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HONEY GROVE SIGNAL.
VOL. 10.
Honey Grove, Texas, Friday, March 16, 1900.
NO. 2
ALL JOB PRINTING, ETC
NEATLY
DONE....
AT THE SIGNAL OFFICE
TO THE TRADE.
We respectfully
solicit your business in our line for the
year of 1900.
We will carry everything to eat
and wear and make a crop. To our good trade
--and where we are secured—-we
will furnish
our customers money at reasonable rates
to work their crops.
W. UNDERWOOD & SONS.
TANDY FOLSOM SUICIDES.
The Somewhat Checkered Career of a Man
Who was Desperado and Officer.
Tandy Folsom, serving a sec-
ond term as sheriff of Blue county,
Choctaw nation, committed sui-
cide Wednesday morning of last
week at the home of his aged
mother, who resides near Durant.
Folsom was addicted to the be-
setting sin of his race, an inordi-
nate thirst for strong drink.
When Denison was a wild and
wooly town, the jumping off place
for the scum of all creation, one
of the very first persons to get
into trouble here was Tandy Fol-
som. We recollect him then as
a handsome Choctaw youth with
black curly hair which hung
around his shoulders. He was
the most splendid specimen of
physical manhood that was seen
on the streets of Denison. At
that period every man, white or
red, toted a pistol, and Folsom
was never without one. It was
his pistol that involved him in a
number of serious brawls in Den-
ison, for when under the influ-
ence of liquor he was very handy
with his gun. We remember
that he “cleaned out” a number
of saloons on Main street and
stood the officers off with his gun
when they attempted to arrest
him.
Men were dying nearly every
day in the month “with their
boots on,” the most lawless and
desperate characters of the south
west thronged our streets, but
none of them were regarded with
more wholesome fear than Tan-
dy Folsom.
He was arrested for horse-
stealing, and we believe the offi-
cer who effected the arrest was
Captain Tom Wright, then depu-
ty U. S. Marshal. Folsom was
lodged in jail, the case clearly
proven, and it looked as if he
might go over the road to Hunts-
ville. If our memory serves us
right he made bond and then
jumped it.
After th^t- Jmgave^ D enison a
wide birth and entered upon one-
of the most romantic and desper-
ate careers that ever fell to out-
lawed man.
Folsom placed himself at the
head of a desperate gang of cut-
throats and horse thieves and for
a number of years terrorized the
people of the Indian Territory.
While he killed no one at the
murder and horse stealing. He
was perfectly fearless and had
several running fights with the
officers near Carriage Point. At
the heighth of his career when
every marshal in the territory
carried papers for him, Long vis-
ited a Fourth of July celebration
at Colbert where over 1000 peo-
ple were on the grounds and
among the number several offi-
cers. Long carried a Winches-
ter and mingled with the crowd
for two or thee hours. The offi-
cers gave as their excuse for not
attempting his arrest that inno-
cent blood would be shed, for
Long was sure to fight to the
death. He was a thin, spare man
of quick, nervous temperament.
He had a a cold grey eye that as
Shakespeare says in Macbeth,
“looked daggers.” There was a
corn field near the picnic grounds.
Long disappeared in this field
and that was the last seen of him.
Long and Folsom split up, and
there was bad blood between
them. One morning near Du-
rant, Long was shot down at the
corner of a fence. It was always
believed that Folsom killed him,
but no one ever cared to investi-
gate for his death was a great
relief to the people of that sec-
tion.
In the early part of the 80’s
desperate negro cattle thieves
were operating east of Caddo;
two were killed and this was laid
to Tandy Folsom. Human life
at that period was held very
cheap in the Indian Territory; it
was the “dark and bloody
ground.” Folsom scouted, or
“hid out” as they call it, for
nearly ten years. The officers
gave him a wide berth. He rang-
ed from Oklahoma to Red river.
It is said that a great many stol-
en horses can be laid at his door.
He frequently visited Durant for
whiskey. On one occasion in
the streets of Durant he came
near killing Dave Bohannon who
saved his life by “taking water.”
Folsom challenged him to come
out and fight, but Bohannon saw
that discretion was the better
part of vaior. -
He held up a Katy train at Du^
rant and intended to kill the con-
ductor whom he thought had
given him away to the marshals.
He leveled his Winohestsr at the
conductor and his finger touched
the trigger, the conductor trem-
bling with fear declared his in-
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eginning of his career, he was ™°ence and Folsom spared h.s
jredited with the murder of two
pen later on. At this period a
vhite man by the name of Long
scouted with Folsom. He was a
‘holy terror,” and if anything,
worse than Folsom in his palmy
lays. Long was wanted for
life.
Folsom, tired of being hunted
eternally like a wild beast, Bued
for peace. It was arranged that
if he would “come in” that the
long list of charges against him
on the docket at Ft. Smith would
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be canceled. It was arranged
that Folsom should proceed to
Fort Smith and appear before
Judge Parker and surrender.
A few weeks afterwards Folsom
was appointed U. S. deputy mar-
shal and a member of the Indian
police, both positions which he
filled in the most fearless and
satisfactory manner. His name
was a terror to the evil doers of
the Territory. With his sur-
render, a change came over the
spirit of the maD, and the change
was for the better.
He has been a constant visitor
to Denison for the past ten years,
and although a drinking man, he
was not a quarrelsome one.
Four or five years ago, serious
trouble was anticipated at Tusk-
ahoma between the Duke
Jackson, Jones and McCurtin
factions. Everyone was aware
that if the trouble was started
that whiskey would touch the
match off, and there was no tell-
ing where the matter might end.
The Indian agent instructed
Folsom to proceed to the Choc-
taw capital, “spy out” the con-
traband whiskey and spill it. It
was a most serious undertaking
and required a man of undaunted
courage, cool head and tact; a
straw might break the camel’s
back and start the blood to flow-
ing. Folsom proceeded toTusk-
ahoma, drove out the whiskey
peddlers, spilled the vile stuff on
the ground and saved the Choc-
taw capital from bloodshed. It
was the most dangerous and crit-
ical undertaking of his eventful
life, and the Indian agent and
chief of the Indian police, La
Flore, congratulated him on the
matter in which he had discharg-
ed his delicate duties.
The newspaper description of
the killing of Keys Durant is not
correct. Durant was killed at a
late hour of the night at the de-
pot at Caddo, and not in the day
time on the streets of Caddo. Du
rant was drunk. There was
female whiskey peddler with him
whom Folsom had a warrant to
arrest. Keys Durant protested
and ordered Folsom to leave the
room and let the woman alone.
When Folsom advanced to arrest
her Durant pulled his pistol and
fired one shot at Folsom, who in
return killed Durant. The trag-
edy occurred on the platform.
The death of Tandy Folsom re-
moves from the Territory a char-
acter which a novelist might
gloat over. In person he was
about six feet one, with broad
shoulders, well formed chest and
limbs,and a face strikingly hand-
some, a sharp, clear, black eye.
Whether on foot or on horseback
he was the most perfect type of
physical manhood. Of his cour-
age there could be no question;
it had been brouget to the test on
too many occasions to admit of a
doubt. His skill in the use of the
rifle and pistol was unerring,
while his deportment was exactly
the opposite of what might oe ex-
pected from a man of his sur-
roundings. It was entirely free
from all bluster or bravado. He
seldom spoke of himself unless
requested to do so. His influence
as a desperado, or later as an
officer, was unbounded; his word
was law.—Denison Gazetteer.
/ xA Sermon on Women.
“Woman,” said, the old codger,
during one of his meditative spells
“is a prepetual paradox,a chronic
conundrum without an answer,
an unknown quantity possessed
of unexpected possibilities, a per-
ennial prize packages of peculiar
pbtentialities, a conventicle of
characteristic contradictions and
and an amaranthine* aggregation
of other attributes which are alli-
terative.
She is man’s greatest earthly
blessing, and the cause of most
of his misery. She is his chief
inspiration to the achievement of
all that is good, grand and glori-
ous in this world and at the same
time a labor saving device to help
him make a fool of himself. She
soothes his tired nerves with the
coo of her gentle voice, but she
always has the last word in every
controversy with him-—and in-
cidentally about 97 per cent of
the preceding conversation. She
brings him into the world and a
few years later talks him to
death.
Most of man’s trouble is caused
by woman, but so deftly does
she pile the load on him that
wherever his burden of trouble is
lifted he wanders uneasily hunt-
ing for more, otherwise there
would be very few second wives.
She will cheerfully go to the
stake for the truth’s sake, and lie
about her age without even being
asked. She will grow weary of an
indulgent husband and will cling
unto death to the man who beats
her regularly. She will break
her heart because a man does
what she don’t want him to and
love him all the better for so do-
ing.
She scorns all advice in the se-
lection of a husband, but takes
two other women along to help
pick out a hat. The less actual
comfort to be obtained from a
thing the more enjoyment a wo-
man gets out of its possession.
At 16 she is a young woman; at
25, if still unmarried, she is a
girl. She will face the grim
spectre of death without a tremor
and swoon at the sight of a
mouse.
AGAIN UNSEATED.
Foi-a Third Time William F. Aldrich is
Given the Seat by a Strict party Vote.
The house last Friday unseated
Gaston A Robbins, a Democrat,
from the Fourth Alabama dis-
trict, and seated in his stead
William F. Aldrich, a Republi-
can, who has been three times a
contestant from the same district
on the same ground, of fraud,
and who is now given his seat for
the third time by a Republican
house. The vote was a strict
party one,the minority resolutions
declaring Mr. Robbins entitled to
retain his seat being defeated by
a vote of 134 to 138 and then by
112 to 135. Mr. Aldrich, the
contestant, was declared entitled
to the seat. Mr. Aldrich was
sworn in at once.
SPRING GOODS.
Come and see our novelties in Spring Goods. We
have some of the prettiest things in Wash Fabrics ever
brought to the city. We have beautiful patterns in fine
Ginghams, Percals, Egyptian Tissues, Dauphin Cards, Silk
Madras, Lenoline, Limerick Checks, Linen Skirting, Cotton
Covert Cloth. We have the finest line of white goods to
be seen in town. Lace Stripes, French Lawns, Organdies,
and Dimities, Paris Mousseline in black, extra width 67 to
77 cts. Our line of Laces, Embroideries,and Ladies Under-
wear is selling very rapidly, but we still have a nice stock
on hand and will continue to show the very latest things
out. Come and see for yourself what we have at
$ioo Reward $ioo.
The readers of this paper will
be pleased to learn that there is
at least one dreaded disease that
science has been able to cure in
all its stages, and that is catarrh.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure now known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh, be-
ing a constitutional disease, re-
quires a constitutional treatment.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in-
ternally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of
the system, thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease,
and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so
much faith in its curative pow-
ers, that they offer One Hun-
dred Dollars for any case that it
fails to cure. Send for list of
testimonials. Address
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0.
Sold by Druggists,
Killed by a Train.
M. W. Bridges, a farmer who
lived near Howland, Lamar
county, was run down and killed
by a Santa Fe passenger train
between Paris and Roxton Sat-
urday afternoon. The unfortu-
nate man had been in Paris trad-
ing- and left for home driving '“a
paiA of gray horses. At a point
where the railroad and the wag-
on r&ad form an acute angle the
teanY heard the train coming
fromlbehind and ran away. The
horses ran right upon the track
just as the train reached them.
Both horses and their driver were
terribly mangled.
We can save you money on
shoes. W. Underwood & Sons.
For a nice roast, steak or
dressed chicken call on House,
North 6th st. Phone 65—4.
The New School Law.
Some weeks ago the Supreme
Court decided as unconstitutional
the law under which our school
trustees have been elected or
appointed.
The way the law reads now, a
trustee cannot be elected or ap-
pointed for a longer term than
two years. The schools in cities
will hereafter be under the con-
trol of seven trustees. These
trustees may be appointed by the
council or elected by the people.
If the people become dissatisfied
with the appointments of the
council they may petition for an
election, and if at this election
it is decided to have trustees
elected by the people, another
election is ordered for that pur-
pose.
The law puts the whole matter
of schools into their hands, and
the council shall levy any tax
which the board demands not
exceeding 50 cents on the one
hundred dollars. The appoint-
ment or election is the first Sat-
urday in May.
Waco and Austin Capture the Conventions,
At the meeting of the State
Democratic Committee Monday
Waco and Austin captured the
state conventions of the present
year. The convention to select
delegates to the National Demo-
cratic Convention and nominate
presidential electors goes to
Austin and will be held June 20.
The state second state convention
to nominate candidates for state
offieers- will be held at Waco
August 9th. The basis of rep-
resentafion in this convention
is one vote for every 300 votes
or fractional part thereof cast for
Gov. Sayers in 1898.
Terrible Ravages of Smallpox.
Jackson, Miss, March 6.—An
official report made in the Hinds
county Board of supervisers this
morning reveals an appalling
state of affairs in the Jonesville
neighborhood in the southern
part of the county. The commu-
nity is literally honeycombed
with small-pox of the most viru-
lent and loathesome form and
during the past six weeks nearly
100 deaths have occurred. On
some days the death rate has
been so large that it was impos-
sible to secure coffins and rude
caskets were made from rails.
Whole families have been wiped
out of existence and of several
large families only one or two
children are left. Many of the
patients who are now in a critical
condition are without medical at-
tention and dying at the rate of
from three to five per day. - The
PRICE & GRAY
DODD CITY ITEMS.
From the News.
Rev. A. W. Wilson was called
to Sherman yesterday. He is
being urged to accept the presi-
dency of Austin college, but on
account of his age he will proba-
bly decline.
The pool for the oil mill is
completed. It is one of the best.
Already water is collecting from
streams in the pool. When the
rains come there will be water in
abundance.
Marshal Jones met with a pain-
ful accident at the school house
last Friday just after the noon
recess. He and Roy Broderick
were engaged in a game known
as “slash” in which knives are
used in rather a reckless man-
ner. The slashing process be-
came too much of a reality and
Marshal sustained a severe
wound between the thumb and
forefinger of the right hand,
LAD0NIA ITEMS.
Ladonia News.
Mr. C. H. Peebles died at
the residence of Q. H. Merrill
two miles east of town, last Fri-
day.
The total expense occasioned
by smallpox in Ladonia, now
foots up something near $600.
At a cost of two hundred dollars
a victim we have reason to re-
joice that the disease was not
more widespread.
In the death of Mr. S. R. Kean
last Sunday morning our city
loses a good citizen, one whose
honesty and sterling worth justly
entitled him to the respect and
esteerp of all his acquaint-
ance. His death, which resulted
from pneumonia, was a shock to
his friends, many of them not
knowing of his serious ijjness.
Will Miller has sold hfs inter-
est in the insurance business of
Weldon & Miller to W* T£. Wei
The artery was severed, but a-He has &iso sold his resi-
REECHES
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4sk sob them, e^ky pair vraebas®5®* I Price 50c. Scherer & Murray.
death rate exceeds 75 per cent,
and the entire lower portion of
the county is demoralized.
Kipling’s Next Poem.
“Run over the Dutchman’s
country, rob henroosts free of
fear, drive off the Dutchman’s
donkeys, drink up the Dutch-
man’s beer! What else is the
Dutchman good for—what else
did the Dutchman seek—when
he drew his pipe on Britain’s
queen and dared her ’cross the
creek? Oh! smash the bloody
Dutchman,paste ’im in the snoot;
remember dark Majuba, likewise
Modder Spruit! Give ’im one
for Colley, and one for Dr. Jame,
a few for everybody, then give
’em over again. Oh! teach those
hairy farmers—the pretzel chew-
ing crew—that we are lords and
Englishmen, cock-a-doodle-doo!
Lord Bob of Battles, be with us
yit, lest we forgit, lest we forgit!”
—Clarksville Times.
' You can be cheerful and hap-
py only when you are well. If
you feel “out of sorts” take
Herbine. It will brace you up
physician was promptly sum
moned and the flow of blood
stopped before any possible seri-
ous results. The cutting was
accidental, but slash is a dan-
gerous game either in fun or
otherwise and should be discon
tinued entirely.
Quite an amount of interest is
being taken in the approaching
stock law election. A majority
of the citizens, are, we believe,
in favor of the measure. Many,
if not a majority, of the landlord
farmers also favor a stock law.
The people of the Lannius and
Windom communities are more
opposed to it. The question of
who shall be allowed to vote in
the election is also causing con-
siderable discussion. The law
says a man must be a freeholder
in order to be a qualified voter,
and the meaning of freeholder,
when used in a legal sense, is
an owner of land. Therefore, no
one canvote in the coming elec-
tion unless he owns real estate
in addition to other necessary
qualifications.
A Novel Taxation Scheme.
The young ladies of South
Vineland,, N. J. have hit upon a
novel scheme to raise money for
sweet charity’s sake. It can be
said, however, to the credit of the
ladies that the scheme has Just
been proposed and has not yet
been adopted.’ Here it is:
It is proposed to tax young
men for the following privileges:
One call, evening..............................................19
One call, afternoon............................................5
One hug, light turned on...................................20
One hug, light turned down...........................45
Moonlight hand squeeze...................... 10
Kisses in the dark.......................................:.....80
Kisses by lamplight...........................................27
Kisses with mamma present, per doz..............17
Invitation to tea................................................31
Buggy ride......................... 12
Buggy ride, one arm kind,.,........... 18
Hammock swing .... ........................... —;........36
Exchange of photographs.................................42
Saying “yes”........................................... .$1.98
Fixing the day....................................................1
Marching to altar, nothing.............................
In this day of taxing franchises
and luxuries, the above is the
best plan that has yet met the
eye of the Chief as a revenue
producer, provided the assessor
is a first class detective, or pro-
providedthe young ladies are pa-
triotic enough to inform on their
beaux. This plan is respectfully
referred to Governor Sayers.—
Comanche Chief.
dence on Park street to Messrs,
C. W. T. Weldon and J. p. Day,
who in turn transferred tpe prop.-
eFty to S. J. McFarland. Will
has made up his mfnd to move to
Seattle, Wash., a plan he has
cherished for some time.
News reached town last Sun-
day that the dead body of a baby
had been found in the Bartley
Gin neighborhood. Justice Will
Harkins investigated the matter
and the coroner’s jury returned
a verdict of death from unknown
causes. The body was supposed
to be that of a negro baby,
though decomposition had ad-
vanced to such a stage that to
determine the color of the baby
was next to impossible. A mys-
tery surrounds the affair and the
officers have but little to guide
them in their search.
BONHAM ITEMS.
Daily Favorite.
Dr. Frank B. Gresham and
Lieut. Col. M, Stevens, both of
London, England, are herein the
interest of the British govern-
ment, buying war stock.
The Union Roller Mill & Gin
Co. will shortly be put in first
class order, a great amount of
machinery being ordered, and
Bonham will then have another
first-class roller mill.
A bill for Fannin county’s part
of the small pox expenses at Di-
rect, in the northeast part of the
county, has been filed with
County Clerk T. F. Gray. Its
many items foot up to $1,124.05.
The Central Teachers’ insti-
tute will meet in Bonham, Fri-
day and Saturday, Maroh 30 and
31. A splendid program has
been arranged for the occasion,
the special features of which are
an address by State Superintend-
iStit Ke^i-dail cm Friday night, and
an address ,on Saturday morning
by Prpf. p. W. Horn, superin-
tendent of the Shernjan city
schools. Pros. Horn’s subject
Will pe “Father Ryan.”
Belgian Electoral Law.
The electoral law of Belgium
provides that every man between
the ages of 21 and 25 years who
shall pay $1 per year in taxes
will be entitled to one ballot;
married men over 25 years of
age will have two ballots each,
and if such married men shall
own real estate or government
bonds or savings bank deposits
producing an income of $20 a
year they will have three ballots
each. _ _
Signal and Republic for $1.75.
By the term “society leader”
is meant a woman who invents
schemes to keep people out of
bed who would otherwise retire
early.—Ex.
Married by a Phonograph.
Edith L. Smith, of New York,
and Frank T. Mercereau were
married last evening at the resi-
dence of the bride’s cousin. The
ceremony was performed through
the medium of a phonograph by
the dead father of the bride.
The couple had been engaged
in the life time of Mr. smith,
who was to have performed the
ceremony. He was taken sud-
denly ill while the bride was in
i.hft cLonth. and died before her
return. * -_________
Before his death he recited the
marriage ceremony into the pho-
nograph, which was used, and
the bride and groom responded
to the questions asked by the
machine.—Clarksville Times.
Congressman Hawley, who
represents one of the south Texas
districts, complimented the nig-
ger, Ferguson, with this state-
ment before the Waco Republi-
can convention: “There is no
man in the world I have more
honor and respect for than Hen-
ry C. Ferguson.” And Ferguson
is put down as a nigger politician
from San Antonio. When a
white man gets so low in his es-
timate of * self-respect that
he places a nigger on his own
level, and publicly announces
that he has no higher regard for
his white friends than he has for
a nigger, it is time to put him on
the shelf. This Hawley is a dis-
grace to the republican party of
Texas.—Morgan
Fresh bulk
Walcott & Cru1
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