The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 48, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 21, 1897 Page: 3 of 4
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E. HORAN
-DEALERIN-
Saddles, Harness and Saddlers' Supplies.
Also Carrie* a Fine Line of
Buggies, PhatonS' Carts,
AND
Farm Wagons.
416 W. MAIN ST.
FATROIIZE ROSE IKOUSTRT^xS^
TSXAS BREWII8 CO.
Brewerr and Bottlerr,
FORT WORTH, TEXAS.
Special Brews:
“Spaten Brau,” Standard.
Capacity:
8,000 Kegs Daily.
GEORGE P. STANFORD, Agent,
ZDIEHSriSOlT. TEXAS.
Meo«-B«scl Brewing Association.
LOCAL* CONDENSATIONS.
The Hit
o! the
Season...
in made by
Ayer’s Sarsa-
parilla. Just
at thin season
when Spring
and its debili-
tating days
are with us,
there is noth-
ing like Ayer’s
Sarsaparilla
to put new
life into the
sluggish sys-
tem. Itsweeps
away the dull-
ness, lack of
appetite, lan-
guidness, and
pain, as a
broom sweeps
»f«y cob-
webs. It does
not brace up.
It builds up.
Its benefit is
lasting. D o
you feel run
down ? Take
AYES’*
Sarsaparilla
and for "Carrbook,1' leopagoa.
Pro. J. C. Ayer Co^
Jiutdajr Gazetteer
Largest Capacity
of assy Brewery In the 'World.
Pare Malt and Hops awed.
Nutrtclous and Wholesome.
Highest Award World’s Fair, 1893.
BEE COIXINS, Agent.
PROPRIETORS Til*
Bait t Palace
327 MAIN STREET.
Choice Wines. Itiqnors and Cigars.
Denison ♦ ♦ ♦
Crystal Ice Co.
—DEALERS IN-
Pure
Distilled Water Ice.
FACTORY: Foot of Woodard St & R. R. Track.
g aT.Trriunm-
Real Estate and Rental Agent.
NOTARY FOBLHT-^
State Agent for the International Building and Loan
Association. Money loaned at 6# per cent.
ITFieE, If. *11 lull ST..
la Paris, furhitube.
1 AND QUEENS WARE,
CLOCKS AND WINDOW-SHADES,
AND HOUSE FURNISHINGS.
m
!
CASH AND INSTALLMENTS. 4
W. C. W <?RI$, Manager,
kin St, DENISON, "TEXAS.
REMINISCENCES.
A WEEKLY SUMMARY OF WHAT
TRANSPIRED TWENTY
YEAR8 AGO,
With Running Commentaries When the
Incidents Suggest It.
(Item. .1.»»ed ttooi th. Denison DkihrNtws.l
FOR THE WEEK ENDING MARCH l8,
1877-
Twenty years ago the Sherman
Courier strongly protested against
the city of Sherman taking charge
of its public schools. TomCrooks was
the editor____The following item
is taken from the Daily’News of
March 13, 1877: “When the sarco-
phagus of Washington was removed
make certain needed repairs on
the tomb, its unusual weight at-
tracted attention, and it was opened,
when it was found that the body
was petrified, resembling brown
sandstone. The features were per-
fect with the exception of the eyes
and ears, which had entirely disap-
peared. ’’___The local dentists were
advertising artificial teeth mounted
on celluloid plates as a new and
valuable improvement______Speak
ing of the appearance of a company
of female minstrels at the Nolan,
the Denison News noted that as the.
married men filed in and took front
seats the audience called out their
names, which created » great deal
of merriment___________The city of
Brenham was erecting its first pub-
lic school building, to cost several
thousand dollars. The city Was
aided in this enterprise by' the Pea-
body fund____Justin Raynal cele-
brated in an appropriate manner bis
63d birthday Thursday, March 17,
1877, on which occasion he was pre-
sented with a pair of gold-rimmed
spectacles by his partner, Adam
Hornback___The total enroll-
ment of the Denison public schools,
March, 1877, was 401. Among
those reported not tardy are the fol-
lowing familiar names: Fanny and
Rosa Eppstein, Harry Nelms, Wil-
lie O’Maley, Elizabeth Sims,
Walter Hibbard, John Hanna, Clay
Ledrick, Dulce Murray, Chester
Daughters, AUice Hanna, Willie
Kirk, Flora Stroube and Gerald
Hughes._
Hall’s Gnat Discovery.
One small bottle of Hall’s Great Dis-
covery cures all kidney and bladder trou-
ble, removes gravel, cures diabetes, semi-
nal emissions, weak and lame backs, and
all irregularities of the kidneys and blad-
der, in both men and women. Regulates
bladder troubles in children. If not sold
by your druggist it will be sent by mail
on receipt of $1. One small bottle in
two months’ treatment will cure any case
above mentioned. E. W. Hall, sole man-
ufacturer, postoffice box 218, Waco, Tex.
Sold by T. B. Waldron, druggist. iy
READ THIS.
Denison, Tex., Nov. 13, 1896.
Dr. E. W. Hall:
This is to certify that I have used
Hall’s Great Discovery for kidney trouble
and can recommend it to the public.
I. A. Meadows.
ITJETON, LINGO & CO.,
(SoooeMors to Waplxs Bros.)
n
Bash, Doors, Blinds, Moulding.
Laths, Lime, Paint.
|s
Yard* at Denison, Dallas. Fort Worth, El Pa*o,
Colorado, Big Springs, Midland and Pe oa.
Sr5
£ <
Saturday night last, a brisk nor-
ther set in and ice formed to the
thickness of a half inch before morn
mg. From what the Gazetteer
can learn no serious damage was
done to the fruit or early gardens.
Every year the same thing occurs,
and the cry goes up that the fruit
crop is ruined. We should certain-
ly have an abundance of fruit, as
the spring is too far advanced for
cold weather to do any serious mis-
chief.
A lecturer in Michigan against
tobacco carries a bottle of nicotine,
and during one of hia discourses
kills a cat by applying the liquid to
its longue. This proves nothing ex-
cept that be is a crank and aliould
be punished for cruelty to animals.
Baidu
1 is often preceded
the
MONDAY, MARCH Iy, 1897.
Baseball is an assured fact......_,.v.
In order to vote you must register.....
Eleven hundred names have been
registered up to date.......................Dr.
Haynes, formerly of this city, is go-
ing into the lumber business at
South McAlester. The doctor has
been merchandising at Kiowa.............
The best rain of the season has pre-
vailed for the past two days. In
the language of the farmer, “it is a
regular root soaker. ’............-...Prof.
Jackson who resides east of the city
two miles, had dealings witn a ne-
gro and gave him $20 to go to Den-
ison and get the change. The
negro lost it all at a game of craps.
A warrant was sworlF out for the
arrest of the negro who has skipped
the country. The negro was an old
trusty one and had lived in this
section lor a number of years
Mrs. Henry ,Mayes and family have
gone to Dallas to live where her
parents are___________The civil docket
was called in the county court to-
day..........While going down the east
side of Perry Hill yesterday Chas.
Burton was thrown from his wheel
and received painful injuries
Mrs. C. D. Hall who has been ill
for some time, left to day for Ver-
non. Wilbargar county___,____U. S.
deputy marshal Yarborough passed
through the city with a colored
prisoner en route to Paris _The
Shertnan papers state that M. V.
Wilkinson ot Denison, has filed a
suit for divorce, and that the alle-
gations are of the most sensational
character. The plaintiff is an em-
ployee of the Katy motive depart-
ment______Fireman Ben Powell,
who is chargrd with feeding his
horse at the expense of the city, was
not tried last Saturday owing to t-he
absence of the city attorney______
Jerrv Meeks, (col.) died east of the
city yesterday. Jerry had reached
the ripe old age of 90 years___Very
little interest is manifested in the
Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight, and
hardly any money has ’ been bet on
the result_____Two bales of cotton
were sold on the streets to-day____
A son was born last night to Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Edwards, on east
Munson street____A great daal of
cotton is yet. held back by people
who can afford to wait_A. G.
Mosely, of this city, hat been placed
on the cqmmittee to address the
Sous of Veterans at the unveiling of
the confederate monument at Sher-
Speaking ot the late cold
snap and freeze the Sherman Reg-
ister says: “A careful inquiry into
the extent of its effect does not
elicit any discouraging news. The
oats looked a little the worse for it
during the day after ita fall, but it is
only temporary in its injury in that
line. So far as can be learned
there was no material damage oc-
casioned to the growing crop’’ —_
The only excitement in the city
election seems to be centered in the
race for chief of police. Both can-
didates are working hard and
claiming an easy victory--------At the
meetfpg of the North Texas Teach-
er’s Association, Mias Minnie
Marsh was elected Secretary. The
Denison contingent of teachers,
about 40 strong, led by Prof. Gay,
went over to Whiteaboro Saturday
to attend the Association-.,_A
large number of counterfeit silver
dollars are in circulation in this city.
The counterfeit ia so good that the
banks sometimes receive them.
TUESDAY, MARCH l6, 1897.
The heaviest rainfall in the past
two years. The ground is thor-
oughly soaked_______The dwelling
of Mr. Sampson, Heron street, took
fire, but little damage was done.
Ode C. Nichols has been appointed
correspondent of the St. Louis Re-
public ______Miss Vaughan is quite
ill at her borne on Scullin ave_
Harry McCarthy baa completed ar-
rangements to engage in the grocery
business on Morton street
Jim Boyd is renovating the interior
of bis clothing house__Deputy
Sheriff Harvy was in the city to-day
with a horse thief en route to Chero-
kee county__The residence of
Dr. DeBow it being painted
Editor Hunter, late of the Caddo
Herald, is making arrangements to
put in * newspaper plant at Atoka.
The entire paper will be printed in
the Choctaw district----The con-
federate monument at Sherman will
be unveiled with imposing cere-
monies April the 21st...........—New
potatoes from the south made their
appearance in the market to-day
Abe Hickey fell from the top of the
shed to-day on Shepard street and
broke his left leg below the knee-
Saturday evening Robert, the five-
year old son of S. R. Cummins,
foreman of the paint shops of the
Katy car department, while per-
forming on a trapeze, in the front
yard at his home, fell to the ground
and broke the left arm in two places,
Dr. Booth attended the little fel-
low and set the arm________Messrs
Hann & Shaeffer are figuring on a
large contract at Leonard. It it an
entire brick block of business bouses,
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ible
TERRITORY NEWS.
Hon. G. B. Hester, one of the
oldest and most widely known men
of the Choctaw nation, died at his
home at Boggy Depot, I, T.,
I liursday night last, of heart fail-
ure. He leaves a wife and one
daughter, who is the wife of the
late Indian agent, Robt. L. Jones,
with headquarters at Washington.
Away hack in the early twenties
of the present century bef re the
five tribes came west and 'his was
the stamping ground for the huffulo
and roving savage, the deer and
turkey were as thick as blackbirds.
A tribe of Shawnee* were roaming
the western piairivs and finally
made their headquarters on what is
now know n as Longtowu creek just
half a day’s ride irnm what is now
Eufaula.
About this time 54 Spaniards in
search of adventures and -gold left
New Orleans coming up the Mi-
issippi river. In about a month or
six weeks they came to the mouth
of Red river and crossing on great
rafts came on due west until they
come to the Arkansas river, follow
ing this stream until they came lo
the Rocky mountains. They pr6s-
pected and were in luck:~ They
mined in a crude way, killing the
blacktail deer and grizzlies for food
and amusement, and having a good
time as well as getting plenty of
gold dust.
But of course this thing of having
gold and no opportunity to spend it
became a litthe monotonous, and
after mining and living for five
years on meat and no bread, one
bright morning after feasting on
deer ham fried in bear’s oil, they
all agreed to go back to their old
Spanish homes.
After gathering up their mules
out of the thickets and loading them
with dried deer and bear meat they
had prepared, they loaded six mules
with gold dust. The hags were
made of skin from the necks of deer
they had killed. When the inven-
tory was taken it was found that
there was not enough mules for all
to ride, so they agreed to take turn
about walking. They were all
armed and 54 men with guns in
those days could stand off a very
large band of bow and arrow men.
They, however, were not troubled
with Indians until they entered the
territory now called Oklahoma
somewhere between the Cimaroi
river and Arkansas. Here the
Sbawnees came upon them and
showed fijjht, but the Spaniards
soon convinced .the Shawnees that
they also were An the kill, »o the
Indians held Sack and followed
cautiously, putting' in an arrow
where it would do the most good
when Ibey got a chance. This kind
of warfare continued tor several
days when the Spaniards left th«
river country and took to the prai-
ria*. They finally crossed Deep-
fork near what is now Brush Hill
and forded the nortbfork a bttle
lower down. r Being again in a tim-
bered country the Shawnees closed
in on the barrassed Spaniards near
the conjunction of the North and
South Canadian river*, and here
ensued a fight in the tangled woods
which stained the green foliage red
and crimsoned the intermingled >
ADOPTS THE GOLD STAND-
ARD.
After Fear Tears of InTeetlfatlon Js
Decide, to Diseard Silver.
On March 1 it was cabled from Yoko-
hama that Japan had decided to adopt
the gold standard at a ratio of 82)4
1, the newstandard to go into operation
in October.
This act, on top of many previous
ones, moves Japan completely out of the
ranks of the semi-oiviliaed and into those
of civilised and progressive nations,
was not taken hastily, but after two
years’ consideration of an exhanstive re-
port made by the Japanese currency
commission, appointed in 1898.
This commission found that, while
certain capitalists, especially those em-
ploying many laborers, were benefited
by the falling silver standard, the
wage earners were injured from the
fact that their wages did not rise as
fast as did the prices of what they
had to buy. The report pointed out
what every rational trader ought to
know—that a silver standard country
can trade and oompete with gold stand-
ard countries only after paying the loss
on exchange in foreign trade. However,
•a the greater part of Japan's trade was
with China and India, the two countries
of Asia still nsing the silver standard,
the disadvantage on this account was
not considered great
The sUverites have lost with Japan
tome of their best capital. Of oourse
they will tell us how “British gold
was used to bribe the government into
betraying its people into the hands of
the money power. They cannot how-
ever, much longer tell us that we are
unable to compete with Japan because
she usee the silver standard.
The truth is that Japan got tirtd of
being a second rate nation and of work-
ing with second rate tools, and, after
careful investigation, concluded to get
rid of free coinage at ordinary ratios,
which drives gold out of the country as
fast as it oan be coined and which re-
sults in the single silver standard, and
to adopt the gold standard at a ratio
with silver which will permit the use of
both metals in her trade. It ia a wise
step Japan ia only one of four or five
nations which have adopted the gold
standard during the last 18 mmtin
A Missouri paper is
value* are such now in western part
of that state, that the traders swap
halters and throw in the horses to
.....
and crimsoned the intermingled
waters with the blood of two races.
The Spaniards held their own
until their ammunition was exhaus-
ted and then the end came. The
Indians had sent a runner to the
new Shawnee settlement on Long
Town creek for a fresh band of
young warriors to come wifh more
arrows and re enforcements. The
order was swiftly obeyed to the
sorrow of the Spaniards. At the
*un was setting the two bands of
Shawnees met on the Tiger Ball
Monotain. They saw the Span
■ardt just on the east edge of the
>rairie moving along slowly but go
iog right ahead. Just as the moon
rose they halted, threw out pickets
and prepared to camp on the banka
of the muddy Canadian while six
of the most brave were then de-
tailed to silently cross the Canadian
river at all hazards with the pre-
cious dust which the little Spanish
army possessed, and also to cross
the burros that night. These brave
men built a raft out of dry logs, ty-
ing them together with grape vines
and landed their precious gold on
the other side of the nver. These
six took the burros over also and
before day dawned ' ail of their ef-
fects were across the Canadian.
But alas? It was bravery that did
no good. They bad taken their
gold out in the mountains near by
and hid it. Just at daybreak, while
all seemed quiet, there was a yell
and a rush. Fires had been built
to cook tbeir little remaining deer
meat, but aelf preservation being
the first law of nature, they flew to
irons and died like brave men fight-
ing, even chasing the Indians with
their guns while the Indian's arrows
bristled in their bodies. The six
men who had been so brave died-in
tbeir tracks in the fight, only two
of the Spaniards getting away.
The Indians trailed them to the
mouth of the Canadian, when they
saw where the Spaniards had built
them a raft and floated down the
^bloody Arkansas river. The Shaw-
nee braves returned, but never
thought of looking for any gold, as
they had no use for it. This dust
was hid the night before the fatal
day by these six men, but their
bones were silent as to the wherea-
bouts of the hidden treasure. The
Indians knew nothing of gold nor
did they care for it.
About thirteen years after this
last fight the five tribes came to this
country.. The writer has heard
some of Ithe old Indians say that
they had Then the bleached bones of
these tu4ucky Spaniards, but no one
has sm Vsnd the dust. Nothing
was evv ard of the two Spaniards
that floated down the Arkansas
river. They were the first gold
diggers of the Rockies, but history
is silent on their adventures and
the supposition is that the two that
were left to tell the tale were
drowned somewhere between the
mouth of the Canadian and the
pioneer Fort Smith. These two
knew es little shout where the dust
was secteted as the writer, but nev-
ertheless, there is a lot of dust
somewhere hereabouts in hiding.
Chas. Gibson.
‘ rf
The decision of the silver men to ooo-
tinue their fight for the SO oent dollar,
despite the emphatic verdict of the peo-
ple in November, ia appropriately fol-
lowed by the organisation in New York
of a sound money league, which is to be
national in ita character and in the
scope of ita work. From this time pa
tiM the next presidential election the
dissemination of money facta and cor-
rect views as to money ia to be oontin-
ned.
The most efficient agency of the lmt
campaign was the sound currency com-
mittee of the New York Reform club,
and its pablicatiooa, each given to
some one phase at the onrrenoy ques-
tion, were invaluable to speakers and
writers A sound basis for currency re-
form waa thus laid in the minds of thou-
sands who were groping after the truth.
These publications, it ia stated, are to
continue. An effort ia to be made to
widen the field at operations by a class
of writings of a more popular character.
In the south and west particularly hon-
est thinkers are to be supplied with ma-
terial for progressive thought toward
sound conclusions cm the money ques-
tion.
Much was done In six months of
1896 to uproot the erroneous ideas
planted in five years of populist agita-
tion. Errors had flourished simply be-
'■w they had not been confronted with
* Now monetary truth is to be as
systematically inculcated as fallacy waa,
and the result cannot but be most
wholesome.—Baltimore Ban.
Bryan la tk* Bate.
Mr. William Jennings Bryan ia going
about the country preaching the earns
doctrine that ha preached daring the
campaign in wbioh he figured as a nom-
inee far the presidency of tire United
States. The activity of the free silver
forces is not to be winked at. They are
good and persistent fighters. They re-
alise the fact that new men nre entering
into dtiaenabip every year and that
some of them may be won over to tbeir
side of the currency question. They pro-
pose to hold the ground they have and
to secure mare if they can. The free sil-
ver advocates should be met mere than
half way in this fight that did not end
with the victory won by the sound
money forces last November. —Trenton
Gazette.
Hewitt—Cattle were once need aa cur-
rency. ,
Jewitt—And I suppose when yon
nt tot mark down sale yon aaw a
card reading: “Marked Down to Otoe
Gall Former Price One Oow. ”
Poor
Blood
When a hone is poor In flesh,
a new harness won’t give him
strength. If a house is cold
new furniture won’t warm it.
If your strength easily ex-
hausted: work a burden:
nerves weak: digestion poor:
muscles soft: if you are pale
and worn out. the trouble is
with the blood. It is not so
much IMPURE blood as
POOR blood. Pills won’t
make this blood rich; nor will
bitten, nor iron tonics, any
more than a new harness will
give strength to the horse, or
new furniture will make a
house warm. For poor blood
you want something that will
make rich blood.
SCOTT’S EMULSION of
Cod-liver Oil with Hypophoa-
phites is the best remedy in the
world for enriching the blood.
We have prepared a book telling you
mom about the *ubject. Sent Fete.
For iak by all drugget* at 50c. 8fc $1.00.
SCOTT & BOWNE. Nnr York.
CATARRH
'State
Hotel. Special yrte day board.
LOCAL>DISEA8E I
It can bo cored by a piemen!
remedy which 1* applied A-
reetly Into the uoMr&a Bo-
Ely’s Cream Balm
m
0 WASg y\1$i
YOU**?,
p
nothing
BUTTHE
GENUINE
Too will find one coupon
I nettle each two ounce bag
and two coupon* Isolde eo«h
four ounce be«of Blaek weU’e
Durham. Bay a bog of tfele
celebrated tobecoo and read
the coupon—wh^ph (tree a
liet of valuable preeeote aad
bow to fet them.
C. S. COBB, President.
J. J. McALESTER, Vice-PreeWent.
’
R. S. LEGATS, Cartier.
SURPLUS, *18,000,
DIRECTORS 1
J. J. McAlester, McAlester, LT.,
C. S. Cobb, R. S.
E. A. Sin
J. B. McDongaU, W. H. Cobb,
Legate, J. D. Quinn,
ick, E.H. Hanna, L. Eppstein,
W. B. Munson, J. M Ford.
JWIndian Territory business will receive prompt attention and is
solicited.
Ford Building ------
jL GEO. STAISTFORD & SOU
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^ Deep Mine,
► Screened Lump-
DEALER IN-
McAlester Coal.
Office on Houston Ave.,
Between Main and Woodard Sts.
i’Tho Doctor’s Favorite,”
Cigar Us tike World. Sale Depot
Dr. Yeidel’s Dispensary.
Your Uncle Proas.
Watches and Jewelry on Sale
Money Loaned—
Office Three Door* Above “Gazetteer.”
.Main 8treet, Denison, Tex.
1 ■ ..... 1 ■ • ’ rti Misa 1 1 1 si j 1 '
•Adam F. Homback’s Saloon*
-214 W. MAIN STREET.
Imported Brandies, Wine*,
California* Crape Brandy,
OldT.J.
IMPORTED and DOMESTIC CIGARS.
TT WILL PAY
every business man to use attractive and up-to-date
, Printing.
-*£KWe Do ItlHB*-
Pamphlets, Circulars, Letter Heads, Bill Heads,
Cards, Dodgers, and everything in the printing line
executed in the latest style, neat and at reasonable
prices.
Being thoroughly equipped with
the latest styles of type and the
very best materials we sure en-
abled to give yon the very beet
work, and, atyle and quality con-
sidered, the cheapest.
“Good Paper, Good Ink, Good Preaswork,”
Our Motto.
We know we can give you just what yon
get it up for you. ~
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