The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, November 24, 1911 Page: 1 of 12
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CONDENSED ITEMS OF INTEREST
TO EVERYDODY.
IT IKE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Important New* of the Week Boiled
Down for the Busy Reader.
State and Dcmeetic.
DOMESTIC.
Hookworm has been found In thirty
counties in Texas, according to the
preliminary examinations of Dr. C. NV.
Stiles of the United States hookworm
commission, who is working In liar- j
niony with the Texas state department j
! of health at Austin.
Walter Wyman, surgeon general of i
I the United States public health and j
! marine hospital service, died at Provi- j
j donee hospital iu Washington Moq-
; day.
I Notwithstanding many of those who 1
i have been watching the revolutionary
j developments near the Texas border 1
j were Inclined to the belief that the ai ■
| rest of the three men at l^aredo Moil-
j day and the seizing of a quantity ol j
arms would practically put a quietus
| on things there, has proven perhaps
the most eventful one during the past
three days and some interesting dis-
coveries have been made.
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J. S. JONE8,
Attorney at Law,
Butrop, Trr«%
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JACK JENKINS,
Attorney at Law,
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Physicians-Surgeons.
H. P. LUCKETT,
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Bkatrop, TntMh
Omca - W. J. iatl«7'a Drug Smut*.
Peons 24.
H. B. COMBS,
Pbysioian and Burgeon,
Baairop, T«w*f.
Ornr*—O. Erhard A Hoo't drug t "r
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all regular aod oaiV
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DiVli 1 lata.
The first An.erlcan Good Koads Con-
gress opened at Uichuiond, Va.t Mon-
day.
J. J Ryan, superintendent of motive
power of the Southern Pacific lines In
1'exas, and one of the oldest railroad
men in the country In the matter of
service, died at his home in Houston
Monday.
Rough plans for two huge battle-
ships will he laid before congress ;
when it convenes. The projected ships :
are to be of HO,000 tons' displacement, j
> armed with ten 14-inch rifles, each j
i nearly seventy feet long, with broad
| belts of the highest type of armor
I and with steaming capacity enough
| to carry them back and forth across '
| the Atlantic.
Governor Colquitt of Texas ban
wired Adjutant General Hutching* '*'■ 1
Uuedo t a;.ikn !• known that all rev- j
olutionists must leave Texas within
forty-eight hours. The governor also ;
communicated with President Taft by
telegraph and vigorous action is to
bo taken to enforce the neutrality ,
laws. The local telegraph offices had
a busy Sunday as a result of the hap- j
penlugs along the border.
All the pooled tobacco in the Ken-
tucky Green River district, lilll crop,
has been sold at the highest prices
ever paid lor any crop, according to
ari announcement made Monday by
the hoarilf. of control of the three to-
bacco growing organizations. This
means that about. L'H,000,000 pounds of
tobacco will bring into the district a
total of $2,500,000.
Mrs Ruth Bailey was shot and in-
ftantiy killed at Austin, Tex., Sunday
by her brother in-law, John A. Meua-
fee of McDad*, during a Simily quar
re! Menatee Immediately s«-nt a bul
let crash in t through his own brain.
A rigid inquiry will be made by the
police and the Yale authorities into
the disturbance In the Hyperion the
ater at New Haven, Conn.. Sunday, j
during the performance of Gaby
Deslys co npany, in which students
were ejected from the theater by po- 1
lice after the stage hands had turned
on a hose and drenched many in the
audience This was followed outside
by hand-to hand conflicts
Tuesday and Wednesday, December
& and t . will be the convention days
of the Men and Religion Forward
Movement eight-day campaign In
Houston nii'l special invitations have
been sent to every pastor throughout
South l ex is to he present nt that time
and to bring as many ot his lay mem
bers as possible.
Pension Commissioner Huford Ft'i
day delivered to the controller at Aus-
tin 11.500 affidavits lor next quarter s
pent ion warrants. The regular appor- j
tionmetil is $10.50, while the totally
disabled g'-t I'Jt each per quarter.
Mexicans, who were out hunting
with headlights near llarlliigen. Tex., 1
Saturday nl-.bi, killed four horses, nils- j
taking them for deer The horses be-
longed to a Mexican living out n«r
the Dilworth ranch.
Tito Texas railroad commission Fri- |
daj ordered all special rates on crude
oil canceled, effective December 8.
j This was done over the protest of the
numerous oil refineries and producers
4th Wad *ho appeared or were represented at
n**daf jj,,, iu■■ They nskeil for six
Hghula i im, ,tl. if the rates should be
' an>'"l''d, but the commission allowed
•tie si itut<ir\ time of twenty days only.
I'he i.ireatened deadlock over the
electioi of a referee for the Thanks-
iir <l.i . fight between Ad Wolgast
nd Freddie Welsh at l,os Angeles,
i l. i been avoided by Welsh's ac
•j.iat i e ol Jack Welch of San Fran
ijv in whom Wolgast and his
lammcr insisted.
Secretary nf the Navy Meyer, in his
annual report, will advocate Increused
pay for the government clerks and
age retirement. Dealing with the em-
ployes in Ills own department he will
show that while salaries advanced iu
all private employment, the govern-
ment salaties hav« actually decreased,
with a result that the navy depart-
ment la losing many competent em-
ployes.
Miss Mary Chamberlain, the young
school teacher who was given a coat
of tar last August at Lincoln Center,
Kan , by a crowd of men and boys,
will testify this week in the trial of J
three of her alleged assailants Sev-
eral of the number h-ve pleaded
guilty
Charles H. Matcher of Reading, l'a.,
suddenly becoming Insane Sunday, se
vered the head of his 10-year-old son
with a ruzor, attempted to kill his wife
«nd then ended his own life by cut-
ting his throat.
Dragged over five miles of rough
country road by a runaway team of
bronchos she had broken to harness.
Mrs Flora Hamilton Cassell, years
af age, a hymn writer of National
prominence and former president of
the Nebraska Woman's Christian Tem-
perance Union, Saturday met a hor-
rible death on the prairies fourteen
miles south of Denver, Colo.
Mine. Jerome Napoleon IJonaparte,
widow of a grandson of Jerome Bona
parte, brother of the first Najioleon,
and granddaughter of Daniel Webster,
died at her home in Washington Sun-
day after u lonj; illness.
FOREIGN.
The painting "Odonna delle Stella,"
by Fra Angellco, has been stolen from
the monastery of San Marco, which
has been transformed into a museum
at Florence, Italy. The painting was
one of the most valuublo in the monas
tery. Five persons have been arrest
ed, among them the custodians of the
museum.
It is reported another invasion of
Portugal by royalists is Imminent
The royalists claim they will have the
supjiort. of the republican troops. The
government plans to let the royalists
get a good headway into the country
and then attack them.
Arubs decl!.f" ".it thy Tuik'.-b
t noj.p have recoiv'd onion from on
Hantinople to make a decisive attack
on th«' Italians In the city of Tripoli
very shortly. In case this should fall,
the Turkish troops are to withdraw
into the interior of the country, after
which the sultan, it is said, will pro-
claim a holy war.
it is reported that the mother of the
baby emperor of China lias eloped with
an actor.
. tie sale of the 11 tit h library at
Sotheby's, in London, Kngland, fur-
nished a fresh sensation Monday when
a Mazarin llible fetched the sum of
1)40,000. The bidding opened at Clo,
000. The next offer was LI5,000 and
tliis was followed by bids rising
£2,500 each time. Mi Quaritsch,
first bidder, took the Bible at a price
amounting to double that, obtained for
the copy when it was sold at an auc-
tion last.
The president of Santo Domingo was
shot by assassins and killed at Santo
Domingo Monday.
The suffragettes of London are pre-
paring to renew their attacks on par-
liament with a battle at night which
will surjiass all previous campaigns.
A few days ago a delegation of suf-
fragettes Interviewed Premier As-
qulth to obtain u pledge that the gov-
ernment would undertake to pass a
hill giving equal suffrage to both
sexes.
A terrific galo has unroofed hun-
dreds of houses at Madrid, Spain, do-
ing great damage to property. Kiev en
persons have been injured. Moron
clllo, a village near Madrid, has been
wiped out by fire spread by the u«le.
Five hundred houses were burned and
1,500 |iersons are homeless
Knowledge that Kngland was on the
point of going to war with Germany
in support of France In the Moroccan
trouble and It being generally known
that the government had apparently
consented to Russia's advance upon
Persia, has precipitated a Moim of
criticism over the extreme seereoy
with which the nutlon's foreign affairs
are conducted. Foreign Secretary
Grey has promised to parliament a
statement on November "7 of the em-
pire's foreign relations.
The situation in Southern China is
becoming more Involved each day.
The republicans iijipaieiitly are deter-
mined to gain their Independence from
the Matichu dynasty, but there are
grave doubts of their ability to estab-
lish a stable government in time to
avoid the consequence* ot continued
disorganization and the absence of
revenue and coadheront administra-
tion.
The Japanese antarctic expedition
on board the Kainan Marti, which was
forced to return to Sydney, Australia,
last spring after reaching "i degree*
south, has sturted on Its second at-
tempt to r ach the south pole. The
expedition Is In cominaud ol l.ieu
tenant Shtrnse.
lOMINICAN PRESIDENT SHOT
:ac,eres killed as he leaves
home of leonte vasquez.
Vsaailants Pursue Victim Into a Stable,
Political Complication* May
Now Arise.
Washington —President Caceres of
;hc Dominican Republic was shot Mon-
lay as he left the house of l.eonte
I'asquez at San Domingo Cltv, where
tie had made a cull. He died half an
lour later in the American legation,
A'hither he was taken. The first shots
>f Ills assailnnts, I.tils Tejera and
Jaime Mote, Jr., according to advices
received at the state department, were
not effective.
The wounded president first sought
shelter In a stable adjoining the
\inerican legation, hut his assailants
pursued him thither, and closing in
upon him, fired more shots Friends
of President Caceres drugued him in a
(lying condition to the American lega-
tion. where he died shortly afterwards.
The assassins fled to San Cristobal.
Charge Kndclott reports that the city
is quiet and Is patrolled by guards.
Minister Russell, who represents the
United States In the Dominican Re-
public. Is now at his home near Wash-
ington He has arranged tn leave for
Havana, whence he will cross Cuba to
'iuantaiiamo. If no commercial steam-
•r is at hand he probably will be trans-
ported to San Domingo by one of the
naval gunboats now at Guautananto.
President Caceres' somewhat stormy
career is recalled by officials at Wash-
ington who are familiar with the pe-
culiar Dominican temperament, it is
rumored that the president himself
was the slayer of the redoubtable old
dictator, Hevereaux, in lH'.t.t, as he al
leged, In self-defense. It Is likewise
known that relatives of the former
president always cherished a desire
that the death of their kinsman he
avenged.
It is pointed out that Irrespective of
the cause of the assassination, serious
comjilicatioiiH maj arise if ambitious
politicians seize upon the present dis-
iurbed condition of the country to fur
hw thsir nw «••• Tl •< cj'iisiit
'••atlons lead to the ln-llcf thai the
ouutry is about to enter upon another
troubled chapter of her history
The First National Earik
or BASTROP. TEXAS
Capital, $50,000.00 Surplus, $20,000.00
DIRECTORS
B. D. ORDAIN. Preeident W. A. McCord, Vice-President
CIlBaTKR RRHARD, Cashier
H P. Luckctt W H. Rftnitome, A. C. IvrUurd, B. J. Ilasler
CAPITAL, SURPLUS, INDIVIDUAL RF.SPONSIPILITV
of the stock holders and cons rvativt tuaimge meut
are the strength of a bank.
Organized, developed and conductcd along progressive line .
Governed by the same principle. With twenty years suc-
cessful I nsiness recurd, with ample capiutl, with every
facility to properly care for a!! entrti u d to tt
and operated along conservative lines, 11 expect* to coo
tinue to grow both in ability and capacity :o s«,*rv«i
tmummmijuiujjimi mucimflam
INCUBATORS
Corporation Charters.
\ustin, Tex. The following chai'tei>
tvere issued Mondav
The Southland Oil Company, Klec-
ira; lapital stock, $i!o,000
Ravland Company, Houston: an oil
company with a capital stock of
$10,000.
Simon lee and Light Coiiijianj, Sin
Ion; capital stock, $10,000
Mulllkeii Realty Compiiny, Dallas,
capital stock, $1,000.
The 101 Paso Automobile Club, Kl,
Paso; no capital stock.
The Chisholm Process Oil Refining
Company, Dallas; capital stock, $lu,
100.
Certificates of dissolution were filed
by the Galveston and Houston ln\<" !
ment Company of Houston, Dallas
Lumber Company of Dallas, and .1 M
Davidson Company of Orange.
...Are ihe Great New Nloney-Nlakers..
We sr Agents In Central Texa* for the Famous "MODEL" In-
cnbHtora, IJroodrin, and all kinda of Poultry 8tippliee, Etc.,
made by tho Robert LOssex Incubator Co. of Buffalo, N. Y.
Judging by our sales and the aucceas our customers sre having, we
considea the "Model" as the Beat Iucubator in the market
todcy.
We hatched 70 per cent in our show window last week in a $17.00-
ico-Egp: Size Machine. Coine and see our goods and let us show
you what they do.
I\eKl Hardware Co.
511 Congress Ave.
Austin
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Loss of $205,000.
Loudon. Shareholders of the I'nit
ed Malay Rubber Company, Limited,
a concern floated in London in litin
by thu American Malaysian Rubber
Company, Monday invited the Ameri-
can holders to refund 1.000,000 out of
1,600,000 shares jiuld to them at the
<inie of the formation of the company
When the company was floated with
i the names of Cornelius Vunderbilt and
Robert W, Goelet on the prospectus
there was a rush of subscribers The
prospc 111s promised a profit of $S0fi,
1 000 for the first year, but the actual
result of eighteen months' work bus
been a loss of $205,000.
*0Mt*«*x=2553 rrrr~" mmvxx.)
nil Powell til Mill Co.
will pay the Highesi Prlc®
in cash, give you Honest
Weights, and buy at any
time, wintor or Bummer,
| Your Cotton Seed
Bagging—Ties Buy and Sell
to exchange for th«
Seed Ouly.
everything for the
Cash Only.
POWELL OIL MILL CO.
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An Aged Account. ,
Los \nijeles, Cat.—'"Pay and allow-
ance, $7H4; subsistence short, paid,
$1.50; deduction for clothing, "tic."
Thus reads the bill which has just
been paid by Uncle Sam to A. O Oar-
lock of Kscoudido, fiftj years after it
was presented. The account between
the government and Mr. Gnrlock isrew
from the service of Mr Oarlock Iu the
Forty-second Illinois infantry, In
which he enlisted from De Kalb coun-
ty, and In which he served as first
setKeant and second lletilenanl iuring
the civil war
Approves Improvement Bonds,
Austin, Tex.- The attorney general
Monday approved the following bonds:
City of Coleman street improvement
bonds, $25,000; fifteen forties, at 5 per
cent. City of Celina street Improve-
ment $0,000, and sewer $S,noti, ten-
forties, at 5 per cent.
23.654 Hoga In One Day.
Si Louis, Mo.--All records for re-
ceipts of Iiors at the National Stock
Yards were broken Monday by the ar-
ival of 2'i.rt54 hogs The majority of
lie animuls were graded as butchers
ml packers and the bulk of them
old from $i!.'i0 to $0 00
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417 419 Con^reni Avenue.
AUSTIN TEXAS.
Elegant Line of Suit Cases.
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Pationize Home Industry, Buy Your Cemetery Work
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H. C. GRIFFIN
First-Class Work. Lowest Possible Prices.
Courteous Treatment, Your Orders Appreciated
writs us.
New Marble Works, Elgin, Texas
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