The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 19, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 12, 1908 Page: 3 of 10
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A RESUME OF THE MOST IMPOR-
TANT NEWS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
A Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
Domestic and Foreign.
Bishop Potter is confined to his
room by a general physical break-
down.
J. J. Franklin, the leading hog rais-
er of Oklahoma, is planting peanuts
for fattening hogs.
The board of engineers for rivers
and harbors will go to Louisiana and
Texas early In June.
A bill appropriating $250,000 for
cyclone sufferers of the South was
passed without opposition Saturday,
Judge Gray of Delaware has decid-
ed that under no circumstance will he
be a candidate for Democratic nomi-
nation for Presidency.
George W. Peck, the funny man, for
two times governor of Wisconsin, and
a leader among Wisconsoln Democrats
arrived in Texas, for a visit, Saturday.
One fireman was fatally Injured
three others seriously hurt In the
explosion of the heating jnaut .« «hair
engine house of the New Haven fire
station.
Bachelors and old maids are not
qualified to serve as Sunday school
tc-achers in the opinion of Rev. Wm.
Park, of Asbury, M. B. Church, Seat-
tle, Wash.
News has been received from the
west coast of a revolutionary out-
break in Peru. The movement is said
to have started at the town of Cho-
aica near Lima.
The famous revolutionary General,
Stephen Turr, died In Budapest Satur
day. He was a Garibaldian veteran
and at one time a confidential adviser
of Louis Kossuth.
At the meeting of the general con-
ference of the Methodise Episcopal
church in Baltimore Wednesday thero
were 800 delegates present, represent-
ing 3,000,000 members.
Four Italian laborers were killed,
three probably fatally injured in Al-
toona, Pa., Saturday when a sewer
ditch in which they were* working col-
lapsed, burying the men under six feet
of earth.
The kaiser has abandoned the tip-
tilted pattern of moustache. He had
to. A piece of his old one burned off.
The lcaiserin liked the new style bet-
ter than the old. The kaiser Is stick-
ing to it to please her.
Prince Wilhelm of Sweden married
the Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovnia,
daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alexan-
dio\<tch, and cousin of the czar Satin1-
day afternoon. The ceremony took
place at the Tsarkoe-Selo palace.
Joe Kelcey of Dallas is negotiating
for a boxing match with Kid Lavlgne
to take place in the City of Mexico in
the near future. He is now in corre-
spondence with Fred L. Hanscom of
the Mexican capital, who Is manager
for Lavigne.
The Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion has expressed the opinion that
within three or four months, unless a
decided Improvement in railway con-
ditions takes place, it will probably tte
necessary for carriers to either in-
crease freight rates or reduce the
wages of their employes.
One of seven attempts at suicide In
New York City Saturday aix were suc-
cessful. This was a record-breaking
day. „ .
A train near Butte, Mont., was dyna-
mited Saturday night and derailed.
That on one was killed was almost
miraculous. Several were hurt,
Th ice plant and creamery at Med-
ford, Okla., has been sold to Jacob
Hersey. The new management will
immediately put the plaut in flrst-claB:s
condition and commence its operation
at once.
John Hot, a carpenter, fell from a
three-stoiry building on which he was
at work at San Antonio and was in-
Btantly killed.
It 1b learned that the American Gov-
ernment has accepted the invitation
for the battleship fleet to visit Hong
Kong on its way around the world.
The government of Korea, acting in
co-operation with the office of the Jap-
anese resident general at Seoul,
Prince Ito, ia preparing plans for an
active and final campaign against the
disorderly forces in Korea. * 1*
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The Guthrie Elks are discussing th1)
proposition of erecting a home for the
lodge, and decisive action will soon bo
taken.
Reports Monday morning are to the
effect that Mr. Cleveland Is improving,
and It is hoped that he will soon be
ible to get out.
Wataonga la to have a new bank.
The name of the new Institution is to
be the State Guaranty Bank. The cap-
ital stock Is to be $15,000.
The death of Imperial Prince Klku-
maro Yamashlmaw was officially an-
nounced Sunday. His Highness, who
was 35 years of age, was a captain
In the Japanese navy.
For the last week cattle receipts at
Fort Worth were about 10,000 head in
excess of the run for the correspond-
ing week a year ago and more than
1C,000 than a week ago.
Mrs. Mary Cope, the present Dis-
trict Clerk of Fannin County, is a
candidate for re-election, and Mrs. Vir-
gie MUstead has announced as a can-
didate for County Treasurer.
After failing to prove his plea of in-
sanity, Lem Fitch, of Fayettevllle,
Ark., pleaded guilty on two charges
of assault with intent to kill and was
given five years In the penitentiary.
The Rip Van Winkle sleep of Mrs.
Beaulah Hawkins, of ' Los Angeles,
which has lasted for eighty-five days
was broken Saturday when the woman
awakened and asked for a drink of
milk.
vrm ne Knrlug Valley, Ok.,
township had the misfortune to iuov.
a fine span of mules Saturday while
crossing Stillwater creek, one mile
and a quarter south of the school-
house.
Sidney Hatch of Chicago won the
Marathon race Saturday. Joe For-
shaw of the Missouri A. C., Stfl. Louis,
was second. Hatch's time was 2:29:56.
The race was from Freeburg, 111., to
St. Louis.
Governors of the various states and
territories will hold an important con-
ference with President Roosevelt it
the White House May 13, 14 and 15
upon the subject of "Conservation of
National Resources."
Representative Cooper has intro-
duced a bill directing the Secretary
of the Treasury to refund to the State
of Texas $5,502,401.24, being for money
collected for taxes on cotton for the
years 18C3-C8, inclusive.
At a meeting of the executive com-
mittee of the Chlckasha, Ok., Commer-
cial Club it was agreed to raise $2500
at once as a contribution toward the
cost of making a survey of an inter-
urban from Chickasha to Sulphur.
Canadian statistics show rapid
growth in the exportation of mic.i
from the Dominion. In the fiscal year
189G the shipments were 658,419
pounds, valued at $55,627; in 1906
1,329,634 pounds, valued at $335,591,
and in 1907, 1,732,903 pounds, valued
at $032,560.
So engrossed is he in the work on
his farm, putting up fences and the
like, that W. J. Bryan forgot Satur-
day night that he was to be the speak-
er at the meeting o fthe Nebraska
Traveling Men's Cluh at Lincoln. Af-
ter being called up by phone he apol-
ogized and promised to make good
later on.
The Gulf Pipe Line Company and
the Sun Company have posted a 2c
reduction in price of crude oil in all
fields In Beaumont territory. The new
and old scale of prices follow: Spindle-
top, new 64c, old 65c; Sour lake, now
64c, old 66c; Humble, new 64c, old
66c; Saratoga, new 63c, old 6-c; Bat-
son, new 60c, old 62c.
A strip of land about two and a quar-
ter miles long and from 80 to 400 feet
in width, lying immediately adjacent
to Fort Smith, Ark., on the west, may
become a subject of litigation to de-
termine whether it belongs to Okla-
homa and Arkansas.
The body of Dominic Cartino, a
young Italian, was found in the street
of Seattle with a bullet hole through
his heart and his clothing badly torn.
The police belive he wore a money
belt around his waist and this was
cut away from him by his assailants.
Hundreds of mining claims have
been staked off on account of the dis-
covery of copper ore ten mines south-
west of Talban, N. M., several days'
ago. The excitement has Just begun
as an experienced miner discovered
gold ore in a well being drilled at a
depth of 200 feet.
An early morning lire in a four-
story tenement at No. 17 Humbolt
street, New York City, a thickly pop-
ulated district of Brooklyn, caused the
death of six persons and the serious
injury of four others.
FARMERS' EDUCATIONAL**
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When in doubt, go to the local.
A LESSON IN FARMING.
As fast as you pull up one plant
in the garden, plant another.
In education there is conservatism
of power; in union there is strength.
The man who plants pigs Instead of
cotton is the man with the long head.
Better get up some plan to keep
the school going a litle longer if pos-
sible.
Make your Union worthy to stand
by, and then through thick and thin
stand by it.
The split log drag is good every
day in the year, anil it is particularly
good today.
What are you doing about that pic-
nic you local is going to give right
soon? Get you neighbors interested
in it.
You only have to show people that
your Union is of benefit to you to
induce them to become active mem-
bers.
There is not a Southern State that
could not raise all the navy beans
that all of tnem use, yct i0 not
a Southern State which raises all
the beans that it uses alone.
It ought to be a reasonable cause
for throwing any member out who
will raise mongrel chickens, stock or
crops. In fact, no good Union man
will have mongrels of any sort.
The time will have to come when
all men will have the same right to
a place on earth which nature bo
kindly gave all her children. Land
monopoly is the greatest curse the
world has to contend with today.
You are too busy now to listen to
the calamity howler. The farmers
that are of any account are all mak-
ing their living at home, and the ca-
lamities are of no direct interest to
them.
As soon as the cholera breaks out
among your chickens, cut off the heads
of all affected fowls, burn their bod-
ies and get a new roosting and dust-
ing place for the balance of the flock.
This always cures the disease.
Arkansas (Conway) Union Trlbun*:
It seems like a nervy thing for a
man who Is $1000 In debt and no
money on hand to buy a farm, but
that is what was dono by C. M. Flem
lng of Saline County, Ark., and ha
succeeded in paying for his farm out
of crop proceeds in the space of five
years.
It was In 1895 that Mr. Fleming
bought the AO-acre sandy hill farm on
which he has since lived. At that
time he was not only $1000 in debt,
but had no money and had to be fur-
nished with team, tools, implements
and supplies. It was an unpromising
beginning, yet by reason of hard worli
Intelligent planning and good manage-
ment he paid for this farm in five
years.
Mr. Fleming is not an all-cotton
farmer, but believes In diversification.
He had 05 acres In cultivation, di-
vided usually about as follows:
Ten acres are in cotton, 12 acres
in corn, 25 acres in pease for pea
hay, followed by oafs, which is cut for
hay, 2 acres In watermelons, 2 acres
In cantaloupes, 2 acres in Irish po-
tatoes, 2 acres In sweet potatoes, and
the rest, or about 10 acres, in peas,
part of which are in drills and part
broadcast. This last ten acres fur-
nishes some hay and all the seed for
the next year. PeaB are also planted
between the corn rows at the last Cul-
tivation and are hogged down.
It is Mr. Fleming's practice to raise
all his supplies of hay, corn and meat,
and he usually has a surplus of $150
worth of hay to sell every year. The
average yield of pea hay is about
one ton per acre, and of oat hay near-
ly as much, and the price received Is
uotuxiiy about $15 per ton.
Mr. Fleming's land is mostly quite
sandy and rolling or slightly hilly. Its
fertility is naturally inferior, and it
washes badly if given a chance. The
washing, however, is checked by deep
plowing (breaking) and by the crops
of hay which bind the soil particles.
He uses all the manure made on his
farm and buys some commercial fer-
tilezers, particularly for his vege-
tables.. He breaks his "land flat and
practiqes shallow cultivation.
Mr. Fleming is a reading farmer
and a man who studies his business.
He does not believe that success in
farming depends entirely or mainly
on "main strength and awkwardness,"
but that (here is such a thing as sci-
entific farming. He believes in and
practices diversification. He also
plants his crops so that his work will
be distributed throughout the year.
Mr. Fleming has a wife and two
small children. He says that his suc-
cess would have been greater if he
had not been troubled so much with
ill health.
The above is a good lesson, and
we deem it a very important lesson.
Don't fall out with your neighbor j
because he has not even yet become
a member of the Union. It may be j
that your local is so slow about do-
ing anything that he has been un- \
able to see the advantage to him of
coming In.
COTTON SEED PRODUCTS AS
FEED.
Judged by the number of Union
papers springing up all over the coun-
try, there is no dearth of literary
ambition among the brethren. How
will it be this fall when the prizes for
best farm truck are distributed among
the farmers?
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
Farm Journal:
Farmers are the most generous of
men. After butchering they always
give a hog a weigh.
Bob: "See that accident?" Bill:
"What accident?" Bob: "That cowslip
on the lawn."
Do not buy all the machinery for
yourself; remember your wife's bur-
dens might be lessened also.
"Can a lady manage this horse?" in-
quired the prospective buyer. "Well,
yes," replied the dealer, "but really 1
wouldn't care to be the lady's hus-
band."
This is the geason when farmers
are obliged to make everybody and
everything hustle. They even work
the butter.
There are many men who, no matter
how tired they are, seem to take a
pleasure In going away down the road
to meet trouble.
The lecturer began his remarks
with: "Once there was a sensible
woman," when he was interrupted by
a good mother on the back row, who
retorted: "All women are sensible,
though some doubtless have more
Dense than others." Whereupon the
lecturer revised his remarks.
It was Emerson that advised man to
hitch his wagon to a star, but the as-
tronomers have not advised us wheth-
er the star will stand still long enougn
to le hitched.
Don't get too much wrapped up in
some office you are not running for
in this campaign. It might hurt the
man who 1b running for it. He usu-
ally has enough of his own Bins to
answer for without any of yours.
The middleman is all right in his
place. It is when he reaches out and
tries to overlap both ends that bo be-
comes offensive.
A correspondent to Southern Culti-
vator aske: "1 have some mules and
they go to my cow-stalls and eat the
meal and hulls. How would this do
as a feed for them? Would it be bene-
ficial for them or injurious? Please let
me know in your next issue of the
Cultivator."
To which the editor replies: "Cot-
tonseed hulls and meal can be fed to
horses and mules. It will be much
better to give about four pounds
bran to every twenty pounds of hulls.
If hulls were cheap as they used to be
it might prove an economical feed.
However, it is best to raise hay and
peaviness for your horses and not de-
pend upon cottonseed hulls. We do
not know the effect that continued
feeding of hulls would have on the
stomach and digestion of a horse, but
do not think it would be as wholesome
as good hay. A farmer should grow
this and not buy It. If you have all
your feed to buy you can try the hulls
and meal, but the more wheat bran you
mix with them the better your mules
will thrive."
TOPICS OF THE SEASON.
Farm Journal:
By taking a little time, some wet
day, to study the mechanism of tiiw
mower and binder and other farm ma-
chinery, you may save yourself the
delay of sending to a shop or to the
factory for repairs or adjustments you
might make yourself.
Plant plenty of pumpkin seeds this
year. Not the great big overgrown
kind, but common, every day field
pumpkins. They are fine for man and
beast. A few pie pumpkins will come
In handy; best for pie timber of any-
thing In the world.
Do not become discouraged because
the tree insect pests are numerous
and persistent, but keep on planting
trees. Science will eventually come to
our relief. Suppose we had all stopped
planting potatoes when the Coloradc
beetle came to stay?
If there is anything that makes life
on the farm seem hard and full ol
aches and pains, it is trying to get
along with dull tools. Grind them, fel-
low farmers. It takes but a few min-
utes to sharpen the scythe, axe or
j other tool that you are to work with.
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NEWS FROM
OYER TEXAS
The amount of money to be offered
in purses at the State Fair races this
year will be about $50,000.
The gross receipts tax law of the
Thirtieth legislature during the past
six months has yielded to the state
the magnificent sum of $500,000.
Stamford is an active candidate for
the 1909 convention of the Texas Press
Association, and will have a delega-
tion at the Mineral Wells meeting thU
month.
The preparations for a large atten-
dance at the Bummer school of the
State University have been complet-
ed and the professorB to be In charge
of the various departments have been
assigned.
The Denison demonstration dairy,
farm established co-operatively by the
dairy division of the United States
department of agriculture and the
Texas Agricultural College, now is
in full progress.
Jim Bailey, a negro boy, at Waco,
was shot and badly hurt by Alfred
Westbrook, another negro boy, and
Westbrook claimed that he was shoot-
ing at his step mother and hit Bailey.
Westbrook is in jail.
In the primary election in Hopkins
County, Saturday, in which the names
of Clyde Sweeton and C. O. James
were submitted as candidates for dis-
trict attorney, Sweeton won out by a
plurality of 128 votes.
After a pastorate covering about
three years, Rev. J. Frank Norris re-
signed Sunday morning at the Mc-
Kinney Avenue Baptiot Church, Dal-
las. Dr. George Butler of Bryan has
been called to the pastorate.
In a tryout on the Taylor race track
at Taylor Saturday En Noble,, the 2-
year-old stallion owned by Trainer L.
Nelson of that city, broke the track
record for 2-year-olds, being driven a
half mile by Mr. Nelson in 1:15.
Special Officer L. H. Dlllard of the
Texas and Pacific recovered f ty-one
pairs of trousers and twenty-seven -
pairs of fine shoes at Fort Worth
Sunday afternoon, which had been
stolen from a car in the local yards.
The Texas division, United Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy, have founded
a scholarship in the State University
to stimulate interest in and study of
United States history, and especially
Southern history. The scholarship will
carry with it an annual income of *
$300.
G. O. Davis of the south western
part of Denton count.1 last week bought
ou 8,000-acre ranch in Gray county,
paying $52,000 for the tract complete.
Elaborate preparations are going on
at Mineral Wells for the state conven-
tion of the Eagles who meet there on
the 11th inst.
From the tax rolls of 1907 there was
collected for the city of Dallas the
sum of $858,884.07, a percentage of
91.35. In addition to this there was
collection of occupation taxes, delin-
quents and bonuses that made the to-
tal receipts of the office for the year
$9S4,150.80.
A little child of Mr. and Mrs. Lee
Chamley, living in the Neola commun-
ity, Hunt County, was playing in the
house where some poison had been
prepared to kill flies and was placed
on the table. The^hlld found the poi-
son and drank iv flying from the ef-
fects about 12 o'clock Saturday.
"Lady Strougwood," the beautiful,
high-bred racing mare, owned by Dr.
William Robbie, president of the Tex-
as Baseball League, was killed at Tay-
lor Saturday by being impaled on. a
picket fence she tried to leap.
For the purpose of demonstrating
that cotton can be successfully grown
In the Amarillo country money has
been subscribed to pay for a car load
of cotton seed to be distributed among
the farmers free of cost, on condition
that they plant and cultivate same.
Unknown parties entered the sto-es
of R. V. Haggard, druggist, and J. W.
Holloway, general merchandise, at
Hallvlile one night last week. About
$30 worth of jewelry and other articles .
of less value were taken.
Dallas shooters are making great
preparations for the big shoot to be
held in that city May 19, 20 and 21,
under the auspices of the Dallas Gun
Club, and Its Is predicted that the
event will be the biggest ot Its kind
ever held in the Southwest.
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Banger, John. The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 19, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 12, 1908, newspaper, May 12, 1908; Linden, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth340724/m1/3/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.