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McKINNEY. TEXAS, TpURSDAY. OCTOBER 18. 1887.
NO. 87.
ith the Reckless Desperation
Of the Old Guard of the Immortal First Napo-
leon at the great battle of Waterloo,
L. WAD DILL,
has raised the Black Flag of "No Quarter" and
extermination on high prices at his Great Com-
missary Department with the broad sword of
unprecedented and irresistable figures on
aeon, Flour, Sugar, Molasses
Coffee, Bice, Tobaccoo, German Millettand
lanned Goods, he demolishes high priced competi-
;ion.
R. L. WADDILL
Makes the rich man happy and the poor one
proud as he names the low prices on Flower Pots,
Fruit Jars, Jelly Glasses and all kinds of Glass-
ware and Queensware. Let nothing but sickness
prevent an early call on
_T._ _ tsstj-wsM- '.a. ~.-..mafi
K. Bmernon. Preshlcut, T.T. Buieraon, Vlcs l*re«'t, T. B. KbiOThoii, C'Mhier
First National Bank,
or MeKlnnoy, *©*• .
Capital and Surplus, • ■ S 100,000.
Buys iiml hciis excliungo on the principal cities In Kurope. Hret clans pape
Oirrctokm: Krnncis Einorgon, T. T. Kui^rsor,T. U, Kuiemon, «'no L. T«ovejoy
C. H. Welch.
Bnalnewillour^-^ijraj^tojyKjn^^^^^^
3 9 *>. DO WELL
DEALER IN
HARDWRAE!
TINWARE, GLASSWARE
& QUEENS WARE.
agent for american
powder co.
E. Louisana Street.
LU..1
CHEAP - MONEY I
On Real Estate Security in Collin and Denton Counties
Theodore Hurts,
LOAN HXtOKJBR.
Office with J. L. poggett, South Sitle Square, McKinney, Texas.
SMITH
K. K. WILCOX, TOM ANDItKWH.
Wlloux As, Audrcwit,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
M'KINNKY, . - TEXAS.
Up atnlra over Shnlifn Grocery Store,
Went Side Public Square.
.J. N. GIBfilOM,
Attorney at Law,
McKlnney, Texas.
Ofllce over Hill A Webster's store.
Geo. B. 8MITII,
ATTOHNEY-AT-LAW.
Ofllce over I. D. Newsoine's.
McKINNK Y. - - - TKX.
JS. A. KVA.NIS.
Attorney at Law,
McKlnney, '1'exM.
Ofllce over McAulay's Dreg Store.
M. N. METZ, M. D.
Homaipatbic PbyikHin and Surfim
McKINNK Y, TEXAS.
(hronic diseases and diseases of wo-
men and children a specialty. All calls,
dny or night at his office will be prompt-
ly attended to.
Ofllce up stairs in Still's building.
Ml H. L. Pearson,®
Dental Surgeon,
Office over Ardlnger's store. Real-
denoe corner third clock north O. 8.
Presbyterian church. Teeth extracted
without psth. 30;ly
ROKOKK PEKMITti.
Washington. Oct. 4.—Swt
tary Lamar says the order
sued by him to day, refusing i
issue further permits to sport
men to visit the ludian Teniu
ry, was necessary to stop 11
abuse of the privilege. Ail
ring the past summer the
partmeut was flooded with 1
plications for permits to hi
and lish in the Territory. Tl
requests come from every
of the country, from Maine
California. Occasional
quqats were received frt
Great Britain. Recently sot
of the head men of the 60,1
or more Indians who reside
the Territory applied to
secretary to abolisu tbeqggj
era went onTytosiaugnter tne
game which the Indians them
selves need for food, and that
at the present rate of destruc
tion not a deer or a bear will be
left in the Territory at the end
of the next decade. More titan
this, they allege that the white
men debauch their women, and
in other ways exhibit their vi-
cious tendencies, calculated to
demoralize and degrade their
young men.
HMTKSTHY.
The subject of pluming for-
est trees on our pruirie laud*
has, of late years, received
some notice by the ureas. The
Texas Farm and Ranch has
quite frequently alluded to the
mutter through its correspond
enceand otherwise. If there in
anything in it, of present or re
mote value to the state, or the
people who inhabit her broad
and treeless regions, it ought to
be agitated and pushed without
any Yet up until its benefits arc
realized.
The object of forestry has
been of paramount importance
to the people in the western
states, and has received the
sanction of their local as well
as the general governments.
The effort there has resulted in
the planting of large areas of
forest trees, adding beauty,
comfort, and value to the coun-
try ,aud increasing the supply of
wood for fuel and other pur-
poses. The nbed of firewood,
and shade trees on our prairies
ought of itself be inducement
enough to cause the people to
plant more trees on their farm.
And then if the growing of tim
ber to any limited or reasonable
extent, would increase the rain-
fall—as is believed by many
and no doubt correctly since
the severe drouth that has vis
ited with such destructive re
suits, so much of our prairie
country, the people ought to get
thoroughly waked up to u sub-
jcet that promises any protec-
tion against the return of such
a calamity, and put on foot u
movement to obviate it in the
future, if human efforts can
possibly accomplish it.
I am aware that the growing
of timbers on the most of our
prairie lands would be a slow
frocess, but it can be done, as
know from observation. Trees
of hard wood such as black
walnut and hackberry have
grown in this country on prai
rie soil, and from the seett in
the last twenty-five or thirty
ears to be from ten to fifteen
nches in diameter, and on some
probably larger. Some of the
nackberries were especially
large and beautiful, growing
along fence lines where origi
nally stood worm fences made
latter, but the people should
love lirst. and tfonlv by agiia
fon, create a favorable public
♦niyuent. which would induce
the state to lend its aid. Tin
•ill introduced and made a law
it the last Medina of tli«* l<egis
lutuie creating a buereau of
[riculture, returned f.oiu the
tuuuittee on agriculture to the
>use with an amendment by
[the committee to also include
forestry in the provisions of the
law, but tin' bill being passed
.substitute for another one
ton the same subject and
the house not having
[adopted the committee report
jwitli its amendment, it was con
Mru. tl by parliamemry ruling
-and correctly 1 presume -lo!
•hide the committee amend
THE DENTIST !
McKINNEY, TEX.
Gold tilling* a speciality.
Artificial teeth Inserted on gold metal,
rubber or celluloid plates. M v
r,
DnievModlcine^ |heniical«BHHH|
Fancy and Toilet Good*. , FEMALE TONIC
Stand and Hanging Lamps of all Kinds, ssss
M u I to UK SS> irta« tMitltw at um aafkm*.
MMAIC WfiMUKftft
FEMLE WEWHEH«
Phvolelans P
t 'areftilly torn pounded at All* Hours.
C. H. Etfwiris' Music House,
• —. ■—
Hnpwniivii
lh« (mm i# oivmm. pronptlf oar,
on of Create fwli TmI
tattand^Bn Kim Mtrcct, Dnllnss. Texas,
.
Peotiml Balm
HWII
It tie ww for
B Ms Mae la ese for UM tmn. tad M*«
MM a IS a*o Mfklr IMMMMM tar Sfc
At all
SALESMEN
Panted to solicit orders tor oar ra-
iNurssnr Stoek. Good Salary aid
4 The largest stock kept by any house in
for firlcei btrforo buvlM cl
of cedar poles, among the first
built in the county. The seed
had doubtless been carried
there from the cedar brake in
the bark and crevices of the
poles, where often the hackber-
rv and cedar grew together.
These particular trees that so
long attracted my attention ad-
miration, giving shade and com-
fort to the traveler, and beauty
to the scenery, had, when I last
passed that way, yielded to the
woodman's ax.
I once read after a writer,
whose name 1 do not remember,
bnt who stated that the drouth
Eeriods from time immemorial
ad visited the western or prai-
rie portion of Texas at intervals
of from twenty five to forty
years, I think it was. This
conclusion he had reached from
scientific investigation and cor-
roborating facts gathered from
the oldest settlers and Indian
traditions. It has been about
thirty years ago since the last
severe and protracted drouth
visited this part of the state.
Then, if this writer approximn
ted the truth as to the time in
terveninc between these calam
itous visitations, there is time
before ths next one will proba
bly come to grow numberless
i groves of forest and other trees
on the extensive prairies of
Texas, and to fill all the waste
places about the farms and
urass and highways with a thrif-
ty growth of nseinl timber.
To omim aa effort of this
kind effective, the state should
with the people is the
t HOOM rOI.I.AfMIM..
Tlii' Mvud SHIHiik Ihi) i outline for I hi'
I ulirurulu S|M i'HlatoiN.
A I .os Ati«e| eji letter to tii«'
New Volk ili itdd sa.v * that to
a elose and liuid headed ob-
server it is not iiurd to see signs
that the great real estate booiu
totters. There is a more fever
isli haste all over this Southern
country to unload town lots ;
the projectors of towns are,
here and there, offering better
terms; the baud of music in
big wagon has to toot louder
and longer to get up an excite
in, lit ; I lie i-jii estate oliices be-
gin to dUpiutV "tempting
els;" uieu who some lliotils ago
demanded a third down and
hk all hhkak down tmkkk.
in die report of the execution
of .lohn Smith, at Franklin, re
ceutl^.a signilicaut scene on
ilie scaffold wii;4 described
The prisoner iiuh long been
confirmed in the way of sin.
He was about to die for a cold-
TBXAM
Kains have been timely
grass in K.nox county Is
good.
A new bank ltsts
iaed at Dallas, called
Texas National Bank, with
blooded murderer. Standing capital of #1,000,(*)0.
beneath the gallows lie titude a Monday niirht of laat wask
short talk, lie spoke of im the gin house of Rev. J. w!
pending death with alight eiuo- Wilson la miles northeast of
tton. Then of "his people Coojser, Delta county, was
;wtth some signs of tears. I hen burned, together with about 45
of his wife, with sobs aud bales of cotton. N« insurance,
trembling voice. Then of "his , . .
old mother'' aud there he . 1 October 4th, the
broke down completely and *xu house and ubout bales of
gave way to uucontroilabie belonging to J. L.
grief.
Ah, yea! It is right there
faued to become a
to forestry
law.
In connection with tree plant
ing. the subject of artificial
ponds, tnuks, artesian wells,
aud other modes of increasing
permanent surface water, might
very probably be coiiidered.
Any law or legislation on the
subject would necessarily have
to be local in its character, aud
coulined to such portions of (lie
state as need the benefits it
would confer.
W. 1\ Hancock,
In Texas Farm and Kaie-h.
K.MiLISII I.AMl 1.0It IIS l> AMKBH A.
^ Washinutoti, I). Oct. t
The general land ofllce is in re
. down uiiu yhU, ig right I
III SIX months aud a year, or w|lh JJf graying hairs, her
even "the balance at - m J " ^
win, 8 miles northeast of
er were burned. No ii
and origin of fire unknoern.
Cumberland
real estate man,
who announces in large letters
that the lots reiualng unsold
two weeks hence will be with
drawn from sale, or that the
price of lots will be raised by
l« per cent, every Monday
hereafter, and "now is your
chance."
Meantime prudent men are
quietly drawing out, realizing
what I lie v can, and there are
poi teutons rumors of "wash" or
fictitious sales. Indeed, some
newspapers iu the Slate are
honestly warning the public lo
beware. Mere and there a
. ... .. .. . - "boom" has broken down, li/.-
information tlmi u| or ,
doulit," said a San Fran
. '.i, yJniLC\T i ttfross which time church convened in
other kind of• —'ul,(^ Hnrrow arH cutting their Thursday night of las
cutting
furrows, and her faith and nf
fection that never wavers or
doubts. It is to the "old moth-
er" that the man's heart turns
at last when trouble, or atHic
tion, or remorse overtakes hi in.
Other loves may be stronger,
■
Presbyterian
in Waco
iy night of last week,
derable number of min*
A consi
ister and delegates
cut.
were pres-
of last
Wednesday evening
week, J. W. Wood shot and
killed A. J. Ford, at Griffin,
!!'"!. 'n'"«ga^h8J'wSd M
ami'011 made his way fn-
side the penitentiary walls at
Itusk, asking protection from
British syidicate, which is said
to have purchased a large tract
of laud iu Iowa from the Me
Uregor Kasteru Kail road com
pany, is mercilessly evicting
settlers, the title to the land be
ing iu dispute iu the state
courts. A settler writes: "A
woman over sixty years of age,
sick iu bed, lias been taken by
six men and carried out into a
driving storm. Delicate wo-
men have had their hands '-jd
with cords till their tlesh was
brnised, and then dragged
shrieking from their homes.
Children have been born pre-
maturely at llie sight of the
evictors. Strong men have
been run down by ruffians oil
horseback and carried hand
cuffed from their little posses
sious. I might go on and mill
tiply instances where a sheriff,
with a writ of ejectment in one
hand and a British contract in
the other, gave these poor peo
pie the choice between two
evils which they would take.
Affidavits of the cruelties prac-
ticed are being collected, says
the writer, for use at Washing
ton next winter, and will lie
read in both houses of con j
gress. They are expected to I
create a Herniation when (he peo
pie of the Fast are brought ful
ly to realize what native Amer
ican pioneers are suffering at
the hands of new invaders.
INftMT* Till:
UKIDLEH.
i*lsean here ihe other day,
"wlier there is a house any
where off Montgomery aud Mar
ket streets in 'Frisco that will
sell for more to day than it
would have brought two years
ago, and that seems to me a
fair te.si for the business men
who has money to put into city
lots, But there has been a
boom with us. Oh, yes, of
course; a boon in sand lots out
near the park. Tilings you
could have bought two years
ago for !ff> a front foot have
v\ lieu a man
IKJ1 Mini s
IWH.
The following description of
the habits, and ravages of this
tree i ii'iuy, taken from Miss
Treat' * Injurious Insects of the
Farm and Garden, will be found
interesting and profitable at
this season :
This beetle is known to grid
le a number of different trees,
among which may be mention
tioned apple,pear, peach, plum,
hickory, elm, persimmon, and
American linden. Both sexes of
the beetle feed upon the bark
of the hickory, but only the fe
males, so far as we are aware,
girdle the twigs. After partly
girdling a particular tw ig, she
lays a number of eggs iu the
upper portion that has been
killed, each egg being usually
inserted beneath a bud. 'flu-
twig usually, though not. al-
ways, breaks by the force of
the wind during the winter,
and the larva* flourish upon the
dead wood as it lies upon the
ground, burrowing .just be-
neath the bark, and when very
numerous leaving little else
'hau the outside Iwrk. The
beetles do this work in the fall
of the J'ear. The young larva*
hutches and works a short di>
tance into the tree before the
winter sets in, and continues
working through spring and
brought > !.">; and
buys that sort of property he
lieeds t" cover II Up iplick to
keep it from blowing away.
Oh. yes, we had a boom ; we've
got a lot of fools, too ; but it's
about petered out, I guess, and
' the fellows w ho have got their
llioliev ill will get it out soon ."
* " '
"How long it last down here;"
"Heaven only knows. There
has bei'ii, so far, no shock to
eoiilidciicc. But look here,
v,-ry few people pay cash dow n
I for what they are buying, In*
| cause a very small proportion
j of buyers mean to hold. The
universal rule has been one
I third down and the balance iu
six months and a year. Oflule
sellers are taking a tenth down,
w hich i-. a sign that the buyers
are less eage. Well, some of
us made u calculation the other
day which is startling. It is
that, taking the whole country
between Saud Diego and Sacra
memo, in which the speculation
has been most rampant, the de
ferred payments, due in No
vember ami December, will foot
may obscure this
t Mlicr ties may be closer,
the rapture of joys that are
present may duli the memory
of the absent. The wife cling-
ing iu absorbed happiness to
the arm, or little ones clamber
ing, fond ami trustful about the
knee, may efface all thought of
"the old mother." But when a
great crisis comes, aud the
strong man is bending beneath
a burden too grivioiis to be
borne, tin* vision comes to him
! of one idealized iu his heart at
least who never doubted, who
never wearied, but who loved
all the time with a love that
passeth understanding The
wife, w ondering at this at tirst.
accepts it at last, ipiietly acijui
osccing, but happy iu her moth
i er's heart to know that from
her own children in the days to
come this same miracle shall \
be rendered lilllo hel*! .lolltl j
Smith did the right thing iu
"breaking down completely"!
when he began lo talk of his
old mother. His grief at. this
point was a touch of nat ure that
graced even the scaffold and
furnished about the only cvi
j deuce wc can get from the rec-
i ord that lie carried a human
heart In his breast. -From
tin* Atlanta Constitution.
sou mi i to kkxkmiikk.
are
tin
Beautiful thoughts
flowers of t lie mind.
Never contract a friendship
with a man that is not better
than yourself.
lb- who thinks lie can't win
is ijuite sure about it. for he
has already lost.
When a man wants to find
fault he will do so if he has to
spend all his time looking for
it.
There never was any heart
trul)' great and generous that
was not also tender and coin
passionate,
Advice is like snow; the
mob law
Perkins \ Degarmo's gin and
mill, near Sunset Texas, was
completely destroyed by fire
Tuesday night of last week, to-
gether with about HO bales of
cotton belonging to different
mrties. The fire was caused
>y the explosion of a lamp,
which was upset while pressing
a bale of cotton. Thomas
Jackson was very badly burn-
ed iu trying to suppress the
Humes. The total loss is esti-
mated at about #10,000.
Keepers of saloons in Fort
Worth have shown no disposi-
tion to buck against the new
law, which require* screens to
be removed, naughty pictures
to come down and other
familiar apparatus of the bar-
room to disappear. It is learn-
ed that in Austin and Houston
saloon keepers are making a
tight on the constitutionality of
the screen law.
\\ B. ( Buck) Pettus of Go-
liad county ruised some 12,000
bushels of corn this year, but
will b ed vers little of it, as he
is already offered 50 cents per
bushel for it on the ranch and
expects lo sell it for 75 CfS. At
that rate and the present price
of beef le* cannot afford to feed
it. but as he has exceptional
line pasture lands, he expects
to put ill grass beeves for $4.25
per loo pounds, which beats
corn feeding at Do cts. per bush-
el for corn.
up about )H5,fMJ0,000. That is j softer it falls the
to say, the great army of men dwells upon and the
and women speculators who ^ sinks into the mind,
have bought for a rise and paid
a third or less down must pay
up betw.ieri *-10,000.001) and
$45,000,000 between now and
next January or forfeit their
purchases and what they have
already paid."
If it is true, as this gentleman
believes, that between now and
the
longer
softer
it
it
U rand view, Tex., Oct. 6.—Ed
Beeves, who is claimed to be
one of the leading train rob-
bers of the state, was
captured here to-day. An at-
tempt was made to arrest him
last night near tin* house of his
brother iu law when he resisted
by firing at theiu vigorously
while the same was returned
fioiu tie* other side until proba-
ably a hundred shots were tired.
He was forced to retreat to
. w here he could hide himself in
ostly followers are not to be th«* high grass und cotton, and
Iked; lest while a man maketh w,.n. rt,util)l,Hll roundabout
his tram longer he makes Ins u„. tl«|.l to watch until blood-
wings shorter. hounds could be had, and Sher-
No man ever got rid of a lie iff Boyd and Deputy Colter
by telling it; it is sure to come Vvere telegraphed for, but when
sooner or later to hobnob with day came he had made his es-
its author. j cape, and was this morning
wi„ f in HU
NtalluiuiiU) "dne on r«,l .«al | u.t nec« arily !«• about 12 o'clock, bearing two
transaction!*, tl.cff.ator part of 0 ™ful "" tu wb,,tw""r" ,
which are speculative, the col 1 he wise prove and the fool-
lapse draws nearer. In the confess by their conduct
opinion of many Culiforniaus,, thai a lifeot employment is the
the sooner the better for real j or,'y lib* worth living.
interests of the State. Of Keason and kindness are the
course a collapse in speculation great promoters of that har
■ i m j Hi—!' ' Hherman, Texas, Oct. 6.—-A
trrrible death occured at Pres-
Xrt
r*
noon. About ten days ago a
prominent farmer, who lives at
that place by the nume of G. ML
Crouch, was attacked with
bleeding at the nose. After
stopping the How of blood he
lay down on a work bench and
went to sleep when, it is sup-
posed, that what is known M
the screw Hv, deposited its
larva; on the blood in his
trils. The next day he
to suffer with intense pahf in
the head, and thinking tnat he
had an attack of spasmodio ca-
tarrh was treated for that dis-
ease and continued to grow
worse till day before yest
day. Kit her his physician
red the
from i
rijeccea tn his
mi is a
and another Wise. In the mat' at the Alliance, and even called destroyer of these
values. With good seasons, j ter of provisions it will be well It hard names, and—well —U is outes, when in a few
and the great West at its best, off, for it will have Oats, Kire, too late now to begin pondering j large quantities of
Bacon. Hogg and Berry, to say to, or making love to the Alii-1
nothing or a very large Cobb.
will bring down prices of pro I nioiiv and hilarity which gener
ate friendship and affection.
ducti ve property also for a time
but it is generally acknowledg
ed here that the prices asked
for fanning and orchard lands
are a good deal too high in all
the southern half of the State.
Orange land, with abundant
water as-ured, may be worth, if
favorably located, $!tt)o to #400
an sere, but such land has of
I'here are nettles everywhere,
but smooth, green grasses are
more common still. The blue
of heaven is larger than the
cjoild.
i"g
wounds which ho received Inst
night, one in the back of his
head and one in his left thigh;
neither wound is thought dan-
gerous. Boyd and Colter
have gone with him to the
jail.
ton Bend, in the northern
of this county, yesterday
- ... - i late changed hands at #7')0.#H00
summer, transforming lo pupa ilM,| ,.v,.n ^i.mki an acre. Wheat
only towards autumn. \Y hen
ever its pruning are found
they should be gathered and
burned.
Notwithstanding the drouth
of last year. Texas assessed
values have increased about
180,000,000. This increase, too,
was iti the older counties,
which are almost stationary
The West, which offers Be-
laud. tit for nothing but gruin,
has been sold at #l5o to #200 an
acre ; raisin land has gone off
readily at $250 to #4<hi per acre
Such prices ought to repel I bo ignorant past
na fide purchasers Ex. ! - •
Nothing but a right can ever
lie expedient, since i hut can
i never be true expediency which
would sacrifice a greater good
to a less.
The aspirations a race for
further and higher develop (
uieiit nerve the arm which
strikes down the barriers of an
nos-
— There are quite a Inn*** num
Iu color the Fiftieth congress ber of newspapers in Texas at
present that are
#riei
growing quite
the Farmers'
w ill be a little mixed, ss it will
contain White. Brown and friendly toward
Grey. As to temper and dis- Alliance, are even getting loud his friends conceive!
position there will be a ureal In their praises of tne Alliance, that he was suffering
BPBBWiWIWIIIMPWWi- ring rr
grettest room for growth, was variety, as one member is Gay, These took great pleasure a few worms, aud injected in
so prostrated with drowth that another Bland, another Crisp months back in making mouths calomel, which is a well
it snows a decrease in assessed
>egr«
will
Texas will easily make another
such record as in 1888. when
the state's wealth was augment-
ed more than 1100,000,000.
One member is long andanotb-
«U lil salsa %
iv univ
came from his
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Kirkpatrick, E. W. The Democrat. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 13, 1887, newspaper, October 13, 1887; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth191505/m1/1/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.