The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 146, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 25, 1917 Page: 4 of 4
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TOT LAMPASAS DAILY LEADER
J. H, ABNEY HERBERT ABNEY
J. H. Abney& Son
Owners and Publishers
Entered at the Postofflce at Lampasas
March 7, 1904, as second-class maiL
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Payable in Advance
One week.......................... 16c
One Month......................... 40c
Three Months................................ $1.00
One Year._____________________$4.00
J. C. Matthews W. H. Browning
Matthews & Browning
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Lampasas, Texas
Office over Peoples National Bank
Will Practice in All Courts.
Palace Barber Shop
Everett & Berry, Proprietors;;
Sanitary Barber work]
and Baths1
We solicit your patronage
W. B. ABNEY
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Civil Practice Exclusively
Lampasas - - Texas
DIRECTORY
District Judge—P. M. Spann
District Attorney—M. M. White
District Clerk—C. G. Bierbower.
County Judge—J. Tom Higgins
County Attorney—W. H. Adkins
County Clerk—J. E. Morgan
Sheriff—A. R. Mace
Assessor—E. T. Jordan
Surveyor—W. H. Fountain
County Treasurer—G. W. Tinkle
RAILROAD SCHEDULE
SANTA FE
TRAINS ARRIVE............
From Temple going west 6:25 a. m.
From Temple going west 5:34 p. m.
FROM WEST
Going to Temple................10:18 a. m.
Going to Temple................10:24 p. m.
H. & T. C. Trains Leave
For Burnet and Llano...... 7:40 a. m.
For Burnet and Austin......12:50 p.m.
ARRIVE
From Austin and Bumet..l0:50 a. m.
From Llano and Burnet 4:00 p. m.
DIZZY JPELLS
Relieved After Taking Two Bottle!
Of Cardiff, Says Tennessee
Lady.
Whitwell, Tenn.—Mrs. G. P. Cart-
wright, of this place, writes: “About
four years ago the dizzy spells got so
had that when I would start to walk
I would just pretty near fall. I wasn’t
past doing my work, but was very
much run-down.
I told my husband I thought Cardui
would help me, as a lady who lived
next door to me had taken a great
deal, and told me to try It. This wa3
when we were living in Kentucky.
My husband got me a bottle and I
took it according to directions. It
helped me so much that he went hack
and got me another bottle. I got a
whole lot better and just quit taking
It. I got over the dizzy spells...I took
no other medicine at that time nor
since for this trouble. No, I’ve never
regretted taking Cardui.
I felt just fine when I finished the
second bottle.’’
Purely vegetable, mild and gentle
In its action, Cardui, the woman’s
tonic, may he the very medicine you
need. If you suffer from symptoms of
female troubles, give Cardui a trial.
All druggists. NC-129
President’s Coal Prices Too Low
Says Operators.
Fort Worth, Aug. 22.—Texas
coal operators attending the
sessions of the mine reference
board here say they can not op-
erate under the price fixed by
President Wilson. A delegation
will probably go to Washington
to confer regarding a revision
of the price in Texas fields,
where the operators say the
cost of production is greater
than elsewhere.
Nfecro Trooper Tells of Riot.
Houston, Aug. 24.—Of all the
reports of Thursday night’s
rioting by negro troops of the
Twenty-fourth infantry, the
first to be obtained from one of
the rioters was given the au-
thorities this afternoon in the
form of an affidavit by Leroy
Pinkett, a private in Company I
of the negro regiment. The af-
fidavit follows:
“Yesterday about 3 p. m. we
heard that Corporal, Baltimore
of our conmpany had been shot
by special police officers (white
officers who ride horses). All
the boys said: ‘Let’s go get the
man that shot Baltimore.’ It
was getting late then and we
stood retreat at 6 o’clock and
then I heard Sergeant Henry of
our company say: ‘Well, don’t
stand around like that, if you
are going to do anything, go
ahead and do it.”
“After that I saw some of the
boys slip over to Co. K and
I heard them say they had stol
en the ammunition. Then Cap-
tain Snow called the men on in
line. He asked what we were
doing and ordered a search
made for the ammunition anc
also ordered that our rifles be
taken up. Another Sergeant
(I forgot his name) took up our
rifles from our tent.
“In this same talk Captain
Snow told us that Baltimore
was not in the wrong, that the
policeman was in the wrong,
heard him say that.
“A big fellow in our company
then came running down the
company street hollering ‘get
your rifles, boys.’ We all made
a rush then for the supply camp
and got our rifles and we went
to a large ammunition box and
got our ammunition. Sergeant
Henry was the leader. Corpor-
al Wheatley, Corporal Brown,
Corporal Moore, Corporal Snod-
grass and Corporal Tillman and
about 100 privates were in the
crowd. I had my gun and am-
munition. We did some shoot-
ing as we left the camp. I shot
about five times. I did not know
a girl got shot. I did not see an
ambulance.
“We went down the shell road
that goes to the Fourth ward.
We met an automobile with
white man in it. They stopped
him and Sergeant Henry told
the white man to get out of his
car, but he did not get out and
all the soldiers that were in
front shot the man. I judge
that about fifty shots were fired
at him. I was toward the back
and did not fire any shots here.
“Then we marched on up the
road and as I passed the car I
heard the white man in the car
groan, but we did not stop.
Then we met some officers in a
car coming from the Fourth
ward and the sergeant made
them get out and leave the car.
We did not do any shooting
here. Then we met two men in
a buggy which looked like Mex-
icans, but we did not shoot
them. Then we got to the dirt
road and started to the grave-
yard on San Felipe street and
right at the grave yard they
started shooting? Sergeant
Henry was in front and he hol-
lered to everybody to lay down.
They all lay down but me and
two more fellows and we ran
down the side street. As we
ran I heard shooting that
sounded like all of them were
shooting together.
“I tried to get back to the
camp but was afraid and stayed
in the woods all night and was
arrested this morning after
j daylight when I tried to get
back to camp. I was arrested
at the bridge over the bayou.”
(Signed) “Leroy Pinkett.”
Witness, George Finley Em-
mons.
Ferguson Dishes Out Pardons
by the Wholesale.
Austin, Texas, Aug. 24.—
Governor Ferguson today while
the house was engaged in draw-
ing articles of impeachment
against him, was busily engag-
ed in his, office granting par-
dons. It is known that at least
nineteen pardons were granted
today and rumors have it that a
larger number than that were
issued out of the governor’s of-
fice today. Thirty-nine pardons
are said to have been granted
yesterday. Since June it is re-
ported that approximately four
hundred pardons have been
granted by the governor. As
fast as the pardons were grant-
ed yesterday and today they
were sent into the state depart-
ment, where proclamations
were drawn. They were then
returned to the governor for his
signature. All records for the
issuance of pardons with the ex-
ception of the customary
Christmas pardons, have been
broken within the past thirty-
six hours. It was said on good
authority here today that Mon-
roe McKelvey of Temple was
one of those pardoned as named
above. His brother, A. T. Mc-
Kelvey of Temple, received the
pardon here shortly after noon
Thursday, it was stated, and
left immediately for Huntsville
with it. They are expected to
arrive in Temple tomorrow
morning.
Monroe McKelvey, tried for
the murder of W. T. Howard, a
barber of Temple, who was shot
and killed on the evening of
Aug. 31, 1912 was sentenced to
ninety-nine years in the peni-
tentiary.
French Take Last Stronghold
of Germans at Yerdun.
Grand Headquarters of the
French Army, Aug. 24.—Hill
304, the last remaining import-
ant stronghold of the Germans
fronting Verdun, fell into
French hands at dawn today.
The French infantry, which hac
almost circled the hill in pre
vious attacks, charged the Ger-
man positions in a brilliant dash
and carried them by storm.
Not content with this splend-
id achievement, the French ad-
vanced a further 2,000 yards
and made possession of the hil
doubly secure. Hill 304, to
gether with Le Mort Homme,
commands all the ravines anc
approaches as far as Douau-
mont. The loss of these posi-
tions deprives the Germans of
all observatories from which
they could watch the French
movements.
Thirty-Five Negroes Jailed Are
Charged With Murder. ..
Houston, Texas, Aug. 24.-
Blanket charges of murder were
filed tonight by District Attor-
ney John Crooker against thirty
four negro soldiers of the Twen-
ty-fourth infantry, held in the
county jail as a result of the
troubles last night which ended
with the death of seventeen
persons, four of them city police
officers.
This was the first move infpr
cative of an attempt by the
state to retain custody of the
soldiers rather than turn them
over to the army for punish-
ment.
A scene probably unique in
the annals of the United States
army was enacted at Camp Lo-
gan during the afternoon when
the 600 soldiers of the battalion
of the Twenty-fourth negro in-
fantry were disarmed.
Flanked by a full battalion of
the Nineteenth Infantry un<jer
Colonel Millard F. Waltz, and
three companies of the coast ar-
tillery from Fort Crockett, the
negro soldiers were marched
four abreast to the parade
grounds, where their arms were
stacked. Army trucks then
loaded the rifles and ammuni-
tion and conveyed them to the
camp storehouse, where they
were placed under heavy guard.
Surrounded by his own men
with loaded rifles, Colonel Waltz
then addresed the negroes, tell-
ing them they would be requir-
ed to stay in camp and would be
protected from violence and at
the same time they would be
prevented from committing
further violence.
The order, it is said, will re-
main in effect until the negroes
are entrained to return to Co-
lumbus, N. M., which action is
expected at any hour.
Negro Preacher Waylaid.
A negro preacher by the
name of Mitchell, who has been
conducting an Apostolic meet-
ing, was shot through the hand
at about 8 o’clock last night
While on his way to church.
The shooting occurred o
South Tenth street. Mitchel
told officers Jim Ham and Lo
Means, who were on the seen
soon after the shots were fired,
that as he and his wife were on
their way to church another ne-
gro who was crouching by the
side of the street called out “Is
dat you Brudder Mitchell?” and
that when he answered that it
was the shooting began. Five
shots were fired, he said, only
one striking him.
No arrest had been made last
night, but the officers thought
they knew who did the shoot-
ing and that they were on his
track.—Temple Telegram.
^If You Have a
Printing Want
WE WANT TO KNOW
WHAT IT IS
Putting out good printing
ia our bualn*M,-and when
we say good printing we
don’t mean fair, but the
beat obtainable. If you
ara “from Missouri’’ give
ua a trial and we will
t Show You
Remember IT!
-That *r«ry added sub-
scriber kelps to Bake this
paper better far everybody
You Should Spend Your
Dollars for Printing
In Lampasas.
When you spend a dollar for printing
in Lampasas 66 2-3 of this dollar
stays in Lampasas and approximate-
ly 33 1-3 goes to the paper supply
houses for stock.
When you spend a dollar out of Lam-
pasas for your printing, the whole
dollar is gone, never to return.
Which is the right for you to do, Mr.
Lampasas Business Man? Spend
your dollars in Lampasas for your
printing and have 66 2-3 of it stay
here and revert back to you finally
through its regular channels of com-
merce, or spend it out of your own
town, where you or no one else in
Lampasas will derive benefit of it?
Supposing the business firms in
Lampasas would do their banking
in Dallas, St. Louis, or elsewhere in-
stead of Lampasas—how long do
you think it would be before you
would see the sign, “Closed Until
Further Notice” on their doors?
If the citizens of Lampasas purchas-
ed their merchandise from other
cities, Lampasas merchants would
soon have “For Rent” signs on their
doors.
There are hundreds of dollars spent
out of Lampasas for printing every
year that should by all means be giv-
en to our own printing establish-
ments, all things being equal.
We hope that every business man in
Lampasas will read this message
and after doing so stop and think
and say to yourself, “Am I having
my printing done outside of Lam-
pasas? ’ If the answer is “Yes, I
have done so,” then make a resolve
now, tpday, tfot pp ypqjr jof*
you will give our home printers a
chance,
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