Sherman Daily Democrat (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 32, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 6, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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SHERMAN DAILY DEMOCRAT.
THE DEMOCRAT
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THE ASSOCIATED DRESS
Greatest and Beet.
THIRTY-SECOND YEAR
Associated Press
SHIRMAN, TEXAS. AL'GUST 6. 1912
Rain Smiles and Rain
The greatest grain crop ever in Texas, all
saved and money in the bank—Corn the finest
ever grown, cotton never was better, farmers all
smiles, a big bank book and money in their pock-
ets. Mason-Brackney have summer merchandise
that must be unloaded to make room for new fall
and winter goods arriving daily.
Cost not considered. Summer goods must go
—prices low enough, we need the money.
- Great reductions in all departments. Come
bring yotir friends, you will not be disappointed.
lewd pons
BODY DROUGHT INTO DETROIT
AND IDENTIFIED BEYOND
ALL DOUBT.
SHOWED FIGHT TO THE LAST
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When Negro was IMseovered In
Bmsh lie Turned Ilia (inn Cm
DoMNemeti hut Willioul Damage
—Ills Body Diddled With Bullets
The negro who was killed by a
liosse near Woodland, Red River
county, yesterday afternoon, has
been positively identified' as Leon-
ard Potts.
The body of Potts was taken in-
to Delroit and ffom there sent to
Clarksville where it will be buried.
Many people who knew Potts
viewed the body and there was no
doubt as to the identity of the dead
negro.
IEDERAL PRISONERS ARE
TORTURED UNT9 DEATH
OWEN BELIFVED LEADING
IN OKLAHOMA ELECTION
A.snrlatrcl Prms Dispatch)
Laredo, Aug. 6.—The Sierra
Juarez Indian leaders In Northern
Oaxuca are reported to have sus-
pended personal guarantee*, <jn their
own account. All federate onijifured
will be executed at once. If of high
rank they are tortured. The rebels
rut off the ears and soles of the
feet of two soldiers, 30 miles from
the city of Oaxaca, then the soldiers
were forced to walk to Ixt&pec, a
distance of severul miles. One died
on the road and the other was kill-
ed by a mob on arrival.
Aosociatm! prwR Dispatch 1
Oklahoma City, Aug. 6.—Early
reports from the Oklahoma primary
election today indicate that Senator
Owen is leading former Governor
Haskell in the race for the senator-
ial preference nomination. Charges
of gross irregularities throughout
the state are being made.
Shoots ller Husband.
AK-soclatod ProHH Dispatch]
When soot has fallen on carpet
or furniture sprinkle thickly wfth
corntneaL let stand a tew minutes
and then brush up carefully. If
therp are stains on the wali paper
from the stovepipe, wipe carefully
with a cloth oil which meal has been
sprinkled.
Houston, Tex., Aug. 6,—Mrs
Catherine Allen, who yesterday shot
And killed her husband, said for
three years he had flaunted ills
love for aother woman in her face
almost dally and had shown her
presents he had bought for the oth-
er woman. The widow is i -'enty
I five years old and 'good looking.
Make $4 Per Second
A dollar saved is a dollar made, and if
you need a 0x12 Administer rug you can
make a saving of four dollars by buying
during this sale of “seconds” You get
$22.50 in value for $18.50.
Refrigerators
We still have a complete slock ol
North Star
Career of Potts.
Leonard Potts lived In Sherman
for many years and his father.
PeanregpriE Potts, is a preacher and'
lives at the present time on a farm
about 4 miles north of Sherman.
The elder Potts has often held ser-
vices at Honey Run church "in the
vicinity of where he now lives and
in that neighborhood Leonard Potts
wns well known and was never
looked upon as a “bad nigger.'1
When Leonard Pofts worked in
Sherman up to just a few months
ago, he was considered Bomewhat
high-tempered and mean but no one
thought of him as a killer. He was
married in Sherman. His wife’s
people lived in Clarksville and some
time ago his wife left him and’
went to live with her folks In
Clarksville,
The appearance of Potts in the
Red River bottoms notfh of Deca-
tur yesterday morning was surpris-
ing to many people, as it was
thought that he had gone the oth-
er way, or had crossed into Okla-
homa. He was half starved . arid
his clothing told the tale of hisj
High' through the woods bifore hlsj
pursuers for several days.
Potts’ death ends the career of
one of the most vicious negro crim-
inals In the history of Texas. His
had disposition developed only two
weeks ago. it appears, when he
shot and fatally wounded' Policeman
Tedford at Dallas, when that offic-
ial attempted to arrest him for dis-
turbing the peace. He escaped de-
spite the fact that thousands of Dal-
las citizens searched the Trinity
bottoms and scoured tne surround-
ing country for him for two days.
Last Monday night he appeared
in Clarksville and barricaded him-
si Id in a shanty. When sheri'
Stephens and his posse, surrounding
the house, attempted to rush the
place, Potts fired a bullet into the
heart of the Red River official and
escaped during the ensuing confus-
ion. Immediately an angered mob
of 1,000 Red River county citizens
gathered and took up the chase,
scouting almost every inch of
ground within a radius of fifty
miles from CUirkesville, They ap-
parently never approached* very near
to him, however. Four days ago
he made hts appearance in Paris
but had again made good his es-
i npo before ho could be apprehend-
ed.
It has been rumored that he had
crossed Into Oklahoma, and the fact
that a weeks liunOjad proven inef-
fectual began to discourage his
pursuers untH his appearaince yes-
terday morning. For the'past .three
da? s the excitement had b?en some-
wLat abated, the search appearing
hopeless._’-—---
Refrigerators
We must get rid of them. We need the
storage room for Kali goods, We have made big
reductions in prices. v
You will never have a better chance to buy a
tirst class Refrigerator at a very low price.
Come in and let us show you
Leslie-Taylor S™
Story of Negro’s Death.
Clarksville, Tex\, Aug. G.—.Riddled
with bullets and garbed completely
in tlie clothes worn on the night
of the murder of Sheriff Charles
Stephens in this city the body of
Leonard Potts, who also kll'cd Po-
liceman Tedford of Dallas, was
brought to Clarksville last night
from Detroit, near which place lie
was shot, by a posse.
Two or three hundred men were
at the station and followed an ex-
press truck bearing the coffin box
containing the body of the negro to
the public square, where the box
was opened to the view of the crowd,
Tbo crowd at. the station was order-
ly and as the crowd approached no
demonstration whatever was made.
Sheriff Dinwiddle, Constable El-
der and City Marshall Ferguson
went to Detroit yesterday afternoon
on a freight train, taking witn them
local negro personally acquainted
with Potts In order that. thore
might be no possible chance of a
mistake In the identity of the negro.
This negro nnd several others well
acquainted with ipotts identified him
upon the first glance.
Killed at 1 O'clock Monday.
Pott* was killed at 1 o’clock, ac-
cording to statements of members of
the party who participated in the
shooting. The body was immediately
loaded Into a wagon anu taken to
Detroit.
Carpenter, Oscar Carpenter, C. Fer-
guson. Milton Pargs, Grover Ridley,
Constable Dolph King and the negro.
Bud Tinnin, who notified the of-
ficials of the presence of Potts at,
his home yesterday morning. Of the
foregoing all are farmers except
constable King of Detroit and A. G.
Phillips, who conducts a store at
Woodland.
The story of the location and
killing of the negro was told by
members of the party as follows:
Potts approached the home or
Bud Tinnin at 3:30 o'clock yester-
day motning and asked for some-
thing to eat. Tinnin provided Potts
with food and water and invited
him into hfs home. Potts refused to
enter the house, but 'slood on the
steps several minutes asking ques
tions concerning the Red river, the
names of the nearby railroads, etc.
The suspicions qf Tinnin were
aroused, and as soon as Potts de-
parted tie hurried to the nearest
telephone and notified several
white people living nearby,
i '[ell* of Search.
“At 8 o’clock a searching party
was organized,” sa>’s S. L. Smith,
who was present at. the killing.
“We organized af Woodland and
went immediately rt.o Bud Tinnin’,s
Momts, where we struck a trail
which we were eible to follow for
some distance before we lost ft and
wandered along carefully looking
through the thickets, which are
numerous and dense along the
creek in that vicinity We passed
near where Potts was stationed,and
went, on for a distance of two miles,
before we gave up the search we
were-on and turned and began
winding our way back ip. the manner
in which we had started oqt. When
within a quarter of a mile of the
homo of Bud Tinnin, where Potts
was last seen, our man was Spied
in a dense thicket, down fp a ravine,
crouched and ready to shoot.
"Mr.1 Phillips and Bud * Tinnin,
the negro, were the first, to see
Potts and before they had hardly
discovered the presence of the n'e*
gro, he opened fire, using, we after-
ward, found a 38-caliber revolver of
a cheap make.
“Both Mr. Phillips and Bud Tin-
nin began shooting and as others In
the party heard thb shotting, they
rushed to the scene and I do not
thjnk there was a man in thp
crowd who failed to get. at least one
shot at Potts, although there may
have been one.
■ ‘“[lie most of us were, armed with
shotguns. Mr. Phillip.-i had a pump
gun and we were nearly all provided
with buckshot.
“I cannot say how many shots
were fired, but 1 Diink potts shot
twelve or fourteen shot*;, without
hitting any one of us.
“1 fired twice but can not say
who killed the negro. Too many ot
us shot and there, are too many
wounds in his body for us to settle
this question.
“We are. satisfied that our crowd
got the negro and the right negro.
As soon as wo weH» sure the negro
was dead, we loaded the body in a
wagon and started to Detroit, reach-
ing there between 2:30 arid
o’clock.”
After reaching the public square
with the body of Potts, officials who
came in from Detroit with the body
opened the box and stood it on the
ground, leaning against the express
truck, in order that the crowd' ot
men might pass and view the negro.
The body was kept in this position
for nearly an hour after which it was
removed from the square.
Money for Negro Farmer.
As the crowd stood congregated
around the truck, several hats were
passed around for funds to be giv-
en Bud Tinnin, the Woodland ne-
gro who gave the dew and assisted
in the killing of the negro.
No demonstration was made and
the crowd began within a short
time to disband as quietly as it as-
sembled at the station before the
arrival of the train bearing the
body.
Woodland, where Potts was killed,
is in this county, about sfxheen
miles from Clarksville and it is now
generally believed that Potts was en-
deavoring to leave tlie county slowly.
BIG OVATION
TO HOOSEVELTI
DEMONSTRATION AT MOOSE |
CONVENTION WHEN (DIOMCI,
STEPS ON PLATFORM.
STEAM ROLLER FOR NEGROES
Black Contestants for Scats as Dele-
gates Get the Little End of a
Vote HU, win Keep l’p Their |
light.
Associated Press Dispatch). ,
FOR RELIEF OF REFUGIES
ON THE MEXICAN BORDER
AsHoclatod Press Dispatch]
Washington, Aitg. G.—The mili-
tary committee agrees to report
favorably the senate resolution for
tne appropriation of one hundred
thousand dollars for the relief and
transportation of Mormon refugees
in El Paso, i ne committee amend-
ed the resolution so as to make this
money available for similar work at
all points on the Mexican border.
Klights of Columbus Meet.
Colorado Springs, Col,, August
G.'—(Hundreds of Knights of Co-
lumbus from all parts of the Unit-
ed States and Canada have arrived
in Colorado Springs to attend the
supreme council of the order, which
began a three days session today.
♦—
For New College Building.
yesterday morning was composed of
T L. Smith E. E. On
Pender, A- G, Phillips,
Granville
Associated Press Dispatch]
Fort Worth, Tex., Aug, 6.—-The
contract for the,new main* building
of the A. & M. college was this
morning awarded to the Texas
Building company of Fort Worth
for *100.845. 1
Heavy Buinfull
Chicago, Aug. G.—The declara-1
tion that, the elimination of the
southern negro from Um organiza-
tion of the new Progressive party J
has become a feature Issue of the |
convention was frequently heard to- I
day. At an all-nfglpt. meeting of t tie I
credentials committee last night tne
last of the smfii'H rh'. n.egrp delegates
were barred from tlfe. floor of fire |
convention. Th|"fi.had vote stood'17
to '18 against them:The negroes s'aj
they will coaf.inue the fight,
A great, (demonstration for floose-1
velf was started when he appeared
on the platform to begin hj.s
speech. Banners flags, standards and
red bandannas filled ' the. air. Some
one tossed the colonel a rel bin-1
datina and he led the cheering for j
a time. The doors of the coliseum
were thrown wi le open and the
building filled immediately. After
half an hour the demonstration was |
still undiminished.
It was officially announced the [
temporary organization of the pro-1
gresslve convention is to be made
permanent with Beveridge 'continu-1
The demonstration lasted fifty-
seven minutes. The crowd was one
of the greatest ever in the coliseum.
A flash light started % small fire hi!
the galUVy but it was extinguished
without, a panic.
—.---— ----....
Rockford to Have Pennant Day.
Rockford. I!!'., August 6.--- The
Rockford team of the ’ Wi&onsin-
Illlnois baseball league has made
arrangements fort |he pennant
raising at Hie local park tomorrow. !
Many factories and stores have
agreed to close for the afternoon
to enable, the employes to attend
the game.
Flood at Fort Worth.
Associated Prctis Dispatch!
Fort Worth, Tex., Aug. G.—Flood
damage began here this morning
following last night's heavy rains.
The bridge over Marine creek in tiiq
city was washed out. Another
bridge of the Fort Wort Belt railway
across this creek washed away de-
spite the weight of three cars of
brick placed on it to give it. stabil-
ity.
7 ODAY'S WE A
(Furnished daily by The
Telegraph Co.)
Macktii
Wichita, raining, G5,
Arkansas City, raining, i!r>.
Oklahoma City, raining, G8,
Ardmore, Gaining, G8.
Gainesville, clou.'y, TO; rained
last night..
Sherman, 08; raining all night
Fort Worth, raining, 71; rained
all night.
Dallas, raining, 70; rained all
night.
Waco, raining, GO.
McGregor, raining, GO.
Brenham, clear, SO.
Austin, cloudy, 82.
Kan Antonio, part cloudy, 83.-
Houston, cloudy, 87.
■Galveston, .elo'udy, S(b
Temple, cloudy, 77; rained
night.
last
Local Temperature.
Yesterday’s Temperature;
Maximum 70.
Minimum G5.
At 2:30 p. m. today 75.
The following weather forecast | r
has been posted by R. A. Gibbs, lo-
cal observer:
Tonight and Wednesday unsettled.
Tlie annual meeting of the stock-1
holders of The Reynolds-Parlter Co.
will be held at the office of the |
company, 12G North Travis, Wed-|
nesday night, August 7, 1912, at 8
o'clock. Directors for t he ensuing I
year will be elected. \ full attend-1
ance is requested.
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SI CENYS MI MONTI
L. J. REYNOLDS, Mgr.
Associated Press Dispatch]
Dallas, Tex., Aug. G.—•Rainfall
herp last night was 3.5 inches. The
The party organized at Woodland rain was general all over north and
central Texas and as a rule very
heavy, averaging two inches in '
many places, |
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