The Knox County News (Knox City, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, February 12, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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Fire at 1:30 Thursday morning
destroyed six buildings at Center.
Losses are approximated at $25,000.
What may lead to the discovery
of coal beda within a mile of Chil-
dress has been brought to light
by prairie doga.
The most disastrous fire experi-
enced in Charlotte, W. Va., in 24
fears early Friday destroyed proper-
ty valued at $225,000.
One man was killed and three in-
jured at Sour Lake Wednesday by
tb« explosion of a boiler in the plant
of the Hardcastle Oil Co. ,
W. B. Townsend of Wilbarger
county Monday assumed the secre-
taryship of state, succeeding William
R. Davie of Tom Green county, re-
signed.
The second week of the trial of
Duncan B. Cooper, Robin J.
and John D. Sharpe, in
Nashville, waa completed Tuesday
and the, jury box remains unfilled. •
While on her way home to Dallas
Sunday Mrs. M. McCrecry, who had
been visiting in Ward, Ark., was
robbed of her purse, containing
$175, on an Iron Mountain train.
Smoke is very heavy at Jackson-
ville. Reports are vast forest fires
are raging, both south and west; also
in tbe extreme easteru portion of
Cherokee county and in the western
part of Nacogdoches county.
The Business dub and citizens of
San Angelo are still working to se-
re-establishment of the mail
between that city and Fort Mc-
and it is now suggested that
be extended to go be-
ivett to Menardville.
overruling of its
ge George Cal-
iay, the
¡y aban-
a settle-
paid ita
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years of
one of the
of the city, who
justice of the
a throe years
in a bath tub
bath house, in
Friday.
The-first cargo of Philippine hemp
ever brought to the port at New Or-
leans and the largest cargo that Ayas
ever brought to any American port
will reach there this week from Ma-
nilla. The cargo, consisting of 8000
bales of hemp, will be unloaded im-
mediately and shipped to Chicago.
Nexf Wednesday is the tentative
datesd t for the House to Act on the
proposal to regulate the interstate
shipments of intoxicating liquors.
Consideration of the revision' of thé
penal code then will be resumed and
the firit subject to come up will be
the liquor question.
It ¿i announced in Weatherford
on good authority that Martin W.
Littleton of New York has under*
taken to secure the finances nccesary
to construct the Fort Worth, Weath-
erford and Minoral Wells inter-
urban, with every prospect of suc-
cesss.
After hearing argument, District
Judge Calhoun of Austin overruled
the exceptions of the defendant in
the suit of the state against the
American Book Co. for alleged vio-
lations of the anti-trust act; both
aides announced ready, apd the selec-
tion of a jury was begun Thursduy
morning.
^ While citizens of Riverside are
discussing ways and means to obtain
a trolley car line extension to con-
nect them ykh Fort Worth and af-
ford rapid transit, an aútomobile
se nas-already been established.
Prophecy that the Sixtieth con-
Ksss would not pass a postal savings
nk bill materialized Monday when
Senator Carter made a statement on
the floor of the senate that he was
convinced the measure could not be
brought to a vote before Ma<rch 4.
It is announced by a prominent
it of the Texas & Pacific that
management of the road does
iplatc at this time the cm-
of auditors on passenger
has been given to M.
Brownsville for the rc-
fe-saving station on
tiago Island from
i to a site nearer the
of the bay iifto
Of THE ilEEK
A RESUME OF THE MOST IMPOR-
TANT NEW8 AT HOME ANO
ABROAD.
ITEMS FOR BUSINESS PEOPLE
A Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation ef Current News
Domestic and Foreign.
P. A. Callup, of the Cameron
Lumber company, in Fort Worth,
fell from a scaffold Monday and re-
ceived injuries which resulted in his
death two hours later.
The grand master of Masons in
Ohio, Charles Hoskinsin of Zanes-
vilk , has tendered to William How-
ard Taft the rare and high honor
of being made á Mason at sight.
This honor is so rarely conferred
there is but a single instance on
record in 100 years of the history of
Masonry in Ohio.
It has not been determined wheth-
er there will be any further investi-
tion into the circumstances of the
nited States Steel Corporation's
absorption of the Tennessee Coal and
Iron Co. Some of the members of
the subcommittee in Congress feel
that the evidence already adduced is
sufficient to warrant a/verdict.
A debate on the proposition of in-
creasing salaries of federal circuit
and district judges consumed nearly
the entire time of the Senate Thurs-
day with the result that the Senate
voted to increase tho compensations
of the twenty-nine circuit judges
from $7,000 to $9,000 and that of
the eighty-four district judges from
$6,000to $8,000.
Congressman J. E. Randsdell of
Louisiana, president of the Na-
tional Rivers and Harbors Con-
gress, in addressing the Traffic
Club of Chicago, Wednesday,
pleadcM for tho support of the
railways in securing more and bet-
ter waterways and advocated n
bond issue sufficient to secure $50,-
000,000 a year for the purpose of
improving rivers, harbors and ca-
nals.
At the meeting of the Tarrant
County Bar Association Thursduy,
in Ft. Worth, to discuss the bill to
create another County Court, it
was agreed by unanimous vote to
recommend that the measure be
so framed as to give only civil bus-
iness to the new court, and that
the prcient court retain jurisdic
tion over criminal and probate
eases.
As a result of the investigation by
tho grand jury of the alleged frauds
in connection with the scheduling of
town lotts in Muskogee, seven indict-
ments were returned Wednesday
night. The charge against the de-
fendants is conspiracy to defraud the
government. The names of those
indicted are: Gov. Chas. N. Haskell,
F. B. Severs, A. Z. English, C. W
Turner, W. T. Hutclungs, J. W. Hill
and Walter R. Eaton.
Republican leaders in Congress
have reached an agreement as to
the Brownsville imbroglio that is
satisfactory both to the President
and Senator Foraker. It provides,
in brief, for the appointment of a
commission of five army officers,
none of whom is to be below the
rank of colonel. All negroes from
the discharged troops desiring to
be re-enlisted must apply to this
board and be subjected to an ex-
amination.
Mr. Burton Tuesday put his veto
on two of the items in the survey
part of tho rivers and harbors bill
which the subcommittee has pre-
pared. Both of these arc Texas
items. One of them provides for a
survey looking to a thirty-foot chan-
nel from Sabine Pass to the mouths
of the Ncches and Sabine rivers, and
the other looking to a survey for a
thirty-foot channel at Aransas Pass.
Tho first is Mr. Cooper's and the last
Mr. Burgess' project.
Sandy C. Haley, aged 54 years,
for thirty years one of the most pop-
ular traveling salesmen in Texas,
died Tuesday, in Sherman, from a
second attack of paralysis.
The case of the Continental Wall
Paper company vs. Lewi* Vóight &
Sons of Cincinnati was Monday de-
sided by the supreme court of the
United States in Voight's favor.
Suit, was brought on a debt of $57,-
000, the payment of which was re-
sisted on the ground that the paper
company is a trust.
In addition to the brick business
Houses in course of erection in Sao
Angelo, quite a number of nice res-
idences are under construction in
3 i líe rent portions of tho city, and it
appears that this is to be a banner
year in tho amount of builaing to
be done.
The receipts for sales of stamps
and envelopes ut the Greenville post-
office for January were $2,087.17,
which was an incitase over the re-
ceipts for tho same montht last year
ceipts
of $24
2.85
It will cost $23 to attend the Taft
banquet in NeW Orleans on Friday,
Feb. 12.
A tornado swept over Center at
5:30 Friday morning which des-
troyed eonsierable property.
Plans are being made for the or-
ganization of a bank in Dallas .by
negroes and for negroes. Capital
stock to be $25,000.
Gqorge Ketcherside and John
Hughes fought a duel in the main
street of Leadwood, Mo., Sunday
night, and both were killed.
The Methodist Episcopal church,
south, has raised funds and will
commence erection of a new church,
in Wichita Falls, which will cost
$30,000.
The state's suit against the Amer-
ican Book company was called Tues-
day for trial. There are a number
of legal questions to argue before
the trial will be taken up.
The old home of Gen. U. S. Grant,
on the Gravois road, St. Louis coun-
ty, has been purchased by Augustus
A. Busch, the millionaire brewer,
and turned into a model game pre-
serve.
The bill creating a tribunal of
army officers that is to determine
which of the negro soldiers, who
were discharged because of the-
Brownsville affray, ought to be re-
enlisted, will probably be allowed to
pass the senate.
On the Trinity and Brazos Valley,
a local freight train from Waxa-
hachie, northbound, had a wreck
Monday morning, near Teague, the
engine turning over and killing two
brakemen, Leo Galloway and Leslie
Smith.
Seventeen men are deed as the
result of an explosion in the No. 2
Short Creek mines of the Birming-
ham Coal & Iron Company, Birm-
ingham, Ala., Tuesday. Five of the
dead are white and twelve are ne-
groes.
Another long session over the
nomination of William D. Crum,
the negro collector <of customs at
Charleston, S. C., who wus re-ap-
pointed by President Roosevelt, was
held by the senate Friday and no
vote was reached.
Sparks from a donkey engine set
fire to the wharf at the $3,000,000
Cbalmette plant of the American
Sugar Refinery in New Orleans and
bexore the flames were subdued, sev-
eral hours later, caused a damage of
about $200,000.
Another storm cloud has gathered
over congress, because of the presi-
dent's veto of the census bill, drid
now again, after having become
somewhat calmed, the men .on the
hill are emitting/dire threats of how,
in the closing days of his adminis-
tration, they are eoing to rebuke the
president.
The city council of Brownsville
has under consideration three : ap-
plications to street car franchises,
two by local parties and one from
outsiders. Each of the applicants
agree to construct at once upon , 2 e
granting of the franchise an electric
railway to cover the entire city.
The report of the subcommittee
to the full Rivers and Harbors
Committee, in Washington, will
recommend that a new survey be
ordered for the inland waterway
from the Mississippi to the Rio
Grande, the whole project to be
considered as of four sections.
The survey will be for a depth of
9 feet and a width of 100 feet.
The existing project is for a depth
of 5 feet and for a width of 40
feet.
Albert Calhoun of Howth has car-
ried his two small sons, Clayton and
Hilliard, to the Pasteur institute in
Austin for treatment for the bite of
a supposedly mad dog.
While shooting at alleged chicken
thieves who were making their get-
away across the Washington school
yard, in Oklahoma City, Tuesday,
Officer Ouray accidentally shot little
Gladys Meader, aged 14 years, a
school girl, through tbe liver. The
wounded child died.
The great battleship Delaware
was successfully launched from the
yards of her builders at Newport
News Sunday. The launching was
witnessed by 8,000 people.
D. J. Neill of Fort Worth, presi-
dent of the Farmers' union, has rc-
turnod from Austin, where he hfts
spent several days. President Neill
asserts that the farmers will vigor-
ously oppose any measure tending
to restrict or oppress private banks
further than the present restrictions
and regulations.
The town of Milton, thirty miles
cast of Pensaeola, was pwtetically
wiped off the map by flre Sunday.
The despised cocklebur bids fair
to become a producer of cultivation.
An experiment of making oil front
the weed in a mill erected for th<
purpose at Vidalia, La., is said t<
have proved* very successful, ant!
formers in that section have gone in
for its gathering on a large scale.
Promoters of the plan say the fu-
ture miy develop the cocklebur plan-
tation la Place of cotton.
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KANSAS DEMANDS LAW
LEGISLATURE NOW IN 8E88ION
WILL PASS LAW PROTECT-
ING MONEY IN BANKS.
DESERVED TO GET THE JOB
WANTS JUGGLING COT OUT
Every State Senator and Member ol
Lower Hoiiee Received
Instructions.
Topeka, Kan., Feb. 9.—The Kan-
sas legislature, now in session, will
pass a bank deposit guaranty law.
Gov. W. R. StuuOs, a stockholder in
several banks, is persoually opposed
to such law and in his message to
the legislature ignored it. A major-
ity of the forty state senators, which
body is largely composed of bankers,
lawyers and professional men, do not
favor a bank deposit guaranty law.
The lower house of 125 members is
about evenly divided on this ques-
tion, the farmers and stockmen
standing for a guaranty bill which
means something. But for the jug-
gling and-defeat of a bank deposit
guaranty law a year ago) when Gov.
Hoch convened the legislature in
special session for that purpose, the
bill would fail of passage now. The
people of the state are aroused and
are demanding that a law be passed
in conformity with the state plat-
forms of both leading political par-
ties. Senators and members are re-
ceiving letters and petitions from
their constituents warning them not
to be influenced again by the lobby
which joined in the defeat of the
measure a year ago. Every senator
and member of the present legisla-
ture received instructions to vote for
a bank deposit guaranty law.
Grand Jury Reconvenes.
Muskogee: The federal grand
jury which returned the indictments
against Gov. Haskell and prominent
Muskogee people in connection with
the alleged town lot frauds, recon-
vened Monday, after a recess of four
days, and immediately took up the
matter of investigating alleged tim-
ber frauds in the Choctaw Nation,
in Southwest Oklahoma.
Anyone
As
Acquainted with Boys
wrt That Applicant Told
the Truth.
Will
Once upon a time there was a
6ov and he applied for a job.
"We don't want lazy boys here.
Are you fond of work?" asked the
boss.
"No, Bir!" answered the boy, look-
ing the bosfr straight in the face.
"Oh, you're not, aren't you? Well,
we want a boy that is."
"There ain't any," insisted the
boy, doggedly.
' "Oh, yes, there are! We have had
a dozen of that kind here this morn-
ing looking for a situation with us."
"How do you know they are not
lazy?" persisted the boy.
"Why, they told me so."
"So could I have told you bo; but
I'm not a liar."
And he got the job.
NEW SANITARY DOORMAT.
"Sanitary doormat—the latest
thing," said a salesman in a surgical
shop.
The shoes are the worst germ car-
riers there are. If we gather germs
on our hands, millions of times more
do our shoes gather them. Now the
Chinks and Japs do the right thing
by leaving their Bhoes outside, but
since we have no such custom, we
ought to have instead a sanitary mat
on the front step.
"The mat is filled, you see, with
germ-killer. Every time you wipe
your feet on it, a generation of germs
is destroyed, and you enter the
housé • a walking pestilence no
longer."
8WALLOW8 BEAT PIGEON8.
PERSIFLAGE AT THE TABLE
Repartee That Served Somewhat to
Brighten Up Solitary Christ-
mas Dinner.
To have to eat a Christmas din-
ner at a hotel is bad enough, no mat-
ter how numerous the courses and
how choice the viands. To have to
eat it alone is worse. One man who
sat at a table solitary glanced over
the menu with little interest. It
was a big card, resplendent with pic-
tures of poinsettias, and at the top
was the motto:
"Peace on earth, good will to
men."
In an effort to forget his depres-
sion he said to the waiter, pointing
at the Biblical quotation:
"Please bring me some of that
first. I've never eaten peas that way ;
maybe I won't like them.''
The waiter was an Irish-Ameri-
can. With a smile that began and
ended in his eyes, he said soberly:
"I'm sorry, sir, but that's a mis-
take. There isn't any peace in the
kitchen. We've got an Irish and a
Dutch cook down there."
ALL NOW "OTTOMANS."
By the young Turk party tho
word "Ottomans" has been adopted
to cover all the people of the empire
—Mohammedan, Christian or Jew
This word strictly belongs only to
the descendants of the sultan. Os-
man's tribe and its dependents. But
the name has long been loosely used
for all Turkish speaking Moslems,
though many of them are descend-
ants of the Seljuks, who were the
original Osmanlis' enemies. Now it
is to be used in the most compre-
hensively patriotic sense to mark the
new fraternity.
To Improve Corn Grade.
Hillsboro: The Hillsboro Board
of Tr^de has invited competition
aimong the farmers within the trade
territory of Hillsboro in the produc-
tion of improved qualities of corn
ánd has offered four cash premiums,
one of $50 for the best acre grown
during the present year, ohe of $25
for the second best, orie of $15 for
the third and one of $10 for the
fourth best.
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Will Attend Meeting.
Fort Worth:. D. J. Neill, state
president of the Farmers' union, left
Monday for Prescott, Ark., his form-
er home, where he will remain until
Friday, then proceed to Memphis,
where he will meet with the presi-
dents of other state unions and Na-
tional President Charles S. Barrett
in a cotton price conference.
Disaatrous Prairie Fire.
Mineral Wells: News of disas-
trous prairie fires has been received
to the effect that the Holt ranch. 12
miles north of here, has been dam-
aged to a great extent which was
caused from the high winds.
Miscreant Wrecks Train.
Memphis: That the train was de-
liberately wrecked is the assertion of
railroad officials who investigated
thé derailment near Cold Water,
Miss., Monday, of an Illinois Cen-
tral passenger train from New Or-
leans to Chjcagp. The train ran into
an open switch, and was entirely
wrecked, causing( the death of one
trainman and the injury of a score
of passengers and trainmen, several
of whom, it is believed, arc fatally
hurt.
Jury Still Incomplete.
Nashville: The nineteenth day
closed with the jury still incomplete
in the case of the state against Col.
Duncan B. Cooper, Robin J. Cooper
and John D. Sharpe, charged with
the murder of former Senator E. W.
Carmack. One juror, the eleventh,
in the person of W. A. Adcock, a
young farmer, was sent into the box.
In order to get him 221 talesmen
were examined.
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Texas Bottlers to Meet.
Fort Worth: The Texas Bottlers
association will meet in this city
Feb. 16 and the convention will last
three days. Sessions will be held at
the Metropolitan hotel.
Bonham Citizen Dead.
A. D. Ilamoek, Sr.,
-whits citizen in Bonham,
Mr. Hamock was 91
Swallows can be trained to rival
carrier pigeons as messengers. An
Antwerp trainer of pigeons sent up
some pigeons and swallows at the
same time from Compiegne, in
France, 145 mileB off. The swallows
arrived at home in one hour and
seven minutes. The pigeons took
rather more than three times as long.
On another occasion two Bwallows,
which had been previously trained,
were taken to Paris and started.
They arrived at their home, Roulaix,
93 miles from Paris, in 75 minutes
BLOOZE8 AND BLOU8E8.
"Where will I find the bloozes?'
asked the woman who had just re-
turned from London.
"De bloozes!" exclaimed the ele-
vator man, staring pop-eyed and
vague. "De bloozes—w'y, dey mus'
be on de—'scuse me, madam, you'd
better ask de floorwalker."
"Certainly madam, second floor
James, take the lady to the second
floor—blowses—lawngery waists, y
know."
RUS8IAN ADMIRAL8 BLAMED.
St. Petersburg papers, following
the recent retirement of 13 Russian
admirals, express the hope that this
will only be the beginning of a clean
sweep of all those naval officials who,
piore than Gen. Kuropatkin and the
army officers, are regarded as re-
sponsible for the terrible defeats in
the Japanese war. The Novoe
Vremya hears that, in addition to
the 13 admirals already cashiered
from the Russian navy, eight more
will shortly be dismissed, from the
service. In all 117 higher officers in
the naval service will be dismissed;
IGNORANCEI
DI8PUTING HIS CLAIM.
The fat man was spread out all
over two seats when the woman sat
down by him.
"Couldn't you move over just a
little bit?" she asked him, pleas-
antly.
"No," he snapped, "I paid for
this seat."
"Yes, I know," she said, quietly,
"but you didn't pay for two, did
you ?"
THEORY OF HARMONY.
Mrs. Cochran of New York says
that she has invented a "crypto-
gram" by which she can bring-health
and happiness and whatever else may
be desired by changing the name to
suit the date of birth. Acoording to
her theory, days of the month are
lucky that correspond with the date
of birth or some multiple of it.
A REMINDER.
"You were south, weren't you?"
"Yes. And it Was so interesting
watching the peasant women carry-
ing around great heavy jars on their
heads."
"Yes. They are almost as strong
as some of the New York women
carrying their hair." , *
HIB QUALIFICATIONS.
"It is true," began the aged suit-
jr, "that I'm considerably older
than you, but s man is ss young as
he feels, you know, and—"
"Oh," interrupted the maiden,
"that doesn't mstter. Whst I want
to know is if you are as rich as you
loolr." ■
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SURE THING.
"Do you think Putter will mar-
y again?"
"inside of s yesr. I have never
«en s msn to inconsolable over the
lo« sf s wife."—-life. V
ns
Mr. Hobo—The ignorance of them'
Italians is awful. They think the peo-
pie uv thet house are to home, wheq
the sign says they're in Europe.'
WHO WA8 RICHEST?
John Burroughs lent Jay Gould
'70 cents. Jay Gould got $70,000,- -
000, but John Burroughs got all the
birds and all the bees and all tho
trees of New England, and has the
more .possessed them the more he
gave them to others. Jay Gould was
a "moneyed man;" John Burroughs
is a rich man.-—Detroit News.
THE COST.
The aeronaut put a crow out of
business cleverly.
"Yes," he said, "in flying, as in
other thingB, experience is the best
teacher; but—"
He touched ruefully his silver
kneecap.
"—gee, his rates are high 1" (
NOT TOO CONFIDING.
Man—Do you believe that story
about her?
Woman—I'd believe anything
about her, unless she told it me her*
self.—Pick-Me-Up.
STRICTLY BUSINESS.
"Johnny, didn't I tell you not to
play with thst little Jason boy?"
"I ain't been playing with him,
ma; I blacked his eyes."-—Birming
ham Age Herald.
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IT WAB AUTO.
"Awta ? Why do you
Awts?" she demanded.
"Aw, because,"
slways runnin's
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