright, three
others 60 seriously injured that they
will die and two others badly injur-
ed, in addition to the crashing of a
Southern Railway freight engine
and eleven cars through a bridge in-
to Chattanooga creek, the destruc-
tion of three residences and a pile-
driver near bv, was the result of a
premature explosion at 3:40 o'clock
yesterday of a blast at the foot
of Lookout Mountain on the Sbev
enson extension, which is being con-
structed by W. J. Oliver & Co.
The bridge was crushed in by
several tons of rook hurled by the
blast just as the Southern Railway
freight train No. 11 was going on
the bridge.
Other pieces of roek, hurled over
400 yards, crashed through the pi-
lot of a pile driver of the Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis Hail-
road, which was at work driving
piles in Chattanooga creek fur a
new viaduct", killing Engineer Sha
fer and Fireman Hyder instantly.
Other pieces of rock hurled five
and six hundred yards struck the
residences on the side of lookout
Fountain, crashing through the
roof and the floors of the buildings.
Four Greeks who were working
on the new line some distance from
the blast were struck by flying
pieces of rock. Two of them are at
the hospital in a serious condition
GOOD SHOWING MADE.
State Banks Increase and All Are
Flourishing.
Austin, Tex'., May 17.—The in-
crease in the number of State banks
during the session of the Legisla-
ture was overlooked, hence the total
at this time is surprising, there be-
ing Ji total of 243 organized and
doing business. Col. R. T. Milner,
Commissioner of Insurance, is ex-
officio Commissioner of Banking,
and state9 that the interest in State
bauks continues unabated, with new
banks organized every two or three
days. Several have applied for the
blanks to be used in drawing their
charters in legal and acoeptablc
form.
It will not be so very long until
there are 300 State banks in addi
tion to the number of National
banks.
The State banks have made a
good record so far, only one having
been closed, and that one has since
reopened. There have been no
liquidations, closing of doors or
panics in connection with the State
banks up to this time.
Potatoes In Central Texae.
Athens: The first car of ,Irish
potatoes was loaded here Thursday
morning. The reports concerting
this crop are quite encouraging.
The acreage in Irish potatoes in
this section is larger than ever be-
fore and it now seems the yield will
prove quite prolific, more so than
ever before. There will be several
car loads shipped from here this
season, which will in a measuit off-
set the shortage in the fruit crop.
New Railway Buys Raila.
Wichita Falls. The Wichita
Falls and Southern Railway Com-
pany has recently closed a contract
with the Cambria Steel Company of
Johnstown, Pa., for fifty miles of
steel rails for immediate delivery.
The rails will be used in the con-
struction of the new road from
Wichita Falls to Olney and the
Brazos river in Young County,
where the road will tap a coal field
over eight square miles in extent.
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England Order* Warships.
London: Orders hare been giv-
en to lay the keels for two battle-
ships of the Dreadnaught type. It
has been understood that in case
the proposal for disarmament took
definite shape in the Hague con-
ference fer ence, only one Dread-
naught would be laid down. The
order for two ships is considered as
Great Britain's acknowledgement of
Germany^ refusal to entertain the
disarmament question.
Will Go On Trial In Travis County
* Monday.
Austin, Tex., May 18.—The Wat-
ers-Pierce Oil Company will go on
trial for its life Monday morning
before a jury of Travis County citi-
zens. The motion for change of
venue was overruled, and by agree-
ment a special venire of 100 men
was ordered for Monday. Thi*
was the outcome shortly before 4
o'clock this afternoon of five days'
tions.
When the session began this-
morning the pending question waa
the defendant's objection to the con-
sideration of the four stipulation*
which the State has offered to rebut
the contention that such prejudice
has been engendered in Travia
County as to preclude a fair trial
here. The objections were sustain-
ed as to all but the one stipulation
in which the Standard Oil Company
ownership of 60 per cent of the
stock of the Waters-Pierce Oil Com-
pany is admitted. That done, tho
broader question as to whether a
fair trial could be obtained in
Travis County was argued by coun-
sel for defendant, whereupon, with-
out hearing from counsel for the
State, the motion for a change of
venue was overruled.
In making this ruling the court
hold that the fact of the Standard
Oil Company ownership of the
Waters-Pierce Oil Company having
been twice admitted, once? by Mr*
Pierce in his testimony in St.
Louis, and once in the stipulation
procured by Mr. Lightfoot, that
could not be an issue in the case,,
and therefore the fact that the com-
pany was generally regarded ia
Travis Coujnty as a trust was no rea-
son for changing the venue. What
the force of this admission i3 will
be disclosed on the trial of the case.
JAPAN CALLS A HALT.
Riiotous Speculation Gets a Govern*
ment Call.
Victoria, B. C., May 18.—Ad-
vices from Japan stato that the
speculative craze is being stopped
and within the past few weeka
thirty speculative companies have-
dissolved with an aggregated capi-
tal of $350,000,000. The market
is expected to be further relieved
by the abandonment of other con-
cerns with an aggregated' capital
of $100,000,000. This ha3 neces-
sitated the canceling of large ordera
for machinery, most of which had
been placed in the United States.
The Japanese government has also
declined to sanction the construc-
tion of no less than thirty electric
railways on the ground that the
grant of charters for those linea
would be opposed by the govern-
ment's policy of state ownership.
From Tokio comes the word that
a loan of $10,000,000 will be sought
in England to assist in carrying out
the scheme of harbor improvement
estimated to cost $23,000,000.
Mexican Veterane Meet.
Dallas: Mexican war veterans
assembled in twelfth annual reun-
ion Friday at the First Methodist
Church, where they held an inter-
esting session during the morning
and where they attended in the af-
ternoon a meeting of the sixth an-
nual encampment of tine Dames of
1846. The veterans paid close at-
tention to the convention proceed-
ings, but their greatest pleasure
seemed to be derived from the re-
lation of war-time reminiscences.
As some of the veterans fought in_
the Indian, Mexican and Civil
wars, the stories related by them are
of the utmost interest.
A resolution was passed looking
to the purchase of the Palo Alto
battle ground and another resolu-
tion was adopted whose purport waa
to recompense Mrs. Moore Murdock
for the expense to which she waa
subjected in securing the passage
of a bill increasing the pension giv-
en Mexican War veterans.
The County Commissioners o^
Navarro County has ordered a pro-*
hibition election to be held in thgjt
county June 15.
Another Tunnel Into New Yorla
New York: Another of the tun-
nels that are to connect the island
of Manhattan with adjacent terrK
tory waa nominally completed
Thursday when workmen broker
through the last crust or rock and
dirt in the north tube of tho Bel-
mont tunnel which ruips from New
York to Long Island City. Some
of the engineers and workmen soon
afterwards-walked through tho tube
from shore to shore.
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McCarty, Richard H. The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, May 24, 1907, newspaper, May 24, 1907; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth403270/m1/2/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Old Jail Art Center.