The Fort Stockton Pioneer. (Fort Stockton, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 31, 1910 Page: 1 of 6
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STOCKTON PIONEER.
VOLUME II.
FORT STOCKTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH, HI, 1010.
NUMBER 51.
EVENTS BOILED DOWN
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN HAPPEN-
INGS SERVED UP IN AT-
TRACTIVE STYLE.
NOTHING GOOD GOT AWAY
Everything Important That Could Bo
Confined to a Small Space is
Here Found.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
W The House Committee on Agricul-
ture took a forward step in the con-
sideration of the Burleson and other
bills for a reduction of the tax on oleo-
margarine. when it voted to hold hear-
ings on the pending bills on this sub-
ject
The House Committee, on Agricul-
ture is looking for a fight over the oleo-
margarine bills that will eclipse any-
thing in its line during the present
session of Congress. Chairman Scott
of the committee announced that the
bearing upon the Burlesou and other
bills to reduce the tax on oleomar-
garine will begin on April 20.
The bulk of the ill-fated battleship
Maine, sunk in the harbor of Havana,
will be raised so that the remains of
” any of the sailor dead that may be
within the w’reck may be recovered
and so that an examination may be
made to determine if possible the man-
ner in which the vessel was destroyed,
if the Senate approves the bill passed
by the House.
The Senate passed the bill making
appropriations for the support of the
legislative, executive and judicial
branches of the Government. The bill
carries an appropriation of more than
$34,000,000. The only item in the bill
which aroused any discussion was one
appropriating $1,800 for the payment
of a masseur to officiate in the mar-
ble bathroom In the new Senate Office
Building.
A cablegram was received in Wash-
ington by Dr. Luis Corea, Minister De-
signate of Nicaragua, from President
Diaz, announcing the fact that Ger-
^ many has sent a new minister to that
Republic, accredited to President
Madriz.
The House passed the Greggs bill
authorizing the Secretary of Commerce
and Labor to lay a water main and
electric light cable across Galveston
channel to the site of new immigration
station, and to accept in this connec-
tion a subscription of $10,000 from the
city of Galveston toward this purpose.
Representative Greggs expects to see
the bill put through the Senate within
the next few days.
Just when it looked in the Senate
as though the Rockefeller foundation
bill had a clear track, it was sidetrack-
ed. Senator Heyburn of Idaho stopped
its consideration when reached upon
the calendar by an objection which was
unexplained. Senator Galligher, who
Is sponsor for the bill, had left a few
t moments before it was reached. Not
all of the Senate is satisfied as to the
exact purpose of the foundation.
A rule to prevent the trifling of leg-
islation in committees by the pigeon-
holing of bills and resolutions has been
proposed by Representative Sherley
(Dem.) of Kentucky, in a resolution
which he offered, establishing what he
termed a “rules calendar.” The pro-
posed amendment to the House rules
is intended, said the author, to enable
the House to bring about the consid*
^ eration of any measure which a major-
W ity desired to consider, but which some
committee of the House might be in-
terested in suppressing.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN NEWS.
Mrs. George D. Hurdle was run over
and instantly killed while crossing the
Katy track by an engine in Winnsboro.
That the interstate character of in-
terstate shipments of liquor shall cease
upon arrival within the bounds of the
state to which consignment has been
made is the essential feature of bills
introduced In the Senator Curtis and
in the House of Representative Miller
of Kansas.
Eight cases in which the State seeks
to recover school land for non-occu-
pancy and other alleged reasons have
been set for trial at this term of the
Twenty-Sixth District Court, In Aus-
tin. Assistant Attorney General L. A.
Dale, who handles such suits for the
state, is busily preparing for them.
A newr steamship line will be In-
augurated between Baltimore and Gal-
veston on April 1 by the Baltimore
and Texas Steamship Company. The
new enterprise is backed by Pittsburg
capitalists.
The City Commission of Ft. Worth
held a special session and issued the
formal order of an election April 7 to
decide the fate of the market house
bond issue of $100,0000. If the is-
suance of the bonds is ratified the
money derived therefrom will be used
to build and equip a magnificent mun-
icipal market house on a free site
Practically the business section of
Welsh, La., was wiped out by fire Sun-
day. Thirty buildings were destroyed,
entailing a loss of $200,000.
l)r. Frederick A. Cook, who has been
reported about everywhere of late or
en route to New York,” is, according
to latest rumor, at the home of his
wife's sister, Mrs. Henry Harvey, at
Pensauken. Camden County, New Jer-
sey.
At meetings of the stockholders of
the Rock Island, Arkansas and Louis
iana Railway Company held simultan
eously in Little Rock and Ruston, La.,
it was unanimously voted to increase
the capital stock from $15,660,000 to
$30,000,000.
A national aviation meet has been
arranged for April 6, 7. 8 and 9 in
Memphis, Tenn., at which Glen H. Cur
tiss. his assistants, Charles Hamilton
and Charles Willard, will be the prin-
cipal operators of aeroplanes. The
aviators have promised to try to estab-
lish new records for height and dis-
tance.
The fifteenth reunion of Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemason-
ry, including the Dallas Lodge of Per-
fection No. 7. Lone Star Chapter of
Knights Rose Croix No. 4, Dallas Coun-
cil of Knights Kadosh oN. 2 and Dallas
Consistory No. 2, began on Monday.
The exercises will last until Thursday
night and are to be held in the cathe-
dral.
President Franklin and A. U. Me-
Lead of the Denver and Gulf Railroad
are in Ryan, Okla., and signed the con-
tract with the committee representing
Ryan to run the Denver and Gulf Rail-
road. which is to be built from Denver
to Dallas, through this place, and to
place the shops there for a period of
twenty-five years. A bonus of $125,000
is to be given. The entire bonus has
been raised.
Lieut. Sir Ernest Shackleton. the
British explorer, who got within nine-
ty-seven geographical miles of the
South Pole and who will arrive soon
in this country with his wife on the
Lusitania, thinks that with proper
equipment the proposed American
South Pole expedition, to which Peary
has contributed so liberally, should
succeed.
Representative Hardy appeared be-
fore the Senate Committee on Com-
merce in supi>ort of the amendment to
the rivers and harbors bill for an in-
crease of the House appropriation for
the Trinity River. This is the amend
ment introduced by Senator Simmons
at the request of Senator Culberson
for an additional lock and dam and for
an increase of the two locks and dams
authorized by the House bill.
Representative Broussard of Louis-
iana has a plan to stock the bayous,
swamps and rivers of Western Louis-
iana and Texas with hippopotamus,
water buffalo and other meat-yielding
animals of the African swamps. This
is Representative Broussard’s contri-
bution to the discussion of the cost of
living. He contends that the swamps
and bayous can not sustain cattle, but
might be turned into great food-pro-
ducing preserves from which the pub-
lic might, in time, derive juicy hippo-
potamus steaks and succulent water
buffalo roasts, and he has introduced
a bill asking Congress tor appropriate
$250,000 to import various African
animals into the Louisiana swamps by
way of trying out his theory.
Agents of the Santa Fe are arrang-
ing for a $1,000,000,000 train of special
cars from Pasadena, Cali., to New
York with a stopover of two days at
the Grand Canyon. Six private cars
will be the principal part of the spec-
ial. Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. Carnegie,
Miss Carnegie and their servants will
ride in one car. Mrs. Russell Sage.
Major and Mrs. Slocum will ride in
another car. Edwin Gould, Mrs. Gould,
their two children and most of their
party will occupy a third private
coach; W. Seward Webb, Mrs. Webb,
formerly Miss Vanderbilt, and their
party will occupy a fourth car. On
the train will be fifty servants, for
whom a Pullman sleeper will be pro
vided.
Leases are being secured by the
Texas Company on all bottom lands
between Kaufman and the Porter-Zink
oil fields. The company will sink a
number of wells.
The first car of Texas onions moved
to the Northern market Monday. It
was shipped from Mission by Ed C
Oustin, Charles Volz and others. The
car was sold before shipment at 4c
a pound, or $2 a crate. The shipment
was handled by the South Texas
Truck Growers’ Association. The
movement is much later than last year,
and it is probable that there will not
be another car before April 1.
The Texas Folk-Lore society, which
was organized at Dallas, December,
1909, with a membership of sixty-two,
promises to develop into something
very interesting in the future. Its
headquarters is at College Station, and
it is a branch of the American Folk-
Lore Society. Its object is to collect
and publish old unwritten songs, sto-
ries, such as pertain to the Mexican,
the Indian, the desperado, the deeds
of the Ranger, the life of the rancher,
the freighter, the bummer and the cow-
boy, much of which was connected
with the early days of Texas.
BLACK DOG CLEW;
BROWNSVILLE CASE
CLAIMED CANINE ROMPED AHEAD
OF MEN WHO SHOT UP
THE TOWN.
WHS PET OF ONE COMPANY
Capt. Howland, Recorder of Military
Court, Argues that Negro Soldiers
Guilty of Lawlessness.
Washington, March 29.—On a big,
black dog may depend the decision as
to whether or not any of the negro sol-
diers discharged as a result of the fa-
mous shooting up of Brownsville, Tex.,
are to be allowed to re-enlist in the
army of the United States. Such a
dog is said to have bounded along
ahead of the raiders who went on their
death dealing mission on Aug. 13, 1906.
This obscure bit of testimony was
brought to the fore at the sitting of
the military court of inquiry, created
by law to determine if any of the dis-
charged soldiers should be permitted
to re-enlist. Capt. Charles R. Howland,
recorder of the court, asserted that
this dog belonged to Company B of
thf* Twenty-Fifth Regiment, and scam-
pered along ahead of the raiders.
For six hours Capt. Howland ad-
dressed the court in surTL"H-»ing the
testimony on the Brownsville 'tflfray.
During the last four months thls’V. irt
has examined score after score of wi;
nesses in the matter, and a still lon-
ger period has been devoted to analyz-
ing previous testimony taken by other
hearings in the case. It will soon re-
port its findings to Congress.
The tenor of the recorders address
throughout the day was that the dis-
charged soldiers shot up the town. His
story of the dog was only one of the
points marshaled by the army officer
in support of his contention that the
soldiers were guilty of the crime. He
will conclude his address today.
Dog as a Clew.
The tale of the dog was told the
court when Capt. Howland reached
the part of his argument dealing with
the raid through the town. As the
raiders went through Cowan Alley, he
recalled that Mr. and Mrs. Odin heard
the noise, and looking out, saw' a dog
leaping along ahead of the men, and
thought the men were shooting at this
supposed mad dog. He said Mr. Odin
described it as a “large, black dog.”
“This big black dog. which has here-
tofore been neglected In the case,”
said the recorder, “enters Into it with
very illuminating effect because not
half an hour before he was standing
watch at the gate of the post and keep-
ing the children out who were going
home from the Cowan party.
“There are generally dogs about
wherever soldiers are gathered, and
in this particular case we find that
there was a large black dog with B
company, as shown by reference to
Capt. Macklin’s testimony. The dog
Mr. Odin saw, and which he felt was
a mad dog they were trying to shoot,
was merely the B company dog run-
ning ahead of the soldiers writh whom
he came in daily contact.”
LOOK FOR HALLEY’S COMET
Information Given by J. F. Fouts, of
Trinity Mills, Texas.
Trinity Mills, Tex.: Now- that Hal-
ley’s comet has changed over from
the east side of the sun to the west
side and will on April 4 become visible
to the naked eye for the first time,
I we should know at just what point in
the sky to look for it. I shall give
i its position for a few dates, says J. F.
| Fours, of Trinity Mills.
April 4 Halley’s comet will rise fifty
minutes ahead of the sun and four de-
grees and thirty minutes north of the
, sunrise point, being on this date at
the upper edge of the twilight line in
the early morning and rising earlier
each morning until May 10, when it
will rise two hours and twenty minutes
ahead of the sun. It will then re-
turn toward the sun again, rising later
each morning. On May 18 it will set
nearly with the sun again, and on
May 20 the comet will set one hour
after the sun sets and one degree
south of the sunset point, and on May
30 the comet will set three hours and
fifty minutes after the sun sets and
eighteen degrees and twenty-five min-
utes south of the sunset point. The
comet will be visible to the naked eye
from April 4 until .June, except when
too close to the sun at inferior con-
junction, May 16 to 20, and will be
very bright April 30 until May 30 and
will continue visible to the naked eye
in the evenings until June 30, 1910.
It will grow less bright each evening
until it entirely fades away. With
our telescopes we shall continue to
see it two months later than with the
naked eye.
EVERY DAY IN THE WEEK
Bargains Are Offered at the Brannon Store Each Day of the Week.
There is no tendency to Make One Day Any
Better than the Other.
And the bargains we have are the every day sort.
Nothing high falutin’ about them.
They are on everyday sorts of merchandise— the
real necessities of life.
They are on things that are considered essential
to the happiness of the homes of all people, he they
rich or poor, stylish or plain.
We are endeavoring to please all of those who
favor us with their patronage.
Call and see what we have. Phone us for prompt
delivery.
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