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HUB 8PBW06, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30 1914
Y«t-*-52 No. 5
NO INOICTMENT IN MOYER
AND TURNER KIDNAPPING*.
Houghton, Mich., Jan. 24.—The spec-
ial grand jury which has been investi-
gating the alleged kidnapping of Chas.
H. Moyer and Chas. Turner of the
Western Federation of Miners, on Dec.
26th, reported “No true bill” today.
i
Seventeen citizens were named in
the presentment which covered the
only alleged assault on Moyer in Han-
cock.
The special prosecutor did not seek
an indictment for the actual deporta-
tion of Tanner and Moyer. Nichols
explained that he did not think the
kidnapping ^statute applied because
the union men were not forcibly sent
out of the state but were left to take
their own course and that there was
no intent t;o confine them unwillingly.
The impossibility of obtaining wit-
nesses to identify the assailants was
given as & reason for “No true bill”
in the assault case.
Big Rapids, Mich., Jan. 24.—“The
guilty should be punished.” said Gov-
ernor Ferris tonight when he was told
of the result of the grand jury investi-
gation in the strike troubles. “I can-
not say whether the grand jury’s work
in the Moyer investigation is entirely
satisfactory to the state or not.
$20, $25, $28, $30
Benjamin Suits and
Overcoats $i.s
New York, Jan. 27.—Acording to
their guards at Sing Sing prison,
“Lefty Louie” Rosenberg, “Whitey”
Lewis, “Gyp the Blood” and “Dago
Frank,” the four gunmen convicted
with former Police Lieutenant Charles
Becker of the murder of Herman Ros-
enthal, the gambler, have broken
down under the strain of waiting for
the decision of their appeal, which
they expect will be delivered within
a few days..
Whenever the door of the death
house opens they spring up from their
cots, expecting that a man has come
with the announcement. Disappoint-
ed, they throw themselves back and
rail at the guards. Becker, on the
other hand, is bearing up well under
the ordeal, it is said.
There is superstition among Sing
Sing prisoners that some, telepathic
influence tells the fate of every ma^
in the death house before the court
of appeals has passed on his case. In
Becker’s case, the “message” is that
he will get a new trial.
Now and again a big opportunity
to save money comes along
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frere is one, for we had these Suits made to give the
best values in'^Texas at $20, $25, $28 and $30.
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Clearance time and our policy of never “carrying
over stocks from season to season are re-
sponsible for their reduction to
GOVERNMENT TO BUY RAILROAD
WOMEN AND CHILDREN MASA
CRED.
Washington*, Jan. 24.—The senate
today passed the Alaska Railway bill,
directing the President to purchase or
contract a thousand miles of railway
in Alaska at a cost of not exceding
forty million dollars.
The vote on the measure was forty-
six to sixteen.
Fifteen Republicans and one Pro-
gressive voted for the bill and three
Democrats against.
The bill conferrs the broadest pow-
ers upon the president who is made
repsonsible for the route, construc-
tion, equipment, operation or lease of
the lines.
A redemption fund was provided
from the sale of Alaskan lands or min-
eral.s
The machinery used in the construc-
tion of the Panama Canal was made
available for use in Alaska.
The senate defeated the amendment
for government steamship lines for
Alaska. A similar bill is pending in
the house.
Colonel Goethals was unanimously
thfe choice of the seuateterritories com-
btUIdpr of the Alaska^
government railroad. Chajjrmag*,
man said that the president would be
urged to assign Goethals thafthsk. *
Mexico City, Jan. 24.—According to
reports received here today, one hun-
dred women and children and a hun-
dred and fifty Federal soldiers were
masacreed by the Rebels recently
near Venegas, north of San Louis Po-
tosi.
The soldiers with the women had
surrendered to the Rebels and were
taken to a ranch near Matehula where
the alleged butchqry occurred.
Major Rebello and Captain Ramirez
with a hand full of men were the only
ones that escaped. They reported here
today.
LEPROSY BEING HEALED
Berlin, i Jan. 26.—Leprosy, one of
the few debases heretofore still con-
i sidered incurable, is being healed at
: a government sanitarium near Memel,
[ according to a report of the institu-
‘ tion. Two women patients have al-
k ready beh discharged as cured, and
{ one man was discharged as improved.
' Since leprosy is contagious, it is as-
KILLS FATHER TO PROTECT HIS
• . MOTHER.
Nachitoches, La., Jan. 26.—Fearing
for the lives of his mother and the
other members of the family, John C.
Clark, Jr., aged thirteen, today shot
and killed his father at his home hero,
Clark senior, a large planter of th&
place, becoming enraged, flourished
a pistol and threatened to kill his
family.
The boy seized a shotgun and fired,
killing his lather instantly. Ha
andTiV# Chil|Erea^surv^^fe^P
sumed that the improvement in this
case was fery great else the patient
would not have been allowed his lib-
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erty. The method used in treating
the disease is not described.
The Memel institution has existed
for some .years. It was founded pri-
marily'to'deal with cases of leprosy
brought into East Prussia each year
by wondering laborers from the east.
All lepers^.found in Germany hre now
s&eot the&P for treatment. *_•.
A Cure for leprosy is of speciaf in-
terest for;Germany, since her African
colonies are plagued with it.
A wi
dead man.
PIERSON WANTS TO OR-
GANIZE DISTRICT JUDGES
ORGANIZATION
10 Days One=Half Price 10 Days
. ..........
Special Sale On
Dallas, Jan. 25.—Judge "William
Pierson, of Greenville, presiding judge
of the Eighth District, including Hunt,
Delta, Hopkins and Rains Counties,
was in Dallas yesterday.
“It seems a little strange,” Judge
Pierson said, “that the seventy-two
District Judges, presiding over the
highest trial courts in Texas, are
about the only set in court connection^
that are not organized. And I believe
that there is no set of men in Texas
whose organization might be more
productive of good in reform of court
proceedure and in the study of the
various' problems which the develop-
ment of the body politic and society,
changing gradually but surely into
more democratic sentiment.
“So impressed with the need of
such an organization, I have decided
to address a letter to each ' of the
Judges. I shall ask them to express
themselves upon the propriety of the
proposed organization, and if they ap-
prove, will ask that they suggest- a
time and place for the preliminary
meeting and the perfecting of an or-
ganization. 1 am confident that no
lawyers have as close a view of the
imperfections in proceedure and that
no other person can appreciate more
thoroughly the need of reforms and
the reforms needed. A district judge
soon ascertains the limitations and
the^hamperings upon him and upon
the court over which he presides. The
higher courts may criticise at long
range, but -they are far from the
smoke of battle between attorneys
and the problems that confront the
juries. Calm consideration and dis-
cussion by the District Judges, I be-
lieve, will be of immense benefit to
the whole state.”—Dallas News.
homa City Sunday night. He was the
son of J. H. Chaffin, a planter living
near Dallas.
Muskogee, Okla., Jan. 27.—Ben
Dickerson, negro charged with the
lriiHng Of W. A. Chaffin, traveling
.salesman at Oklahoma City, robbed
and killed Sunday night, was taken
from the Purcell jail at 5:30 o’clock
this morning by a party in automo-
biles from Oklahoma City, borne to
Hoble, nine miles north, hanged and
his body riddled with bullets. The'
.automobile party overpowered Jailer
Morgan, the only man in the Purcell
jail, and took the negro without mak-
ing noise enough to awaken anyone
in the city.
The negro cower^l in his cell and
begged for mercy when the lynchers
opened the doors with the jailer’s
keys. He protested his innocence to
the last. No time or words was
wasted. A rope was placed about
JDickerson’s neck, his hands and feet
bound and he was lifted inte one of
*ihe machines. This car headed the
death cavalcade as it passed swiftly
out of Purcell without an alarm being
given and when Noble was reached
the negro was strung up to the limb
-of a tree and his body riddled with
bullets. With the body still banging
the lynchers swiftly disappeared, each
auto going a different direction. The
Purcell jailer gave an alarm after
the mob had gone and a pursuit was
xtgrted, but the pursuer? were easily
outdistanced by the swift machines of
*tbe lynchers.
Dickerson’s correct name, it is said,
was Allen Mosley. He had recently
been released from the Tennessee
penitentiary, where he had served a
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Jan. 26—
As the result of one of the boldest
holdups and the most cold-blooded
shootings that has ever occurred in
this city, W. A. Chaffin lies dead at
his home, 1600 East 10th street.
The affair occurred Sunday night at
7:30 o’clock, at the corner of East 10th
■J \
street and Delaware Ave. The assail-
ant, a negro, first robbed his victim
after which he deliberately fired a
charge from a shotgun at him, the shot
lodging in Chaffin’s right side.
The injured man was removed to a
local hospital where he died at 1:30
o’clock Monday morning.
The alleged slayer was captured
early today and is being kept under
cover by the officers to prevent lynch-
ing which they fear may take place.
We have had the most successful January Clearance
Sale in the history of our business, and it will not be
long now before our spring goods will begin to come
in. In the meantime we will sell all Overcoats and
Winter Suits at the following reduced prices:
$12.50 Suits and Overcoats, to close out at
only............................ •
$15.00 Suits and Overcoats, to close out at
only.. v........................
$18.00 Suita and Overcoats, to close out at
only.............................
$20.00 Suits and Overcoats, to close out at
only••• ..........................
$22.50 Suits and Overcoats, to close out at
only..............................
$22.00 Suits and Overcoats, to close out at
only..............................
Married Sulphur Springs Girl.
W. A. Chaffin was married to Miss
Ida Lindley of this city on Dec. 20th.
They had been home from their wed-
ding trip only a short while. R. L.
Lindley, Mrs. Chaffin’s father, was
notified of the shooting .about ten
o'clock Sunday night and left at once
for Oklahoma City.
Chaffin was well known to a num-
ber of people here.
Positively No Goods Charged
At These Prices
WILL ERECT HALF MILLION DOL-
LAR HOSPITAL.
Houston, Jaa. 26.—A charter ha4!
been secured for the half million dol-
lar hospital In this city and it is ex-
pected actual construction will be
under way within a short time. It
will be known as the Mercy Hospital
and will be in two separate divisions,
one for white patients and the other
for negroes.
KAN8AS WOMAN AN-
NOUNCES FOR CONGRES8.
Goodland,. Kan., Jan. 26.—Mrs.
Eva Murphey announced today her
candidacy for congress as a progress-
ive.
- “The fact that I am a wife and
mother, I believe will aid me,” she
said in her apnouncement. “My child-
ren are groivn up and my husband is
willing.”
LEADING CLOTHING STORE
-W. A. Chaffin, the negro’s alleged
let**, was robbed and killed at Okla-
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Setnl-Weekly News, 61 .*75.
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Fanning, R. W. The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, January 30, 1914, newspaper, January 30, 1914; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth817438/m1/1/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.