The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 19, 1906 Page: 6 of 8
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THEjSPXJgPS SPEIHOS GAZETTE, JAlPAfiY 19, 190&.
Texas teals Ml.
San Antonio, Tex., Jan. 9 Kngi-
i«er R. A. Thompson of the Railroad
Wobkd BMie PeWlers. *
Within the past three months there
have been an nnusual number of wo-
Commission of Texas, has just issued men boot-leggers arrested in Indian
n statement showing the marvelous | Territory. In nearly every town of
growth of Texas railroads since the J any size, according to the statraent of
T
Would scf Club in Hell First.
40
:vi7
267
465
158
511
46
~ 1,658
1,174
3,244
1,569
6,687
3,443
8.710
5,023
9,422
712
10,022
600
11,931
6,909
year 1855.
Hp says in the statement:
“The following table gives the
railroads mileage in Texas at the end
of each five-year period:
Miles in
End of Year. Operation. Increase.
1865
- 1880 .....
1865 ....
1870 ......
1875
1880 .....
1886
1880 .....
1896 r
1900
1905
“Comparing Texas with other states,
we find she ranked twenty-fifth in
railroad milage in 1870, ninth in 1880.
third in 1890, and by 1903 had taken
first place from Illinois.
“As indicating the status and con-
dition of the railroads of Texas today,
the following comparative figures
from the reports of the State Railroad
Commission, the only accurate one
available for the last fourteen years,
will be both interesting and instruc-
tive: Prom June 30, 1891, to June 3©,
1905, the mileage increased from 8,654
to 11,745, an increase of 3,091 miles or
36.7 per cent. The frieght hauled in-
creased from 10,944,195 tons in 1891 to
30,863,070 tons in 1905 or 180.1 per
aent. The gross earnings increased
from 836,666,489 to 868,145,132,, or
91.1 per cent.
“The net earnings have increased
from 86,903,662, or $791,83 a mile, to
815,733,384, or 81,348.72 a mile. The
average a ton the mile was reduced
from 14.03 mills in 1891 to 10.67 mills
hi 1906.
“The stocks and bonds outstand-
ing were reduced from $40,802 a mile
In 1894 to $31,795 in 1905. Immediate-
ly prior to the passage of the bond
and stock law in 1893 there were some
3,357 miles, or 39 per cent, of the rail-
roads of Texas in the hands of receiv-
ers, while today there are only sev-
enty-two miles so situated.”
Ellis county leads in many things,
and now she comes to the front with
probably the only rural letter carrier
ef the feminine gender in the state.
One of the new routes recently es-
tablished in the county is served by
Miss Ada Braison, a young lady of
most engaging manners. The route
she serves extends from Ennis to
Bardwell and passes through the
most thickly populated farming sec-
tion of Ellis county. Miss Braison
•wns one of the most up-to-date rural
delivery outfits in the county, and she
makes daily trips over her route re
gardlessof the weather conditions.—
Honey Orove Signal.
Port Worth Telegram has secured
figures on marriages and divorces
for eight of the larger counties in
Texas and presents the following fig-
ares: Dallas County, 1,593 marriages,
389 divorces; Tarrant County, 1,120
marriages, 168 divorces; Collin Coun-
ty 455 marriages, 52 divorces; McLen-
nan County, 900 marriages, 257 di-
vorces; Hill County, 488 marriages,
86 divorces; Ellis County, 543 mar-
riages, 86 divorces; Grayson County,
938 marriages, 180 divorces; Hunt
County, 500 marriages, 68 divorces.
One of the two secret service men
who were on guard at the Roosevelt
residence in Oyster Bay. last summer
has been telling stories of their ex-
perience there. Usually the two sat
under a big oak tree all night, only
taking,refuge on the veranda in case
of heavy rain. One very stormy and
chilly night they had sought shelter
there. Apparently every member of
the household was in bed so the offi-
cers were somewhat startled to see a
side door open. Mrs- Roosevelt
peeped out and called them over, say-
ing: “I’ve been worrying about you
men in this awyful night, and I
thought that some hot coffee would
do you good. Come in and drink it.
It was very late to call the cook, so
I made it myself. I hope it is all
right.” It seemed to me to be the
finest coffee I ever tasted,” remarked
the secret service man, when he
told this little story.
The Ju-Jitsu (not Jiu-Jitsu)wrestler
of Japan offers 86,000 to any man who
will come forward and defeat him.
This is no betting matter. The oppo-
nent puts up no stake. Tarro also
promises 8100 to any man he fails to
defeat in ten minutes, and 85 a minute
toany one who stands before him five
minutes without being forced to ac-
knowledge that he had been bested in
the struggle.—New York Press.
», son of the Gov-
’ as Lieut. Varonnes
tin “Copt. Debon-
a deputy marshal, there is some wo-
men who does boot-legging, and they
are mighty hard to Catch. They han-
dle better liquor than the ordinary-
boot-legger, are more discriminating
in who they sell to and are either be-
ter judges of human nature or have
an intuitive knowledge of who is their
friend and who is not. Itisfextremely
hard to convict a woman boot-legger,
because it is hard to get a man to tes-
tify against one. The only way to
convict them is to catch them with
the godds. This has been done in a
number of instances within the last
few months; especially as the holidays
approached and. there was a greater
demand for the liquor.—Durant News.
A Brave Deed
One of the men who joined the
colonial forces which were battling
fpr the freedom of Texas was John
Ingram. Daring the seige of Gon-
zales, says the author of “With the
Makers of Texas,” he performed a
feat of heroism which is yet remem-
bered.
The Texans, favored by a dark
night opened an entrenchment on the
right side of the river, within four or
five hundred feet of the Alamo,and at
daylight the next morning the twelve-
pounder, supported by the company
to which Ingram belonged, began to
thunder.
The Texans were^ not slow to re-
ply, but in a short time the fire on
both sides slackened in consequence
of a dense fog which completely con-
cealed every object beyond the dis-
tance of a few yards.
Aft tr the fog dissolved, the can-
nonade on both sides was renewed.
At length the artillerymen of the
twelve-ponnder announced that their
powder was exhausted. It was im-
mediately asked, “who will go to
the camp for powder?”
Without a moment’s hesitation, In-
gram volunteered for the perilons
service. The Texan camp was about
half a mile from the batteries. In-
gram leaped out of the ditch and ran.
Five field-pieces were bearing on
him from the walls of the Alamo, and
a thousand infantrymen in mosket-
range of the intrepid messenger. His
course for four hundred yards was
over an open field before he could
gain the cover of the mill-race which
led to the camp.
Simultaneously the five cannon
burled at him their iron missiles. At
the next instant a thousand mnskets
poured a leaden shower round him,
but Ingram sped on, and reached the
mill-race unharmed.
Ho did not pause until he reached
the quarter-master’s tent, where, seiz-
ing a keg of powder and placing it on
his shoulder, he left as he arrived,
running.
The same perils awaited him on his
return. Three swarms of iron and
leaden balls again swept the plain
around him, but he seemed to bear a
charmed life, for he entered the en-
trenchments untouched, '■ amid the
huzzas and congratulations of his fel-
low soldiers.
Slept Himself to Death.
Matagorda, Texas, Jan. 14.—Henry
the 9 year old son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Culver, died at his parents’
home, eight miles from town, last
evening. It was habitnal with him to
go into a deep sleep of several days’
duration, and at this last spell he
passed away. The remains were in-
terred today in the Matagorda ceme-
tery.
The censns show 5,000,000 and more
women are employed in our nations
industrial life. There are now three
times as many women stenographers
as there were ten years ago, while the
number of women bookkeepers and
accountants has doubled. The percent-
age of saleswomen also shows a cor-
responding increase. Women have
risen to be treasurers of street railways
presidents of national and savings
banks, secretaries of financiers on sal-
aries of 810,000 and 812,500, executive
heads of building and oontraeting
firms, buyers for large stores, etc.—
Kansas City Journal.
At the cotton growers meeting in
New Orleans last weok Mr. Goodwin
of Georgia said it was evident that
New York was beginning to anticipate
from the construction of the Panama
canal that the transfer to New Orleans,
Galveston and Mobile of supremacy
in the rich trade of the Orient.
“When those people find out they
can no longer control as, they will
try to secede from this government,
and I pray to God that I will live long
enough to help whip them back into
it,” a sentiment which moved the
convention to cheers.
The Cotton Belt railroad is to spend
the line of road-
this year. Tha
Ft. Worth
Boston, Mass., Jan. 16.—Thomas W.
Lawson will not be a speaker at the
Washington birthday banquet of the
Creve Coeur Club, Peoria, 111. In a
letter mailed tonight to H. M. Pindell,
chairman for the Banquet Committee,
he says:
‘‘I find there is some objection on
the part of some of your members to
my speaking at your banquet. I
would, therefore, ask your courtesy
in canceling my engagement. It was
only at the urgent and repeated re-
quest of your officers that I eonsented
to accept.
“While thanking the large majority
of your members who havb shown
their confidence in me, I must in jus-
tice to myself, say this: ‘I would see
your club or any other club in America
in hell before T wofild humiliate my-
self by sitting at their board with the
knowledge that I was not a welcome
guest to any single one of my hosts.’
Startling Testimony.
Kansas City, Jan. 5.—“Damn the
law. God could not enforce the pro-
hibition law in Kansas and Jesus
Christ would not.”
Rev. John C. Lynn, a Presbyterian
preacher and president of the Civic
league, testifying at Kansas City to-
day in the case brought by the state
to oust Mayor W. W. Rose from office
because of his alleged failure to en-
force the laws, testified today that the
above words were spoken by Mayor
Rose, May 6,1905. The case is being
tried before H. C. Latimer, a special
commissioner, appointed by Gover-
nor Hoch.
Coal $30 Per Ton
Lubbock, Texas, Jan. 13.—Many
people are burning corn here, as it is
the only fuel they oan get. Coal is
worth $30 per ton here. The roads
are so bad on account of so much rain
that the freighters cannot get from
the railroad to this point with any
freight of consequence. The time has
come when this section is almost com-
pelled to have a railroad.
Dowie’s Deal Under Way
San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 16.—John
A. Lewis, representatives of Alexan-
der Dowie in Mexico, is here for the
purpose of completing the deal for
transfer of 400,000 acres of land near
Tampico, Mexico, as a site for the
Zion colony.
He says 81,000,000 is now available
to get the colony under way. Presi-
dent Diaz has granted the colony
special privileges in the way of ex-
emptions from taxation, the right to
dispose of franchises and in other
matters, which Mr. Lewis says will
make the venture a very profitable
one.
Wants Beauty of Falls Preserved.
Waco, Jan, 12.—Homer D. Wade of
the Business Men’s club of this city
has been introduced by that club to
write letters to congressmen protest-
ing against further charges of barring
of Niagara falls by commercial under-
takings. It is claimed by the club that
this noted spot is fast being transfor-
med from one of the most impres-
sive scenes in the world to a site for
money-making plants.
Power of the Czar.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 14.—The Nevoe
Vermya states that Premier Witte
said the Emperor had not abrogated
bis autocratic power and he conld
still by imperial manifesto broaden,
abridge and even abolish the rights
granted the people.
The premier said that much was
expected of the Manchurian army.
His 27th. Child at 63.
Chicago, Jan. 16.—Jonathan Allen
Monroe, 63 years old, celebrated of
his twenty-seventh child, a son yes-
terday. He is a cattle buyer at tiie
stock yards. He gives these family
statistics: ..
Living children, 15; dead, 12; sons
living, 7; daughters, 8 . First child
born in 1866. He has been married
twice. 1 i
A Great Drying Up.
Science, which is never bo happy as
when it is scaring us to death, comes
along with the startling information
that Niagara will dry up in 3,000 years
both as to its roar and its wetness.
Those who intend to go over the falls
in a barrel will have to hurry up, for
time is fleeing and if they daily
away the next precious 3,000 years
they may have to hunt up some less
spectacular method of suicide.
How we will miss those falls 1 When
some puffed up foreigner begins brag-
ging about the grander things they
beve in Europe we can no longer si-
lence him by pointing to Niagara, but
must be conteut with modesty calling
attention to Pikes peak and our graft-
ing senators. It will Indeed be n sad
Cottoo Growers Complete Labors.
New Orleans, La., Jan. 13—Fifteen
cent cotton for the balance of the
crop.
Reduction of acreage 25 per cent for
those planters who did not reduce last
year.
A.tax of 10c on every bale of cotton
produced for the maintenance of
national, State and county cotton as-
sociations.
A recomendation to executive com-
mittee for the re-election of Hon.
E. D. Smith of South Carolina as
national organizer of the association
at a salary of 85,000 per year.
Launching of a compaign for per-
fect organization in every county of
every £otton State in the Union.
Petition sent Congress urging pas-
sage of the Overman bill, creating a
United States cotton commission.
An extension of market for Amer-
ican cotton to the Orient so as to care
for all possible overproduction.
A resolution'asking Congress for
additional and larger appropriations
for the deepening of the Mississippi
River and opening of the South-
west pass to commerce, all of which
are of vital interest to the cotton in-
dustry.
Bankers pledge unqualified support
both morally ahd financially.
A'’declaration to sell cotton when
it reaches 15c and not to hold for a
higher figure.
Warehousing has proven all aid to
cotton planters and a more thorough
system of storing and protecting of
cotton is urged.
After a conference of the National
Ginners’ Association, it was deter-
mined to organize ginners in every
State and to thoroughly co-operate
with cotton associations that more ac-
curate and valuable figures will be
acquired and incorporated in ginners’
re- ports.
An unqualified sentiment expressed
at various times for the re election of
President Harvie Jordan of Monti-
cello, Ga., and Seoretary Richard
Cheatham as the heads of Southern
Cotton Associations the coming year.
A general and sweeping denuncia-
tion of gambling in cotton futures.
These are some of the results of the
first annual convention of mass meet-
ing of the Southern Cotton Associa-
tion, which adjourned this afternoon
at 4 o,clock.
March Finished at Last.
Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Jan. 12-
The Sixth field battery of the United
States artillery, commanded by Cap-
tain G. W. Gatchell, entered Fort
Sam Houston today amid the cheers
of the local garrison.
The battery broke the world’s record
for long distance practice marches
of artillery, having covered the 1,100
miles from Fort Reily, Kan., to Fort
Sam Houston, in flftyfive days.
It is asserted by army men here that
it is far the longest practice march
ever made by artillery in time of
peace and that no forced march in
time of war, with the exception of
Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow,
compares with it in distance.
The artillerymen of the Sixth bat-
tery were a sorry appearing set of
men when they arrived here. Their
clothing was in tatters and so covered
with mud and dirt that the color of
their clothes could not be distingnish-
ed. The men are haggard and lean.
Many of them were scarcely able to
travel. The horses resembled mov-
ing skeletons. The battery encount-
ered severe rains and floods in Indian
Territory and North Texas, and a
blizzard swept down upon them last
Monday morning just after they left
Austin. It continued nearly all the re-
mainder of the march to San Antonio,
about ninety miles. The men walked
thej whole distance in order tp keep
warm.
Four Cats Have Eight Tails
Wapakoneta, -O., Jan. 13—Cats
with nine lives and cats without tails
have been plentiful in this town, but
cats with two or three,tails were nev-
er seen here before.
Heisler Bros, proprietors of the
Alpha Cafe, are the possessors of four
kittens with eight tails between them.
One has three tails, two have two tails
each, and one haB only one common
tail. The extra tails grow out of the
kitten’s back along the backbone, are
fully developed and almost a8 long as
the natural tails.
Living in the dark basement, they
are quite shy, and it was not nntil
four weeks after they were born that
it was discovered wbat freaks of na-
ture they were.
A novel law-suit was entered in the
justice court in Cooper last week in
which A sued B for $3.00. B agreed to
pay the debt if A would pay the cost,
whioh was IS 70; A did so, realizing
30c, or spent 82 70 to collect $3 00.—
Cooper Review. (
The state officials at Austin are said
to be watching with a great deal of
Interest the development of the I
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No More Negroes Appointed.
New York, Jan. 13.—A Washington
special to the Herald says:
There are to be no more appoint-
ments of negroes to F'ederal office in
the Southern States. Every negro
office holder in that section is to be
replaced by a white man. The only
negro Republicans who have a chance
for appointment to office under the
Roosevelt administration are those
who live i$ the Northen States, where
the negro vote cuts a figure in the
elections.
This policy was made clear today
when President Roosevelt told Jord-
son W. Lyons, Register of the Trea-
sury, that he is not to be reappointed
to the position he held for two terms.
Lyons is a member of the Republican
National Committee from Georgia,
and is recognized as a leader of his
race. His place was given to W. T.
Vernon, a wellknown educator of Kan-
sas.
By applying a two-term yardstick
to ail negro office holders throughout
the South the Administration expects
to rid itsplf of all those who were put
into high office by president McKinley
through the influence of Senator Han-
na.
Chief among the influences which
have brought about this new policy
on the part of President Roosevelt is
better understanding of the South and
its people which the President himself
aquired during his recent Southern
trip. Another reason is the active op-
position of Dr. Booker T. Washington
to the appointment of Southern ne-
groes to office.
Apparently for the sole purpose of
striking at these McKinley-Hanna
negro office holders it was announced
some time ago that unless excellent
reasons could be shown no Federal
office holder would be given a third
term. This rule has not been applied
to any of the white office holders, but
it is to be rigidly enforced against the
negroes.
Used Bomb For Nail Driver
Baltimore, Md., Jan. 10. An old
bomb-shell, part of a collection of
Civil-War Walles, a dealer in antiques
exploded today when Edward KrolJ, a
workman, attempted to use it to drive
a nail. Kroil thought it a harmless
iron ball. When lie struck the nail
with it a single blow there was a ter-
rific explosion.
Kroll’s right hand was torn off, his
chest terribly cut, and his left eye
blown out. The store was wrecked,
every pane of glass in the place being
smashed.
Walles, the dealer, says he had not
seen the bomb for some time and had
entirely forgotten that it was in his
possession. For this reason it Was the
only one on the place Kroil had not
been cautioned against using.
Stop Pot Hunting.
Muskogee, I. T., Jan. 16.—It ap-
pears that the Indian agent and the
railroads and express companies have
about completed a combination to ef-
fectually check the shipping of game
out of Indian Territory. This is being
done to stop pot hunting, and the de -
pletion of game in the wilder districts
of the territory, where there is still
plenty of big game.
The territory has been the meCCa of
the hunters from surrounding states
for years. This is becoming more and
more the custom every year. The
rapid settlement of the territory to-
gether with this influx of hunters front
every quarter is rapidly cleaning out
the game, and added to this is the pot
hunting that is being done by people
who live in the territory and ship
game out when they kill it, getting
fancy prices.
The Indian agent discovered that it
was almost impossible to stop this
pot hunting. He conceived the idea
of asking the assistance of the rail-
roads and the express companies. So
far he has been successful in securing
the co-operation of the Frisco rail-
road, the Wells Fargo Express com-
pany and the Harvey eating houses
along the line of the Frisco. The
agent received a letter today stating
that the railroad would refuse to ship
game out of (the territory, the express
companies refuses to accept it for
shipment and the Harvey houses re
fuse to buy game that is known to
have been killed and shipped out of
the territory. If the other railroads
and express companies doing business
in the Indian Territory agree to the
same plan, it will in a measure at least
provent shipping game out of the ter-
ritory.
A 2,000,000 Candle Power Light
New York, Jan. 16.—Tests of the
most powerful searchlight ever built
were made at the Brooklin Navy Yard
last night. The 20,000 candle power
developed by the electric light proper
is multiplied 100 times by a parabola
mirror,/so that the effective power of
the light is that of 2,000,000 candles.
While an ordinary searchlight has an
eighteen inch lens, the lens of this is
sixty inches in diameter.
.....E, H. Silven, a prominent architect
of Dallas, is under arrest charged by
affidavit made by the Chief of Police
Keith, with t^ murder of Bernard F.
Phillipson, one of the men who lost his
life in the Gaston National bank build-
ing fire Tuesday morning last. Silven
had an office in the building and the
charge is made that he set fire to it
for revenge. The fire, it has devel-
oped, started in his office. Chief
Keith declares there is a large amount
of evidence to justify the affidavit
made against Silven. The latter de-
clares that he is innocent.
and humiliating day when wa have to Waters oil Co. protmedings in
torn the hose on the falls to keep the Missouri end New York. Should the'
duet from blowing in the eye* of epeo
tators. Duncan M. Smith.
Thomas Broi. sell Tilt's Shoes
company be debarred from doing bus-
ineia in Missouri it ie quite probable i
tbit similar action will follow in Tei-
*• - J
’ TEXAS FARMERS ‘
Located in the Panhandle Country constitute a vast proportion of
those who are ou( of debt, possess an abundance of all that is nec-
essary to comfort and easy hours, and own
Bank Accounts.
Those who are not so fortunate should profit by past experiences
and recognize that these conditions are possible iu
The Panhandle J,v
as nowhere else for the reason that no other section now offers
Really High-Class Lands at Low Prices
and that the agricultural and ^tock-farming possibilities of this sec-
tion are the equal of, and in some respects better than three to five
times higher priced property located elsewhere.
In a word: Many magnificent opportunities are still open here
to those possessing but little money, but prompt investigation and
QUICK ACTION
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gated and are fast purchasing with a knowl-
edge of Quickly developing opportunities to
sen to others at greatly increased prices.
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