The Knox County News (Knox City, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, March 19, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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heart trouble.
r snow ia still falling over
Texas, and it is now two
► on a level at Dalhart.
Ellis, aged ten years, waa
to death at her home five
miles east of Houston Thursday.
Chief Qoanah Parker of the Co-
manches and thirty-eight member-
bers of the tribe, are in Fort Worth.
The northwestern section of Cuth-
Ga., was struck by a cyclone
Tuesday and almost totally destroy-
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Compilation of Currant News
Domeatu and Foreign.
Three men robbed six stores in
Alvarado Tuesday, getting the sum
of $117.43.
The contract for the new South
Texas bank building at Houston was
awarded Friday for $120,000.
Gov. Haskell and other prominent
Oklahomans, indicted in February
by the Federal Grand Jury for al-
leged Muskogee town lot frauds,
were again granted an extension of
time Monday. They are to plead at
Vinita in the Federal Court on
March 15 next.
Fire broke out in a warehouse at
the local headquarters of the Caney
Oil Company, Shreveport, Wednes-
day and destroyed the office build-
ings, two warehouses, three biff
tanks and several dozen barrels of
refined oil, amounting to perhaps
2000 barrels. Loss is estimated at
$8000.
Friday morning at a switch near
Tvler southbound local freight train
was wrecked. The train was in
charge of Conductor Sewell, the en-
gine and a number of box cars were
turned over. Engineer L. J. Petit
was caught under his engine and his
body, up to a late hour, had not been
recovered.
United States District Attorney
Kealing at Indianapolis has re-
signed rather than participate in
the efforts of the Department of
Justice to bring Delavan Smith
and Joseph Pulitizer to Washing-
ton to stand trial for criminal li-
bel in connection with publica
tions regarding the Panama Canal
and the railroads.
In accordance with the provisions
of the general amnesty bill recently
passed by the Legislature courts of
Havana Monduy issued orders for
the release o upwards of 800 prison-
ers. These include Juan Masao
Parra, sentenced to four years for
ra^ftiraey. ¿gainst the , Provincial
Government, an the negro, Col. Ak-
ka, reputed to be the most desperatte
.. «wüiiLJ criminal in Cuba.
I™ Kmr are reported dead and
number injured as the result of vio-
lent storms throughout Western,
Eastern and Southern Arkansas late
Monday afternoon and night. Three
' jare reported to have been killed at
Brinkley, and late dispatches from
there on the only wire in operation
between that plaaftftub Little Rock,
a railroad, are to the effect that the
>f night riders, wM ^wn^has burned.
Q. Rankin at Wal-| AU doubt8 about ultimate inten.
Mrs. Margaret Ellen Lipscomb,
Irst white child born in Chicago,
its incorporation as a city, is
in Bloomington, 111.
Ired bushels of pea-
loaded on the cars at
ville Tuesday to be shipped to
dealers in Eastern Texas,
i senate committee on railroads
in Topeka submitted an ad-
réport on the ? cent fare bill
had already passed the house,
voluntary contribution by the
> attending Simmons Col-
Abifcne, Thursday, netted
additional funds to the en-
fund being raised by that
ition for the college.
-j after 2 o'clock Thursday
; a shooting affray too); place
Antonio, as the result of
9 man lies dead, another at
' death and a third se-
agents in San Angelo
i. rush to get machines
i they can be sold. Scarce-
: passes that from one to
not received, and more
ever made in Ok*
consum-
ís. Crosbie
of Robert
Poole, foe
for which a total
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shipment
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Sunday night
recaptured. He i
to be in hiding in the lake
nt attorneys in the
Standard Oil Compa-
Indiana, which was re*
ay were told by Judge
unless tjtey introduc*
íf sustaining theii
the oil company ac-
from the Chicago
Iroad, they might ai
efforts to convict.
after the state
if the bill recently
legislature becomes a
j>le there believe thie
the most feasable lo*
such an institution.
) in Arlington Wednesday
Jletely destroyed three
ck business houses.
Jnated on the second
the Lampe building, used
house. Damage esti-
going
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B'onham, waa struck
during the thunder*
and fatally injured.
_ began Wednesday on the
from Stanton to Lamesa
northern connections via
Lubbock to Plainview.
auto route will be equipped
todera cattle guards and
smooth and level as praeti-
and with the naturally good
will be the quickest means oí
to northern points.
and a mule belonging to
a farmer living near
killed by lightn:
for
tiona of James J. Jeffries regarding
a fight with Jack Johnson for the
heavyweight championship bf the
world were set at rest Thursday, in-
New York, when the California
giant declared that the advent of
Johnson is the only exense for hi?
present training, and an i$tima|ion
that he would have j*wt one more
fight and that within^ the in
months.
A returning fishing party
Antonio reports a catch of forty-six
bass, the fish weighing from one to
five and three-fourths pounds.
A ton of shamrocks arrived in
New York, Thursday on the' While
Star liner Oceanic from Southamp-
ton. She also carried 3338 sacks of
mail, pricipally St. Patrick's Day
missives from the old country.
Emma Mcrdian of the Salvation
Army of San Antonio has received
as a gift fi;om George W. Bracken-
ridgo of a tract of land $fon River
avenue and a cosh donation of
$3,000 for the erection of a home
for women who may be in need of
help.
The Secretary of the Treasury
has sent a check for $2000 to Frank
Kemp of Wichita Falls, Tex., to
pay for the site for the public build-
ing at that city.
Shortly after 12 o'clock Thursday
•norrrmg the main building, buggy
house, implement house, lumber
heds and planing mill, together
with the entire stock contained
therein, belonging to the Bedford
Lumber Company of Georgetown,
was destroyed by fire. The loss is be-
tween 480,000 and $90,000.
The Ark
of
in Dublin
Wednesday
of $10,000.
Comiskev of
merel
McCormick & Russell
was damaged by fire
morning to the éxtent
President Charles A. romislcey <
the Chicago American League Club
has announced that he will take hi*
baseball team around the world
after the season of 1911.
At 3 o'clock Friday morning con
tract was let to Globe Construction
Company of Salisaw, Ok., for build'
ing the Baptist college at Plainview
Contract price $60,000.
In a fire which destroyed Biggs'
Sanitarium at Greensboro, N. C.,
Frank Green of Goldston, Chatham
county, was burned to death.
The J. C. Trees Oil Company
drilled in an oil .well with a 500-bar-
rel capacity on Jeems Bayou, north-
east of Moorings Port, La., not fat
from the Texas line, Friday.
A fire occurred Wednesday morn-
ing at Big Springs, causing an es-
timated damage of $40,000. The
entire Bauer block, consisting oí
seven Btories, was destroyed.
In an election in Bryan Tuesday
on a city bond issue of $75,000 the
measure carried by 195 to 18.
Professors of the University oí
Chicago, curators of the field and
officers of the Humane Society, saw
a python of India swallow a forty-
eight-pound pig Thursday."
Otto H. Meyer of Brenhara, a
theatrical singer, was shot and in-
stantly killed in a room at the Worth
Hotel in Ft. Worth, Saturday, b>
Fred Morris of Denton.
Seven persons were burned to
death in the town of Resurrection
Colo., when the mansion of Augus-
tine Zerrano was destroyed by an in-
cendiary fire, cremating the family
Saturday.
The heaviest fall of snow in the
history of southern Arizona was re-
corded Thursday and Friday. More
than eight inches fell at Bisbee and
Tombstone, where snow is seldom
seen. '
Thirty or more lives were snuffed
out, sixty people were injured and
property estimated to be worth $1,-
000,000 was destroyed as a result oi
the tornado which wrecked Brinkley,
Ark., Tuesday night.
William Alien and ethers are
sinking a shaft twelve miles south
of Stráwn. If coal a certain thick-
ness is found a big land deal will,
be consummated and another big
mining1 town opened! '•
Eastbound G. H? pasésngeí" train
Sunday rah through tin open switch
in the .Sanderson yards at El Paso
and dashed .into a switch engine
and ten persons,were m^c or less
seriously injured'.
Drawings and plans of the world's
flrst airship to be operated by wire-
less electricity wefe completed Sat-
urday, and nest week construction
will begin in the balloon factory oí
Leo Steven^, in New York.,
A campaign in Chicago to raise
funds for the aid of the sufferers of
the recent Were storm in Arkansas
was started Monday. Mayor Bussc
received a telegram asking for aid
from Mayor Jackson of Brinkley
which was almost totally destroyed
'lhe motions by the Standard Oil
4*oiimany in Indiana and the Repub-
lic: Oil company of Ohio, for a re*
CHAOTIC CONDITIONS EXIST. CON-
FUSION BEING ESPECIALLY
NOTICABLE IN HOUSE.
SPECIAL SESSION CONVENES
Governor Signa Paw Billa. Many New
OnesfAre Introduced In
Both Branches.
Auatln: At 2:40> o'clock Saturday
afternoon (true time), but at 10 o'clock
a. m. by the Houae clock, Gov. Camp-
bell eent to the Legislature a proel
mat]on ordering It to convene In
apeclal aeaalon at 2 o'clock. In thla
he aubmltted the alx so-called plat-
form demanda which have not been
voted upon by both houaea. There
were ten platform demanda In alL
f Auatln: Proceedlnga in the Legis-
lature during the laat few days and
nights, especially in the Houae, have
been so chaotic, and rulea have been
followed ao loosely that la has been
exceedingly difficult, and at Hlmea lm
poaaible, to make intelligent reporta.
The legislators have violated the
eight hour law, the fourteen-hour law,
the alxteen-hour law, the full-crew law
ímd the Sunday law, working auch long
faoura that they are fagged, nervoua,
excitable and nolay. The confusion in
the Houae haa been ao great that half
the time the newspaper men could not
hear nor understand what the clerks
read, and, of course, the legislators,
aa a rule, were no better informed.
Oftlmes the numbers of bills are In-
correctly read, as Is afterward ascer-
tained upon investigation. In the cir-
cumstances such lapses are unavoid-
able. Nevertheless, bills are being
ruBhed through, and seemingly few
members have a rational idea of what
the bills are or what they are doing.
An incident Wbich occurred late
Saturday afternoon illustrates the con-
dition. A bill was read. At the press
tables, .not more than five feet away
from the reading clerk's desk, about
all that could be heard was "lunatics"
and "non compos mentis." Although
about half of the members were
crowded down the front central aisle
and Bome of them had appropriated
the seats of newspaper men, quite a
common practice, it is doubtfnl that
many could hear any of the reading of
the bill, and those probably did not
know what It was about.
Down the aisle, through the crowd
eatne Mr. Ray, wildly. "Mr. Speaker,
I move to atrike out the enacting
clause,"r -he ahouted.
"What ia this bill?" he waa aSked.
"t dont know and I-don't care," he
exclaimed.
In the Houae.
Auatln: The Houae waa called to
bllf was JntrdbucedTby M* Adams,
request, creating the office of 8u-
rintendent of Delinquent Taxea.
The Houae adopted the free confer
ence report on the Confederate pen-
sion joint reaolution. The compro-
mise establishes a 5c tax instead of
6c.
The Houae, upon motion by Mr,
Mobley, reconaidered the action by
which Senate bill by Mr. Real, creat-
ing the office of Aaalatant District
Attorney, was killed yesterday, and
after amending it ao aa to make the
application to 8an Antonio only,
paaaed it to a third reading.
Senate bUl by Veale, the Wichita
Palls Railway merger, was passed
finally.
Pinally paaaed the following: Texar
charter, Gonzalea Independent
school district, Corpus Chrlstl char-
ter, Brown County road law, Corpua
Chriatl - independent. school. district,
Cofer Senate billa, the Juvenile school
billa, Alexander Interurban railroad
bill, Senate bill levying a tax upon
h unte ra outaide of their own county,
Senate bill regulating the practice of
nuralng.
The Houae concurred in Senate
amendments to the Robertson insur-
ance bill; also to the Standlfer bill,
giving the right of eminent domain to
light, gas and aewer companies and
the Mobley statute codification bill.
The following billa paaaed finally:
Ellla County road law, authorising
county bond issuea for road building;
mineral prospecting on State land;
providing traveling expenses for Dis-
trict Judges; vagrancy bill; ceding
land to Federal Government for forts
at El Paso; extending terms of Dis-
trict Courts; regulatlpg fire and acci-
dent companies; providing for the sale
and disposition of the property of the
Court of Criminal Appeals at Tyler
and Dallas; for purchasing the Lamar
papers; providing payment for jury
Commissioners.
The bill repealing the pistol tax
caused prolonged discussion. Mr.
Crisp moved to postpone the bill in*
definitely (which kills it).
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MINISTER DECLARES MILITARY
ACTIVITY IS FOR DEFENSE
OF LITTOE COUNTRY.
hextj|BÍx f$(! W *
I leaAig of
tv at' San neeicféd figs
board in Austin
r monthly see*
proved reports
it and financial
Convicts on
i; recaptured,
P qU
inflJ l&Y
"racing
rbansas Legislature Thurs-
kHled the Bouic-Whittington
bill, which provided for
racing at Hot Springe under the
iirection of a commission. /The
*ote was 55 to 14.
As a result of the work of train
a aouth bound ««prese on
the oust#)- suit's recently
against them and for a mod-
i lien lion of the judgment, were over-
ruled by the Missouri supreme court
Tuesday,
Under the auspices of the Texas
Sunday School Association, a tmii
party composed of four or six prom-
inent Sunday School workers began
last week at Cameron a series of
Sunday School rallies that will not
be concluded until the latter part
of this month.
Father Erastus Anison, priest in
charge of &t. Stanislaus Catholic
Church in Belmont avenue, New-
ark, N. J. was Wednesday assassin-
ated by persons, who have not bedn
identified. f
Mayor T. H. Jackson, "of Brink-
lev, Ark., has issued an appeal for
aid. In an official statement lie
reviews the destruction wrought by
the tornado Monday night, places
the number of dead at thiry-five
and says over 200 persons were in-
jured.
Enrique Creel, governor of the
State of Chihuahua, Mexico, Satur-
day announced that the legislature
of his State will enact a law prohib-
iting railroad ticket scalpcrs from
doing business.
By an order of the Interior De-
partment about 3,000j000 acres of
land in the counties aAng the east-
ern border ofi Wyoming are to be
thrown open $t 6|ce tq homse-
lowed to
Ole
¿Jfhe fiction which haa exiated in
the Texáa State Senate becauae of the
charges made by Senator H. Bascom
Thomarof Hopkins County, aometimtoa
upon thai floor of the Senate, but more
•specially through the public prints,
culminated Saturday in the expulsion
of Senator Thomas from that body by
a vote of 21 to 3.
After nineteen hours of memorable
debate> Speaker. A. M. Kennedy of the
Hous¿ of Representative went down
In defeat Saturday night, there being
a majority of about twenty against
him. 'By this action the resignation
aa Speaker of the House was asked of
Mr. Kennedy.
Kennedy Investigation.
Auatln: Having procured from the
Western Union Telegraph office in
this city original copies of nine tele-
grams which passed between Speaker
A. M. Kennedy in Austin and Miss
Ji
M. Ken
Jessy Kendig in Kansas City, the com
dtttee. Which has been investigating
tK° ,m- jsssm
body, pie;
affecting the Speaker of
the lofrer House of the State lawmak-
ing body, prepared its findings of fact"
from the testimony adduced, and at
3:30 Thursday night submitted these
to the body which created it.
One .Paragraph' Report.,,
"We find no instancia in the legiat-
lative history of Texas, from the evl
dence before us, where an employe
has been excused or paid money out
of the treasury under circumstanceB
similar to this."
This is with reference to the em
ployment of Miss Kendig; to the fact
that although she was appointed a
class A clerk on i Jan. 16 at \ salary
of |120 per month and did not report
for duty until Fib. 26, she waa paid
one month'a salary by the Speaker.
The attorneys for Mr. Kennedy made
decided objection to thla paragraph,
but the committee declined to change
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Important Bill Paaaea.
The bill appropriating $50,000 for
topographic aurvey of Texas water
la by United States Geological
Survey finally passed Thursday. This
is a preliminary stop to building
levees to prevent overflows and to ac-
oompliah drainage. Arthur Stiles of
the United 8titee Geological BarVey
came to Austla at the request of legis-
la tora to give technical advice
earning the proposition.
Gov.
Billa Signed by Governor.
•sdgy
One apfteara on
aala aa Houae bill No. 90, pro-
the buying and aelMpg of
Plan Oppoaed by Bexar.
All the Bexar County Representa-
tives will now unite with Senator Real
from that district in an-attempt to de-
feat the bill providing for an approp-
riation for the establishment of a
ward for the tubercular Insane as an
annex to the Southwestrn Insane
Asylum at San Antonio.
IN THE 8ENATE
In Senate Late Wedneeday Night.
After 1:30 o'clock Wednesday night
the Senate finally passed measures as
follows:
Senate joint resolution to amend the
Con8tltution so aa to permit towns of
2,500 or more inhabitants to incorpor-
ate by special charter. The measure
as drawn read "5,000 or more," but
waa amended on motion of Senator
Meacbum.
House bill placing Frio and Free-
stone Counties under the stock law;
exempting Karnes County from hide
and animal inspection law; stock law
for Aransas County; providing road
systems for Houston, Rusk and Bur-
net. Counties; independent charter for
Gainesville; fixing time for holding
court in Fifth and Seventh Districts.
Road laws for Lee and Burnet Coun-
ties.
Creating the Hereford independent
school district in Deaf Smith County,
Hamlin independent school district in
Jones County, Dorchester independent
school -district in Grayson County.
Conferring civil and criminal juris-
dlctlcm upon the Ochiltree County
Court?- Karnes County hide and ani-
mal law, Potter County game law,
pfontaÉmery County fish and game
law. ST
Hott&e bin No. 1 by Mr. Standlfer
conferring the right of eminent do-
main upon water and light companies.
The following were engrossed:
Elliott bill exempting gotton mills
from taxation for a peffod of ten
years.
Road laws for Val Verde, Fayette,
Uvalde, Frio, McLennan, Jasper Coun-
ties.
Wichita Falls, Higgins, McLean,
Balllnger and Johnson independent
school dlatriet; Austin city charter
bill.
Wednesday morning the Senate
fidally passed Houae bills granting
charters to Greenville and Beaumont.
Passed concurrent resolution author-
ising the Agricultural and Mechanical
College to accept the Adams fund
from Federal Government.
Passed to third reading House bill
exempting Bell County from County
Auditor's law.
8enator Watson's bill codifying In-
surance lawa finally passed after
adoption. ptLamendmenta (by Mr. Hud-
speth)-allowing companies to Invest In
electric street railway bonds and (by
Mr. Watson) requiring mutual Insur-
ance companlea to have aasets of.
1200,000 4n excess of liabllUiaa.
Former Lieut Gov. Neal came in,
waa greeted with applauae and waa
given the privilege of the floor.
MORE WARSHIPS DISPATCHER
Adminietration Haa Decided to
Augment Force to Six
Veeeele.
The
Washington, March 16.—Nica-
ragua, through its Minister, Senor
Espinoza, protested to Secretary
Knox today that the military and
naval activity now in progress in
that country, is destined entirely for
defensive purposes; that she docs
not contemplate making any attack
on her sister Republics.
Notwithstanding the Minister'
assertion of Nicaragua's peaceful in-
tentions toward her neighbors, the-
administration has decided to aug-
ment the naval force in Central
American waters to a tota) of six
vessels. In addition to the York-
town, now en route for Amapala.
Honduras, the armored cruisers
Maryland and Washington are to
remain on the west coast, the former
going to Ccajutla, Salvador, and tho
latter to Corinto.
Encroachment of Rio Grande.
Washington: The attention of
Representative Garner has been call-
ed to the damage threatened to the
military reservation at Brownsville-
by the encroachment of the Rio
Grande. Concern over the danger
to the reservation is expressed at the
War Department a¡nd Congress may
be asked to relieve the situation by
an appropriation of $40,000.
Taft May Hunt In Texas.
'San Antonio: John N. Green of
Encinal, who has just returned from
the Taft ranch near Corpus Christi,
says President Taft will visit Texas
next fall and enjoy a few weeks'
hunting and golfing on the ranch.
The exact date has not been solected,
but the visit will be made in October
or November.
For Normal 8chool.
Wichita Falls: The business men
af Wichita Falls have appointed a
committee to make an attractive
offer to the State for the location' of
a normal school at this place. Sev-
eral other North Texas towns aro
after this institute, but if the size of -
the bonus counts for anything
Wichita Falls will land it.
Bill Effecting Druggleta.
Senate bill No. 217. by Meaara. Stur-
geon and Hayter, aeema to have been
In aoqpe section a. In aa
with Dr. .B. T. Van Kant,
and general manager of the nachie
" mpany of Par , well *
r that the
affect
New Corpua Chriatl Churth.
Corpus Christi: Bishop Morrison
closed his series of meetings Mon-
day night. At the morning and eve-
ning serviqes he raised by popular
subscription, nearly $15,000 for the
erection of a church house. He
stated the building was to cost $40,•
000.
Oklahoma Rate Situation.
Galveston: According to late dis-
patches, Kansas City has declared
war on the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Railroad Company, and Ok-
lahoma City has sent an ambassador ^
to Kansas City to notify thia, bel-!
ligerent city to 4et up or be bov-
Ottcfe | | ' :
For Street trading.
Brady: A force of about 100
Greeks is expected in here to work
on the street grading work.
8mallpox in Guatemala.
City of Mexico: A terrible epi-
demic of smallpox is said to be
scourging Northern Guatemala.
Hundreds of villages along the Gua-
temala-Mexican frontier are affected
and 3,000 persons have been vacci- *
natcd in an effort to check the spread 1
of ¿the disease. y
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Take "Hand in Balkan Affair. •
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Tokio: (The Japanese Foreign
Office refuses to givé a definite re-
ply regarding the negotiations being
carried on between the Ottoman
Government ^nd Mr. Kuni, the Jap-
anese special enpoy to the Porte, re-
garding the Balkan situation.
Froat Monday Morning.
Dallas: A light frost was noted
in many exposed places in and about
the city Monday morning. During
the latter part of the night the wind
died down, and it was clear, every-
thing was favorable to the frost,
though the thermometer was not .
much below 38 or 40.
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Atterbury & Fox. The Knox County News (Knox City, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, March 19, 1909, newspaper, March 19, 1909; Knox City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth178975/m1/2/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.