Jacksboro Gazette. (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 1, 1897 Page: 2 of 4
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Business Office on Northeast Corner of Fublic
Square, Jseksboro, Texas.
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Remit cash by Post-Office Money Order or
c it our risk, otherwise at the risk
sender.
Scuscuimon Batxs: Single Copy, One Year,
t) 00. If not paid In advance 11.36. Clubs of
Copies, One Year, f 1 50.
The figures gainst your name on the label
shows to what Yclume and Number your sub-
scription is pai 1.
The Spanish troops in Caba
have not received their pay for
seven months. It looks as though
Spain would soon go to the wall.
Dr. Grant has dined with the
president, and that, in the estima-
tion of his friends seems to place
him in the lead among Texas Re-
publicans.
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Chandler, Oklahoma, a town of
1500 inhabitants was almost de-
molished Tuesday evening, and
several hundred • people were
it jured and killed.
The past week has been one of
heavy storms, rains and hails in
Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.
The situation along the Mississip-
pi in Arkansas and Louisiana and
remains much the same as for the
past week. Distress and suffer-
ing and loss of property is very
great.
and unbelief mean de-
to any business, and a
confidence in his
a finds failure awaiting
i short time,7* writes Mr.
to his Bible Class in the
Ladies Home Journal. “Uncer-
tainty disqualifies for work and
usefulness in every sphere of life.
certainty and doubt that
he recent state of depress
our business interests,
rs and economists differ-
ed views regarding the
causes of this feeling of
but they generally
directly attributing the
assurance in
fidence is
every pur-
m
0m
1
m
jgasgs
is Republic re
“A harvest of scandal
popular condemnation was
by the Democratic party
account of the concession to
the Sugar Trust, wrung from the
party by the friends of the Trust
in the senate when the Wilson
bill was being held op. Without
any wringing or holding up of
legislation, the Sugar Trust has
d from the Republican
of the House Ways and
twice as good
got from the Demo-
after weeks of
threats. The
es a differ-
Trust of
or twice as
provided
This rich con-
by provisions
duties on beet
j coun-
give th8 Trust a
le market of this
of ^anti-trust
the evidence of
e upon the atti-
can party to-
Trust. The de-
trusts does not
of the peo-
trusts.”
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Preserve The Historic Fields.
Houston Tost.
It begins to look at last as if
the “Daughters of the Republic”
would be rewarded for their long
and patriotic labor3 by seeing the
battlefield of S in Jacinto become
an attractive State park—a con-
snmalion that should have been
witnessed years ago, for that mat-
ter.
Texas has been shamefully neg-
lectful in the premises.
As declared by Senator Beall
in his remarks upon Senator
Burns7 bill, if the old historic bat-
tle had been located in New York,
or Pennsylvania, or a dozen other
Stales that could be named, it
would long ago have been trans-
formed into a magnificent public
park. Our people generally do
not seem to have appreciated the
fact that the San Jaciato battle-
ground is almost sacred as the
real birth place of a new empire
in the new world. Its historic
significance is second to no spot
in America unless it be Lexington
or Bunker Hill. To preserve it
to the public for ages to come
should have been one of the first
inspirations of Texas legislation
and Texas citizenship.
The general government has
been setting the states an admir-
able example of late years. The
great battlefields of the civil war
are beiDg preserved as public
parks and thousands of dollars
are being expended upon them.
They are the sacred spots of
American soil—the places of in-
spiration for future generations,
the sites of noble monuments to
the courage and heroism of Amer-
ican manhood.
The State owes it to its brilliant
history, to its recognition of valu-
able services and appreciation of
Valor, to purchase and beautify
and preserve all its points of tts-
toric interest. A people who
justly estimate and perpetuate
the memory of great deeds of the
past may confidentially look for
heroic action in the future when-
ever the occasion demands. Pa-
triotism and noble sentiment live
npon great memories and are
fostered by noble* testimonials.
To undervalue the past is to dis-
count the future. From a sordid
dollars and cents standpoint a
sentiment is often worth millons
to a community.
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writing of Texas
and Mr. Bailey,
perhaps strike
! that there should
, so to speak, in con-
Arkansas and
is a fact. Arkansas
to oppose Texas
. Texas has not been
in opposing Arkan-
» this time. When Mills
candidate for Speaker of
of the Ffty-second
the Arkansas delega-
e exception (Oliff
opposed him in the
The Arkansas delega-
was solidly against Bai-
cancus. In other
iu congress has
opposition to Texas, not
bat materially,
the first of the Texans
meet this fend face to face,
he did it by iiatly asking
as a personal favor to
the name of McRae of
off the Ways and Means
Arkansas is not as
and if the feud con-
will eventually
worst of it. When Bailey
visit to Leed he was
for member-
Ways and Means
McRae of
of Vir-
.
i S wan-
Land Office Circular.
Austin, Texas, March 27.—The
land commissioner has issued the
following to the public:
This will give you notice that
the act authorizing the forfeiture
of school land bales under acts
of 1881 and 1883, as well as all
others which may have to be for-
feited from time to time, will not
take effect until ninety days after
the adjournment of the legislature.
This will give all parties who'de-
sire to put their school land ac-
counts in good standing ample
time to lay up their interest-. I
would urgently request local or
county papers to publish this
item, as it is of great importance
and public interest, besides,
sides a patriotic service to the
state. For the next four months
all persons conld be fully advised
through this public notice in post-
age. Besides, it will help many
men to prepare to save their land,
Below I publish the law in full.
Very respect folly,
Andrew J. Baker,
Commissioner.
Be it enacted by the legislatnre
of the state of Texas:
Section 1. That if upon the 1st
day of November of any year any
portion of the interest dae by
any person to the state of Texas
for lands heretofore sold by the
state of Texas, whether said lands
be a part of the public domain or
shall have been heretofore' set
apart for the public schools, uni-
versity, or any of the other va-
rious state institutions, has not
been paid, it shall be the duty of
the land commissioner to indorse
on the obligation of said lands,
“ Lands forfeited,” and shall cause
an entry to that effect to be made
on the account, kept with such
purchaser, and thereupon said
land shall thereby be forfeited to
the state, without the necessity
of re-entry or judicial ascertain-
ment and shall revert to the par-
ticular fund to which it originally
belonged, and be resold under
the provisions of the existing law,
or of any future law; provided,
the purchaser of said land shall
have the right at any time within
six months after such indorse-
ment of “ lands forfeited ” to in-
stitute a suit in the district court
of Travis county, Texas, against
the commissioner of the general
land office for the purpose of
contesting such forfeiture and
setting aside the same upon the
ground that th6 facts did not exist
authorizing such forfeiture; but if
no such suit bas been instituted
as above provided, such forfeit-
ures of the commissioner of the
Jgentsrallland office shall then be-
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come final and conclusive; pro-
vided, that if any purchaser shall
die or shall have died, his heirs or
legal representatives shall have
one year in which to make pay-
ment after the 1st day of Novem-
ber next after such death. This
act is cumulative and is not in-
tended to deny the state the
right to institute auy legal pro-
ceedings that may be deemed
necessary to secure the purchase
money or possession of the laud
so sold. And this act is iatouded
to be applicable to all purchases
heretofore made under any or all
of the various acts of the legisla-
ture under which land may have
been sold to the slate.
Sec. 2. The fact that the au-
thority of the land commissioner
to make forfeiture of land without
judicial ascertainment has been
questioned, and the fact, lhat there
are now more than 10,000 pur-
chases which can be forfeited
under the law for non-payment of
the interest due thereon, and the
farther fact that it is almost im-
possible and certainly impractica-
ble to institute so many different
suits against so many different
purchasers, creates an imperative
public necessity requiring the
suspension of the constitutional
rule providing that bills are read
on three several days, and the
time is hereby suspended.
Republican President With
Democratic Ways.
Washington, March 27.—From
present appearances McKinley
will make a popular president.
This does not mean that he will
he a great president or that he
will come up to the expectations
of those who voted for him for
that great office last November.
Those who have to do with him
here, who have to meet him, who
have to visit the White House,
who have to transact business,
directly or indirectly with the
chief magistrate, will like him.
He is amiable and democratic. So
fir as I can judge, his head is
about the same size as it used to
be when he served in congress.
It was about as hard to reach
Cleveland when he was president
as it is to reach the presence of
the Chinese Empress. During
the last Cleveland administration
the White House was surrounded
by policemen and sentry boxes
When Cleveland lived at his coun-
try place at Woodley, the road
between the White House and
the country seat of the chief ex-
ecutive was Strewn with mounted
policemen, and the only conspic-
uous objects in the grounds at
t he Woodley mansion were police
officers lolling under the trees.
McKinley has disbanded the
White House police force. He
has had the sentry boxes remov-
ed. lie walks around the streets
as ha did when he was a member
of the House. He speaks to old
fiiends and acquaintances as he
did of old, and while he undonbt
edly is crowded to the wall by the
officeseekers and must be tired to
death, anybody who desires to see
him on any real business finds no
difficulty in getting an interview
with ihim.
A few days ago the president
sent an intimation to the press
galleries of Congress that he
would be glad to meet the news-
paper correspondents. About
125 of the 170 representatives of
t ie press here accepted the invi-
tation and went to pay their re-
spects to the chief magistrate. At
a l functions of this kind Cleve-
land was stiff, solemn, consecrat-
ed. McKinley was pleasant,
democratic, affable—even cordial.
With his old acquaintances among
t le newspaper men he joked, told
s ories, swapped reminiscences.
The new members of the news-
paper corps—that is to say, who
have come to Washington since
McKinley7s retirement from con-
gress—the president was desir-
ous of meeting and knowing some-
thing of.
This but illustrates the new
methods at the White House.
Congressmen express the same
feeling as the newspaper men ;
they are able to reach the presi-
dent when they desire, wiihout
three weeks7 or a month’s wait
and without making engagements,
with any amount of intermediate
snubbiDg. Cleveland ran to the
extreme of exclusiveness; Me-
E.inley seems to be ruuning to the
extreme of democracy.
I recognize that a real demo-
cratic president, who undertakes
to meet all who desire to meet
hi m, has a hard row to hoe and a
b gjobon hand, but there is no
need of drawing an arbitrary line ;
and am disposed to think that
McKinley’s methods, with a little
regulation, will carry him through
his period at the White House
much more satisfactorily and
pleasantly than Cleveland’s meth-
ods did for him—[O’Brien Moore
in St. Louis Republic.
NOT LONG '
“ADS’BDTSHORT
PRICES TALK.
Merchants usually mark UP new
stock. For a change, we are mark-
ing DOWN our spring stock. Our
friends and customers know this,
and our competitors have found it
out also.
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If you have not been buy-
ing from us come
around and ex-
amine the
get the
We are getting in, and
New Standard of Prices
Which the “ GO ” has put into effect.
CASH HIIOES
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With all the Credit Trim-
mings Knocked Off.
H. 0. STARK i 00.
Religious Societies.
EPWOBT1I LEAGUE.
Song, prayer and song.
Rending of lesson by Georgie
L;ght.
Comments on lesson by J. M.
Hughes and H. O. Stalk.
Duet by Misses Ollie Sleedman
and Hattie Callahan.
Ak
cm
Wilt Ike flrrivU j
Of Sprl
COMES OUR GOODS " ‘ P§S
TO SUIT THE SEASON.
Ha
Essay on lesson by Miss Lena
Prints
4 to 5 cts.
0 pkgs. Arb. coffee
$1.00
Stark.
New style prints
G 1 2 cts.
6 “ XXXX “
1.00
Song and prayer.
Lawns
3 to 5 cts.
18 lbs. gre.nulated sugar
1.00
Challies
5 cts.
20 lbs. Y. O. sugar
1.00
Sea Island domestic
5 cts.
5 lbs. sods.
.25
B. Y. P. u.
Better grade “
5 cts.
A 1 flour per hundred
280
Piogramme A pril 4tb, 1897.
Fruit of the Loom blch. 9 cts.
Tinware 11 racket prices.
Song and prnyer.
Good as Gold
“ 8 cts.
Reading Psalm 19.
Pr.iyer.
Business.
L?sson subject—The Sermon
on the Mount. Matt. 5 50
Essay—Miss Mary Lmdsey.
Song.
Reading—Allie Atkinson.
Solo—Glorious Redemption—
Miss Eva Johnson.
Recitation—Lena Gowdy.
Essaj—Miss Stella McGomb.
Song.
WHEN WE CRITICISE OUR
FRIENDS.
Fine J ob Work a Spicialty at this
Office.
The Kindness of Ignoring Tri-
vial Mistakes in Our
Daiky Life.
“There are two kinds of mis-
takes : mistakes of moment and
trivial mistakes,” writes K I ward
W. Bok, in the April Ladies’
Home Journal. “Undoubtedly
the best service which one friend
can render another is to save liim
from a mistake liable to be seri-
ous in its results, la such an act
lies true friendship. Bat in these
days of criticism, when we are apt
to criticise everything and every-
body, we are all too apt to cor-
rect mistakes which are absolute-
ly trivial and not worth correct-
ing. And yet in calling attention
to them we often hurt the feeling3,
of oar best friends. Not one of
us, even the most goodnatared,
likes to have his m;stak33 pointed
ont. We miy appear not to mind
corrections, and accept them with
a smile. Rat it is human nature to
smart under a correction, al-
though some of ns may be clever
enough to conceal the smart.
Hence, the fewer mistakes we
call attention to in others the bet-
ter. Two-thirds of the mistakes
we make are trivial. Their cor-
rection is unimportant. Why,
then, notice them? Yet some
people do, and do so constantly.
A person speaks of having done
a certain thing on Thursday,
when in realiiy it was done on
Wednesday. If no important
point is involved why call atten-
tion to the mistake? What good
does it do to have the exact day
set right? It is a matter of no
importance, so why insist upon
correcting the trivial error?
Staunch friendships have often
been pricked by this needle of
useless correction. It is a great
art—tJbis art of learning to allow
others to be mistaken when the
mistake is unimportant. Few
learn it, but those who do are a-
mong the most comfortable
friends one can have.”
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John Bull Takes a Good Look
(
at Himsel:
mongers. Honor and honesty
under this reg'rne are derided ns
old-fashioned superstitions. Tiie
Minister who cm steal any ter-
ritory whose inhabitants are too
weak to resisf us-is acclaimed as
a hero. The company promoter
who can build a palace by appro-
priating the savings of his fellow
countryman is worshiped as a di-
vinity. When we mow down
Africans with Maxims we glory in
ibis proof of our bravery. When
at the bidding of Koigs and Em-
porei'% wo shell Eiropaans strug-
gling to free themselves from Hie
suzerainty of some wretch who
claims their allegiance, wc glory
in our shame. And while we
swagger and boast of our might,
we are in such abject fear of be-
ing attacked that we heap up
armaments on armaments, be-
cause, no matter what we spend,
we still would spend more bo
make us secure.—London Truth.
Programme cf Ministers’ and
Deacons’ Meeting. \
Following is the programme of
the Ministers’ and Deacons’ meet-
ing to be held at the West Keecbi
church, commencing * Thursday
n;ght before the fifth Sunday in
May :
Introductory—R. C. McCain ;
alternate, A. A. Hilliard.
What is the office work of the
Holy Spirit in regeneration—J. O.
McGhee ; alternate, — Gladdens.
Where, when and by whom was
the church set up—J. C. Taylor ;
R. A Pyatt.
Is baptism and the Lord’s sup-
per procurative or declarative—
A. A. Hilliard ; J. C. Lindsey.
What is the gospel—J. W.
Blankenship; John L, McCord.
Is faith an act of the creature
oris it a gift of God.—J. T. Mays;
W. N. Jackson.
Brethren cone oat and let us
make our meeting profitable.
J. I. Tipton, Sec.
Unclaimed Letters
Remaining in poet office at Jaeks-
boro, Texas, April 1, 1897.
W. O. E. Bass G. £r. Grange
M. S. Carter Saip Graves
Mrs. B. Erwin George Knight
J. D. Eubank Bill Martin
O. C. Eaten J. O. JdeCIeudon
Persons calling for 'any of the
above please say they are adver-
tised. C. H. Sibley, P. M.
* Wm *3*.
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
by local applications as they can-
not reach the diseased portion of
the ear. Thpro h only one way
to eu"e deafness, and that is by
constitutional remedies. Deaf-
ness is caused by an inflamed
condition of the mucous lining of
the Eustachian Tube. When this
tube is irfi med you have a ram-
bling sound or imperfect hearing,
and when it is entirely closed,
deafness is the result, and unless
the inflamation, can be taken out
and this tube restored to its nor-
mal condition, hearing will be de
stroyed forever; nine cases out
of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an ii;fltme.d
condition of tlie mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred
ELY’S CREAM BALM la a positive cure.
Apply into the nottrils. It is quickly absorbed. 60
cents at Drnsrgists or bv mail; samples 10c. by mail.
ELY BKOlhiEES, 66 Warren St., New York City.
Six DAYS IN
THE WEEK
t work at Paiu ing, Paper-Hang-
ing, Sign-Writing, etc. Anyone
wanting work in my line of busi-
ness call on ELI THE PAINTER
Also a Complete line of Ladies’ Underwear, and Gents’
Furnishing Goods, at Lowest Prices.
A Great Reduction on Shoes in the
old Stock and New ones marked
at Same Figures.
I am anxious to do business with you and feel confident that I can
merit your patronage by good goodn low prices.
J.E. GRISHAM,
THE LOW PRICE CASH H
Jacksboro, Texas.
H. H. mills,
(Successor to "Wills & Wood.)
PATENT
SCHOOL
/led Book
The Largest Stock in the County.
KEEP AND SELL EVERYTHING IN THE DRUG
Quantity the Largest, Quality the Best, Prices the
Compounding of Prescription* | a
J. W. FJAP
WATCH-MAKER
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Watches, Clocks, and Jewels
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WEST SIDE SQUARE,
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JOHN HENSLEY,
SOUTH-EAST
LIVERY, FEED k
ipiietor.
CORNER I _
JACKSBORO, TEXAS.
Trip to Bowie foi
THE BEST RIGS IN WES1
Wc have the best stock and can fnrnii
- as any stable in Western
Trip to Chico for
Teams Fed And Well Cared for by
Horses BoiM ami Horses Mi Also I
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I PAINT
EVERYTHING.
Citation by Publication.
ITTE STATE OF TEX VS,
To the Sheritt’ or any Constable of Jack
County—Greeting;
You arc hereby loinmanded, That you
summon by making publication of this cita-
tion in some newspaper publkhe 1 in the
county of Jack, if thi re be a newspaper pub-
lished therein, btiUf «>t, thea in any news-
paper published in the 4.1rd judicial district;
but if there be no newspaper published in
said judicial district, then in n newspaper
published in the nearest district to said 43rd
judicial district, for four weeks previous to
B. T. Babbitt’s P
IS EQUAL
■3 of any othe:p B
3 Cans of any Other Brands i,
2 Cans of B. T. Babbitt’s PIJEE
SAVES THE CONSUMER,
INSIST ON HAVING
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B. T. BABBITT’S
Pure Potash or
the return day ht roof, James Guynn, whose
Dollar,5 for any case of Deafness ves’donee is unknown, to be and appear be-
(caufit (i by catarrh) that cannot
be cured by Hull’s Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars; free. F. J.
Cheney & Co, Toledo, O.
KarSald by druggists,•7,5 j.
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baMh
England today is whaMJarthage
was in times of old. (We are
ruled by a hungry, greedy^ aristo-
cracy, which, in its turn, is grilled
by lean mongers and by company iribur.
AnxLoas to Oblige.
Bari or—Hair's getting a little thin,
sir. Shall 1—
Testy Customer—I prefer it that way.
“Yes, sir. Shampoo?”
“No. 1 prefer to have my hair just
as it is.”
"ies, sir. Like to have your whiskers
trimmed up a little?”
“No. My whiskers are exactly as I
want to wear them.”
“Ye . sir.”
(. ding himself in the glass after
the operation.) “You didn't lake that
f.inudp > of coal soot-off my cheek.”
“No, ir. I didn’t know but you pre-
ferred to let it stay there.”—Chicago
fore the Ih>n. Jus ice Court, at the next reg-
ular term thereof. to b.; holden in the County
of Jack, State of Texas, at the town of fun-
din'thereof, in Justice Precinct No. 7, on the
22nd day of April A. D. 1$!>7, then and
there to answer a Petition tiled ia said Court,
on the 6th day of January, A D. IS1»7, in a
suit numbered on the docket of said Court
No. 40, wherein A. D. Flowers is plaintiff
and JumC3 Guynn is defendant. '1 he nature
of the plaintiff's demand being follows,
to-wit; {Suit on an op .-n account for the sum
of Forty-nice and 41-100 dollars due De-
cember the 3rd, 1895, with 6 per cent, inter-
est on said amount from Jan. the 1st, 1S97.
Herein Fall Not. a d have you before said
Court,on lliesaid flrs^davof the next t.-nnthere
of. this Wi it witlp.your endorsement thereon,
showing how y< u kav executed the same.
Given undermj hand and soai of said
Court, at riiiee in Cundiff, thi? the
17th day oi .March A. D. 1807.
G. P. Whitakkh, J. P.
, Preet. No. 7.
t'iick Gounty, T'.-xiu.
hivery, Feed#S&kSl;
S, COOPER & SONS,
PROPRIETORS,
JACKSBORO, TEXAS.
Always ready'to accommodate the Traveling
Public, with Good Stock and Fine Turnouts.
Teams left at this Stable will receive the best of car
Your Patronage Solicited.
—
T. D. SPORER,
LA WYER,
JAOKHBORO.----T
JACOB COSSLEY
TOpiSOf^lAL ?!
Oh the VTet', Side of the
^rtavtflg.Aalr-Ctttlng, and 81
The Houston Semi- Weekly P
clubbed with the Jacks'
z«»tte for $1.50 in advance
Is t)i« uwt it»l« nf tt»o tr*
Fine Job Work solicit
the GAZETTE Office.
W. G. MULLINS,!
T;f ,
j|-1 Lawyer & Land
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