Jacksboro Gazette. (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. [11], Ed. 1 Thursday, August 12, 1897 Page: 1 of 4
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of JUdieint
W, H. Peeke, who
a specialty of
. has without
treated and cur-
ed more cases than any-
living Physician; his
success is astonishing.
Wo have heard of cases
of so years’ standing
cured by
him. Ha
publishes a
valuable
work on
this dis-
ease, which
he sends
with a
largo bot-
FOB BE?TTER ROADS.
The Commissioners Are Re-
sponsible foi* the Prosper-
CHICA80,
sock isum
All TUM
IAHWAT
IN CONNECTION
„• WITH
THE GREAT
ROCK ISLAND
• ROUTE.
“This map shows a modern up*
to date railroad,” and how it has
own line to the principal large
f-West.
»ck Island Route’
daily fast express
Texas as follows:
Worth 9.40 a.m.
12.32 p. m.
Id l.OS a. m.
City 7.15 next a. m.
Lv. Fort Worth 8.10 p. m.
Lv. Bowie 10.43 p. m.
Lv. Ringgold 11. 20 p. m.
Ar. Kansas City 5.40 p, m.
Ar. Chicago 9.40 a. m.
Ar. Denver 7.45 a.m.
Don’t overlook the fact that
No. 2 saves you a whole bus-
day en route to Colorado.
" mh* Sleepers and Free Re-
Chair Gars on all trains.
local ticket agent will
want to sell you a ticket
Bock Island, but if he
isist until he does.
J. C. McCabe, G.
^4- For
~—*
Hi
Non-Pros-
ounties.
convention of
ounty Judges’
ity or the
perity of
At the recent
the North Texas
and Commissioners” association.
Secretary Woodward of Dallas
spoke on the subject^ “Duties of
County Commissioners.” He said:
The office of coun\ty commis-
sioner carries with it al trust more
important and more scored than
that of any other representative
of the people, either state or na-
tional, and the acts of outr commis-
sioners’ courts affect jus mor<
vitally and are of greater\ momen
to the citizens of their reispectiv
counties than are the aei4 of ou^
state legislature or national con-
gress. Every act of ift commis-
sioners’ court is immediately ben-
eficial or immediately detrimental
to the citizens of the coiqiinumties
whom they represent, an^d it lies
within the power of ouri county
commissioners when sitting as a
commissioners’ court to adopt
measures that will make our con5.
ties prosperous and our homes
the abode of contentment and
thrift, and they can, by simply
doing nothing, keep these same
counties and homes in absolute
poverty and far in the waker of
more progressive neighbors having
debt for such purposes should
not be looked upon as placing a
burden on the people, as it is not.
On the contrary, it is most benefi-
cial to all property owners and
taxpayers, as it enhances the val-
ue of their lands and enables
them to pursue their respective
avocations, free from the hin-
drances and disabilities they
would have to contend with but
for their removal by the commis-
sioners’ court.
No court has ever been con-
demned for making an appropria-
tion for roads and bridges. The
taxpayers want them and are will-
ing to pay for them, and it is cer-
tainly the duty of the commis-
sioners’ court to provide them, as
they alone have the power to do
so.
r THE CROPS OF TEXAS.
It Is Estimated that tha Cot-
ton Crop Will Not Exceed
2,400,000 Bales.
The third of the series of crop
reports of the Dallas News for
the season of 1897 gives reports
from 439 correspondents, cover-
140 counties, says the News:
On August 7, 1896, the News
presented a report of the cotton
crop, making a maximum estimate
of the yield of 2,240,000 bales.
From present indications, when
the figures are . counted on Sep-
no more natural advantage. Th$y tember i, it will be found that the
can by lavish and foolish expe
diture of public money burden
nity, and they can, on the other
maximum was not much above
the reality. With the exception
wealthy and prosperous comma- that the crop is two to three
weeks late where it was phenom-
hand, prevent the growth and de- enally early last year, very simi-
lar conditions prevail. It is abont
en time, when compared with
ions previous to 1896. There
Ibeen a small increase in acre-
age, v say of 8 per cent, which,
kiish the same conditions as pre-
vailed last year, gives an estimate
>f 2,400,000 bales maximum for
the ratio
wl
velopment of a county by failure
to provide such funds as are nec-
essary for the promotion and en-
couragement of individual enter-
prise. , 2;
A commissioner’s court that is
wastefnlly extravagant is a great
curse to the county governed by
it, but a greater curse is themos*-
ack court, having no ideas in
eping with the times. 'A com-
missioner who can not see the
wisdom in hiving good roads,
good bridges and good pnblic
buildings, or seeing the necessity
makes no effort to provide them,
works a greater hardship on his
constituency than the commission-
temt
f. r
Wk
* ,
mmmm
er who provides some or all of
these things at a cost much great-
er than necessary. Many courts
are prone to economize at the
cost of progression and develop-
ment. An administration of strict
economy is very commendable
where the county is well devel-
oped and has all the pnbi’C im-
and conveniences
to the welfare of its cit-
, bat in a sparsely settled
ty it is a sad mistake to prac-
so-called economy to such an
to retard development.
There must be a reasonable
of money spent in every
to open the channels of
and the money mast
before you can ex-
y revenue. In other
,"it mast be advanced, and
nsly invested it will cre-
a revenue that will soon re-
pay the amount advanced. Many
era are disposed to
the issuance of county
nds with as mnch trepidation
as they wonld the execution of a
mortgage of their own personal
property.
This should not be the case, for
while the issuance of bonds is a
should always be care-
weighed and considered,
times when the interests
county demand it and its
citizens clamor for it. At such a
time the commissioner who disre-
gards the wishes of the majority
of his constituency fails to exer-
cise the power vested in him by
the people—takes it upon himself
to determine the merits of the
case and decides adversely to the
expressed wishes of the people.
That man is false to his trast and
a gigantic obstacle in the road to
prosperity. A village never be-
came a city withont having creat
ed a debt at some time daring
the transformation. There mast
be paved streets, public buildings,
water supply, electric lights, pub-
lic grounds and other things of a
similar character, and to obtain
them the city invariably goes into
debt, and it is the creation anc
assumption of this debt that
makes the city.
The same rule will apply to
counties. A thrifty county must
necessarily have good roads, good
bridges, and to get these it most
into debt, but the creation of a
J1
merctrry
LIUS.
S. Mail Stage
to Mineral
^' ■
Day.
every dsy
m., arrives
m, Six
}
every
p. m.,
the orop of 1897-98. /
late, cold, wet spring re-
the growth of the early
That sort of weather
uddenly along in the ear-
1 Jane and hot weather
with but slight in-
ever since. The result
cotton of early plant-
north Texas is more
less dkmaged by the drouth,
and in many sections the shed-
ding has be^n so great as to de-
utroy all hoi>e of early picking,
dependence for a yield being pat
n the top or fall crop, for which
there is still hope, if it rains. The
onng bolls are lying beneath the
>lant aud rotting. An early
movement, such as last year, or.
a nything approximating it, can
ret be expected. The late plant-
ing of cotton even in the sections
1 isited most severely with drouth
and hot winds0 is doing very well,
3 yen better than the older plant,
:ut will furnish no relief to the
situation. It will not mature until
the product of the older plant Is
well on the market. It is in the
y ounger plant that many are now
looking for the. crop. The plant
as a rale is small bat rich in bolls
and blooms.
/
North Texas sends in the most
cheerful reports, and east Texas
in next. The crop is later than
lost year in north Texas, bat as a
rale the condition is more favora-
ble for a good yield than it was a
year ago.
Many isolated and favored sec-
tions of the state have fine pros-
pects.
Farmers are well up with their
work.. Picking in the more south-
ern le,titndes has commenced and
gins there are in operation. The
fields are clean and, with rain,
t lere is no donb.t but that Texas
Will raise her average crop. With-
out lain very soon the hot winds
and dry weather combined are
apt to make a failure in many
sections, as has already happened
in a few places. Cotton is a
plant, thoqgb, that 9311 stand q
great deal of almost any kind of
sammer weather- Bo it is believ-
ed that the prospects are not yet
gloomy for a fair yield. The plant
in particularly free from insect
pests, they being mentioned only
occasionally by correspondents,
and no great harm has resulted.
Ibis condition is another that pre-
vailed last year.
Early corn is practically made
and has usually turned out to be
a very good yield. The late corn,
though, has suffered for want of
rain and by the ravages of hot
winds and in a half dozen locali-
ties of chinch bags. The yield
nill be at least 25 per cent below
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
Celebrated for its great leavening strength
and healthful ness. Assures the food against
alum and all forms of adulteration common
to the cheap brands. Royal Baxing Pow-
der Co., New York.
the average, and if hot weather
and the other drawbacks continue
it will deteriorate still further. It
has not the staying qualities of
cotton.
Oats and wheat are about
threshed. Oats will run between
50 and 60 bushels to the acre,
and wheat about 20. Both were
the finest yields ever known in
the state.
Tlie Rush to the Cities.
Dallas News.
The rash of young men to the
citiees, contends PresidenfDavid
Starr Jordan of Stanford univer-
sity, in the National Advocate, a
journal of industry, irrigation and
agriculture, published at San
Francisco, is “ one of the most
disquieting features of the social
condition of our.times.” He dis-
covers that on account of this
tendency the farming popnlation
of today is weak and unstable as
compared with the same class a
half century ago. “ .Steadiness
of national character goes with
firmness of foothold on the soil.”
Mr. Jordan is alarmed at th8 con-
centration of wealth and power
in the cities “ while the farms are
left to the weak and iefficient or
to the peasants of other nations.”
In this statement of a fact of pret-
ty general application throughout
the United States the learned
gentleman assists other advanced
students of political economy in
directing the attention of states-
men to one of the most serious
problems of the day. “ There is
no donbt that the congestion of
the cities is in part the effect of
unwise legislation,” says Mr. Jor
dan. “ We have used every ef-
fort to be something more than a
nation of farmers, and in this ef-
fort we have almost mined our
farms.” Other causes are bring-
ing about tbe same, result in all
civilized nations, ho says, and
real estate booms resulting from
fitful conditions snd over-crowd-
ing shoalg. be estimated at their
fail infiaence. It is not to be
wondered at that such men as Mr.
Jordan are unable to suggest a
remedy or see with any satisfac-
tion what the end will be. He
makes a candid confession in this
regard. At the same time the
advice he draws from tbe situa-
tion is timely and wise. If follow-
ed there wonld be a reaction.
There is the rob. How shall
people be led to adopt a coarse
that is manifestly best for them
so long as they have not the ca
pacity, even if they had the dispo-
sition_to see the wisdom of it ?
Mr. Jordan’s argament in behalf
of misguided humanity is strong
in pointing out the death-dealing
accompaniments of city life, the
overcrowded trades and pro-
fessions, the lack of skill of the
green countryman. It is impos-
sible for anything like a fair pro-
portion of men who flock to cities
for work to succeed. The labor
problem will have an end, says
Mr. JordaD, “ when the time shall
come that each workman can nse
his power to the best advantage.”
This means that certain men must
admit they are better fitted for
farm life than for the rough and
tumble competition in eities. Men
of the wisdom of Mr. Jordan can
only educate. In this sphere of
duty their labors should have the
support of the press and serious
statesmanship.
REMINISCENCES
' Difficulties
“ I was all run
not eat or sleep,
a tired feeling
ohills. I began
Removed.
down and could
I suffered with
and also had
taking Hood’s
Sarsaparilla, and when four bot-
tles had been used 1 was able
to sleep well and bad a good
appetite. I am mnch stronger
and am relieved of my former
difficulties.” Mrs. L. S. Rogers,
Dodd City, Texas.
Hood’s Pills care nausea, sick
headache, biliousness and all liver
ills, PriceJJo cents.
That are Interesting of Two
Noted Americans, John
W. Mackay and Joe
Blackburn.
More than two years ago John
W. Mackay told me that the next
great gold strike would be made
in Alaska. He said he was inclin-
ed to believe that it would sur-
pass anything in the line of rich
mineral deposits in the history of
the world. All he knew at the
time, he said, was based on stories
told him by men who, it has since
developed, got only bare glimpses
of the fringe of the auriferous
fields.
I met the great bonanza king at
the hospitable home of former
Senator Joe Blackburn at Ver-
sailles, Ky. The magnate and the
statesman are great friends. Mr.
Mackay had never been in the
bine grass region before. It was
in the spriDg of ’95. The grass
was “ knee high to a steer,” as
they 88y in Kentucky. The haw
trees were blossoming and freight-
ing the air with their perfume. The
widespreading oak and the haugh-
ty poplar threw grateful shade
over the white stretches of turn-
pikes that center at Versailles. In
the bine grass pastures the cattle
were round and sleek and fat.
Blooded mares of high degree
neighed to their frolicsome colts
in stable lots which are better
kept than most residence yards in
St. Louis. Proud stallions, whose
foals are worth a king’s ransom,
were being exercised by their
keepers. All of this was very
interesting to Mr. Mackay.
He had been all over the
globe, he said, but had never
seen a spot of it as fair and en-
chanting as the blue grass region
of Kentucky. He declared he
had torn himself away from busi-
ness in New York and had run
down to see his friend, Blackburn,
fora frolic. It was just at the
opening of the free silver cam-
paign, and the bonanzi king seem-
ed so engrossed in the outcome
of that fight that he could be in-
duced to talk but little of any
tiling else. He is the “best fel-
low with mllions that I ever
saw. But for a quick, nervous,
jerky movement a stranger would
not suspect him of being a man
of large affairs. He is dumpy
and square cat, and fierceness is
given to his appearance by the
pompadour cut of his iron gray
hair. He talks with the gHbness
that is surprising for one of so
many millions. Still when I saw
him bis whole soul and mind
seemed to be wrapped up in the
success of the silver cause. His
denunciations of the “ goldbngs ”
was about as vigorous and pict-
uresque as any I have ever heard.
“They are trying to degrade
silver,” he said, “ withont any
thought or reference to what this
country would have been today
if the silver dug out of the moun-
tains and the gulches of the West
were still there. The story of the
bonanza days has never been told.
Some day it will be, and then for
the first time the world will be
brought to an approximate realiz i-
tion of what an impetus was giv-
en to civilization by the unearths
iog of *he vast hoards of precious
minerals in Western America. It
has been less than fifty years
since 'he first rich strikes were
made, but in that time tbe earth
has undergone the most marvel-
ous development, and mankind
has been elevated to a higher
plane than daring any half dozen
centuries in the history of the
human race. .We mast not forget
that when gold was discovered in
Oaliforniaall the magnificent scope
of country between the Missis-
sippi River and the Pacific Ocean
was a wilderness. Chicago was
an insignificant little trading post,
St. Louis was a straggling village,
Denver or Qmaha or Kansas City
was not on the map, and San Fran-
cisco had only a few mud huts,
where now there are palaces.
“The full import of the wonder
and romance of the story never
was impressed' upon me until a
lode on a large scale we ran into
a law suit that threatened to top-
ple over our claims to the proper-
ty. Wre determine to hire the
best lawyers in the country to de-
fend our rights, and we chose
Benjamin, who then lived at New
Orleans, and Bushrod Johnson of
Baltimore. St. Joseph was then
the extreme outpost of Western
civilization. It was there that the
big caravans were fitted out for
the long and dahgerous trip across
mountain an 1 plain to the gold
and silver fields of the Pacific. It
fell to my lot to take charge of a
special escort for Benjamin and
Johnson from St. Joseph to Vir-
ginia City. We were several
weeks making the trip, aud I be-
came very well acquainted with
Benjamin, wh o was the much more
companionable and jolly of the
two. They won our suit, and had
to return home over the same
route and by the same means.
“I had not seen Benjamin again
until I met him in Paris. Thirty
years,filled with momentous events
had swept by, leaving gray hairs
in the head of each of u*, bat
takiDg none of the sunshine out
of the heart of either. Though
we met by chance, the recogni-
tion was immediate and mutual.
Benjamin kept me up nearly all
of the first night of our reunion
asking me questions about the
Western half of the United States.
Though he had read of the growth
of great cities in the path of the
old trail from St. Joseph to the
coast, yet he could not compre-
hend the ohauge. Nor did he
seem to be able to grasp the
meaning of palace cars gliding
along at 50 m lea an hour over a
territory that was a wild waste
and a wilderness when he knew
it. There was deep pathos in his
efforts to encompass the marvel-
ous.transformation. This odd ex-
perience with him, I say, is what
first impressed the fall signifi-
cance of the story on my mind.”
“ Were you ever in the African
diamond fields I ” Senator Black-
barn asked Mr. Mackay.
“ Yes,” he replied, in that short,
sententious way of his, “but I
don’t know much about them.
Diamonds ar^ things that are of
little practical good to the human
race, and I doi^Vbelieve in wast-
ing time on su b things.”
Mention of the African diamond
fields suggeste d a story to Sena-
tor ^Blackburn. “It illustrates,”
said he, “that there are wheels
within the wleels of legislation
which few people know about.”
“ That’s so,” said Mr. Mackay
with a wise nod. “I have been
around Washington and other
capitals^enongh to know that.”
’ “Well,” Senator Blackburn
went on to say, “ this that lam
abont to tell sounds a, little far-
fetched to the uninitiated, but to
the other kind tbe truth of it is
apparent.on its face. When the
Sherman purchasing act was re-
pealed by Cleveland with the ty-
rannical use of patronage the
friends of bimelallism everywhere
were discouraged. This discour-
agement was increased when the
London newspapers started a hot
campaign against international bi-
metallism. Mcreton Frewen, the
great English bimetall st, was then
in Washington conferring with the
friends of silver, I asked him
what was behiud the new cam-
paign against the doable standard
beiDg waged Uy the London press.
He said he had no means of get-
ting at that information, but he
thought he could modify the tone
of the thunderer, otherwise known
as the Times, if I would help him.
Of course I would. The Wilson
tariff bill was then before the sen-
ate. Frewen prepared a petition
asking for a prohibitive tar fT on
diamonds. He asked me to cir-
culate the petition among the sen-
ators for signatures. Of course I
fully appreciated that few sena-
tors would dare refuse to sign it.
'Diamonds are luxuries, yon know,
enjoyed mostly by the very rich. I
bad no trouble getting s;gnatures
until I struck Brice aud Gorman.
They are the keenest witted fel-
lows you ever saw, and immedi-
ately told me there was some
trick behind the petition. I pro-
tested my innocence of wilfull
to find in my morning p*
cablegram from London coj
ing liberal extracts from an
rial in the London Times, coi^
ing to join a movement for
national bimetallism under ce
circumstances. Not the fai
reference was made by the |
to proposedorpending legist
in the United States. It
dawned on me that Frewej
reached London and had cl
out his promise to us to
modification in the tom
Times.
“ In a few weeks he reti
Washington and told me thj
story. He had hurried to
with the diamond tariff
Instead of going to the
the Times or anj other n<
with it, he sought andnoh
audience with Roseb
was then prime minister,
the petition before i
confidently awaited
days afterwards the
ed its famous bimel
which infused new
friends of bimetallism everywhere.
Frewen explained to mo tha|
Rosebery was a son-in-law of tq
Itothseh:Ji!&; the Rothschilds, y
know, own nearly aU the diamo
mines in Africa; America is th
biggest and most profitable qj
ket, and a prohibitive tari^
diamonds in th:s country
the loss of millions to the Rd
chihls while it was in forct
consideration was what il
Premier Rosebery to send 1
editor of the London Time!
get him to change his paper’s]
regarding the double moni_
standard.”—[f. J. Dickinson,
St. Louis Republic.
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If G. C. G. fail to cure, druggists refund ml
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The only nils to take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
THE TEXAS & PACIFIC 1
•WI-K\|lsD4
number of years ago when I met
Judah P. Benjamin over in Paris.-J participation in the trick, and af-
ter some little parley they sigued
Benjamin, yon know, was Jeff
EUvis5 chief cabinet officer during
the days of the Confederacy. At
the close of hostilities he expatri-
ated himself and went to England.
There he soon became one of the
greatest lawyers in the world. Be-
fore the war he had high rank in
this country at the bar. When
FlJh O’Brien, Fair and I com-
tOL^Ivelop t
it. When I had procured the sig-
natures of a majority of the sen-
ate, pledging themselves to raise
the tariff on diamonds unless
there was a radical modification
in the tone of the English
towards bimetallism, I gav
paper to Frewen aud thoogtj
more aboul tl
Is Now Running Double Daily
Passenger Trains Between A
Dallas and Weatli^
erford,
and ^ the Weatherford Mfl
Wells and North Western-™
close connections at Weatherfol
with all trains both in aud out of
Weatherford; the trai
Weatherford over tbe
8:55 in the morning i
train and. runs only to Dallas,
reaching there at 11;59 a. m , re-
turning, leaves Dallas at 4
arriving at Weatberfo^
p. in. The W. M. W.
leaves Weatherford im
upon its arrival reaching Mia
Wells at 7:10 p. m , the mornin
tfain leaving Mineral Wells at ?:1
a. m. reaching Weatherford j
in time to connect with the T. &
P. train leaving there at 8:55,
giving those desirous of visiting
Fort Worth aud Dallas
hours in Dallas, and seven ho
in Fort Worth and a full day
Weatherford.
The through trains over
T. & P. ran as heretofore, leavi
Weatherford at 3:30 p. in; for Fc
Worth, Dallas, and all points e
and reaches Weatherford at 1©
m. from all points east. The
M. W. & N. W. makes name
connection with all through (fains?
W. 0. Forbess, G. F. A ,
Weatherford, Tex
Everybody Stty6 So.
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detfiil medical discovery of the age. pleas-
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and positively on kidneys, iiver and bowels,
cleansing the entire system, dispel colds,
care headache, fever, habitual constipation
aiul biliousness. Please buy and try n befi
of C. C. C. to-day; 10, 25, r.O een’s. Hold aai
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