The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 21, 1909 Page: 3 of 12
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H Kwil Days On Hta Broth-
er's R^Mh Nnr •an<
i Antonio, Oct. 18.—President
aomptoted tho first lag of bia
1,600-mlle tour through Tmi when
n Motion
iflc pas-
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"" CKy Sunday •r«otBf. Mr. Taft will
‘ proossd to fcto brother's ranch on tbo
>rnl days, and then leure
by Way of Houstda and'
’wktto* train, tfrtvdd la the
gpr
under a penalty not to ex-
oeed nm. Bat when It «oot#t to re-
juirlng the payment of taxes the .law
reaches only those concern* of that
class which are iu towu^Of over 10,
OOO inhabitants. - ■
Plene for Texas Cotton Factory.
Austin: The Penitentiary Commix
•loners, at their regular meeting here
Wednesday, decided to begfn the work
of establishing a cotton factory tat ac-
cordance with the provision of the law
of the Thirty-First Legislature appro-
priating |jpo,000 for fuche parpose
JL.
*ri,
Corn For Msxlco.
if th bhfer to replenish the
y***tdd aapply of corn m the Repub- fj'
;Bo Of Mexico, the; duty on that cereal L,
the com belt of Northern Mexico, j
arson ere reported to have been com-
pitted On the farm of Bud Kli-tpat-
Htk, near the town of Chilton, fa the
itBe
-----------fol-
»ker hy unprecedented' floods,
the grnwlBf crops sad (he sup-
of corn in storage have been re-
, dnded to such an extent as to e*tafl
l^^c^ual *on (faring. Owing to the scarcity
"&$* price*
had consequent high
.f-CHfrs
^Htfat ''das’gotten Horn (he hold Of a
watnr4bg«ed sehebosr. 10 (he tale told
by the survivors pf tha schooner Kate
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!• REPORTED.
HEAVIEST SINCE LAST JUNE
A w
: i1
The Oust Nuisance In the Cities end
Town Is Banished Farmers
4 hewing- Wheat,
M yet undecided
it at Rusk
ot>u roiR * a»i ii
jarafe:
dad Whether to e
Atnarmo,
nia
approxi-
or at Huntsville.
at.thla
__„y. being
ether to establish
western part at Palls County, Tues-
day night. A hern was burned la
bleb a young negro by the name of,
w
•. p«u^t
ie flames
Five Crepe In One Year.
Dtfatur: % vBL Florid* of the
ooqununity Is ronotog e
r harvest from a little plot . ^
alfalfa planted^ Eldorado, Ark.;
4 lur: .
ssrsa,
—eighteen .Acfee-of
last season. H«
time* thiai year
maturing.
Ill sad f
i DruaqlsHg.^»nvsntion for Dallas.
.. Dellas: Dellas is to entertain the
National Association of 'Wholesale
Druggists hext year. The levitation of
DaTlea / vs accepted In the convention
this wehk at Richmond. Ve.
several hundred of the
uvd Jobbers Mfll be In
abouJrthe' tin^e ef the 8tate
Pair next year.
ANHgiintw U
Defies / vs
In ce^A t
It ti
He has cut tbs crop .five
Sad lien another crop
* It la readily bringing him
929 per ton.
Ode Dead; Ten tfurt.
Austin: One than Tea killed, ten
perabne wore Injured and the train
wa* visually consumed by fire when
the Houston and Texas Central pas-
11%;. am *“■
morning rah into a
burning bridge One mile beyond Mc-
Neill. about an hour after Ita de-
parture from this station.
For Inter-coastal Canal.
"S Brownsville: At s meeting here
Monday to discuss the deep water
question, Capt John C. Oakes spoke
very favorably of Bra son de Santiago
Pass as a deep water port, and said he
would recommend to Congress an In-
tercoastal canal from the pass to the
Rio Grande, a distance of about nine
miles. t
Fire Loss For 1909. *
Austin: The Are loss ratio In Tex-
as for 1909 win be the largest In sev-
eral years, In fact Is a record-breaker,
probably due to the Fort Worth flrse
last April, though there have been
other conflagrations in different cities
*of the StateT but not near to large.
Dellas and Houston have bad several
large losses, besides other ptaepe.
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Cold Wavo Strikes.
Dalles: From reports received Mon-
v Cay night from various points in the
Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma, a
cold wave Is advancing over the Soutb-
afary. Portion* of the Pan-
Th.
In the cities and town*, an
coon try j#** wstpr Ip
sad breaking of lands
Wheat sowing has been
Good rains liave 1
Oklahoma state and national banks of
29 per cent in loss than e yeer.
Two little children, eged I and I
wars, of H. Boren,. Hying la W Paso.
Wke playing with mat.-be. Sunday
when the Areas of the younger became
,l|Pttted and the child was fatally bora-
The bedy of an unknown white men
wee found floating la White Oak Bayou
above the Katy passenger station Sun-
day afternoon In Houston. Apparently
the body had been la the water about
ten days.
After a night of cold north wind
part of Oklahoma was visited by a
light sieetstorm about 5 o clock "Tues-
day morning. The fen. however, wee
so light that no practical damage waa
done.
.Two men were killed end three se-
riously Injured on the Fort Rfley mil-
itary reservation ./unction City, Kens.,
Monday, by the^ex plosion of a 4%-lnck
""lOSMttr
BOTH FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
If N Was of Sufficient
J* > Yen Will Find It
' - BfiNkr
Imports nee
nuuamy, we eiploslon or e 4ft-!nch
artllleiy teste
Mw under way.
Ceod rains have fallen at Ft. Worth, A revolution has broken out In 8a
Brownwood. Abilene, Sea .ARgelo. Bel The insurgents MraMy
torn Childress, Gqm*m:he end pother backed Dejabon, a town near the I
one to
over, the State,
two Inches.
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ranging
EXPLOSION
Fnrt ef
KILLS SEVEN.
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>Janf Wreoked by
Monday.; ' -
Seven employes
A revolution has broken out in Bento
at-
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from Uan frontier, but were repulsed by the
"Government troops.
I Th* Department of CofDtqeree and
Labor report the mpryeJoEs.rv^b d
exports , from the United State* from
9194,000,000 la 1899 to 9410.009.090 la
1009. ^—
The city of Terrell is offering free
to clti-
agttatloa
Ity of Terrell la offerl
for'aide wdlk puftx>«ea
here his beta'rfuch a
were killed add three other persons
were severely lnjurf-d^When ■ a ^boiler
at the plant of,the jpnffln sawmill
Company, near Eldorado.. exploded JfM®*
Monday. The steam register. It la W^J** . ,
declared, failed to indicate the over- “roouraged In his search for health
pressure, the explosion, which could
cinders f<
mas.
oa the question of sidewalk, building,
is resulting in many aew atta-
in the Cry dllmste of the Southwest,
General
be heard for several miles, following, Amistant Postmaster
Lawson announced .
gton that be Intended to rw
wrecking e large section of the plane aIlDOunc*<1 “n division la
Fourteen Chinamen Deperted.
Dallas: Fourteen Chinamen charg-
ed with being unlawfully la this
country were arraigned Monday morn-
ing before United States Commis-
sioner May and following an examin-
ing trial were ordered deported. Tbs
Celestials were recently picked up
here by police officers while trying
to smuggle themselves Into the city
from the west
Old Citizen Killed.
Corpus Chrlstl: -Ramon Monel lias,
an aged Mexican andean old citizen
of the city, was run down and killed^
Saturday night by an automobile
driven by lta owner, L. V. Mallett. It
’ seems the man became frightened
and began dodging back and forth un-
til caught by the machine before the
driver could stop.
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Aped Switchman Gets $40,000.
San Antonio: Bees usd be worked
~Serlotft Trouble In Spain.
Madrid: Large crowds of work-
ingmen met la anti-government meet-
ings at Bilbao and Corunna Monday.
Violent speeches were made. Troops
are being held in readiness to check
possible disorders. The Imparcial an-
sign.
The first snow of th* season reached
New York early Thursday. It waa
only a brief (furry and the (lakes melt-
ed as boon as thev leaded. The tem-
perature Is only e few degrees ebovs
freezing.
The crimes’ of murder end arson era
reported to have been committed on
the farm of Bud Kirkpatrick, near the
town of Chilton, In Fells County, Tues-
day night.. A barn was burned In
which e young negro by the name of
McGill wee sleeping and he perished
in the flames.
Rear Admiral Milligan, who, with
Admiral. Clark, shared the credit for
the safe, quick passage of the United
States bsttlssblp Oregon from the Pa-
cific Ocean In time for engaging In
increased U-94 per cent In September
over the some month lest year.
- Oklahoma’s cold wave continues and
a drop from 71 to 46 degrees In the
thermometer has elicited many calls
(or aid from'the poodr.
By flie accidental discharge at a tar-
get rifle at noon Sunday, Paul Pickard.
7 years’ old, of Decatur, wee kitted.
The ba*f penetrated the brain.
Mayor T. Z. Newberry, while enter-
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JtlAOLM
aing to
HoJra1
building*, * ^
Cottou has been selling at 12-i^c
Ennis, the highest flgnre reached hi
si any timn thi? tm,'-
R. P. Wallace, a Katy
wan killed While doi _
The revenues of tke Dellas pTotoflloe day at Rraiteebaro. Ha was,
out am
Wednesday and waa
trip.
Dallas County leads the State In tho
amount of taxable raluso with 9102/
Harris Co
•F
with
County n
known person.
The Sixty-first annual session of tbs
Baptist General convention of Texas
will convene in the meeting Bouse of
the First Baptist church. Dallas, on
Thursday, November 11, 1909.
The election Tues^py lakFt .Wprtk
lor a munlc
for geiddhU Improvement
ofthe bonds by a vote
962,199. Ranis County Is second
9191,097,19$. giving DaBas Couu
lead Of $1,492,026.
The contract for the hnlMlng of th#
Tyler Gen GompnnjrA brick building*
has been let and, work will commence
u soda vks the material can bq gotten
on the gronnd.
Information was received in Denison
Thoredky "that D. H. Blgby, formerly
an engineer on the -Katy
Ison, had been killed la
125 miles from Vancouver, w
Dulls* Js to entertain the
Asaocia
next year.
M
i Mrs. Mary IlatTlmen, wld
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dow of Ed-
ward H. Harrlman, Is the wealthiest
women !h the wbftd. The eitflie left
thl?wraklat
Dulles Cot
that Is |
at Richmond, Va.
County’s total
for . state end county
e year 1910 fa 9102.811,(
t Is whet will be shown
that wUl >e forwarded
by the railroad magnate la valued at
date.
It Is announced that the committee
having In charge the recent balloon
rice for the Gordon Bennett trophy
£ tsrz
at Zurich, 8witsv has. definitely award-
ed the trophy to Edgar W. Mix, the
American competitor, who landed in
Ruaslan-PoLand.
A. Holland Forbes And- Max Flelsch-
mann, who left St. Louis In a balloon
Tuesday morning, arrived at Rich
mond, Va., Wednesday night, having
landed in Chest-rfleld County, near
this city, earlier in the evening. They
claim to have broken the record.
G. T. Clayton, a farmer of Seotte-
nesday night at (he auction of
flour
ttdTMiniig com
pany’s **w flouring mill.
W. T. Jones, a Super, waa hsM w
by^lwo Saowa^SS J,gt inside th*
city limits of Kaufman ThursQhy, mala
tar good their enenpe with $120- Sev-
eral shou were fired by offieers, but
tn no avail.
Adrien H. ToHne, president of thd
Missouri, Kansas end Texas Railway
Company. Is to resign noon, probably
this week, end be succeeded by A. A*
Allen, the vice president and general
manager.
A surveying corps sent out by J. Y.
Watkins left Corsicana Friday tor
Dallas for the purpose, It la said, oi
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vllle, Tex., is exhibiting In Shreveport surveying Che Corsicana, Danas end
place of those that have been sent to
Morocco.
Losses From Pension Roll.
Washthgton: Death’s invasion of
the fiaSt thinning ranks of war veter-
ans caused 48,212 names to be drop-
ped from the pension rolls of th*
United 8tates last year. Of this num-
handle reported temperature around 40
degrees and In some instances less. .
for the Pennsylvania Road backjfl the berr«,38rwere survivors of the Civil
rixtiea, whed Andrew Carnegie was war. The total loss to the pension
roll from all causes was 51,581.
superintendent, James Fagan, an aged
switchman of this city, Sunday Is rich-
ratal Oklahoma Wmtk. *«£*?£* aJ^aaSS^.^
MuBkoRi*,-:- Bngtaeer A. P. Van^®*"’ ,or <U*‘«»uUoo am°o«
of Fayetteville,’ Ark., was crushed be-
neath his engine and instantly killed
and Fireman Henry Smith of Monett,
Mo., sustained a broken shoulder, but
will recover, as the result of a wreck
ou the, Frisco three miles east ef
Tahlequah, Ok., Saturday night.
employes.
Goat that Gave Taft Pants.
San Antonio:* Admiral Togo, a goat,
will be a guest In San Antonio during
the time the President is a visitor. It
was off Togo’s back that the wool was
Crushers to Go to Little Rock.
Dallas: Texans who returned Thurs-
day from a New Orleans meet-
ing of the executive committee of the
Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers’ As-
sociation announce that the annual
meeting for the association will be at
Little Rock on May U. 12 and 13.
-Oil Pipe Line to Gulf.
Little Rock: T. J. Gay of the Gay
Oil Company announced here Monday
that he will on Wednesday go before
Gov. Donaghey and ask him to ap-
point a commission to co-operate with
the Oklahoma Commission in the
movement to -build an oll^ pipe line
through to the Gulf from Oklahoma.
Campaign for Good Roads.
Denison: A meeting of the good
roads committee of the Board of Trade
taken which was made Into the famous wag Tuesday and plans for a
Double Tragedy.
Mineral Point, Wls.: F. E. Hans-
com, cashier of ibe wrecked FTrail Na- rR|Bed in Kaufman County to erect
Santiago, Is dead at Annapolis.
The first day of the Dalhart Trans-
Canadian Fair opened Wednesday with
the heaviest attendance In its history
of six years and an excellent line of
exhibits. ^ Fully 3,000 persons attend
from abroad. "N 1
Using six charges of nitroglycerin,
a gang of robbers forced their way
Into the vault of the First National
Bank-in Lewisville, Texas, at an early
hour Monday morning and secured
500 In money.
A dispatch received In Coloh by
wireless from Bjuefleld*, Nicaragua,
says Gea. Chemirlo. a rebel leader,
marched on Greytown and attacked
and defeated the Government probps,
nineteen being killed.
Three persons known to have been
killed, others Injured and missing and
several towns and villages demolished,
is the toll taken by a storm of cyclonic
proportions which swept through
Western Tennesseh early Thureday.-
There has been.* fund of $1,200
a sheaf of tobaoeo he raised on hie
farm this year. ,On two-fifths of an
acre he harvested 600 pounds, which
he reports he can dispose of on the
local market at 20c a~ pound.
8. Guy, of McAlester, Okla., a Rock
Island locomotive engineer, Friday In-
stituted salt for $40,000 damages^
against the Rock Island company, al-
leging that the railroad’s nurse gavs
him a poisonous drug by mistake,
while confined In the hospital. He
says the drug ruined his health. r
The Nebraska bank guaranty law
enacted by the last Legislature Is in-
valid, so the Federal court decides.
Judges Vandeventer and Munger, at
Lincoln, handed down a decision Satu^
.day affirming the decision of the lower
court or making permanent the tern-
Palestlne.lntcrurban line from Oak
niiff to Corsicana.
Plans have been proposed, and an
organisation effected, for the const mo-
tion of an alfalfa meal mill in- the
Toy ah Valley, south of Pecos. Th*
company organised with a capital of
$50,000 and proposed to erect a build-
ing $0x100 feet. « v
A meeting of the food roads conn
anittee of the Board of Trade of Dens
Ison was held Tuesday and plans to*
s campaign In favor of a good
bond issue for a district including
Ison waa mapped out.
By the 19th of Ja
talnly not Inter
Abilene high sdh
occupancy. The
Spanish type and wl
ft
pair of pants which was presented to
President Taft at the time of his In
auguratlon. . ,
Baptist Sanitarium Opened.
Dallas: Ready for the regular work
of caring for medical cases and equip-
ped with what is declared to he the
most complete ofleratfhg quarters In
the South or Southwest, the Texas
Baptist Memorial Sanitarium was open
to inspection Wednesday for the first
time.
Cotton In Ennis at 13.15c.
Ennis: Cotton has - been selling
here at 13.16c,- the highest figure brick church building. Work will
reached here at any time this year.
Small Grain in Ellis.
Waxahachle: ft has been a number
of years Since any attempt was made
by tbe farmers of Ellis, Gbunty to raise
small grain on jan'extensive scale, )>ut
campaign In favor of a good roada
bond Issue for a district Including Den-
ison was mapped out. '
Confederate Monument Fund.
Terrell: There has b^-n a fund of
$1,200 raised in Kaufmah County to
erect a Confederate monument, which
assures the accomplishment of the un-
dertaking, which has been under the
auspices of the Confederate veterans
and other friends of the “Lost Cause."
Pflmbyterfgne t* Eufltf.
Quanah: The Southern Presbyte-
rian Church here will erect a $6,000
commence shortly.
Farmer Robbed of $120,
Kaufman: ■ W.-T. Jones, a fartner,
was held up by two unknown men just
Inside the city limits Thursday, mak-
ing good their escape with ^120. Sev-
the short rota and cotton crop this efaT shots we*s fired by officers, but to
year has Induced them to give the cul- BO avail,
tl vat Ion of cereals another trial. >..... ......
tloaal Bank of Mineral Pointy shot
and killed himself Monday. When
Hanscom’s body was removed to the
home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. John
Gray, she dropped dead. '
Katy Kills Two tyem
i Smith vllle: The bodies of Engineer
E. B. Crawford and Fireman Thomas
Stuttsman, who were killed In the
Katy wreck at Halstead, twenty-five
mllds below here, Sunday morning,
were brought here Monday.
Order tn Town Lot Casee.
Ardmore, Ok.: By^ order of
Confederate, monument, which assures
the aceomplishment of th* undertak-
ing, which has been under the auspices
of tbe Confederate veterans and other
friends of the “Lost Gauss.”
The first frost of the season was no-
ticed at Brownwood Monday morning,
hut was not of sufficient amount to do
any damage to crops or gardens. The
thermometer registered 34 degrees.
Fifty men are at work blocking out
ere at the mines of the B1 Paso smel-
ter company's tin mines in the Frank-
lin Mountains, twenty miles north ef
El Paso.
TJbrary-Injunction granted by the Pie-4 9*3*7
trict Court, preventing the law from
going Into operation.
Reports from the Isolated districts
ef Nuevo Leon and Tamaullpas, Mex-
ico. show that a great deal of destitu-
tion still exists throughout these dis-
tricts, and the suffering has been made
more acute by the sudden cold wave
which has prevailed tn Northern Mex-
ico during the greater part of last
week.
Pittsburg won th* world’* champion-
ship baseball at Bennett Park Satur-
day by defeating Detroit by the over-
whelming score of 8 to 0 in the seventh
and decisive game of one of the great-
est battles ever fougnt for tbe world’s
title. This gives the National League
champions the victory by the count of
four games to three. —-I
* The Texas State Fair opened Its
gates Saturday to a large and en-
thusiastic crowd. The exhibits are
all in places and larger and better
than ever before. Fine weather for
opening day and the aUaplciour open-
ing augurs well for the best Fair and
attendance yet had.
News reached MlamJ hjPWedna*
■ay afternoon of the 1%king of the
tugs Sybil and Sadie at Bahama Honda
during Monday's hurricane, and th*<
mk ■
and
members of tbe
including Capt
Bishop Alpheus W Wilson.
Methodist Episcopal i;..
of the
.th, is
the 'Four wece^fetlled; several others in- LU agdla-at Ala home. lU-^-iUmor«u
Conrt; the defendants hi the Muskogee jured, four fine race horse* burned to
town lot cases were Monday given
twenty^ days In which to file and pre-
sent their bill of exceptions to the
rulings of the Court
;
’ Jury 8ays Must Hang.
Houston: After remaining out thir-
ty minutes the Jury In the K. C. Jones
murder case brought In s werdlct of
guilty Thursday with death as the
v Storm Damage Near Tyjsf.
Tyler: The heavy rain and’wind of
Friday night did considerable dam-
age In the southwestern part of Smith
County. It Is learned tbfit many trees
werev uprooted and several houses
blown from their foundations. <
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Three Negroes Ar# Killed.
Beaumont: Three negroes are dead
as a result of a head-on collision be-
tween n han<V?ar carrying seven ae-
groes and in eastbound freight trail!
on the Beaumont, Sour l,ake and
'Western Railroad Sunday.
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Dallas County In Lead,
itln: Dallas County lssds the
\ In the amount of taxable values
$102,662,150. Harris County Is
second with $101,067,121, giving Dal-
las County a lead of $1,402,02$.
Oil Found Nsd Clarksville, f
Clarksville: People In from Capt.
Wright's oil well at Red River City,
report a strike of oil this week. Tbe
well ie down ten or twelve .hundred
feet and a few days ago While the drill
was at work,' black oil began flowing
from the well.
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Dallas P. O. Revenue Grows.
Washington: Th* revenues of th*
Dallas poatoffic increased 17.94 pes
per oeat in September over the samt
month last josr. i __ _____ >
for-the Southern Jurisdiction of tha
United States assembled here Monday.
death and several other Worses hurt In
s wreck on the Katy near Kingston,
Texas, shortly before 4 o’clock Tues-
day morning.
------------- The heavy rain and wind of Friday
Madons Meet In Washington. night did considerable damage in the
Washington: Attended by Masons southwestern part of Smith County,
of the highest standing In all America, It U learned that many trees were
the biennial meetiog.of the council of uprooted and several houses blown
the JjQOttlsh Rite of Free Masonry from their foundations.
Benjamin S. Eaton, father of the
Southwest Irrigation project, whose
plans created hundreds of millions of
wealth, Is dead In Ix>s Ang«lee.~T r
City Tax Assessor L. W. P. Dooley
of Hillsboro has completed his tax
rolls for 1909, which shows a total as-
sessed valuation of property amount-
ing to $3,104,590.
As a result of the hurricane which
struck the. southern coast of Florida
Monday morning. Key West Is a mass
of wreckage, the damage to properly
is estimated at $2,000,000, and martial
law was proclaimed by the maror.
A careful search has failed to reveal
aay will left by Clyde Fitcb, tbe play-
wright who died recently In France.
His property is estimated at $1,000,000.
Francisco Ferrer, who was cos riot-
ed of promoting the reoent Barcelona
rebellion, was shot Wednesday morn-
ing la Moatjuich prison la easeuttea
of th# death seateac* imposed ape*
aim.
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Four Men Burned to Death.
Wichita, Kens.: Four men were
burned to death and one man fatolly
burned lp a feed yard fire here Mon-
day. Thirty horses were burned to
deatK
Oklahoma Drainage Canal.
Oklahoma City: The contract for a
drainage canal thirteen miles - la
length along Deep Fork, la Oklahoma
and Lincoln Counties, by which $.000
seres of land will be reclaimed, waa
Monday let for $76,000.
Killed in Railroad Shape.
Corpus Chrlstl. * Ray Robinson, a
17-year-old boy employed in Bt. Lout*
Brownsville .anfi Mexico shope her*
was caught by the clothing and pull'd
Into tbe main shaft and Instantly Wil-
ed Monday.
He developed tonsilltis in about ten
days ago, which, with his asthma,
from which he has been a aufTerer for
some time, renders bin condition so
rlous.
Th# Government began at Wewoka,
Okla., Monday, to pay the Seminole In-
diana a per capita of $20 on an amount
aggregating $60,000. This Is the reg-
ular annuity payment. .
The total number of persorfs injured
during the month of July. August and
September by Chicago street cars was
1,011, ssd the fatalities for the same
period forty-eeven. -—-u—*—
Two distinct earthquake shocks
were felt at Dalton. Ga.. Friday morn-
ing, accompanied by a booming sound.
Houses ware shaken throughout the
town, but no damage Is reported.
Because he worked for the Pennsyl-
vania Road back in the sixtiee, when
Andrew Carnegie was superintendent,
James Fagan, of San Antonio, an-aged
switchman, la richer by $40 009. Mr.
Carnegie Set aside years ago a sum
for dltarlbutloa among employes.
Edwin Ginn, a well-known Boston
publisher, has made provision that
upon his death $1,009,000 shall. bo-
come available for tho oauso of uni
versa 1 peace. Moreover, Mr. Ginn will
contribute $10,009 annually to tbo
peace muse during ti* remainder of
hts life. Mr. Carnegie la likely to gtv*
a handsome sum to thin f*«4 also.
loss of the elev
crew of the 8ybil,
Packer.
This season’s record prices
paid at Latqposas for cotton on tho
street Thursday, the prices paid rum
nlng from 13c to 1514C, three bale*
selling at the latter price, and a num-
ber of bales selling at 13 %c and 14a.
San Angelo Is to issue bonds to the
amount of $15,000 for a fire station, f
The election carried in favor of th* '
bonds almost unanimously. It la very
likely that by the time the station Is
completed a paid fire department will
have been organised.
People In from Capt Wright’s oil
well at Red River City, near Clark*
vllle, report a strike of oil this week.
Tbe well is down ten or twelvo-hum
dred fee* and-.a few days ago, while
the drill was at work, black oil began
flowing from the well.
After remaining out thirty minute*
the Jury In the K. C. Jones murde*
case In Houston brought In a verdtat
of . guilty. Thursday with, dmth na th#
punishment
The Southern Presbyterian Church
at Quaaab will erect a $6,090 brlcB
church building. Work will commence
shortly. k
Pecos City, Spur and Lubbock wer*
Friday selected for experimental sta-
tions by the commission consisting of
Lieutenant Governor Davidson, Super-
intendent of Instruction Cousins. Ag-
ricultural Cominis] sonar
ar Marshalljpiui profess-
Mrs. 8. Lee per, wife of * prominent
farmer residing near Elgin, Okla., to
dead, and several members of the fam-
ily are seriously poisoned from th*
effects of a mistake in mixing a quan-
tity of' strychnine la a batch of'Jhto*
cults. The drug was In * h*ktwg pow-
der can.
R. E. FioridSjOfThe Greenwood com-
magity, near Deqgtur, iq reaping a
small money harvest from a little plot
—eighteen acres—of alfalfa planted
last season. He has cut the crap five
times this year and ha* another crap
maturing, it I* readily bringing him
$1$ and $20 per ton.
Ready for tbe regular work of car-
ing for medical cases and equipped
with what ia declared to be the moat
complete oporating ’quarters la tbe
lie Texas Baptist
m la Dallas waa
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Bowron, Frank H. The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 21, 1909, newspaper, October 21, 1909; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth854991/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Library of Graham.