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NO. 38.
8TEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS, APRIL 19. 1900.
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to Colorado.
A FINE OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME ERATH
COUNTY YOUNG PERSON TO VISIT
THE SWITZERLAND OE AMERICA.
The Texas Colorado Chautauqua will be
Session at Boulder from July 1st to
Aug. 15. A Fine Opportunity for
Teachers. Some One Will Go,
Who Shall It Be ?
The Stephenville Empire has a oontraot with one of the leading
railroads running from Texas to Colorado, for a free round trip
from Fort Worth to Denver and return, good during the present
summer, which it proposes to give to the teacher or other Erath
oounty person, male or female, receiving the highest number of
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two yeara in advanoe.
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The Maine republicans endorse
McKinley.
Yellow fever is epidemic in
San Salvador.
Chioago will give Admiral
Dewey a reception on April 30.
General Otis reports affairs in
the Philippines quita satisfactory.
The senate bill taxing the Pu-
erto Ricans passed the house last
week.
The Santa Ke has now its own
rails from Chicago to San Fran-
oisoo
Sympathy for the Boers is in-
creasing throughout the United
"More money per capita, more
gold, more silver and a larger
total of money in circulation than
ever before’’ is the way the
treasury department sums up the
financial situation.
Forty-eight young women
graduated March 29 from the
woman’s law class of the univer-
sity of New York. The number
inoludpd the daughter of ox-
Speaker Thus. B. Heed.
Tho men of Kansas have tired
of women government of thoir
towns and have voted all
women out of municipal offio
Tneir experience confirms tho'
in the conviction that as a ruler
a woman becomes a fanatio or a
States.
The Montana state populist I lyrant- and have henoe deoided
covention instructed for Bryan 110 keeP hftr at home with tho 1,a’
April 10.
The Pennsylvania democrats
enthusiastically endorsid Bryan
for president.
North Carolina democrats in
state convention endorsed Bryan
for president.
Plans for the re-erection of the
convention hall at Kansas City
have been perfected.
Dewey ie much enoouraged by
assurances of support from all
parts of the country.
General Funston is threatened
with oourt martial for having two
Filipino prisoners shot.
Ex-congressman Towne of
Minnesota is prominent as the
running mate of Bryan.
Gen. Lee will become, May 1,
commander of the department of
Havana and Pinar del Rio.
Grover Cleveland delivered two
lectures last week on the “In-
dependence of the Executive.’’
The republicans are urging
Gov. Roosevelt to accept second
place on the ticket with McKin-
ley.
China and Japan merchants
have engaged this year’s entire
output of many southern cotton
mills.
There are 200 ootton mills and
three carpet factories in North
Carolina and all pay good divi-
dends.
The Uqited States suprsme
oourt deoided the Chicago anti-
cigarette ordinance to be consti-
tutional.
Oen. John Morgan as candi-
date for U. 8. senator from Ala-
bama made a olean sweep of the
state at the primaries last week.
The Queen’s visit tD Ireland
was marred by only one unpleas-
ant inoident. A orank fired one
shot at the Prinoe of Wales on
his return home.
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Judgr Aldredgr mi (hr Fiddle.
To an invitation to sit as one of
the judges of the Dallas oounty
Old Fiddlers contest. Judge
Geo. N. Aldredge replied as foN
lows:
Col. J. T. Trezevent, City
My Dear Sir—Your favor of yes-
terday just received. Your 00m-
mitteee has displayed rare judg-
ment in selecting me as one of
the judges in the Old Fiddlers
Carnival. In my Opinion, if no
other instrument of music exoept
the fiddle had ever been invented
the world would be better off to-
day. I am connoisseur in this
kind of musio. My very earliest
recollections are hallowed by it
I well remember it when in kilts
how my little soul floated in a
sea of bliss as my ears drank the
ravishing sounds that oame from
rosin and horse hair irritating the
‘ ‘inards’ ’ of the oat. The poets
tell us that the swan sings sweet-
est when dying, but thaoat ie the
only immortal singer, making
night melodious in life and en-
chanting millions after he is dead.
I am true to my first love. I am
the fast friend to the old fiddlers.
My taste runs altogether to mel-
ody and tune, and I have pro-
found aversion to the pyrotech-
nics and gymnastics of the grand
opera. I would gladly take the
word of all of these people as to
the strange, wierd and exoru-
oiating notes they oould produce
and excuse the performance. I
would lump a ten rail fenoe to get
away from Paderewski, but I
would walk a mile in the rain to
hear “Old Folke at Home”
“Cotton Eyed Joe’’ or “Mollis
Put the Kettle On, “ by an old
time fiddler.
You eay the ladies will be there
to sea that “justioe is done
though the heaven* fall. ’ ’ My
friend, if the ladios are there the
heavens oan’t fall tnuoh. The
heavens wil! be right there.
I accept the appointment with
pleasure. Yours truly,
Gxo. Pi. AhPttKDOK,
—Deeds at the Empire offioe.
A Chilton olub was organized
in Dallas last Saturday night.
Rev. Abe Mulkey is conduct-
ing a ten days meeting^, Gates-
ville.
Opie Head, of the Arkansaw
Traveler, is on a lecture tour in
Texas.
The reoent floods did great
damage along every stream in
Texas.
The Texas Grain Dealers will
meet in Fort Worth May 16
and 10.
The railroad commission de-
clined to raise the railroad rates
on Hgnite.
The contract has been let for
building the ootton faotory at
Coreioana.
The Coryell oounty populist
primaries are called for Satur-
day, April 21st.
The late floo ’ in the Brazos
valley is nearly as had as was
the one last June.
Texas has 73 officers holding
commissions in the regular army
and 17 in the navy.
Waco’s now mayor, J. W.
Higgins, has appointed an en-
tirely new police force.
Over 100000 acres in Jefferson,
Chambers and Liberty counties
were put in rioo this season,
The News boasts that Gran-
bury and Hood oounty now have
a first class telephone system
The populists of Hunt oounty
opposed fusion, but elected dele-
gates to the national fusion con-
vention .
Gen John B. Gordon is de-
livering his great lecture on the
“Last DUZys of ttie Confeder-
acy. ’ ’ in Texas.
Homcrvell oounty primaries
will be held April 28. The vote
will be for all officers, oounty,
district and state.
The time for the payment of
the corporation franchise tax to
tile State expires May 1st. 80
far this tax amounts to $60,000.
The South Texas Hay Associ-
ation met at Alvin last week.
The reports showed grass in good
condition and the hay business
profitable.
The populist county conven-
tion of Palo Pinto last week put
out a full tioket and elected un-
instruoted delegates to the state
convention.
Press reports from New York
and other northern money cen-
ters state that capitalists are now
looking to Texas as the hest field
for investment.
Agonts continue to buy Texas
horses for the British Army.
The last order is for 36,000 head
of American horses. The prices
paid are $40 to $00.
The International and Great
Northern railroad is to he ex-
tended from Marlin to Ft. Worth,
and Cleburne is working to get
it to pass that way.
Since tho completion of its big
auditorium Waoo has become a
convention center and has no
fears as to its taking oare of the
ooming democratic state conven-
tion.
Judge Abram Hamlet Fields,
a veteran lawyer of Dallas and
for twenty-one years Texas at-
torney for the Union Telegraph
company, died at his home
April 10.
Auditor Askew of the railroad
commission reports that thero
are about 360 miles of railroad
actually under construction and
750 miles projected to be built
this year in Texas.
Owing to a reoount by the pri-
mary board and the throwing out
of thirty-four republican votes
oast for Dewey Langford, Hon.
C. JN. Cotton was proclaimed
the democratic nominee for
oounty Ju ’ge of Hamilton oounty
by two majority.
The state treasury is full of
money now. The vaults oont&in
$3,600,000 in cash, of whioh $1,-
600,000 is to the oredit of general
revenue; the balanoe la nearly
all sonool fund. There is also
about $8,000,000 in bonda to the
oredit of the eohool fund.
At the olose of iast Saturday’s
primaries the following counties
had expressed their ohoioe for
United State* senator as folows;
For Bailey: Montague, Wise,
Shackleford, Washington, Hill,
Hunt, Porter and Baatrop; For
Chilton: Nueoea, Upshur, Van
Zandt and Camp.
Press Endorsements of
Hon. W. J. Oxford.
A Pew of the Many Complimentary /Mentions Hade
of Mr. Oxford’s Candidacy for District Judge,
by the Newspapers of the District.
FKO.U K It A I'll COl.VIY I’A I* £ ItS.
Wo hear many Kindly expres-
sions nowadays of the candidacy
of W. J. Oxford for tho position
of distriot judge. If Bill does as
well away from homo as the in-
dications are ho will do in his
home oounty, then all opposition
may as well hunt a very tall tree
anil perch in tho toemost
branohos.—Stephenville Empire
Deo., 1899.
Hon, W, J. Oxford returned
Wednesday from a trip through
Hamilton, Coryell and Somervell
counties, where he had been in
the interest of his candidacy for
Judge of the 29th Judicial Dis-
trict, for whioh offioe it is gener-
ally known he is an aspirant.
Mr. Oxford is highly gratified at
the outlook at the present tunc.
That he is well-qualified to fill
this important position iH admit-
ted by all who know him. His
unusual ability as a lawyer and
his long experience with the most
complicated and intricate matters
pertaining to the law peculiarly
fit Mr Oxford for this office.
Besides, he is a young man, full
of energy and enterprise and is
noted wherever he is known for
absolute honesty and integrity.
And in proof of this can be cited
the fact that he has received the
unsolicited endorsement of the
business men of Stephenville.
Truly the judicial ermine could
not bn tendered a more compe-
tent and worthy man.—Tribune,
Jan. 20, 1900.
Hon. W. J. Oxford of this city
has announced himself as n can-
didate for the office of District
Judge. Probably no man in the
distriot is better fitted for tho re-
sponsible position. Mr. Oxford
was born and reared here in
Erath county. Ho is personally
known to almost ovory one in the
oounty and his legal opinion is
considered authority by all. Ho
has spent fourteen yours in un-
remitting legal study and has
served as county attorney three
terms, being elected each time
by an increased majority. He is
known throughout the district as
one of tho ablest attorneys in
this section of the state and is
well-qualified to proside in any
oourt. Mr. Oxford is not yet
past middle age and has the
physical ability to fulfill the ardu-
ous labors devolving upon the
judge in this, the hardest judi-
cial distriot in Texas. He is
fully indorsed by tho business
men of this city and tho Erath
oounty bar. His many friends
throughout the distriot, while
already confident of his victory,
are making an enthusiastic fight
in hie behalf. He has beon a
staunch democrat throughout his
public life, and to his party work
much of their sucoessin this sec-
tion at the last eleotion was due.
The democrats realize this to
such an extent that he will have
practically no opposition in the
demooratio primaries. At the
general election he will not only
hold the entire vote of the demo-
cratic party but men who have
learned to lay aside political dif-
ferences and vote for true worth
and ability will give him their
hearty support.—Erath Appeal
The above ollppfhg from our
8tephenville contemporary bui
expresses the conviction of hun-
dreds of voters in this judicial
district who know Mr. Oxford
personally, andesp eoially those
whose acquaintance with him has
been the longest and most inti-
mate. Whatever may be said of
Mr. Oxford’* political oonvio-
tions there oan be no question as
to hie personal fitness for the po-
sition to which he aspires, both
as to his qualifications and his
sterling integrity and his Judg-
ment of law.—Dublin Progress,
Feb. 16, 1900.
The Tribune has heretofore
epoken of the fitness of Mr. Ox-
ford for the position of Distriot
Judge, but oonoerning a man so
pre-eminently prepared for the
many duties of this position too
Erath oounty the 29th judioisl
distriot Mr. Oxford’s oandidaoy
would be certain beyond the
question of a doubt. For here
ne is intimately known by every
oitizen of tho county, and hie
abilities are recognized and re-
speoted. He is pushing the cam-
paign everywhere in the distriot
and men of all parties who ad-
mire pure worth, ability and
high oompelenoy are rallying to
his support. —Stephenville Trib-
une.
Hon. W. J, Oxford returned
this afternoon from the oourt. of
appeals where he wont to argue
a oase. Upon his return he
found 40 or 50 letters from all
ports of the distriot assuring him
of tlie most hearty support of the
democrats in various seotions ot
the country in his race for Dis-
triot Judge. He is receiving the
most flattering encouragement.
—Stephenville Empire, Feb. 15,
KMX),
HtOM OVKIt I MF Ills IKK 1.
w. J. Oxford of Erath oounty
is mentioned bv the press of that
county as suitable limber for
District Judge. Mr. Oxford is
an onergetio campaigner and a
lawyer of fine ability and if he
gets into the race it is going
to take a scorcher to head him
off.—Gatesvillo Messenger, Jan-
uary, 1900.
Mr. Oxford has many friends
in Coryell oounty who would he
glad to have the opportunity of
testifying their friendship for
him, and should he dooide to
make the race would have a
strong following.G a t o s v i 11 e
Star.
Judge W. J. Oxford was in the
city for a short time last week,
* * * We believe ho will make
tho race all right for the office of
District Judge. This oounty will
certainly endorse him.—Mineral
Wells Health Hnsort, April 12,
l(XX).
Hon. W..I. Oxford of Stephen -
villo is a candidate for District
Judge for this dintnot. Mr. Ox-
ford is a good citizen and judg-
ing by tho endorsement he re-
ceived at his home is popular in
his oounty where he is, of oourse,
best known. Above all things
that may be said in his interest
for this high and responsible po-
sition, he is a ripe, sound law-
yer, possessing naturally a ju-
dicial mind, strengthened by
several years of active and ex-
tensive practice.—Home Rustler,
Hamilton, Feb. 20, 1900.
son
It is a
tunity f
to visit
ful sect!'
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Hie Independent r«fl
the Hon. W. J. OxfordD
• ffice of District Judge, 1
do all it oan through Its 1
to get his name before th<
>f this judicial district
cure his nomination and^
to fill a plaos for whioh h
to be so eminently fitted
■ral Wells Indepead^jfl
Mr. Oxford is re
known in this oounl
Star predicts a very
lowing for him in oldf
ounty. At the pro
know of no man the
of for (his plaonrwho
better judge for thif
than Bill Oxford. ''He is,
lawyer, is firm, and
liberal views.—‘Palo
Too announcement
Oxford of Stepenville fori
fioe of District Judge j
this issue of the Ney
ford is a prominent
ttie Erath bar and is
tioularly well qualifie
offioe. it will be reme
tli it ho was tho demooratio
inoe for District Attorney
years ago and conducted a olt
and honorable campaign. He
has tho highest endorsement of
both tho business men and the
bar of his county.—Strawn Coal J
Mining Nows.
_ Vii
We are glad to note that the
counties of Coryell, Hood and
Erath are strictly in line for W.
.1. Oxford for District Judge of
'ho 29th Judioial District, and
the Resort takes the liberty to
place the name of Palo Pinto
Mr. Oxford is already well known
to most of our readers. He is
not only a lawyer of distinguish-
ed ability, but a demoorat of
uncompromising loyalty. To his
fine executive management is
largely due the oredit for the
democratic victory over populism
in Er ith oounty two years ago.
We take pleasure in oommending
him to the democrats over the
oounty and district.—Granbury
Demoorat, Feb. 21, 1900.
W. J. Oxford of Blephonvillo
authorizes us to place his name
in our announcement column as
a candidate for District Judge.
Some time ago we published a
very flattering endorsement of
Mr. Oxford from the people of
Stephenville whioh showed the
high esteem in whioh he is held
at home. We know him to be a
splendid gentleman, a good law-
yer and a demoorat that never
tires of giving a reason for the
faith that is in him. Many of the
voters of Coryell oounty know
him and he has a strong follow-
ing In tills oounty.—Oatssvllle
Star.
in the same line, feeling that in
doing so she will bo iri good com-
pany, and with her sister coun-
ties do her whole duty to help
elect the honorable gentleman to
the office which he is so well
qualified lo fill.—Mineral Wells
Resort.
lion. W.J. Oxford of Stephen-
ville places his announcement
for Distriot Judge in thin issue of
the Hustler. “Will’’ Oxford was
horn and raised in Texas tintLJ*--
a typical southern hoy. His
early years were spent amid
frontier scenes, well calculated
lo toughen arid equip a boy for
tho rugged ways of life. When
quite a young man his ambition
lead him to adopt tho law as his
profession. In a short time after
his admission to the liar he was
elected county attorney of Erath
oounty and filled the offioe so
acceptably that he succeeded
himself twice, voluntarily resign-
ing at the oxpirntion of his third
term. In 1804 ho was nominated
by the democratic party for diBf ‘
triot attorney, but, like nearly ”
all demooratio nominees in this
section of Texas, at that, time,
was defeated by J. T. Daniel,
who received tho support of the
combined opposition. During
his oandidaoy for that olHoe he
pujti
made a canvass for the whole
democratic tioket, whioh for vig-
or and ability, ie rarely equaled
and never exoelled. And this
samo canvass will secure for him
the nomination this yea^ and the
consequent election in Novem-
ber. Mr. Oxford is fortunate in
possessing that rare combination
of sound judgment in the law
and periuasivo advocacy in prao~
tice, which characterize compar-
atively few of the profession. As
a judge ho will he prompt and
aocurato in his decisions and will
know neither plaintiff nor de-
fendant.—Hamilton Rustler.
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muoh cannot b# said. Wsrs ing
Hon. W.J. Oxford, inaooord-
anoe with appointment, spoke at
the college Saturday night. The RoCky'
Those fortunate enough to hear says that
him were not only pleased, but eh
simply delighted with hia address.
Hardly any one doubts that
Oxford will carry 8tra *"
big majoi
Mr. Oxford is one of the lead
ing lawyers of Texas, his ability
being roeognizod in every oourt
house he ever entered. He has
his bar and home people behind
him, and is making the race as
a loyal demoorat, and if he is
oleotod District Judge everybody
no matter how humble in the
walks of life, will have a fair
and impartial hearing in his
oourt. He was reared in this
oountry and has made himself
what he is by hia determined
energy to sucoeed as a lawyer.
He asks a consideration of hia
claims strictly on his merits
Mineral Wells Independent.
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