The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 79, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 1, 1924 Page: 4 of 4
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FORMER BITTER
ENEMIES MEET AS
GOOD FRIENDS
Plenions, Texas, March 31.—Fif-
ty years ago at a lonely *po* called
Adobe Walls, in what is now Hutch-
inaon 't-ounty, a few miles from here,
TOO Indiana attacked twenty-eight
white men and one woman in a
buffalo hunters’ camp. From dawn
until night the white men fought
for their lives, finally driving the
Indians off.
On June 27 the children and
grand-children of those “sure shot”
plaintfmen and the descendants of
the Indians who attacked them,
with possibly two of the white par-
ticipants in the battle, are to gath-
er at the same spot, still almost as
lonely, to commemorate the fiftieth
anniversary of that bitter fight and
to erect a monument over the
graves of the three white men who
were killed.
Several thousand people of the
north Panhandle of Texas, western
Oklahoma and southwestern Kansas
are expected to attend the celebra-
tion, which is planned for two days.
Tlie fight lasted throughout the
day, the little band of white men
stopping only long enough to cool
their guns. Finally the Indians saw
mere numbers could not prevail
against marksmanship and at night
withdrew, leaving thirteen dead be-
hind and carrying many more away
with them.
The only two living survivors of
the battle are Andy Johnson of
Dodge City, Kan., and Fred Leonard
of Salt Lake City.
EXPERT ANNOUNCES
NEWSCHOOLSYSTEM
GIVES GOOD RESULTS
OF MANY STATES
Austin, Texas, April 1.—Candi-
dates running for governor are
proud to announce that they are
native Texans, but in the long list
of Texas governors and presidents
only five were born in this state.
VEXING QUESTION
Austin, Texas, April 1.—-Bound-
ary disputes have involyed the state
of Texas during a considerable por-
tion of her history. The gtate with
the most land has had perhaps more
quarrels over disputed territory
Other states of the Union have sup- i than any other member of the
THE WATTS FAMILY
The family of W. T. Wait# enjoy-
ed a big birthday dinner Sunday,
March 28, March being the birth'
month of six members of the fam-
ily-
Mr. and Mrs. Waits have been
very fortunate in raising their fam
ily, as the number has reached two
doran and the circle has never bhen
broken. All were present except
Mr only daughter, Mrs. E. J. Mel-
ton, and family of Dallas, which
was very much regretted by them,
as they always know where to go to
get a square meal.
AU went to their homes feeling
fim- ami hoping to have many more
birthdays.
Lightning Friday night is said tc
have hit the new oil derrick being
put up on the Brooks farm, north-
west of town. But little damage is
reported to have resulted.
CLEAN-UP TIME IS HERE!”
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Stirling Drug
Detroit, March' 31.—The “Work-
Study-Play” plan upon which the
platoon school system is based, has
served not only to cut the cost of
education but to increase its bene-
fits, in the opinion of Miss Rose
Phillips, supervisor of platoon
schools in Detroit She describes
the purposes of the platoon system
as the teaching of fundamentals
(the three R’s); the training of chil-
dren “for worthy participation In
the affairs of the home,” and the
training of children in the duties and
responsiblities >f citizenship, “to
make them conscious of their social
relationships:'”
For the attainment of these pur-
poses, the pupils are divided into
two platoons. While one group is
engaged in the “home" rooms, b> :ng
taught reading; writing, arithmetic
and penmanship, the other group, or
platoon, is in the “special" rooms,
receiving training in special courses
not regarded under the old stand-
ards as fundamental but, according
to Miss Phillips, none the less ins-
tant in the development of the
child for his home and citizenship
responsibilities.
The system, Miss Phillips says,
gives more tifne for the inculcation
of fundamentals than is possible
under the old system. Although the
“home" room teacher has two groups
of pupils to handle during the day,
she has fewer subjects to prepare,
fewer interruptions, and thus is able
better to check the ability of the
children in the formal subjects.
Au important feature of the
platoon system, in Miss Phillips’
opinion, is the auditorium. It adds
to the elementary school, she main-
tains, an “entifply new and, im-;
portent socializing unit which the
non-platoon system did not have.”
When its possibilities are finally
worked out, she believes, it will be
found to be the most effective edu-
cational force in the entire organi-
zation.
There are various ways in which
the auditorium may be used to fur-
ther the educational program, Miss
Phillips asserts. Platoon schools
have been in successful operation
since 1918.
plied by fnr the most of this state’s
chief executives. Not until James
Stephen Hogg came to the gover-
norship did the state have a native
Texan at its helm.
Eleven states are represented in
the birth places of Texas governors,
two of them Northern states. Next
to Texas, South Carolina has fur-
nished the most governors to this
commonwealth. Four were from
South Carolina, three from Vir-
ginia, three from Georgia, one from
Massachusetts, one from North
Carolina, one from Connecticut,
two from Mississippi, two from Ala-
bama, two from Tennessee, one
from Florida, one from Kentucky,
one from Iowa and five from Texas.
Governor Thomas M. Campbell, in
1907, was the second native-born
Texan to become governor. The
last three governors, Ferguson, Hob-
by and Neff were born in this state.
Governor S. W. T. Lanham, elected
in 1906, was the last Confederate
veteran to occupy the chair.
The native states of the presi-
dents and governors were as fol-
lows: Houston, Virginia; Lamay
Georgia; Jones, Massachusetts; Hen-
derson, North Carolina; Bell, Vir-
ginia; Pease, Connecticut:; Runnels;
Mississippi; Lubbock, South Caro-
lina; Hamilton, Alabama; Throck-
morton, Tennessee; Davis, Florida;
Coke, Virginia; Hubbard, Georgia;
Roberts, South Carolina; Ireland,
Kentucky; Ross, Iowa; Hogg, Tex-
as; Culberson, Alabama; Sayers,
Mississippi; Lanham, South Caro-
lina; Campbell, Texas; Colquitt,
Georgia; Ferguson, Texas; Hobby,
Texas; Neff, Texas.
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Morris Drug
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GRAND JURY AFTER
VIOLATORS OF ORY
LAW IN WASHINGTON
Washington, April 1.—The fed-
eral grand jury of Washington
struck out sharply Monday at liquor
law violating in the capital—
■a question which recently has be-
come increasingly embarrassing to
officials endeavoring to enforce the
prohibition statutes.
The grand jurors handed down a
block of indictments which in-
eluded:
Three deputy United States mar-
A lieutenant of police.
A Washington terminal police-
man.
A sergeant of marines.
Two negro Pullman porters.
A high priced caterer and his
wife, with their waiters and
helpers.
Three other men and fourteen
women, classified for miscellaneous
liquor violations.
Three alleged leaders in Wash-
ington's famous liquor ring, whose
list A high personages as custom-
er* mysteriously disappeared sev-
eral months ago.
Three young women stenogra-
phers of the ring.
Patrick H. Barteman, Charles
Marshall and John G. Newman are
the deputies involve^ and with Po-
lice Lieutenant J, fe Sprinkle, they
are charged with conspiring to have
liquor brought here from the South
by Pullman porters.
" Bepjsmin Morris, Milton Scar-
borough and H. Curtis Lamson
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TEXAS RAILROAD
COMMISSION. IS
ADJUSTING RATES
Austin, Texas, March 81.—Adjust-
ments of freight on Texas railroads,
made by the Texas railroad commis-
sion during the last twelve monthe,
have shown substantial reductions
and’savings to the shippers of th*
state, according to Commissioner
W. A. Nabors, who is serving his
first term on the commission.
The commission in the year has
formally docketed ninety-five cases
for public hearing and placed on its
dockets 679 cases for informal con-
sideration, besides many important
hearings for the interstate com-
merce commission.
Among the rate adjustments
were the following:
Less than a carload rate on live-
stock has an entirely new scale of
rates and tariff regulations, the
rates to be based on actual weight,
in lieu of regulations previously in
force, under which higher rates
were provided; entire revision of
tariff rates and regulations to ap-
ply no crude, innoculated, refined
and other manufactured sulphurs,
the principal effect of which wae
to reduce the rate on refined sul-
phur; boll weevil machines in less
than car load lota, establishment of
third class rating instead of first
class; cotton seed hulls in car load
lots, revision of rates involving a
slight reduction; blackstrap molas-
ses in car load lots, revision of the
scale of rates, making the maximum
in common point territory twenty-
five cents instead of twenty-nine
and a half cents; entire revision of
rates on lumber from producing ter-
ritory in East and Southeast Taxas
to the Gulf port cities; cotton, sec-
ond concentration, reduction from
six and a half rents to three and a
half cfcnts in the charge for second
concentration privileges; cotton
waste, car load lots, re-adjustment
making reduction from fourth class
to class 0 on car load shipments;
regulation allowing ice to be used
as a preservative on ice shipments,
in csr load;'macaroni, car load
lots, establishment of maximum
common point rate of sixty-four
in lieu of eighty-two and
eighty-eight cents; insecticide* and
fungicides, establishment of special-
ly reduced rates on calcium arse-
nate and other poisons to be used in
the extermination of boil weevils;
huJJs, ground, revision mak-
U n ion.
Two of these disputes are pend-
ing in the supreme court of the
United States, one with Oklahoma,
the other with New Mexico. Both
of these cases were started by the
bordering states.
Oklahoma contended that the
boundary was the south bank of the
Red river and in this was sustained
by the supreme court, whifh ap-
pointed a commission of three to lo-
cate-- the bank. The report of this
commission soon is to be filed with
the court.
In the New Mexico case the com-
plaining state claims 20,000 acres of
land now held by residents of Texas,
contending that the Rio Grande,
which is the boundary of the two
states, has shifted, leaving thu ap-
parently in Texas.
The other boundary disputes are
of outstanding interest. Scarcely
had Texas been settled and become
a state of the United States than
a wrangle ensued concerning its
western border line. Texas claimed
more than half the state of New
Mexico, embracing all that portion
of the present state east of the Rio
Grande river, basing its contention
on the fact that an expedition had
been dispatched during President
Lamar's administration to Santa Fe
to take possession of the territory.
The United States pointed out that
Texas had never been in possession
of the land and that therefore it
had no title to it. Texas replied
that the Mexican war was fought by
the United States to prove that the
Rio Grande was the boundary of
Texas. Both Governor Wood and
his successor, Governor Bell, tried
to persuade the United States to ac-
knowledge the claim* of this state
but without avail.
Excitement in Texas ran high.
Newspapers and o public speakers
denounced the United States. It
looked for a time a* though there
might be war. Then Henry Clay of
Kentucky proponed a compromise in
the United State* senate, offering
Texas $10,000,000 for ita claim to
New Mexico and for a narrow strip
of land ektending as far north as
the present state of Wyoming.
A second dispute with New Mex-
ico arose, however, when the latter
state applied for statehood. The
western Texas' boundary under the
Clay administration was surveyed
along the 108rd meridian, west
longtitude, but the line was so care-
lessly surveyed that it ran several
miles west of the meridian. New
Mexico set up a claim to the narrow
strip between the line aa surveyed
and the true meridian, bat the
United States held that the line
should remain as surveyed.
The Joes of Greer county was one
of the spectacular boundary dis-
putes of the state. By the treaty of
1819 between the United State* and
Spain the northern boundary of
Texas was to follow the Red river
westward to whore it crossed the
100th meridian. La tar, when the
upper course* of the river were ex-
plored, it w.as found to have taro
branches and a question at once
aroae aa to which should be regard-
ed as the principal branch; if tha
north fork, than the land between
the forks would belong to Texas,
but if the south fork, the land
would belong to the United State*.
Texas assumad the boundary to ba
the north fork and thereupon organ-
ized* Greer county, but a decision of
the United States supreme court
held against this contention and
thus Texas lost Greer county.
Another dispute that led to
strange consequences was that of
the “Neutral Ground” or "No Man’s
Land.” When America bought l(ie
Louisiana territory, she claimed the'
Sabine river was the boundary be-
tween the United Statee and the
Spanish territory, which is new Tax-
as, but Spain claimed the line was
along the Arroyo Hondo and this
creek was some mile* east of the
Sabine. l.i 180> this quart el was
arranged a pt-culia.- manner,
both court Lies agreeing to exercise
no authority over the strip of land
between the Sabine and the Arroyo
Hondo. This territory had no law
and no government and for that rea-
son ".became a rendezvous for crimi-
nals of every description, who rob-
bed, murdered without fear of pun-
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Time Never Wears
Out a Debt
“The Longer I owe you—The More I ought to Pay]
If you receive bills and requests' for paymeu
of your delinquent accounts, be a MAN and don’f
ignore them. Give them serious and honest at
tention—you are expected to do no more for those|
you owe. than you would expect them to do if they
owed you. Nobody bears an ill will, and you ahoulcjj
hear none.
Whenever you want to be sure that you ay
right, just put yourself in the other fellow’s place
If when you have finiahed a job, you believe that]
you are entitled to your pay, then you cannot honjj
estl; withhold from another the money that is du/
him or goods or service. You cannot really ci
anything your own until you have paid for it.
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No man can beat a just debt without sacrific
ing his own self-respect.
The least you can do is to justify
dence placed in you.
the conf
Pay Your Bills Promptly
and
Keep Your Credit Goo<
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LYNCH DAVIDSON
MAKES CAMPAIGN
IN AIRPLANE
Sweetwater, Texas, April 1.—
The gospel o# "more business in
government and less government in
business” now being carried to the
West by Lynch Davidson in his can-
didacy for tha governorship came
upon Sweetwater from the sir Mon-
day evening, when the candidate
arrived here by airplane from Fort
Worth.
Mining a railroad connection
which would have brought him to
Sweetwater from Houston in time
for bis address at 8 o'clock Monday
night, Mr. Davidson was prevented
from interfering with hit itinerary
through efforts of friends at Fort
Worth, who loanod him a flying ma-
chlne and pilot, which carried him
through the teeth of a biting West
Texas norther to fill his engage-
ment.
Altitude No Difference.
“Altitude makes no difference to
my sincere conviction that more
business in government is the cry-
ing need of Weet Texas,’’ Mr. Da-
vidson said in hi* address at the No-
lan court house auditorium. “It’s
just another proof of no matter
which way you look at this state,
the answer is the same.”
Mr. Davidson made a plea for a
capable legislative personnel in the
next Texas house and senate, on the
grounds that of the three branches
of Texas government the legislative
branch was second in importance to
none. * >!>- '** /
“Tour representative* to th* log-
islature should be selected trom the
most capable citizens of your com-
munity,” he said. “In proposing to
be your* governor, 1 am daeply con-
cerned as to the perronnsl of the
legislature you will elect. 1 ask
thst you select those in harmony
with the purposes and policies pro-
posed to be put into effect by me
as your governor.”
He* pointed out that the modern
trend of politicaL serial and indus-
trial evolution has brought about a
world-wide recognition of this need,
insisting that "the primary, vital
functions of government ar
ed to making and enfortia
quate laws to protect life,
und property.” adding,
ment, and particularly th*
ment of Texas, also is fundi
ly a great business, requirin
successful conduct every «
necessary in private enterpri
iness experience, business £
and business vision. Ev
seeking public office of
importance should he
by the eloquence ofjhi*
but by his quali
inter the vast boahtesqf of
ment.”
Welfare of
The speaker added, “I
rectly to you people of Wi
to discuss with you the
of our state government,
manifold problems, and,
portent of all, the welfare
6,000,000 citizen*. AU
tarns must ba harmonised
ation, for through taxation r
revenue be provided to con
phases of government, an
levies should only b* mac
amount no greater than r
and I say to you that you
ing $10,000,000 too much e'
years for such purposes in
A Lynch Davidson-for-'
club had been organised in
of the candidate’s trip hei
John G, Ford aa chairman
L. Booth vice-chairman. Mr'
son wss introduced by Me
and Representative F. M. C
NATION GROWS
RICH IN
Washington, April L-
ican nation, reputed to be
est in the world, Is wortli
808,842,000, the department]
merce reported Monday.
In ten- year* between
81, 1912, and December
when the last survey was
national wealth increased
cent. On December 81,
wm placed at $189,291j
Per capita wealth
$1,960 In 1912 to $2,91
an increase of 40.6 per i
sitinw
SPORTING GOODS TIME IS HERE
I We have baseballs, bate, gloves, masks,
’ rackette and all kinds of fiahing goods.
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Bagwell, J. S. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 79, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 1, 1924, newspaper, April 1, 1924; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth826105/m1/4/: accessed June 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.