The Daily Herald (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 304, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 5, 1915 Page: 1 of 4
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are not anxious for your business—we are, and if you allow us
the opportunity it shall ever be our constant aim, as well as our
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New York, Jan. 5.—Miss Grace
Hoadley Dodge, the philanthropist
who died here Dec. 27, 1914, left $1,-
000,000 to public and religious insti-
tutions under her will died for pro-
bate. Bequests include $500,000 each
to Teachers' College of Columbia Uni-
versity and the National Board of the
Young Women’s Christian Association
of the United States.
KATY LIMITED WRECKED;
THREE PERSONS INJURED.
AFTER REMAINING IDLE FOR
MONTHS INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
START UP AGAIN.
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First Week of New Year Is Ushered in
With Bright Prospects for
Bnsiness in General.
By the Associated Press. ,
Bells, Texas, Jan. 5.—The south-
bound Katy limited was wrecked one
mile from here this morning, the en-
gine and baggage car leaving the rails
at a curve where the track was bad,
and overturned. The fireman, engi-
neer and one passenger, who was
standing on the platform, were injur-
ed. The same train happened to an
accident at the same place one year
ago. A freight train had previously
had trouble there last night.
BANK BOARD NOT SUBJECT
TO COURT’S ORDERS.
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The value of the total estate is esti-
mated at more than two millions. Oth-
er bequests include $200,000 to the
Young Women’s Christian Association
of the city of New York, $50,000 to the
American College forVGirls at Constan-
tinople, $25,000 to yne 'Presbyterian
Board of Foreign Missions, and the
same amount to the Presbyterian
Board of Home Missions.
British Official
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By the Associated Press.
Washington, Jan. 5.—The United
States supreme court today decided
the Oklahoma state banking board
was not subject to court orders in
paying claims to depositors under the
state bank guaranty act.
The court affirmed the famous $250,-
000 judgment against the Danbury
Hatters’ Union., . . i
AMERICAN HOUND BALE PRESS
CO. GOES INTO RECEIVERSHIP
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By the Associated Press.
London, Jan. 5.—The right wing of
the French army is today less than
thirty miles from the River Rhine, in
Alsace. The French army holds the
village of Steinbach and the heights
near by, after one of the stubbornest
By the Associated Press.
New York, Jan. 5.—On account of
jthe European war, the American
j Round Bale Press company, a $6,000,-
000 corporation, went into receiver-
ship today. The company was organ-
ized in 1907 from subsidiaries, includ-
ing the Texas Gin company, and has
property in Oklahoma and Arkansas.
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chasseurs and 75-millimeter guns won
this victory.
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French progress in this part of Al-
sace is considered the most significant
war- news in several weeks. Some
authorities think the allies are trying
to break through the German lines
there. The French hold the heights
of Cernay and need only to capture
the town itself to open the road to
Muelhausen.
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GERMANY DOES NOT EXPECT
U. 8. TO STOP ARMS EXPORTS.
GERMAN AEROPLANES DROP
DESTRUCTIVE BOMBS.
Chicago, 111., Jan. 5—The first work-
ing day of 1915 brought joy to thou-
sands of workingmen throughout the
country. In Illinois alone more than
twenty factories resumed operations
and it is estimated that 10,000 men,
many of whom had been idle since the
closing of the factories last fall, were
re-employed. Activity was reported
in several of the larger manufactur-
ing districts In Illinois outside of Chi-
cago. In Peoria alone 3,000 men were
re-employed and more will be taken
on in a few weeks. After being idle
for three months the big Avery fac-
tory at Peoria, manufacturing thresh-
ing machines and farm implements,
opened. The plant employs 1,500 men.
Three hundred were put to work get-
ting the machinery in running order
preparatory to opening at full capacity
in a few days. The Acme Harvesting
Machine company, another big Peoria
concern, is preparing its plant for the
opening of business. The Acme com-
pany employs 1,000 men. The Key-
stone Steel and Wire company, which
was partly shut down during the dull
season, re-emplbyed 1,000 men. The
Western Wheeled Scraper company of
Aurora put 400 men to work on a ten-
hour day and announced that 400
more would be taken on in a few days.
In Chicago the Rathbone-Sard Stove
works reopened with a force of 500
employes. The Lyon Metallic compa-
ny announced that all its old workers
were being taken back. The Aurora
Cotton Mills re-employed 500 men,
who had been laid off three months.
More than a dozen Chicago factories
also opened with full forces.
By tlie Associated Press. ,
Berlin, Jan, 5—It is announced here
that German airmen have dropped
bombs on British ammunition Stores
at Rosendaal and Doudskerque, near
Dunkirk, France. The explosions
killed and injured 100 persons and set
fire to one village.
FOUR FLOORS OF QE.VISON
COTTON MILL COLLAPSE.
By the Associated Pres*.
Washington, Jan. 5.—Chairman
Flood of the house foreigh relations
committee, announces that the Ger-
man government has informed the GERMAN
United States that Germany does not
expect the United States to prohibit
exports of war materials.
By the Associated Press.
Denison, Texas, Jan. 5.—Four floors
and part of the roof of the Denison
cotton mills collapsed last night. The
building was weakened during re-
pairs and installing new machinery.
No one was hurt.
CAPTURE BOLIMOW
BIT ARE DRIVEN OUT.
THE DAILt HERALD 40c A MONTH
CITY GARAGE
Trouble calls answered
promptly—Either phone
By the Associated Press.
Petrograd, Jan. 5.—The Russian war
office claims the Germans, after cap-
turing Bolimow, have been driven out
again.
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Fleur Jaaps 40 feats a Barrel.
By the Associated Press.
Chicago, 111., Jan. 5.—Flour jumped
up forty cents a barrel this morning.
Dallas, Texas, Jan. 5.—A pitched
battle between deputy sheriffs and
special officers of tho Southwestern
Telegraph and Telephone company on
one side and wire-cutters on the other,
occurred last night four and one-half
miles west of Dallas, in which Special
Officer W. S. Farmer, for eighteen
years in the employ of the telephone
company, was shot through the right
thigh.
It was believed, shortly after the
battle, that one of the wire- thieves
had been killed or badly wounded by
Fanner. This man was coming down
a pole when the officers approached
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and Farmer fired at hiq^with a shot-
gun at close range. Two other men
were seen to run away from the spot,
but no trace of the man who came
down the pole was seen after he drop-
ped into the grass.
The officers caught the wire cutthrs
in the act of dragging the heavy cop-
per wires from the crossarms of the
poles of the Southwestern Telephone
company and commanded them to sur-
render. Their answer was a volley of
shots, which was returned, and with-
in the next few moments it Is esti-
mated 75 or 100 shots were exchang-
Mounted Officers Murray and Haney
were sent to the Commerce Btreet
bridge, to be on the lookout for the
men should they attempt to make
their way into the city.
Oq Saturday night the wires of the
Western Union Telegraph company
were cut in a serious manner near
Cement City, more than a mile and
one-fourth of the heavy copper
strands being removed, it appears
that the officers were on the lookout
for a raid on the telephone company’s
property and had set devices which
would communicate any wire cutting
to the offices in Dallas. The signals
gave the alarm shortly before ten
o’clock and Farmer and Boyd, who
were stationed at Eagle Ford, were
notified from'Dal las to proceed east-
ward, While Deputy Sheriffs McCal-
pin and Padgett left the city to meet
them. Before starting on the trip the
officers were all aware of the fact that
the wire-cutters were working at some
point between Dallas and Eagle Ford.
As it so happened, the officers met
at about the same point, where the
wire-cutters were at work on the
lines. The posse started toward the
wire-cutters, one of -whom was in the
act of climbing down a pole, and com-
manded them to halt. Farmer opened
fire on the man climbing down the
pole and expressed the belief that he
wounded him. Immediately shots
from two or three, or possibly more
men, were fired at the officers, all of
whom returned the fire.
Farmer made the following state-
ment of the affair after being brought
to the city:
“I was at Eagle Ford with Mr. Boyd
when we got the signal to come to-
ward Dallas. We drove to Gates and
then got out and walked. We came
up on the other officers, three in num-
ber, at the east end of the switch at
the cement plant, and all of us saw
the wire-cutters working about thirty
or forty yards from us. We started
at them and they opened fire on us.
We returned it. I am certain that the
last shot fired by one of the men, who
was climbing down a pole, was the
one that struck me.
"I fell to iny knees when I was
struck. They brought me home and
Sheriff Reynolds and other deputies
went out to help the boys in their
Beach for the wire-cutters. I am not
badly hurt—only a slight flesh wound
in the left thigh.
“We knew before we started from
Eagle Ford that the wires were being
cut somewhere near the cement plant,
because we received a signal, and
when we got to where they were work-
ing we could see the wires being pull-
ed across the arms of the poles.
“I should Judge that we were about
thirty or forty yards from the wire-
cutters when we began shooting. They
returned our fire and then ran toward
the river bottoms.”
WITH TOTAL PURCHASE ESTI-
MATED AT 3,000,(MM) BUSHELS,
PRICES REACH $1,14 3-4.
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Chicago, 111., Jan. 5.—Europe’s bit-
ter need of bread resulted in spectac-
ular buying of wheat and caused new-
war prices here. It was pointed out,
however, that the top quotation at-
tained. $1.34 3-4 for May delivery, was
still roundly 50c a bushel under the
price forced here in 1898 by Joseph
Loiter during a worldwide peace-
$1.85.
Notwithstanding that wheat at one
time showed a rise of 3 3-4c over Sat-
urday night, tho upturn apparently
had little if any effect on farmers.
Country offerings were decidedly mea-
ger, as they have been for some time
past.
Although the prime impetus for
high prices came from seemingly un-
limited export demand, there was no
doubt that the general public bought
wheatiheavily, and especially so in the
last hour of the session. Millers, too,
were said to be anxious buyers, fear-
ing that the tremendous export call
would leave them short of supplies.
Roughly, the total sales to Europe in
the United States were estimated at
3,000,000 bushels was definitely known
to be for the relief of the starving
people of Belgium.
Talk among brokers centered al-
most wholly on the idea that for the
time being the United States was vir-
tually the only big exporting nation
in the world, owing to the war situa-
tian.
for February
have arrived!
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Berlin, Jan. 5.—Recent war nmnA.
according to the official bureau, era -
ated an unusually cheerful impreaaAuo*
in Germany. The claim of the de-
struction of the British warship* For-
midable, which was caused by a- Ger-
man submarine, is striking —‘-jttntx
that England’s supremacy of tbe-Ma*
Is endangered. The capture of Btr-.
Jlmow, on the road to Warsaw, th*.
bureau deems highly important atrat—
egetleaily.
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Declares Agua Prieta Dry.
Douglas. Ariz., Jan. 5.—Agua PrleC* .
the Mexican town across the borduc.
Wheat Again Breaks Record.
Chicago, III., Jan. 5.t—May wheat
again broke more records today when
the market opened ut $1.37, two cents
a bushel higher than yesterday.
French Official
Statement
P.y tin* Associated Press.
1’aris. Jan. 5.— (Official.)-—The al-
lies advanced near Nieuport and St.
Georges, Belgium, and completely
stopped German sapping of Northwest
France by using mortars and hand
grenades. *
has gone dry, shattering the hope* *(*•
American saloonkeepers, who were-
put out of business Dec. 31 by the Aaf—
zona dry law, and expected to reopUmx
in tho Mexican town.
Colonel Arnulfo Gomez, the const!—
tutlonallst commandant of Agua PM—
eta, issued the following brief ordom
“So liquor may be brought nrrr—
the border, even though duty be pnM,.
and no liquor may be sold or gtwn
away In Agua Prieta under penalty at"
$200 fine or thirty days In the cuartaL**
Tlie order applies alike to Mexican*:
and foreigners.
Federal league Flies Suit.
Chicago, HI.. Jan. 5.—The Federal
I.eague has filed suit charging the
National Baseball commission with vi-
olating the trust laws.
Itradstreet Superintendent Kills SHC.
By the Associated Press.
Dallas, Texas, Jan. 5.—W. W. Wyatt.
state superintendent of BrudstroattD
mercantile agency for many yeaca,.
killed himself here this morning. lflk
health If given as the cause.
Wounded Ne<rro Found.
By the Associated Press.
Dallas, Texas, Janfl 5.—One negro
was found wounded and another is be-
lieved to lx- dead as the result of a
battle* last night near here between
officers and negro thives who were
caught stealing telephone wires.
Italy War Sentiment Retited.
Rome, Jan. 5.—War sentiment In j
Italy was revived by death in the;
French ranks of Garnbaldi’s grandson.
Call for Hank Statements.
! Washington, Jan. 5.—The comptxaF-
j !er of the currency today called for me
I report of the condition of national
bunks on December 31.
White A Co., undertakers and 8m-
Lalmers. Both phones—day and nigHfc.
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GENERAL SCOTT WILL CON-
PER WITH VILLA IN PERSON
By the Associated Pres*.
El Paso, Texas. Jan. 3.—General
Hugh Scott arrived here today to
await a conference with General Villa
in person on the international bridge
over rtopping firing across American
soil.
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New Years Resolution! i
Resolved: That we make more and better clothes
this year than ever, and also do -more Cleaning,
Pleasing and Repairing than ever before. We will
cal) and deliver all work. Uee yoor phone—S. W.
No. 74-m. With beet wiahea to ail,
J. P. BLOOM & CO’Y
ive steam press and all that it takes to do ; ’
good work.
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Farmer fell to his knees wounded
and Deputy Sheriffs J. J. MeCalpin,
Tom Padgett and A. Y. Boyd and an-
other officer in the employ of the Tex-
as Light & Power company gave chase
to the wlrecutters, who beat a retreat
through the lowlands toward the riv-
er bottoms.
Farmer was carried to his home at
704 Crockett street, in an automobile,
and the small posse battling through
the inky darkness was soon streng- jtoes.
thened by Sheriff Will K. Reynolds
and Chief Deputy Harry Nelms. The
search was then continued, but up un-
til an early hoar this morning their
capture bad not been effected.
The police department was notified
end ’Patrolmen Wolfgen and Poynter
were stationed at the end of the Texas
Dies From Snake Bite.
By the Associated Pre**.
Fort Worth. Texas. Jan. 5 —County
Commissioner Rtife Snow received a
telephone message from Azle late
Monday afternoon that Van Wilton,
who lived Just across the line In Par-
ker county, was bitten by a rattle-
snake about 2 o'clock Monday after-
noon *And died an hour later.
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4k Pacific railroad trestle, while
Emperor William Eats New Bread.
By the Associated Pres*.
Berlin. Jan. 5.—Emperor William
an<L bis personal staff are now eating
a new style bread containing 85 per
cent rye and 15 per cent flake pota-
This bread is intended to con-
serve the Germans' food supply.
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Russians Oeeupv Hangar!an Towns.
By the Associated Prase
Paris, Jan. 5.—A Petrograd dispatch
says Hie Russians have occupied eight
Hungarian townships and several di-
visions of the Austrian army are sur-
rounded in the
The “Car ol Mystery”
—ia the FeDs&tioD of the auto world.
Why: Because it has all the features of
the cars selling for $1100 and $1200.
It Has—
Electric starter, electric lights, 85 horse-
power motor, demountable rims*, non-skid tires
in the rear, beautiful ttream-line body, 1-piecQ
pressed steel fenders, 1-man top, steel body,'
cine clutch, fall floating rear axle, and numer-
ous other fine points.
At the Remarkable price of $835.
Don’t overlook this, nor the fact that we
have plenty of Fords, both roadsters and the
touring cars.
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