The Alvin Sun. (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, January 23, 1903 Page: 3 of 4
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A GOOD HEALTHY APPETITE.
Very Interesting Prines
R. H. GR/FRIN,
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RECEIVE FULL INFOR-
to 1K84. | abuse a woman, and if any brute in
Don’t understand me as reflecting ■
upon the honesty and integrity of the '
| jury and judges w ho tried the case.
my hearing or presence abuses one, I
care not whether I ever saw or heard
' of her before, so she has about eight
I yards of calico wrapped around her.
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A I.V IN.
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Almost Irresistible...
ihenjkee^Rcmedy ofSWSCt GlIlH & MullCIH
lures Coughs, Colds, Whooping Cough, LaGrippe and
11 Throat and Lung Troubles. MADE of Pure SW EET
iUM, MULLEIN & HONEY, lour Druggist sells it 2£ & 5Oo
Thus stands the record of
and attempts at pardon up world has any right to curse and
avy advantage
Record In Hard Luck.
X Texas man's cotton was eaten by
tho boll weevil, and his corn destroyed
by the drouth. His only daughter
eh ped with a vagabond, and his son
followed the circut. On top of this his
wife gave birth to triplets. He com-
mitted suicide by the rope and rafter
route, and the ccroner very properly
returned a verdict of justifiable homi-
cic e.—Halletsville Heralc.
j Fr >in tiie Houston Chronicle.
1 ichmond. Texas, Jan. 12.—In your rjght here that when Governor <). M.
STORY OF THE
pnill A n n P AQC ' them are dead now. I knew ,
vUwlHllLJ UHOEb« I,nost °f the Jul*y the judges, right then and there I’ll teach bin
i They were good men, but they made *..........
-------- | a mistake, as many other good men j
have done. •
And it would be well to remember I
was made, and after his discharge
Major Goree, thinking ’hat Coward
would be released and Johnson
a Tested, kept track of him till he
(bedin the Arkansas penitentiary.
1 have not seen Dick Coward since
h ) was a little child. I first became
ii terested in his ease through my
now dead brother, who knew' him
when they were children, who asked
n e to got him out, his own language
being “Dick Coward might kill a
man in a fair, square, stand-up toe-
tl e-mark knock- the- chip- off-your
head fight of it, but would never take
* of him.” I was then
employed by J. A. McFadden of
Victoria to try and obtain his release
and lastly I was solicited by Gover-
ndrO. M. Roberts to aid him in the
matter, and for 17 years 1 have made
at annual pilgrimage ro the foot
stool of the governor, pleading that
D ck Coward might cat his Christ-
mas dinner at home, and now that
h< is at home, I want the people to
know the real facts, and as you have
pi blished a partial ard very one
sided statement. I ask that yon in
justice to Dick Coward, who now has
to begin life anew, in justice to O. M.
Roberts, in justice to my dead
brother, and to justice to myself,
you publish this.
And Dick Coward. 1 may never see
you again in this world, for in the
due course of nature, I can stay but
little longer here, but begin life anew
u d make as good a citizen as you
hnvej been patient and dutiful a
prisoner, and you will have fully
paid the dead and gone Roberts and
D.-.vidson and the living Davidson
to ■ all their efforts in your behalf.
W. L. Davidson.
“there’s life in the old man yet,” and
take the chances on what the law is.
The great Jehovah put woman here
for us to love, honor and protect, and
a man who would curse and abuse
them is not fit to live and ought nev-
er to have been born. Those are my
I sentiments.
After Dick had left, a man then go-
ing under the name of Johnson, but
whose real name was Roberts, who
was living with Bid Coward, asked
Mrs. Coward to give him the hun-
jdred dollars, and he would g » and
settle with Shacktrup. She gav him
the money. lie came back after
This week we are selling .......
Pride of Maryland Corn at $1.00 per dozen,
(the regular wholesale price.)
Plenty of Fresh Butter every day.
Fresh Graham. The Best Cheese.
And that is what we are trying to give the
Alvin People from Our Stock of Groceries.
We want you to drop in as you come past and see what we have each day. There
will be some something nice and fresh if the market affords it; you may rest assured.
MATION REGARDING ANY
CONTEMPLATED JOURNEY/
the'katVtlW
The Galveston Semi-Weekly
News and The Alvin Sun one
year for $2.00 cash in advance
Now is the time to subscribe.
May Not Try Ex-Mayor Ames.
By the death the other day of for-
me r Capt. of Police John Fichette of
Minneapolis the chief witness against
ex Mayor Ames, who is index indict-
mt nt for corruption in office, has been
removed. It being doubtful if a con-
viction could now be obtained, the
district attorney contemplates a dis-
missal of the case against the
mayor.
Shop Talk.
Mrs. Gabber—And your busband is
purchasing agent for a waterproof
hi use? Mrs. Blabber—Yes, he does
al the selecting and buying of gutta
percha, etc. Mrs. Babber—Then he
m ist make long and frequent trips
abroad. Mrs. Blabber—Frequent, but
not long. He goes away and rubbers
around for a few weeks at a stretch
and then flies right back—oh, it’s a
sn ip!
brother's wife; “only this and noth-
ing more.”
This testimony was put in the
record by R. J. Thacker of Houston.
Asa II. Stratton, then of Brazoria,
but now of Panola county, Miss, and
my-self. and without the knowledge
of Dick Coward, who like the man he
really is, remained silent until after
the death of Roberts, when, not
knowing the facts had already been
revealed, confidentially revealed
them to Governor O. M. Roberts,
who also placed them on record in
of the state’s office,
: iss le of Sunday, December 28. under Roberts commuted Dick Coward’s
Itlw head of "Two Cowboys Set at; sent,.nce, the citizens of Harris coun-
: l.iterty. while in the main you gave: ty, that county in which he was to
I eor ectl,. the state’s side of tiie Cow- , pave a fair and impartial trial, very I
ard case, yet you forgot to give the \ promptly ami verv furiously burnt.
defondant’ssideasitwenttothejury i t|le oid gentleman in effigy, and in
■ears ago, ami in doing so you ]e8[t than six months from that very
e done an injustice to Dick Cow- i time those very same citizens built
who served 24 years in the peni-1 huge bonfires and fired cannons in
tentjiary for a crime he never com- I honor of that same old O. M. Roberts.
I mention this not; in a spirit of criti-
cism of the citizens of Harris, but‘dark and told her that he had killed
simply to remind you of the fact thatj Shacktrup. Dick Coward was not.
while they have many true and noble j there, and knew nothing about it un-
men there, many of whom I have til the next day.
known and loved all my life, and These are facts, and have been star-
while they have many pretty, good ing every governor in the face since
and great women (and that they are 1885, and, according to the facts, all
pretty, good and great, I’m always Dick Coward ever did was to refuse
willing to swear,) yet they are no . to betray the man who wreaked
worse than their brothers and sisters vengeance upon the insuiter of his
throughout the great state of Texas. I
In 1885 the true facts of the killing i
of Schacktrup came to light and the
affidavits proving it have been on file 1
in the secretary of state’s office even •
since, and those affidavits are still I
there for the inspection of the curi- >1
ously inclined or doubting Thomases. ’
Those facts are as follows: Bill i1
Coward, being in jail in Grimescoun- j
ty, wrote to his wife to take one hun-
dred dollars to Schacktrup and with 1
it compromise the matter about the 1
mule. As a true and loving wife, she
took him the hundred dollars, which
he refused to receive, and then very
gratuitously abused her in the lowest
and vilest manner, calling her in the ‘
lowest and vilest names he could ’
think of. Granting, for the sake of '
argument, that Bill Coward was a
bad man, yet it has never yet in this
free American country come to pass
that anything in the form of a man—
for no real man would do such a
thing—can with impunity curse and
abuse a woman for loving and trying
to serve her husband, whether that
husband be good or bad. Shacktrup
and Bill Coward are both dead, have
been dead for many long years and ,
in speaking of them we should re-
member.the old Roman adage, “De
mortuis nil nisi bonum,” say nothing
but good of the dead,except in so far
as it, is necessary to protect rhe living.
She returned home, crying, and
told Dick. His reply was: “Well,
sister, if we were not in so much
trouble, I would go and kill him, but
let it pass, and when we get out of
trouble, we’ll settle with him.” Got
on his horst and went to Clear creek.
Here he was showing more forbear-
ance than most men would have
done, and more especially a brave
and impetuous boy, and a want of
courage never yet has been imputed
to one of the Cowards.
Lawyers and judges will tell you
that abuse of and insult to a female
relative will reduce a homicide from
murder to manslaughter, but I tell
you that so long as man is tried by
12 men, who have the blood of wo-
man in their veins, that jury will set
him free, and while the law does say*
some things about wives, daughters,
sisters, aunts, nieces and cousins, T
tell you right now nobody in this
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the secretary
where they are today.
It will not do to say that this was
a trumped up story to throw it off on
Johnson, alias Roberts, after his
Aust*alian Song Bird.
.Uiother marvelous voice has come
ou of Australia. It is that of Miss
i Mtrie Narelie, and is described as
| “the nearest rpproach to the pure dra«
| me tic soprano that New South Wales
I has produced since Miss Kate Slat-
• tery retired from the concert plat-
death, for Johnson was alive and in form.” Miss Narelle is now having a
the penitentiary when the revelation I large success in London.
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TO —__—:fed
eed. never advised and knew
notl ing about until aft was done.
»u state that he was found by John
Fan I, concealed between the inat-
tresJes in a house in the suburbs of
Houston, but you forgot to state the
house was his home, and t hat the ar-
rest Iwas made four days after the
w'arrknt was issued, and that he knew
all tile time that the officers were af-
ter him.
You state correctly that Dick was
convicted upon the testimony of
Schacktrup’s nephew’, but you forgot
to state that on the night the crime
was committed that very nephew
sworq that it was Bill Coward who
did the deed, that he was in eight
foot or him, knew him well,and knew
that it was Bill Coward who fired the
shot. I You forgot to state that on the
the morning after the murder was
committed the wires wen- put in op-
eration and it was found that Bill
Coward was still in jail in Anderson,
Grimtls county, and that then this
very nephew swore that it was Dick
I Cowaid. You forgot to state that Bill
|Cowaid was a very tall man, with
black pair, black eyes, heavy black
whiskl rs and was very dark coin-
plecteil. You forgot to say that Dick
CowarLl was of fair complexion, very
light Hair, blue eyes and a l*eardless
boy of low stature, and that there was
no possible chance to mistake one
brother for the other, and you forgot
j to state that Dick Coward proved by
■ some (tf the most reputable citizens
’ of Galveston county that he was on
the race track on Clear creek, 24
miles from Houston, all the evening
. of the night the murder was commit-
ted, anil stayed there that night; and
iyoufosgotto state that O. M. Rob-
i erts, then governor of Texas, com-
muted the sentence from death to
i confimjment for life “because he was
convicted on the unsupported testi-
mony df a self stultified witness, who
1 first swlore that another man did the
deed, apd then without explanation
swore tiie defendant did it.”
And light here I will say that
should the state of Texas ever have
the goop sense (and she does some-
timed nave occasional gleams of in-
telligence) to elect me governor, and
such a livse comes before me, I will
pardon straight out and will add to
Governor Roberts’ indorsement that
it takes more than 12 honest men, one
honest district judge and three judges
of the dourt of criminal appeals to
steal a loan’s life and liberty in the
great state of Texas. And 1 will add
too, as tlhe record shows, that Gover-
nor Roilerts became convinced of his
error, and to ihe day of his death he
labored! with me to obtain Coward's
pardon,
the tria
It is now Governor Lanham.
law
How would the nigger Crum for
president, and Roosevelt for vice-
president, suit the republicans for
their presidential ticket in the next
election. __________________
Recommend! “Volcano Cellars.”
Prof. T- A. Jagger, Jr., Harvard
who has been making investigations
of the eruption of Mont Pelee, believes
that people of volcanic countries can
escape destruction by building cel-
lars or chambers of masonry In which
they can seek shelter when the erup-
tions occur.
To Grow Up With the Country.
Tams Bixby, for many years a lead-
ing Republican politician in Minne-
sota and lately a member of the
Dawes commission, has determined to
settle in Oklahoma. He will start a
paper, grow up with the country and
endeavor to go to Congress after the
territory assumes the dignity of state-
hood.
Those Beaumont papers are getting
to be real lovely in their fraternal re-
lations. The Enterprise now refers
to the Journal as a dirty shovel. Now
isn’t that something awful.—Port Ar-
thur News.
The Enterprise doubtless considers
that a scoop.—Houston Post.
May be the Journal Is expecting to
get something on its shovel. Better
kiss and make up before it happens.
The Kansas legislature is having a
hot old time on the election of a Uni-
ted States senator. But just wait
until Carrie Nation opens up her
game among its members. She will
break their king row.
Trees In England.
Christmas trees were unknown In
England until the reign of Queen Vlc-
I toria. The first one was ornamented
by Prince Albert for the amusement
of the Princess Royal and the Prince
i of Wales, who were children of 3 and
I 4 years old at thal time.
The Pulae and the Seatons.
A medical man, who has kept
nightly record of his pulse for five
years, says that every year It falls
through the spring until about mid
summer, and then rises through the
avtumn to November or December.
Then comes a second fall and rise,
culminating in February.
Mistrusted the Word.
Lord Halsbury, the lord chancellor
of England, recently in the nouse of
lords while listening to an appeal fell
foul of counsel for using the extreme
Ij useful word ’•practical.” "Practi-
cal?” interrupted Lord Halsbury
briskly. “I always distrust that word
•practical.’ When anybody says a
ttlng Is practically so and so I know
it Is not so and so.”
The Liberty Cap.
The red liberty cap was really the
headgear of the galley slave. The
Swiss of the Chateauroux regiment,
sent to the galleys for their share in
the Nancy riots, on their release re-
turned to Paris with their caps and
were hailed as victims of despotism.
Status of the Lottery.
It Is told of an East Indian
student that he once threw his examin-
ers Into confusion by declaring matri-
mony to be an Illegal state. "How
sc? How so?” he was asked by the
perturbed examiners, many of them
married men. The student smiled
beat! fl rally. "MaiTiage,” quoth he,
“is a lottery, and lotteries are forbid-
den by law.”
Exhaustion Of Oil Fuel.
| With Sour Lake posing as a second!
Spindietop. and with no fear of the
waste and recklessness that charac-
terized operations in the Beaumont
field being repeated, there is no need
to anticipate an exhaustion of the
fuel supply of Texas. South Texas
dirt hides untold millions of barrels
of the greasy fluid. It can hardly
be held back, and all talk of a proba-
ble exhaustion is the rankest non-
sense. Stick to your oil furnace and
refuse to be mislead by prophets of
evil, or prophets of the coal trust.—
Houston Chronicle.
Yes, stick to your oil furnace, for
it, wont be long before the wells going
down around Alvin will be abie to
furnish all the oil needed. Sour
Lake and Spindle Top will be side
lines in the oil business. Just wait
and see.
First “Dalmatian” Powder.
German newspapers call attention
to the fiftieth anniversary of bug
pewder, or “Dalmatian” powder. A
German woman named Anna Ro. seur
found out the fatal effects of chrys-
anthemum flowers on insects. She
to d a druggist of her discovery and
the insect powder frade is now worth
millions to Dalmatia.
PUBLIC.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY.
the: Sun will be
in the first de-
on
themselves.
Its a
A majority of the fctate senators ii
Kansas have appointed their wife,
daughter or some (•►her relative to
the office of private secretary to
cold da,V whei
Kansas statesman ( o not regard a
public office a privare snap.
le was innocent
was cor-
liviing in Alvin,
are re-
TO THE
All notices of en er^aininents. sup-
pers, etc. —- -
chart * '
after
charg<
ON RATES:
Advance.
of people in the sta^e, wh«> if tha:
law passed, would ta!ke an Elin Club
and drive out tiie partner of their
joys and sorrows just to get a chance
to.send them up fo- abardoninent.
Mary Ellen Lease aqd Carry Nation
for instance,
, etc., where an admission is
■ged, (includin ’programs,) her*?-
r appearing ii The Sun, will be
__jea for at the tratp of 5 cents per
line. Cards of thanks and resolu-
tions of respect wjilli)>e charged for
at same rate; also obituaries over 2
lines. Our price f<|»r funeral notices
is |210 per half bo:Ki, (no less printed )
and must be paid for when order s
placed. We expect no compliment-
ary tfokete.
SUBSCRIPT <
Tbreo Moo tbs...............
Always li
n has a badly
e frori using a
ght to! learn to
ith resignation,
iellville Times.
a nigl tcap?— Houston
A bill has been introduced in the
mak ing it a i
or w;le to de-!
In this iosue of
found a communication to the Hous-
ton Chronicle from one of the attor-
neys in the Dick < oward trial that
occurred 24 years ago. Dick Coward
has two brothers
John and Joe, both of whom
spec ted, hard work ng citizens, and
Dick has many old friends here who
were here when He wa-» tried and
convicted of murde'in .the first de
gree and who like ( owar i’s attorney
Mr. Davidson, belie reel at the time
and think yet that
of the crime for wh ch foe
victed. He was sentenced to be
hanged, the scaffnd was built in
Houston for his execution and.
his arrival there fro n Galveston the
day he was to be executed, the gov-
ernor wired commuting tie sentence
to life imprisonment and for 24years
he has been confired in the peni-
tentiary paying tlje penalty for v
crime committed by another. At
least this is claimed:and believe-1 by
many who heard phe evidence oi
which he was convicted.
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The Atlantic Squa lron is to visit j
Galveston tu will *»e seen by the!
following dispatch from Congress-
man Burgess to the (eeretary of th<*
Galveston Business f .eagLe.
Wellington, D. C.j Jan. J 2.—W. A.
Gardner, Secretary Busint <s League
Galveston, Tex.: Hd.ve jmt had con -
ferenee with Secretary Moody and
Admiral Taylor. I;oth assure me
they will arrange foi! practically the
whole gquadron totijuch at Galves-
ton coming out of the Carr ;bean Sea
Will give me date in- three days.
Geoi!^e F. Burgess.
Thia is good news, and It is to b«
hopei that Galvesto i will get a move
on her and try to blare nbcomada
tions sufficient to accommodate the
visitors In getting ouit to and reti rn
ing from the battle ships, and no
take all day to get o.jt and back a<
was the case during iiie visit of the
Hartford last sinnmtr.
Kansas Legislature
felony for a h uaband
sert the other, the pi nishm^nt to b»
a fine and impoisonnjient in the peni
tent&ary. No doubt -.here are plenty
iA Hillsboro citiz»
sv ollen head and fai
ha:r tonic. Man ov
take his bald head u
Nothing stronger.—
Not even
Post.
Hair tonic is a nbw name for it.
If the gentleman Referred to will
drink a good branij of Kentucky
Bourbon instead of that Hillsboro
r. g., he will find his head wont be
near so large on awakening in the
mornings.
The year 1908 so Tar hap been re-
markably quiet. >unt P^lee has
not been in eruption^ but ti« Roose-
velt eruption in the Vnited States of
America seems to bejvery active just
at the present time; And many of
the leading republican journals of
the North and West (are expaciating
on the cause.
ALVIN
is situated on tihp Santa I e rail-
) road 23 miles -iouth of Houston
i ai;d 20 mixes northwest of Gal-
veston ; is the! largest town in
( Brazoria county and is thelarg-
( est shipping p |iut of strawber-
ries. fruits, vegetables and hay
In the coast ccjintry.
J * 5
1903
Commence
9
the
New Year
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ALVIN, TEXAS.
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A regular graduate of Northwest-
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Chicago, is conducting a GENER-
AL PRACTICE in Rooms 5 and 6
of the Hellman Building, where he
is PERMANENTLY LOCATED.
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1 has a population of 2000; has
s good schools, churches, lodges,
Y* church societies, ai d one of the '
® best and most healthful cll-
Z* mates to be found any where. 1
- saloons, and the best ci ass I
3j of citizens on earth.
VOL. XII.
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NO. 42.
ALVIN SUN
ALVIN. TEXAS, FRIDAY. JANUARY 23, 1903.
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