The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 47, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 12, 1910 Page: 1 of 8
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DEALER IN
Yellow Pine Lumber
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; Brick, Lime, Cement, Guttering, ::
and everything
necessary in the
building line.
A share of the
patronage of the
peopl e ot Bastrop
and county is cor-
dially solicited.
Contractor and Builder. For orders call
Develops your Plana. and see ma.
Lawyers.
B. B. ORGAIN. W. E. MAYNARDw
ORUAIN & MAYNARD,
Attorneys at La>,
Hn trop, Tef*s,
Will practice la all tlm higher and
'' Inferior oouris.
J. R PFEIFFER.
i. P. FOWLER. J. P. FOWLER, JR.
FOWLtR & FOWLER,
Attorney*" at Law,
Bank Buliduig, Bastrop, Texas.
Will pmctics In all tii« lustier au<i
Inferior oouita
Paul d. page,
Lawy er
Erhard Building, Rastrrp, Texas,
(JKNKUAL Practitioner.
Will practice in all Courts.
J. a. JONE3,
Attorney at Law,
basirnp, Tei-s,
Will practice in all the higuer JLi
Interior o curie.
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OF BASTROP, TEXAS.
Capital, $5o,ooo.oo. Surplus, $lo,ooo.oo.
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B. I>. ORUAIN. (resident. W. A. KcCOHI), Vlc FreiidtUt.
CII STKH RKHAKD, Cashier.
H. r. Luckctt, W. H lli« no m-. A. C. Krharil, B. J. Ilnaler.
CA iTAL, SIJBPLUS, INDIVIDUAL ft F. P PON NIHILITY
Of the Mockli ti at: <3 rou«rrvativ« m ,iuag«uicui n>e the
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Organized, developed and conducted along progressive
lines. Governed hy the sntne principle. With twenty
ye rs *uc>essful business record, wi<h ample capital, with
every facility ti> properly care t..r all business entrusted to
it, and oper <tcd along const-rvafe lit es, it expects to con-
tinue to grow both in ability an i capacity to serve.
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in cash, give you Honest
Weights, and buy at any
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Your Cotton Seed
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HEAD STONES and IRON FENCING
Fifteen years of continuous service in the
Monument Business, together with my will-
ingness to deal fairly with all makes it safe
in buying your cemetery work from me.
Good Work, Right Prices and Courteous
Dealings is my idea of business. I guaran-
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FACTS
1J The news it' ins of tlu nome com-
munity.
1J The thinRP :n which vouare most
interested.
<3 Hie lurtlis, wpddinfjs, deaths ot
the pfojile you know.
IJ The social affairs of our own and
iurrounding towns.
Tlifia mr* th« kind ol (•'!• this puptr
fivti you in ev«ry uiu« 1 h«|r mrm
■•rtainlv worth th« imKk nplion prtco.
AT HOME AND ABROAD
CONDENSED IT£\"S OF INTEREST
TO EVERYBODY.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Important News of the Week Boiled
Down for the Busy Reader,
State and Domestic.
JACK JENKINS,
Attorney at Law,
UtHirnp, Trx*«,
Oily eornplo'e Sot of AbsU'ACt Book*
In the county.
Physicians-Surgeons.
H. P. LUCKUTT,
Physician and flureenn,
Bastrop, T<"* 8.
OrvifB —W. J. Mlley's Dru^ Stoia.
phonb 24.
H. B. COMBS,
Phyuioian and Sure«nn,
Baal top, Teia*.
OPFirR—C. Erhard A- tfon's druif ai irt
rksiltncu—Eaal Boatrcp. Puonk cs.
Gamble Lodge, No. 24,1.
A. F. & A. M
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Rf(?ular menfr.
Itr Fourth Sat-
urday nijrht ia
eaeh month
VtailinK t>r*>th«
wcfiaiiwiw - ren cordially ib-
rlted to at'end.
Paul D. Paok, W. M.
C. Erhard, Secretary.
Bastrop Chapter, No. 95,
R. A. M.
Hefcrular m o « tin^
First Saturday r.i^ui
jn each momh.
Visiting Compan.
iona invited to attend
all regular and call-
ed convocation*
j h. Jones,
M. E H. P.
A. C. Ekiiakd,
Secretiirf.
Bastrop Camp, No. 79,
Rpgn-
Ur meet
I n on
2nd and
4th Wed
n • • <1 a y
nights ID
each
month.
V i n i t •
Ing 8or-
e r e igrs
are most
cordiallf
1 n ▼ Itnd
to attend the m etinga of Raatrop Camp,
P. C. MAYNARD. C. C.
R. J. WARREN, Clerk.
Bastrop Camp No. 12522
WASHINGTON.
Aft«T adopting throe amendments
of Importune r and lisienini; to anoth
er verbal rustication of the forestry
bini'.i ) b.v Senator Ihylnirn, the sen
ate T111 -day pussed the agricultural
approprl it ion hill. As passed the bill
carries a total appropriation of $lo,-
62:',ti::(i, an in reuse of $lH2,30o ovsr
the iimount carried by the bill as it
passed tli«' house
H ft a i 1 no at dealers Tuesday placed
upon the funr.ers and packers respou
eibilit) for the higher price of meat
in their testimony, nht'ii before the
■enate committee, which began its in
quiry into the increased < >st of living.
Jud^e Sam 11. Cowan had a confer-
ence with the president. Monday, last-
ing nearly an hour, in which he went
over the important featuri s of the
pending interstate commerce bills.
JudK'1 Cowan was introduced bj Sec-
relAiy Wil on, who referred to the
Teuui .1 the nuin who drafted tile
original Hepburn bill. Judge Cowan
pointed out to the president the mils
nituile ot the business which the cat-
tle men have as shippers and said it
was merely a matter of Justice that
these and other shippers should be
permitted to b<' legally represented
in all cases in court in which Inter
state Commerce Commission orders,
affecting their claims, are involved.
The winning of the West away from
the insurgent sentiment, which is
fitroDKly In evidence in that section
of the country. Is a part of the program
of the republican congressional com-
mittee Kansas. X •braslc.i lewa Min-
• a ar •, i.art mmi ii' >
as hotbeds of heresy by the Aldrich-
Cannon lollowfng, and the campaign
In those states will start early.
'I'll' general land office has decided
in favor of the state of Texas against
Louisiana in the case of the island in
the Sabine river, and h final decision
in tht matter of Secretnrj Mallinger j
is expected shortly. This is the case j
which Assistant Attorn> y General i
W althall argued before the assistant!
land commissioner In January. The
land office holds that Texas, having
assumed Jurisdiction over the i land
and that an official map of Louisiana,
approved by Governor Mlunehnrd,
having considered that the island lies
In Texas, the land should be regard-
ed as lying within the state of Texas.
Commander Peary declined Monday
to submit to congress the proofs of
of the north pole lie
of Uepresentati e Alex-
York a sitateme.'it, writ-
person and addressed
house commit-
his discovery
Bent in care
finder of New
t< n in tin.
to the chairman of the
♦cv on naval affairs
Peary and his friends
tracts signed months
publishers render It
make hts records and
public now. It would
Ject Peary to heavy d
which he can not nice
extricated himself from
"Commander
sa> that eon-
ago with his
impossible to
scientifi' data
not only sub-
images, a loss
•t. having just
debt Incurred
Regular
meeting
on the
1st and
3rd v\ ed
nesday
N ights
in each
uiotufi.
H. U. Al KXANPF.R. C. C.
1 i. C. w KHI /MiR. Clerk.
in connection with his various expe-
ditions. but it would be breaking I aith
with his publishers, which he is un-
willing to do under any rlrcuin-
btancoK."
DOMESTIC.
The executive committee of the
strikers at tbe Hethlehein steel plant
has appointed a committee to confer
with the officials of the company in
r< f< renee to a settlement of the strike
About l<iito men have returned to work.
With fifty claims of widows and
other relatives of the Cherry mine
disaster victims settled by payments
ranging from $S"U to IP'Onii per d ath,
the St Paul Mining Company has en-
tered negotiations with counsel in
something like |0o more ease.* to set
tie with the \l<tiii' .' widows at <!*e
rate of Use" In eacn case.
More than one thousand people were
In attendance at a public railroad mass
meeting at Aransas Pass. Monday, at
which time $25,WK) of the $."ilt,out> boa
us foi a new railroad was raised.
The Drama League, which is to have
for Its purpose the creation of an eu
lightened play-going publ.i through
out Hie I'uited Slates, will have its
l(rth In the First Congregational
Church in Kvanston, a Chicago sub
urli, on Thursday, March 22
William Kills, aged yents, son of
A \l Kills, pi' siiient of a l.lttli lto> k
furniture company, was shot and ta
tally found> d Friday night al bis home
b> his brother, who thought th< lad
was <i burglar. The boy was trying
to enter t In house at a late hour.
Unless the railroads of the West,
Northwest and Southwest make ebii
tlonal concessions to their firemen and
cuglnemen, the men will go on strike
to compel the gianting of demands
for higher wages and Improved work-
ing conditions. This Is the ultimatum
of the employes as expressed by com-
plete returns from the "strike vote"
recently taken hy the men on atiout
titty railroads in tnosc >ei lions of
the country.
After weeks of negotiations and
more or less coiiiroveisy between the
Joint promoters, it was definitely an-
nounced Tuesday by Tex Itickard and
Jack Gleason that the ,l> itrles loliii-
son battle on .1 n 1 > I would lie held In
an areuu within thi race tr.n k ill-
closure of the California Jockey club
ai lOmeryvllle, Alameda county, across
the bay from San Frunciaco
An attendance of 25ttu or more Odd
Fellows and Kehekahs, togetlier with
spectators draws to the meeting by
interest iu the program lent special
dignity to the Joint session of the
grand lodge of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows and the Kcbekah As-
sembly, held iu the house of repre-
sentatives lu Austin Monday
It was officially announced lata
Monday from the office of \li Thorn-
well Fay, general manager of the Sun-
set Central lines, that eon-t ruction of
a nine-story and basement offi' c build-
ing would begin in Houston as soon as
materials could be assembled upon
the piece of ground owned by the
Southern Pacific at. the corner of
Franklin avenue and Travis street.
.lore I, Li Ills, president of the West-
ern Exchange Hank, who whs assault-
d by John P. Cudahy. the millionaire
packer, when the latter founu the
banker In his home at Kansas City
Sunday morning, will not prosecute
his assailant.
Fort Worth is now burning natural
gas. One of the unique uses to which
it is to be put is the illumination of
the city during the Feeders und Breed-
ers' Fin. Stock Show,, March l*th to
liUh. A standpipe is to be erected
Hoventvtwo feet h\{h into which the
It„ o tun it ati.t 11k •<!. iW,
gas will make a bct/i twenty feet
wide. It will be visible for twenty
miles, and will light up the whole
country around the show grounds
This is the man that bound mo
mid my wife and burned our feet until |
we told where we had hidden our j
money," said John \N agi.'er, 80 years
old, as he picked Frank Donahoe out
of a line of eight men at Etna police
station, Pittsburg, Pa , Friday.
Mr, Janies Smith, a woodsman, was
eaten by wolves Friday In timber
land near Ally. Mo., after fighting a
desperate battle for his life. Wolves
attacked him while lie was alone
awaiting the return of his brother.
When the latter returned he found
his brother's bones in the center of
a circle of five dead wolves.
The list of the \Vright aeroplane at
Fort Sam iloustnti at San Antonio
Wednesday resulted disastrously, the
machine being wrecked and the llf"
of Lieutenant B O. Foulois. the avi.«
tor, being endangered Three suc-
cessful flights had been mailt and the
fourth was In progress. The feed pipe
to the engine broke, stopping it at
once, and tht aeroplau- dropped a dis-
tance of about forty feet, striking the
ground with great force 'I he rudder
was broken and the aviator nearly
knocked from his seat.
No wholesale executions of rebel
leaders are to be expected In Nicara-
gua following the collapse of the in-
surgent cause, according to a state
luent given out by Luis Filllpe Co-
rea, special diplomatic representative
of the Madtiz government iu Now
York City.
FOREIGN.
Manager of the itunk of Monlreul,
Mexico City, tibs comlaint against
the directors of the defunct bank.
In the last six months 1! 09 Ameri-
cans to the number of 2009 entered
Mexico with the intention of becoming
residents. This is according to a r>*
|M>rt just Issie d by the Mexican Im-
migration bureau.
It is rumored in Managua that the
l'nlted Stales government will recog-
nize Mftdrlz.
The German Geographical SocUiy
Ik.s decided to send out a south |Kilar
discovery expedition so as to cont'-st
with the l'nlted States and Gi' .tt llri-
tuih in the race through the Antnrtic.
Trial begins this we> k in St Peters
burg of two noted radicals.
Europe Is preparing to give Theodore
Roosevelt u re eptlon on bis return
to civilization that only his own reluc-
tance can prevent assuming sen«a
tlonal proportions In all the ai r.ils
he is to visit Ills presence will ' r,.
gard'd as an event ■ f his i iterna-
tlonal importance
The German tut. al est limit lot the
year ar $ii,ii>io.nn,i i rs than la.si y .u
figures. a< 1 i.i4 to Mlmsti r Voi I'lr-
pllz, who addles ed the rclchstag Sun
day.
PEARY DENIED HONORS
HOUSE COMMITTEE ASK 3 MORE
PROOF FROM POLE FINDER.
SPcLO REC.RD QUESTIONED
Representative Macon Sayr the Forty-
Fuur Miles Averaye Alter Bart-
lett Left Is Peculiar.
Washington. By a practl illy unan-
imous vole the subeouimiti of tno
house naval < oiiimittt < Wedir silaj de-
nied against desiowing any reward
upon Commander Robert K. Peary un-
til lie has furnished further pi' ol - that
he discovered tie north poh
"I ionic.** that 1 am exceedingly
'kepiical about Mr Peary s ever hav-
ing discovered the pole,' said V: Ma-
con Wednesday before the committee.
Mr. Mat on said he wanted to direct
attention to one ' discrepancy in Mr.
I eary s story " This was the speed
Which the explorer declared he made
fiom the t i.ie Captain Bartlett left
him until lie readied the pole. ^lr.
I'oury said that for five days he made
2i>. I miles per day. but Mr Macon said
this appeared very singular in vi' .y
of the fact that the Peary party bad
made but :• iu, mllles pi r day up to
the tim Bartlett left.
lining this part of his Journey Mr.
Mucin said no white man was with
hiu. ii a witness, his only compan-
ions ben g his negro valet and four K-
kimos.
He claims to have made an aver-
age >f 4 1 mlbs per day on Ills way
f ;i• |< irotn the pi le to B.irtb It's camp
tiinl 25.tl miles per day from Bartlett -)
can:p to Cape Columbia. The great-
est speed he had made before Bart-
lett bit iu Hi was '.eu milt.* i > day,
so Peary must have made nearly three
tin is as great speed after Bartlett
loft hint as I: t did be lore In order to
leach the pole."
Mr. Mucoii declared that Peary'.t
own sti ii no nt showed that he equ iled
M «| • d bi t vv'l..,. ilc, • , ' i ■ i' '
Joi.iney to ti.e pole. The lit st day
he started from land he made 2G mlle^
and on another dny made 29 miles in
Jl liours of forced march, "wlii h Mr
Peary lias told us was about the limit,
of hun.an einliiraiice."
Mr. Mucoii quuteii Lieutenant Shac-
kelton. General Greeley and others to
show that ten to twelve miles per day
or sllghth more, perhaps, Is c ,sidi-
• 'Mil the limit of human endurani ■
traveling over polar seas "
The only member of the comtnit-
tei who did voli lo d f'T a Hoi on the
bill was Keprt -• ntat iv • Knglebrfght if
Caiifoiilia, who said lie was convince I
that Mr Pearj had ills overed th •
pole, and that the eomiuilee had suf-
tii i' nt proofs before It.
KepresentatIve Bates of Pennsylva-
nia, ueretofore considered a support-
er of Peary, offered the n obitlou
which was adopted declaring that the
(.oiumittee tnusl have fuither proof
1 <-Ioie pro -ceding
Bonds for Registration
Aii.din T' \ Tile attorney g in ral'a
f'epartment Tue-day approved lor
i egist rat ion the following bonds:
Matagorda County common school dis-
trict No 11 si hi olhouso bonds, $10,-
otio, twenties at ri per cent. City
I'orsbatia sewer bonds, $20.0in>, llf.
teen forties at 5 per cent. Wheeler
County con: men schoolhousc bonds,
ten-twenties at per cent. district
No 11. Iin.nno; district No. 30, $7,000.
Planting Rice
Crowley, La Paul Kinney of Mid-
land began plantiiiu n e this week
lie planted about fort \ acres. The
acreage iu the vicinity of Midland will
In ii'out the same as last ycur, al-
though there will be some reduction
In the vicinity of the Midland terri-
tory
Won by Narrow Margin.
Beaumont, lex The county com-
in Ins loners of Haidin County this week
an* issed l '■ vote til tin rt < ent local
option election, and found that the
atitis had won the elect ion by forty-
vnt vnte-, and so declared the ro
suit
Lonescme Brownsville Man.
Brownsville Tex In the bond elec-
tion Wednesday lor the improvement
of the light and ator plant only one
vote was i ii.-i against tie i-■ .-in
Priest Dropped Dc.td.
i orpns chfisti, 11 \ Ki v. Fattier
l ominic Shiink, aged ".5 years, cotnliu
from Kivlera to Corpus I'hristi fot
treatment at a lei a hosplt il. dr- nn I
d« ol from i stroke of apt plexy is ' t
was alighting inm tin mbulai;
Gin and Ice Print.
Whlti
tlioro
The g ti and fi'O
| plant belonging
j -troved by lire
; was valued at
I partially cover*
to T Fit/
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plant
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Cain, Thomas C. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 47, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 12, 1910, newspaper, March 12, 1910; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth205957/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.