Jacksboro Gazette. (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 8, 1906 Page: 1 of 4
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JACKSBORO GAZETTE.
VOLUME XXVII.
JACKSBORO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1906
NUMBER 23.
Notice to Farmers:
If you need financial as-
sistance call on or write
us. PAY CASH for
what you buy and SAVE MONEY. Why patronize banks outside
of your county when you can get every banking accommodation here
at home. We know your wants and we want your business.
The Jacksboro National Bank
W. A. SHOWN, E. w. NICHOLSON V. P. ELLIS MITCHELL,
President. J. Q-. MULLENS, V. P. Cashier
m
Jacksboro Oil & Milling Go
SOLICITS A LIBERAL
PORTION OF YOUR
COTTON SEED
AND WILL PAY THE
Highest Possible Price
from start to finish for clean, sound seed.
WILL EXCHANGE
meal and hulls for seed on liberal basis;
ask your neighbor about it.
F. N. FOXHALL, Mgr.
T. F. HORTON,
Bookkeeper and Weigher.
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IT’S THE POPULARTHING
TO READ THE
i
Subscribe for it Now
THE GAZETTE not
only gives yon all the
Local and County News,
but in its columns you
will find represented the
majority of the best bus-
iness houses in Jacksboro
offering many bargains
in the various lines of
merchandise. It will
keep you posted on all
the Industrial, Agricult-
ural, and Commercial
Improvements, and in it
you will find ail Reli-
gious, Educational and
Social News. In fact,
the doings of a prosperous
people of A GOOD COUN-
TY are regularly chron-
icled in thb columns of
the GAZETTE.
You are requested to become
a regular subscriber. When
in town call and see us.
PLAN TO FINANCE
TEXAS COTTON CROP
PRESIDENT CALVIN OF
FARMERS’ UNION WORK-
ING OUT THE DETAILS
OF THE SCHEME.
Dallas, Nov. 2.—E. A. Calvin,
president of the Texas Fanners'
union, is working on the matter
of forming a company to finance
the Texas crop, or as much of it
as can be looked after.
President Calvin, when asked
for information said:
‘ ‘I shall not be able to give out
anything tangible for perhaps
ten days yet. In fact, I don’t
know just what to say to the
newspapers further than that I
am strongly encouraged by the
prospect. The proposed compa-
ny is in an entirely formative
state, but I am promoting it,
with the assistance of earnest
associates in the movement, as
rapidly as possible. I have no
idea, even approximately, how
much capital we will be able to
command or how large a quanti-
ty of cotton we will be able to
finance this year. We may be
able to handle 500,000 bales of
the Texas crop, or only 250,000
bales. But no matter what the
volume of the transaction may
be, the success of the movement
seems to me to be assured I can
give no definite statement on the
plans of organization so far as
details go under ten days’ time,
as I said before. But we are
meeting with satisfactory encour-
agement. The money we con-
template using is expected to be
supplied almost entirely by local
capitalists. Those whom we
have approached seem willing to
join in the movement, which, of
course, is based largely on the
warehouse plan. I could not
have been asked for details at a
more inopportune time by the
newspapers, as the details are
the very things we are about to
work out now. I shall be glad to
clearly inform the newpapers at
the earliest possible moment and
be grateful for their co-operation
in efforts to improve the condi-
tion of the cotton growers.”
The plan that it is generally
agreed Mr. Calvin and his asso-
ciates are promoting is in harmo-
ny with that outlined by Presi-
dent Harvie Jordan in a recent
address at Dallas and which pre-
viously had been given much im-
petus by the leaders of the Far-
mers’ union in Texas. It em-
bodies warehousing the cotton,
insurance and storage charges to
be at nominal cost to the owner,
and the loaning of money on the
cotton thus stored at a very low
rate of interest. The capacity
for warehousing and the amount
of capital to be used seem to be
worked out by President Calvin
and associates.
RURAL SCHOOL COURSE.
Reasons for Higher Education
Than That Now Common.
Austin, Texas, Oct. 30.—State
Superintendent of public instruc-
tion Cousins has always been an
advocate of higher education in
the country and rural schools,
and since he has been in office he
has made it his study on every
occasion to improve the course of
studies for the country schools.
In fact he has been engaged in
preparing a uniform course of
studies for the last several months
which, if adhered to, will give
the pupils attending these schools
a higher education than that they
have been receiving.
According to a letter received
a few days ago by the superin-
tendent, Texas is not the only
state in the union which believes
in a higher education for the
country schoolchildren. The letter
is from Professor J. L. McBrien,
state superintendent of instruc-
tion of Nebraska. Touching on
higher education in the rural
schools he writes:
‘‘Let every rural school teach-
er in Nebraska inspire her pupils
with a desire for a high school
education. Let every high school
teacher urge our young people on
to college, university and normal
school. Let every young man
and every young woman know
that the demand on them today
is for efficiency.
‘The questions are often ask-
ed, ‘Does education help one to
success?’ ‘What amount of school
training helps most?’ The editors
of Who’s Who in America’ have
rendered the country a service by F R FIQ H T RATF
inducing more than 10,000 of the 1 1 lin 1 u
men now living in the United
States, who are most notable in
all departments of usefulness
and reputable endeavor to report
on their education. These men
have won enviable distinction,
and the facts they give will help
answer the questions, ‘Does edu-
cation help one to success?’ and
‘What amount of school training
helps most?’ It thus appears.
‘‘First-That from 1800 to 1870
the uneducated boy in the Unit-
ed States failed entirely to be-
come notable in any department
of usefulness and reputable en-
deavor, so as to attract the atten-
tion of ‘Who’s Who’ editors, and
that only twenty-four self-taught
men succeeded.
Second—That a boy with only
a common school education had,
in round numbers, 1 chance in
9,000.
Third—That a high schoo
training increased this chance
nearly twenty-two times.
Fourth—That college educa-
tion added gave the young man
about ten times .the chance of a
high school boy and two hundred
times the chance of a boy whose
training stopped with the com-
mon school.”
SHEET INJUNC-
TION SUITS
To the Public!
Notice is hereby given that all
hunting or fishing is positively
forbidden on all the lands that
are included in any of the enclos-
ures on all those certain surveys
or tracts of land lying on the
West Fork of the Trinity River,
or North Creek, known as the J.
W. Knox lands or land, and be-
longs either to the Worthington
Knox Land and Cattle Company
or J. W. Knox.
Notice is further given that all
these lands are posted according
to law.
Worthington-Knox Land
& Cattle Co.
When After a Loan on Your
Farm or Ranch
Remember that my companeis
are the strongest and best and
have an unlimited supply of
cheap money for good risks. My
loans are not all made on ‘‘LO-
CAL INSPECTION” and neither
are those of any one else in
Jacksboro, though my facilities
are as good as the best for secur-
ing liberal and quick loans and I
will be pleased to get for you
what you need.
W. P. Stewart.
Taxpayers Notice!
The city taxrolls have been
placed in my hands for collection.
Call at my office southwest cor-
ner of the square.
L. L. Cope, Marshal,
City of Jacksboro.
immiisfyd soli
Impoverished soil, like impov-
erished blood, needs a proper
fertilizer. A chemist by analyz-
ing the soil can tell you what
fertilizer to use for different
products.
If your blood is impoverished
your doctor will tell you what
you need to fertilize it and give
it the rich, red corpuscles that
are lacking in it. It may be you
need a tonic, but more likely you
need a concentrated fat food,
and fat is the element lacking
in your system.
There is no fat food that is
so easily digested and assimi-
lated as
Scott’s Emulsion
of Cod Liver Oil
It will nourish and strengthen
the body when milk and cream
fail to do it. Scott’s Emulsion
is always the same; always
palatable and always beneficial
where the body is wasting from
any cause, either in children
or adults.
We will send you a sample free.
Be sure that this pic-
ture in the form of a
label in on the wrapper
of every bottle of Emul-
sion you buy.
scon i BOWNE
CHEMISTS
409 Pearl St., New York
5Or, and SI .00.
All Druggists.
SPECIAL COMMISSIONER
WILL TAKE DEPOSITIONS
OUTSIDE OF THE
STATE.
Austin, Nov. 3.—In preparing
for the the trial of the pending
injunction suits of the several
railroads against the railroad
commission to enjoin its whole
tariff of freight rates it will
probably be necessary for a
special commissioner to be ap-
pointed by the federal court to
take depositions outside of the
state concerning matters bearing
upon the case. This was done
in the express companies’ in-
junction cases against the com-
mission, visits being made to St.
Louis and San Francisco for the
purpose.
Commissioner O. B. Colquitt
has stated that he was glad the
suits were brought in the federal
court instead of the district court,
as it would give the state an op-
portunity to go outside‘for evi-
dence.
The charge has been frequent-
ly made in the course of hear-
ings before the railroad commis-
sion by members of that tribunal
that they felt certain the Texas
properties were being ‘‘milked”
by their parent lines situated
outside the state and beyond the
jurisdiction of the commission.
This charge has always been
vigorously denied by the repre-
sentatives of Texas roads.
An opportunity will now be
afforded the commission to visit
headquarters of these companies
in St. Louis, Chicago and New
York and learn for themselves
what the hooks show.
A substantiation of the general
charge which the commission
has so long been making against
certain of the Texas roads would
go a long way toward defeating
the pending injunction case, it is
claimed.
The work of taking these out-
side depositions will probably
begin the latter part of this
month and continue during De-
cember.
Commissioner Colquitt is de-
voting much of his time to pre-
paring for the trial of the case
and he will probably accompany
the special United States com-
missioner. The inquiry on be-
half of the state will be conduct-
ed by Judge S. H. Cowan.
Harnessing the Waters.
Fort Worth Record: At a cost
of thousands of dollars and un-
told anxiety the Southern Pacific
railroad at last believes it has
overcome the further enlarge-
ment of the Sal ton sea and by
this great achievement $25,000,-
000 in property and the homes of
10,000 people have been saved
from threatened inundation. The
railroad has turned back into the
Colorado river the current of
water which became unmanage-
able and for the first time in two
years the waters of the river will
follow their old channel toward
the Gulf of California.
The experience with the Salton
sea shows how important man is
when he comes to measuring
forces with nature. True he ac-
complishes feats that must bp
regarded as little short of mar-
velous, but in the accomplishment
of the most of them his efforts
succeed by the suffrage of nature
in her tranquil moods alone. Any
untoward circumstances or sud-
den convulsion of the elements is
apt to throw the most confident
engineer or contractor into a hys-
teria of confusion and scatter his
most elaborate contrivances to
destruction. Yet man is a daring
creature and the spirit of devel-
opment which is manifest in the
commerce of the world engenders
a boldness which can not always
escape disaster.
Two years ago a company tap-
ped the Colorado river near Yuma
with the intention of carrying the
waters into New Mexico and
Southern California. The reward
for the enterprise was to be the
reclamation of a vast desert and
opening it up for settlement
when the lands had become tilla-
ble. Among its concessions was
one from the Mexican govern-
ment, and while it was extending
its ditches in Mexico the floods,
which, according to all precedent
were not to be expectpd until all
preparation for the complete con
trol of the water had been com-
pleted, came unexpectedly and
the river broke through its banks
and poured into the lowlands
across the borders. Scores of
miles up the valley and far below
the sea level was the bottom of a
prehistoric sea from which the
water had long since evaporated,
leaving thousands of tons of pure
white salt. The railroad found
great profit in collecting this salt
for market and hundreds of peo-
ple found homes along its tracks
while engaged in loading the
salt. Into this ancient sea the
waters of the Colorado rushed,
cutting a wider channel as it
flowed and baffling all the efforts
of the engineers to divert the de-
structive tide. Miles of railroad
were submerged, houses tumblec
into torrents and where peace-
fully little towns once shimmered
in the sunlight from a rainless
now only remains a vast expanse
of water covering 400 square
miles, and it had been growing
at an amazing pace until the an-
nouncement was made that fran
tic effort of the engineers to over-
come the unnatural flow had been
successful.
Before this was done, however,
commissions were appointed by
both the United States and Mexi-
can governments to study the
situation and government en-
gineers worked in conjunction
with the engineers of the rail-
road for the purpose of confining
the waters of the river to its
channel. It now appears that
the combined efforts have been
successful and it is expected that
under the burning sun of the
desert the waters of the present
sea will soon dry up. Had the
engineers failed in their endeav-
or, the Salton sea would have
kept on expanding until it might
have spread over 2,000 square
miles.
SOUTHERN ROADS
ORDER NEW RAILS
MILLS HAVE CAPACITY
ORDERS FOR YEAR
1907
Chicago, Nov. 2. —The Record-
Herald today says:
More than 1,500,000 tons of
steel rails have been ordered by
the railroads for delivery in 1907,
and within a short time, it is
said, orders for as many more
tons will be placed with the va-
rious mills. The total capacity
of the steel mills fora year is
about 3,000,000 tons, so all of
them are assured their capacity
orders for 1907.
Never before, it is said, have
so many orders for rails been
placed by the railroads at this
season. Some of the railroads
have even been compelled to
seek foreign rails in order to
have assurances that their orders
will be delivered in anything like
the time they specify.
The demand for new rails does
not come so much for new rail-
road construction as it does for
renewals and for relaying tracks
with heavier steel. The business
of the railroads has increased so,
enormously that the old light}
rails are inadequate to carry the
train loads and heavy shipments.
The railroads of the South are
among the heaviest buyers of
steel rails for 1907. and it is stat-
ed the demand in that section in-
dicates the wonderful growth of
the South and the increased de-
mand which is being made on
the transportation companies.
GOOD, CHEAP
JACK COUNTY HOMES
ON 20 YEARS’ TIME
SMALL CASH PAYMENT; LOW INTEREST RATES.
3,000 ACRES
SMALL TRACTS, IMPROVED & UNIMPROVED
WITHIN 3 TO 20 MILES OF JACKSBORO.
LISTEN. ^ ou buy a home while land is cheap; you need not wait
till you get the money, 1 WILL MAKE YOU ABLE. I have
perfected arrangements whereby I can sell 3000 acres of good, well
located lands here within the reach of all homeseekers in tracts of
from ICO to 1000 acres with as low as 8100.00 cash payment, balance
in from 1 to 20 and 30 years at 7 and 8 per cent interest and at rea-
sonable prices. Can you afford to MISS SUCH AN OPPORTU-
NITY now while lands are advancing so rapidly in price? DO NOT
WAIT. Come and see me at once. ANYBODY WITH MONEY
CAN BUY A HOME, but not many chances here for the man
with small means.
W. P. STEWART.
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Mrs. Susan F. Baker’s new
Eureka carpet loom is a splen-
did one, and she is prepared to
weave carpets for all who have
weaving to do, at her home, sec-
ond corner east of the M. E.
church. Call and see her work
and get prices.
HOME-VISITORS’ EXCURSIONS
via the ROCK ISLAND
To many points in Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan, Wiscon-
sin, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Kan-
sas, one and one-third fares round trip, Oct. 9, 23, Nov.
13 and 27, limit 30 days.
To many points in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania
New Y ork, Ontario, Michigan, one and one-third fare
round trip. Limit, thirty days. On sale Oct. 19.
COLONIST oneway to California, Oregon, Washing-
ton, Idaho, Montana and intermediate points daily until
Oct. 31st, inclusive. Write me for exact figures.
HOME MEEKER rates Tuesdays and Saturdays, Fort
Worth and Dallas to Amarillo,Guymon,Estancia,Dalhart.
Limit, thirty days. Good for stop-overs.
Round Trip Specials for One Fare Plus $2:
Birmingham, Ilomecomers, Oct. 13,14, 15.
Denver, Mining Congress, Oct. 14, 15, 16.
Buffalo, Christian Churches, Oct. 10, 11,12.
Kansas City, Commercial Congress, Nov. 18, 19, 20, 21.
Only Line With Throug Chair Cars and
Sleperes Texas to Chicago
PHIL A. AUER,
G. P. A., C. R. L & G. Ry.,
Fort Worth, Texas.
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First class accommodation and best of
attention.
J. flic, Prat.
T. D SPORER,
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Jacksboro Gazette. (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 8, 1906, newspaper, November 8, 1906; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth730268/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.