La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 5, 1914 Page: 7 of 8
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Watrrmrlon and James, two
trump*, bantering each other regarding
their personal appearance, decide to
personal appearance, -----
dean up. aoqulre new clothes and let
their companion. Mike, be the Judge
•a to who Is the better looking, water-
melon goes to a barber shop, wins the
oontents of the cash register from the
barber by a dev „ ____
■have. He discovers a young man _bath-
egla
ever trick and gets
■nave. Me discovers a young man bacn-
Ing In a lake and steals his clothe*. While
sitting in an automobile be discovered
standing empty by the roadside. General
Ooaaman and his daughter, Henrietta,
■drive up In a car. Assuming that his car
la disabled, the general proffers assist-
ance- Watermelon hands him a card
bearing the name William Hargrave
Batchelor. The general recognises the
name as that of a young man who broke
the cotton corner In Wall street a few
days before. He invites him to dine with
them. Watermelon Is Introduced to Bart-
lett. a big Wall street operator, and his
daughter. Billy, with whom he proceeds
to mil In love. Bartlett, who has been
■tong by Batchelor’s operations, plans to
keep the supposed broker with him for
a week while he works a coup In the
market. He wires Instructions to his
broker. While chatting with Billy, the
telegraph boy tips off Bartlett’s message
to Watermelon. Watermelon decides to
Join Bartlett and the general In a week’s
•uto trip. Watermelon slips away and
tells his hobo companions of his adven-
ture and asks them to find Batchelor and
give him the tramp clothea The party
■tarts out with Bartlett’s and Crossman’s
cars. Late at night they come to a de-
serted house, break In and eat their lunch.
They spend the night In the house. In
the morning Watermelon discovers that
the police are coming. The party attempts
to escape, but Is stopped by the officers
who are hunting for Batchelor’s car.
CHAPTER XI le—Continued.
The Watermelon leaned back wear-
ily Indifferent and drew out bis cigar-
ette papers. Alphonse cllmfeBd obe-
diently from the car, with his usual
Imperturbability. Calml^ and willing-
ly he scaled the stone wall and set off
across the field with his captor. Tom
thoughtfully examined his gun, one
eye on the motor-cars.
The general’s desire to explain was
superseded by a still greater desire to
get away. The grim faces of the two
men Impressed him with the gravity
of the event. If they were to escape,
now was the time, when the forces of
the enemy were divided, but there was
his car. He could not leave that be-
hind and the man in the road was a
fairly good reason for him to remain
where he was and make no attempt to
reach It. Batchelor had put up a clever
bluff, but It had been called, and they
had to sit there until the return of the
other man, when they would be ex-
posed, for of course the key wouldn’t
fit. That second man was a stubborn
brute. The Lord had made mules. He
didn’t intend men to be.
Henrietta repressed a wild wish to
scream aloud. Never, never again
would she go into another man’s
house unless expressly asked to do so
by the owner. She glanced behind, up
the hill, ^toward the house. Alphonse
anfl his captor had just come Into sight
again and were returning through the
field. Henrietta breathed heavily. This
was awful. When the two reached the
stone wall, she hoped she would faint.
She knew she wouldn’t,. she never
fainted. She turned around that she
might not see them. Nothing could be
done, apparently, but simply wait for
the hand of the law to fall upon them.
She looked at Billy. Billy was frozen
dumb. This was the end.
The Watermelon turned carelessly
and spoke to Henrietta. “That was a
pretty bird up there. Did you see It?"
“Yes," said Henrietta automatically,
though she had seen no bird. She
heard the two men now right behind
the car and she sank back limply.
"Well?" queried the Watermelon.
“By gum,” admitted the man with
th* key. “It fits.”
CHAPTER XIII.
Only to Be Lost.
Bartlett grinned and removed his
bat to wipe his brow. The general
strove not to show a guilty surprise,
Billy giggled and Henrietta began to
live again.
The Watermelon held out his hand.
“My key, please. Kindly remove that
piece of artillery from the road and
we will go on.”
The man. covered with perspiration
and embarrassment, handed back the
key. “When the Browns come back,
shall we tell them you called?”
“Certainly," said the general pomp-
ously, and In the exuberance of the re-
action, he drew a half dollar from hla
pocket and banded It to the fellow.
"Kindly give that to Dick,” said he
with the benevolence of a grandfather.
Billy waved to the crestfallen two
and Henrietta gave them a gracious,
forgiving bow.
"Never again,” said she, "shall I do
wrong. The possibilities of discovery
are too nerve-racking.”
"Father used to say—” began the
Watermelon.
"Ill bet your mother didn’t talk
orach,” laughed Bartlett •
But the general had passed through
aa unhappy half hour and bad no
heart for jesting.
"If you knew the Browns, Mr. Batch-
elor," said he, "It was your duty to
have told us so.”
^Yes," said Henrietta. “I have aged
ten years, and at my time of life that
Is tragedy."
"And why," asked Billy, "If yon had
the key, didn’t we go In by the front
idoor last night?"
The Watermelon stared from om so-
lew..
cuslng face to the other in frank sur-
prise. Even Mike with his fat wits
would have grasped the situation. "1
didn’t know them," he protested.
"When I can go In by a door, I don’t
choose the window."
“But the key,” objected Billy.
"Dick and Lizzie,” added Henrietta.
"Their very ages,” climaxed the gen-
eraL
"It was only a bluff," said the Wa-
termelon wearily. “I remembered
their names and ages from bookB I
had seen around the room last night
and on the dredger, sort of birthday
presents and things, you know. I nev-
er saw one of them.”
The general roared and loved the
boy. Henrietta leaned forward and pat-
ted him on the shoulder. "Wonderful,
wonderful. Holmes!" said she.
"Did you take the key on purpose?”
asked Billy, all athrlll with admiration.
The Watermelon flushed. He had
taken the key If by any chance he
should ever be In that neighborhood
again, and the family away, he could
spend the night In a comfortable bed
Instead of under a hayrick. Besides
keys always came in handy. He didn’t
look at Billy. He laughed and changed
his seat to ’the one between the two
girls. r
"When I locked the front door, I
slipped the key out without thinking, I
suppose," said he "Besides, keys are
handy. When you are stony broke,
you can rattle them and make the oth-
er fellow think maybe they’re the
mon.”
"Now for breakfast," cried the gen-
eral gaily, never long forgetful of his
meals.
“Tell me," begged Henrietta, "what
would father say?"
"Grace," said the Watermelon.
The general, as he informed Henri-
This Was Awful.
etta at the first roadhouse they came
to and at which they stopped for
breakfast, was full of the old Nlok.
He felt that there might be no limit to
his daring, he might go as far as to
rob an apple orchard and make no
attempt to repay the owner, that was.
If the apples were ripe. Henrietta’s
own spirits were rising. One never
realized what liberty was until one
threw aside conventionality—not hon-
or, but conventionality, the silly, fool-
ish laws of senseless ages. Billy as
usual laughed at every remark, while
the general, the tramp and the finan-
cier grew fairly brilliant beneath the
spur of two pretty women’s laughing
eyes.'
The Watermelon, In his silk socks,
his soft panama and fine linen, was
too much in the habit of taking fate
as he found It, without wonder or pro-
test, to marvel now at his change of
fortune or to be disturbed or embar-
rassed at the unexpected society in
which he found himself. Between him
and Bartlett was only the difference
of a few millions, both lived by their
wits, and If one preferred to walk
while the other rode. It was merely a
matter of choice—no sign of Inferior-
ity between man and man.
They stopped that evening at a
small town In the north of Vermont,
as far from a railway and telegraph
office as Bartlett could bring them. He
had watched .Batchelor carefully for
signs of restlessness, but the young
man appeared absorbed in the pres-
ent, with no thought for anything but
the moment and Billy and Henrietta,
After supper, they loitered a while
on the porch. The night was dark
and warm. Across the road and over
the fields, the frogs In a distant pond
were croaking, and the air was thick
with fireflies.
"Isn’t It dark and still," said Billy,
her hands thrust Into the pockets of
her linen coat, her feet slightly parted,
as a box would stand, her small head
thrown pack. 1
The Watermelon watched her covert-
ly from the cigarette he was rolling,
the clear oval of her dainty profile,
her slender throat and well-shaped
head with Its coronet of braids.
"Dark aa mtaery," said Henrietta
dreamily.
"In the day. ona aees a world,"
Quoted Bartlett, standing beside her.
where she leaned, a slender figure,
against the post of the porch. “In the
flight one sees a universe," and he
waved his lighted cigar vaguely to-
ward the myriads of Btars above
them. >
"What good does that dot” asked the
Watermelon, “seeing a universe? U’a
miles away and can’t help you any."
♦"You have no beauty in your soul,"
declared Henrietta. "I think the idea
la beautiful, seeing a universe."
"When you are down and out, you
don’t take any pleasure In looking at a
universe," said the Watermelon. "A
dollar, or even a quarter, will look a
darned sight more beautiful."
"I wouldn’t like to be pool1." said
Billy. “It must be so terrible to have
no mot^r-car, for one thing.”
“It Is,” agreed the Watermelon, who
would have agreed to anything Billy
said. "It’s simply awful."
"What did you mind most," asked
Billy, "when you were a newsboy?”
“Let’s go look at the universe,” sug-
gested the Watermelon hastily. “We
can see it much better down the road
a bit”
Billy consented, and they strolled
away In the dark. The general, who
thought he was talking politics, was
laying down the law to the hotel clerk,
and Henrietta and Bartlett were left
alone. They lingered a moment on
the porch and then quietly disappeared
up the road in the opposite direction
from that taken by Billy and the Wa-
termelon.
Bartlett’s desire was to reach Maine
as soon as possible and get lost over
Saturday, but to avoid every city and
larger town on the way and to hurry
by the smaller places where there
might be telegraph or telephone con-
nections.
“Out of touch or the world for a
week,’’ he was fond of repeating, “no
letters, no papers, no worries and no
nerves."
And hlB desire was the Watermel-
on’s. The more they avoided towns,
the better the youth liked it Tele-
graph and telephone stations were
zealously shunned. He would have
liked to have Been a {taper, so as to
judge what the police thought in the
case of'the theft of the wealthy young
stock-broker’s car, provided Batchelor
had allowed the thing to become pub-
lic, which he very much doubted,
from the little he knew of the man’s
character. It was hardly an episode
one would care po see In print If one
was dignified and self-made. And the
Watermelon chuckled.
It took them longer than Bartlett
hoped, sticking to narrow, unused
country roads, and the next night
found them still in Vermont They
spent the night at the village board-
ing house, and once again Billy and
the Watermelon went down the road
a bit to look at the universe, and Hen-
rietta and Bartlett went up the roa<j.
The following day, to Bartlett’s sat-
isfaction, they got lost. It was late in
the afternoon when they stopped at
Milford, a small town In New Hamp-
shire, and made Inquiries about the
next town. Was it far and would the
accommodations be good? It wasn’t
far, the farmer whom they questioned,
assured them, only five miles. He di-
rected them how to go and they
thanked him and pushed on.
They went on and on and nightfall
found them In a lonely bit of wooded
road apparently miles from any town
or habitation. Bartlett was pleased.
They were lost, and by great good
luck thpy might remain lost for a con-
siderable length of time. The gen-
eral, too, was delighted. They would
make a night of It .The lunch basket
had been filled earlier in the da^ at
a country store, so there would be
enough to eat The seats of the autos
were soft and one could sleep In the
cars or on the ground, as one pre-
ferred.. It w&b warm and the rugs
and shawls would be covering enough.] “A P°»cenl“ •ouU’" Heari~
Tliov ro n Ihn naca /vnt tVin baa/) Am ^ BOiv JT.
They ran the cars out of the road to
a convenient clearing. Henrietta got
out the basket, shawls were spread
on the ground In the light of the two
cars and they prepared to make the
best of things.
“This is like old times.” declared
the general genially; “a night on the
march, far out on the prairies, not a
thing In sight, not a sound but a
coyote or the cry of a wolf.”
"And Indians,” said Henrietta, “hid-
ing back of the nearest hillock, creep-
ing up on you unawares.”
Billy glanced behind her at the
woods and wished they had chopen a
more open place to dine.
“Yes,” agreed the general cheerful-
ly, “or down In some southern swamp,
with the Johnny Rebs stealing through
the bushes.”
“Oh, please,” begged Billy. “What’a
the use of telling about things emp
lng up on you?"
And she glanced again at the bit
of wood she could see In the light of
the lamps. Far In the west the moon
was sinking and here and there a star
twinkled between the rolling clouds.
A thunder-head was now and then re-
vealed distinctly by flashes of distant
lightning, and thunder rumbled omi-
nously In the sultry night A, whip-
poorwill called steadily and once
bat on graceful wing flew by in the
eery light t
The general laughed. "That was Be-
ing in those days, Billy,” he said. "A
man was a man and not an office a»
tpmaton, a dlmea saving bank."
CHAPTER XIV.
Billy, Billy, Everywhere.
Bartlett nodded. He had been watch-
ing Henrietta through half-lazy, balf-
closed lids, leaning against a fallen
log. Somehow out there In the cool-
ness and sweetness of the BUinmer
night. In the open country, with only
the drumming of the Insects and the
shrill clamor of frogs to break the
silence, nothing seemed to matter, to
be worth struggling for. He felt that
he hardly cared what was happening
In his absence, back there In the hot,
crowded, dirty city. A few more mil-
lions added to the useless many he
already owned, what did It matter?
What amount could buy the night, the
peace and sweetness and content?
"You’re right. General,” said he.
watching the play on Henrietta’s thin,
white hands In the lamplight, as she
and Billy arranged the evening meal.
"A man s not a man in the city—
nothing but a dirty, money-grubbing
proposition. Dollars and cents, dol-
lars and cents, the only reason of hla
being."
“I know,” agreed Henrietta, nodding
"I sometimes wonder why it was so
arranged—the world, you know. Why
couldn’t love, courage, honor have
been made the medium of exchange,
the roost vital necessity of life? Ev-
ery one has to have money, so every
one has to struggle for It Why
couldn’t things have been started dif-
ferently?"
"Potatoes, two kisses a peck." sug-
gested the Watermelon.
"Three.” said Bartlett, “If the pur-
chaser is young and pretty. A smile
would be enough. If she were old and
wrinkled and unwed."
"A motorcar would probably neces-
sitate a wedding," said the general.
"No, no, no," protested Henrietta.
"How silly! You don’t understand me
at all."
"I would hate to be a clerk at a
bargain sale,” said the Watermelon,
pilfering a cracker from the box Billy
held.
"Yes," agreed Bartlett, "think of the
microbes—"
‘‘Microbes?’’ asked Billy who had
not been following the conversation.
“Where?"
"In kisses, Billy," said the general
"I should think you would have found
It out by this time. Everybody you
kiss—’’
"I never kiss anybody,” protested
Billy, blushing delightfully,
"Father used to say—” began the
Watermelon.
“Look here," interrupted Bartlett,
"that father of yours was a minister,
you say. I vow he could know nothing
about this subject.”
"He married more people than you
have,” said the Watermelon.
‘‘Yes,’’ said Henrietta kindly, "he
must have known all about it Do tell
us what he said."
"He used to say that k'lsslng was
Just the reverse of poker—’’
"Poker,” cried Bartlett "No won-
der your father left the ministry."
“It says In the papers that your
father was a policeman," declared the
general.
"Surely," persisted the general, “If
your father were a minister—”
The Watermelon looked up from the
key of the sardine tin he was labori-
ously turning and glanced gently at
the general, his woman’s eyes amused
and pitying, the expression they al-
ways wore for the general.
"Why, you see that Is Just what I
always fancied. He used to preach
and have a church—but if the papers
say be was a cop, be probably was.”
“It’s a wise child that knows his
own father,” said Henrietta. “Come
to supper everybody.”
Supper over, the general conceived
the sudden Inspiration of tinkering a
while with the cars. Alphonse stood
by to assist and the others wandered
off down the road before turning In
for the night.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
AGENT QUICK TO SEE POINT |,n8cr|Dt,on on hl» coifcr. it was en-
_ graved with four different addresses.
DIG SKIPS COLLIDE; 50 PERISH IfREE FROM THE CATTLE TICK
LINER NANTUCKET RAMS THE
MONROE, WHICH SINKS.
Th« Sleeping Victims Have Ne Chanoe
to Eecape—Only Three Boata
Were Launched.
Norfolk, Va.—The atory of how for-
ty-one souls went down to death In
the chill waters of the Atlantio when
the liner Nantucket rammed and sank
the steamer Monroe early Friday was
brought to port by ninety-nine surviv-
ors of the sunken ship’s passengers
rescued and brought to shore by the
Nantucket. It was a story of awful
and sudden death, sweeping out of the
dark and fog and taking unawares the
doomed half hundred with the baavi-
ffeas of sloop still upon them.
It told how the stricken Monroe with
her elde gored deep by the knifelike
steel prow of the Nantucket filled
rapidly, rolled over on her elde and In
a few minutes turned completely over
and plunged to the bottom, carrying
with her the Ill-fated passengers and
members of the crew who had failed
to got clear of the wreck. Only three
boats were launched.
List of tho Dead.
Passengers: Mrs. W. L. Bolton,
Newark. N. J.; First Lieutenant Le-
grand B. Curtis, Second Coast Artil-
lery, Watervliet Arsenal, New York,
died after rescue; Mrs. D. Gibson, New
(York; J. Haskell, Cortl&ndt, N. Y.;
W. H. Ingram, Sumter, 8. C.J M. R.
Jolleff, Macaria Theatrical Company;
Mrs. Thomas R. Harrington, Bridge-
port, Conn., died on steamer Nan-
tucket; Mr. Lewie, Macaria Theatrical
Company; J. Okakamato, Japanese;
Mrs. C. W. Poole and child of Gray,
Sussex County, Va.; J. P. Ray, New
York; Charles M. Jelliffo, Baltimore;
J. Edward, U. 8. N.; A. A. Wagner,
U. 8. Marine Corps, Steerage pas-
sengers: J. Gilbert; M. Bolen, New
York; 0. Roper, New York; L Wilson,
New York; unknown Italian.
Craw: Boatswain N. N. Nelson,
Quartermaster Guiles, Bow Lookout
A. Soydln, Deck Watchman, T. Juvicta,
Saloon Watchman U Ward, First
Wireless Operator Ferdinand J.
Kuehn, Third Assistant Engineer
Braxton Haskins, Mrs. Gouroey, white
stewardess; Patsle Wallace, colored
stewardess; L W. White, seoond cook;
Joe Bradrolf, third oook; P. Davie,
head waiter; J Delk, waiter; J. Mar-
tin, waiter; A. Praddey, waiter; D.
Proverbs, waiter; W. A. Gardner,
waiter. \
Among the nnaocounted for of the
crew also are several deckhands and
coal passers who have not yet been
checked up by the company.
Lost; Passengers, 11; _crew, 20.
Total, 41.
Saved: Passengers, 88; crew, 6L
Total, 09.
PALESTINE IS M ANOTHER JUDGMENT
L A G. N. Offices, Shop* and Round-
house Must Be Maintained In
Palestine Forever.
Beaumont, Tex.—The International
& Great Northern Railway Company
Is “required to keep and maintain Its
general offices, machine shops and
roundhouse at the city of Palestine
forever,” according to the terms of a
judgment entered Tuesday by Judge
A, E. Davis of the first Judicial dis-
trict after he had overruled a motion
by counsel for the railroad for a
new trial of the case. Counsel for the
railroad gave notice of an appeal,
Judge Davis fixing the appeal bond
at $10,000.
The Judgment entered was in ao-
cord with the verdict of a Jury at
Ruek, where the case was tried dar-
ing the two weeks beginning Jan. 5.
The litigation was Instituted by the
people of Palestine and Anderson
County when the International 4k
Great Northern offices were removed
from Palestine to Houston in Septem-
ber, 1911, the removal of the shops
and roundhouse being prevented by
Injunction. An agreement between
John H. Reagan, representing the citi-
zens, by which Anderson County voted
bonds of $150,000 in aid of the Hous-
ton A Great Northern In considera-
tion of the establishment of the head-
quarters at Palestine, and a later
agreement by which buildings were
erected at Palestine for use as offices
of the road, were the basic principles
of the suit and upon which the Judg-
ment ordering the railroad to "keep
and maintain" its offices, shops and
roundhouse at Palestine forever was
rendered.
T-RRITORY IN EIGHT SOUTHERN
STATES FREE OF PEST.
On February 16 Over 17,000 Square
Miles of Territory to Be Released
From Quarantine.
Washington.—The territory In the
South freed from cattle ticks and re-
leased from quarantine has been in-
creased by 17.106 square miles by
an order leBued by the acting secre-
tary of agriculture, effective February
16, 1914, releasing additional portions
of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennes-
•ee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Oklahoma and Texas. This action
has been taken as a result of further
progress made in the extermination
of the ticka which spread splenetic
or Texas fever of cattle. The total
area released since the beginning of
tho work In 1906 now aggregates 215,-
908 xquare miles and amounts to
about 30 per cent of the territory In-
fected at the time the work was un-
dertaken.
Tennessee la the firat of the states
extensively infested by the ticks to
be entirely freed fron) this pest and
released from quarantine. In 1906
about one-half of this state was under
quarantine. The order just Issued re-
leasee a portion of Marlon county,
which was the last remaining part of
the state to be cleaned up and re-
leased. The success of the work in
Tennessee has been achieved through
hearty cooperation by state and coun-
ty officers and cattle owners with the
federal authorities. Several other
states have also made rapid progress
In getting rid of the ticks and now
have large free areas.
The portions of tho several states
to be released from quarantine on
February 16 under the order mention-
ed are as follows:
In Virginia: The county of Suasex
and the balance of the county of
Greensville.
In Georgia: Tho counties of Mor-
gan and Franklin.
In North Carolina: The counties of
Moore, Hoke, Scotland, Robeaon and
Now Hanover.
In Tennessee: Tho remainder of
Marion county.
In Alabama; Portions of the coun-
ties of Jackson and Sumter.
In Mlasisslppl; The counties of
Clay, Jasper, Smith, Scott and Le-
flore, the remainder of the counties of
Lowndee, Holmes, Madison, Attala,
Rankin, Noxubee, Chickasaw and por-
tions of the oountles of Claiborne,
Warren, Yazoo Sharkey, Bolivar,
Newton, Grenada, Leake, Monroe,
Jonea and Lafayette.
In Oklahoma,: The county of Cot-
ton and the remainder of the oountles
of Tillman, Grady, Craig and Ottawa,
and portions of the counties of Mo-
Claln, Osage and Delaware.
In Texas: The remainder of tho
counties of Foard, Knox, Haskell and
Mitchell, and portions of the countlea
of Throckmorton and Wilbarger.
Support Got for Burveye. V
Washington.—Arthur Stiles, drain-
age commissioner for Texas, who has
been in Washington for a week or
more in the Interest of state drainage
work, has enlisted the support of the
Texas delegation in congress in behalf
of obtaining more substantial allots
meats from the geological survey of
Taxa*
Poultry Ralsera Elect Offlooro.
Uvalde, Tex.—At a meeting of tho
Uvalde County Poultry and Pet Stock
Association held Friday the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: H. P. Hornby, president; G.
N. GIbbens, vice president; E. P.
Fisher, secretary and treasurer. The
time fixed for the next show was Dec.
10, 1L 12, 1914.
Dog’s Collar Revealed Character of
Tenanta and They Couldn’t Rent
the Flat.
References which appeared satisfac-
tory had been placed In the bands of
the renting agent, who was on the
point of declaring them unnecessary,
owing to the genteel appearance Of
the applicants for a flat, when sud-
denly he exclaimed:
"By the way. I’m sorry, but 1 don’t
believe 1 can lefc you have that flat,
after all. It’s been spoken for." *
When the possible tenants bad de-
parted indignantly, the agent said:
"Do you know what made me
change my mind so suddsnly? It was
thslr dog’s Collar. In lifting the lit-
tle fellow up to pot him 1 lead tho
all of which bad been put on since
last tax day. Three of tho addresses
had been scratched out and if they
had secured my flat another would
have been scratched out and a fifth
added by day after tomorrow. A dog's
collar marked like that shows that
his owners don’t stay In one place
long enough to get a new plate on hie
collar between moves, and 1 don’t
care to rent to transients.’’
His Little Mlttske.
"I wouldn't shave myself today,"
said she quietly. "Want to Insinuate
that I've been drinking, eh?" be storm-
ed. ' Not at all. But that Isn’t a cup
of lather you brought in from the
kitchen just now. - That’s a charlotte
runse.”—Washington Herald.
Mexican Federate Loss 400.
Brownsville, Tex.—Four hundred
federals were killed during the battle
of Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas,
early this week, or executed following
the battle, according to official de-
tails of the fight received in Mata-
moros Thursday. The greater portion
of the dead in actual fighting occur-
red when an overwhelming forcq of
'rebels ambuscaded federal reinforce-
ments en route from Saltillo.
Giants’ Texas Dates. /
New York.—Secretary Foster of tha
New York Nationals Saturday an-
nounced he bad added the following
training dates to the olub’s training
schedule: First team March 26 and
27, Galveston; second team March 26
and 27, Austin; March 28 and 29, Ban
Antonia
Corporations Will Be Fined.
Austin, Tex.—Every domestic or for-
eign corporation of the 12,000 doing
business In Texas that has failed to
file its report of Its financial condi-
tion, after next Saturday, will be fined
$10 per day, according to announce-
ment made Friday by Acting Secre-
tary of State D. A. Gregg.
$200,000 Lose by Broken Dam.
Greeley, Colo.—Damage estimated
at nearly $200,000 was done by the
breaking of the dam of, the Horae
Creek reservoir Friday. A flood of
water covered a str’ y of land ten miles
leng by three miles wide.
farmers Divide With Bufferam
Boerne, Tex.—A carload of a variety
of feed Is being got together this
week by the farmers In the vicinity of
Boerne for the benefit of the Texas
flood sufferers.
Rsbsls Adopt Frss 8'lvsr Monsy.
Chihuahua City—Currency Issued by
the Bank of Sonora, the Bank of Ml-
nero and other banks established un-
der the Diaz regime will be treated as
counterfeit money after Feb. 10 under
a decree issued by the rebel govern-
ment Sunday. The tree and unlimit-
ed coinage of silver will be offered as
a means of providing ample money.
New Chief Clerk la Appointed.
Austlq, Tex.—J. M. Melson of Sul-
phur Springs-will be the next chief
clerk of the general land office, suc-
ceeding James H. Walker, who ra-
ti red Saturday to - become <wmp*4gi»
manager for Sam Sparks.
Steamers In Collision at.8*a,
Norfolk, Va.—Information
Norfolk Friday that the steamers I
tucket and Monroe -
Hog Island, oq
the Monroe z~ak.
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