The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 19, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 7, 1907 Page: 3 of 8
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TO HELP LOCAL OPTION
LEGISLATION PROPOSED THAT
MAKES VIOLATION A FELONY.
TEXT BOOK BILL IS PASSED
The Governor Gottln* Action on Text
Book Bill, Ft*C -ike a Chris-
tian Man.
Austin, Tex., May J.—The Senate
paused the text book bill yesterday
evening, after having spent two days
4n the labor of fitting It to the Gov-
ernor's views, as expressed In his
memorandum vetoing the bill passed
in the regular session. According to
its provisions, he may seek whither
his fancy leads him for men to com-
pose the text book board.
The new bill provides several orig-
inal features which were not in the
one that the Governor vetoed. Per-
haps the most important of these was
that put in at the instance of Senator
Center authorizing the State Board to
permit the retention of any books now
used in a city operating under a spe-
cial charter when it is shown that a
change would, considering the general
result, save expenses to the schools
■of said city.
The Governor sent in a special mes-
sage anent the violation of the local
option laws. Immediately bills were
introduced, one of which provides that
.any one who sells intoxicating liquor*
in a prohibition community shall be
deemed guilty of a felony and upon
conviction be sent to the penitentiary
for not less than one year and not
more than two years.
One who rents a room In a building
In a prohibition community to be used
for selling liquors is also to be held
guilty of a felony and punished In a
like manner. The same punishment
iB also inflicted on any one who "shall
In any manner knowingly aid in equip-
ping". such a place.
A Sheriff or other peace officer,
when the information is given to him
by the affidavit o' any reputable citi-
zen that a place is being used in vio-
lation of the law, shall have authority
to raid it, if necessary. Such places
are declared to be public nusiances,
and the keepers of such are to have
no recovery for any damages done in
raiding them.
MN ATTORNEY IS KILLED ON THE TRIN
Carroll B. Short of Center Is Shot to
Death In Presence of Many
Passengers.
Beaumont, Teaxs, May 1.—Carroll
B. Short, a well known attorney of
Center, Tex., was shot to death on
the Santa Pe train last night as the
train was entering the town of Cen-
ter. The shooting was done by Dr.
Buck Paul, of San Angelo. Mr. Short
had been down the road yesterday and
was returning home last night. He
occupied a rear seat in the smoking
car. and just before the train stopped
Dr. Paul, who was in the forward pan
of the car, arose and went to the
rear end of the coach, and when op-
posite Mr. Short pulled his pistol and
began firing at Mr. Short. Six shots
were fired, five of which struck the
victim. Three entered the body from
the left side near the heart, two pass-
ing entirely through: a fourth strutfk
the left shoulder and another in the
back of the neck.
This tragedy has been expected
over since the murder of Dr. Paul by
a negro last fall. This negro, it will
be remembered, resisted the officers,
and went to the home of Short, where
he received protection, and when Dr.
Paul went to arrest him, the negro
shot Dr. Paul to death. The negro was
subsequently threatened with lynch-
ing, and the Beaumont Light Guards
were sent to Center to protect him.
The negro was tried, convicted anfl
banged the same day.
W. T. Guest, of Oak Cliff, died from
injuries received from a ladder that
was blown on him from a building on
which he was at work.
Two Towns 8uffer Lou.
Dallas: Leesville and Rosevine,
seventeen miles apart on the Kansas
City Southern Railway, were almul-
v taneously destroyed by • fire early
Tuesday morning. ^ Both placeB were
practically wiped out, and the losses
are estimated at over half a million
dollars. The fire at Leesville ,de
sin.yed eighteen business buildings,
Including 'wo National banks. Near-
ly thirty business firms suffered com
plete losses.
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WITH GREAT POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE
Great Ter-Centennial Exposition Opens
at Jamestown.
Norfolk, Va., April 27.—President
Roosevelt, tho diplomatic, naval and
military representatives of thirty-sev-
en nations and the Governors of a
score of Stales participated in the
opening exercises of the Jamestown
Ter-Centennial Exposition.
While the exposition, which is to
remain open until November 30, Is
still far from complete, the unfinished
condition of the buildings and grounds
was not allowed to interfere with to-
day's celebration of the 300th anni
versary of the first English settlement
in America.
From the firing of the sunrise Bar
lute of 300 guns by the United States
Army, through the picturesque review
of the international fleet of war ves-
sels in Hampton Roads, the ceremon-
ies of dedication at which the Presi-
dent spoke, and down to a late hour
last night, when the Chief Executive
went aboard the naval yacht Sylph to
spend the night, the day was crowd]
ed with notable incidents.
ANNUAL SESSION KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS
Business Finished and Officer* are
Installed.
Dallas, April 26.—With the Install-
ation of officers and the adoption of
various resolutions, the thirty-fourth
annual session of the Texas Grand
Lodge, Knights of Pythias, was ad-
journed yesterday afternoon, after a
three days' session. Much business
was transacted during that time, the
meeting being one of the most large-
ly attended the grand lodge has held,
and the members were hospitably
treated during their stay in Dallas.
Probably the most Important action
at the recent session was the adoption
of a resolution which places the ban
on lobbying. It is declared that no
lodge which has a member who is a
candidate for an office in the grand
lodge shall work for his election, and
if it does the member will not be
eligible for any grand lodge office for
a term of three years.
Supreibe Vice Chancellor H. P.
Brown then installed the following
grand lodge officers for the ensuing
term
Grand Chancellor—Sol W. Levy, of
Galveston.
Grand VIce Chancellor—C. H. Pow-
ell of San Angelo.
Grand Prelate—W. W. King of En
nls.
Grand Keeper of Rcords and Seal
—Henry Miller of Weatherford.
Grand Master of Exchequer—W. F.
Skillman of Sulphur Springs.
Grand Master of Arms—John T.
Wofford of Cuero.
Grand Inner Guard—J. R. Engledow
of Troupe.
Grand Outer Guard—R. H. Buck of
Fort Worth.
The next meeting will be held at
Austin.
Fatal Pistol Play.
Dallas: Shortly after 3 o'clock
Thursday afternoon, Lonnie Hall, a
white man about 25 years of age, was
shot, a ball from a 38-callber revolver
entering the abdomen and piercing the
intestines. The wounded man was
conveyed from 524 Corinth street,
where he was shot, to St. Paul's Sani-
tarium, and died there at 1 a. m. About
thirty minutes after the shooting, B.
C. Pate, a young man, 22 years of
age, who gave his occupation as that
of a clerk, walked Into the police sta-
tion and surrendered to the author-
ities.
Misses Madge and Nellie Spooner,
daughters of Mrs. H. N. Spooner, two
of the most pooular young ladies of
Hillsboro, died Friday within less than
three hours apart, that of Mis3 Nellie
occurring at 3:15 o'clock and that of
Miss Madge at 6 o'clock. Both died
of typhoid fever, after several weeks
of illness.
Quite a number of horseB have died
at Waco recently from distemper, and
the trouble sems to be In the most
aggravated form.
While crossing Beaumont Street,
near the intersection of Cockrell Ave-
nue, in Dallas about noon Monday,
Alice, the nine-year-old daughter of
A. H. Barbftr, was struck bj^a falling
clectrlc light wire and killed.
A few minutes before 0 o'clock Fri-
day evening a rear end collision oc-
curred on tho Rapid Transit Street
Railway n Dallas, In which one per-
son, Elmer Geeson, aged 16, was fa-
tally Injured, three others were seri-
ously Injured and several others still
moro or less hurt.
THE OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFE TIME
95,000 acres in the "Garden Spot of the World, is now being opened up to the American People.
DR. CHAS. F\ SIMMONS'
Atascosa County (Texas) Ranch no va/ on the market.
Opportunities like this leldom occur. $2IOt payable $10 per month, without interejt, buy* two lots for a home
or business in town and a farm of from a 10-acre truck farm to a 640-acre farm in balmy South Texas.
President Roosevelt said:
"TEXAS 13 THE GARDEN SPOT OF
THE LORD."
Investigation will show that this
95,000 acres comprises one of the
finest bodies of Agricultural and Truck
Farming land in the entire state, com-
mencing about 36 miles south of San
Antonio and about two miles south of
Pleasanton (the county seat of A.tas-
cosa County), and extending through
Atascosa and a part of McMuilen
Counties, to within 17 miles of my
60,000-acre Live Oak County Ranch,
which I in four months last year, sold
to 1,000 Home Seekers, on liberal
terms, without interest on deferred
payments, which gives the poor man,
from his savings, a chance to secure
a good farm and town lot for his home
la town. I will donate and turn over
to three bonded Trustees. $250,000
from the proceeds of the sale of this
property to the purchasers, as a bonus
to the first railroad built through this
property on the line which I shall
designate.
This property is located on that mid-
dle plain between East Texas, where
it rains too much, and the arid section
of West Texas, where It does not rain
enough. *
Its close proximity to San Antonio,
the largest city in the State, with a
claimed population of over 100,000, en-
hances Its value as a market for Agri-
cultural and Truck farm products far
beyond the value of similar land not
so favorably located.
Topography.
Level to slightly rolling. Large,
broad, rich valleys, encircled by ele-
vations suitable for homes; 90 per
cent, fine farming land, balance pas-
ture land. *
Forestry.
Ash, Elm, Gum, Hackberry, Live
Oak, Mesquite, Pecan, abundant for
shade, fencing and wood.
Soil.
About 60 per cent, rich, dark, sandy
loam, balance chocolate or red sandy
loam, usually preferred by local farm-
ers, and each with soil averaging from
2 to 4 feet deep, with clay subsoil,
which holds water.
Climate.
Mild, balmy, healthy, practically
free from malaria, few frosts, no snow,
no hard freezes; continuous sea breeze
moderates extremes of heat and cold,
producing warm winters and cool sum-
mers. Average temperature about 62
degrees.
Rainfall.
From the Government record. It Is
safe to assume that the rainfall on this
property has been fully 35 Inches per
year, which is more than some of the
old States have had, and is plentiful
for ordinary crops properly cultivated,
and for Grass Growing.
Improvements and Water.
This property is fenced and cross-
fenced In many large and small pas-
tures, with four barbed wires, with
posts about 12 feet apart. Also a
number of fine shallow wells.
Also, a number of fine Lakes and
Tanks.
Also, a number of fine flowing Arte-
sian Wells, whose crystal streams flow
for miles and miles down those creeks
whose broad, rich valleys, irrigable
from these continuously flowing
streams, make it the ideal place Tor
the Marketing Gardener who desires
to raise from two to three crops of
marketable produce on the same
ground every year.
Farming and Truck Farming.
Seasons never end.
This land is adapted to profitable
culture of Beans, Cabbage. Celery
Cucumbers, Lettuce, Tomatoes Beets'
Carrots, Onions, Radish, Sauasn
Strawberries, Cauliflower, Okra Ova
ter Plant, Peas, Raspberries, Turnlrm
Apricots, Cantaloupes, Grapes. Irish
Potatoes, Olives, Sweet Potatoes Ba-
nanas, Dates, English Walnuts FIm
Melons. Peanuts, Barley, Blackberries'
Broom Corn, Lemons, Plums, Tobac-
co. Alfalfa. Rye, Oranges. Peaches
Pecans, Corn, Cotton, Oats, Wheat
Apples. Pears. '
Page 6i of the book entitled 'Beau-
tiful San Antonio," officially issued by
I the Business Men's Club of San An-
tonio, dated May. 1906, says:
"It Is readily conceded by all those
Iwho know anything about Texas that
the most prolific agricultural section
is that which recognizes San Antonio
as its logical center, particularly that
portion directly south of San Antonio
with the Gulf of Mexico bo Serine on
the southeast and the Rio Grande bor-
dering on the south and west.
■ "Within the last four or five years
in the territory named, special atten-
tion hafl been given to growing vee*.
tables, they maturing at a time when
they secure the maximum prices on
Northern markets, which markets thev
virtually invade without a comnetitor
The profit in growing vegetables In
this territory will be seen bv an exam
ination of the following figures rr
cured from reliable sources, showing
Net Earnings Per Acre:
"Watermelons from $75. to J200 00
"Cantaloupes from $40.00 to $75 00
"Cabbage from $125.00 to $225 00
"Cauliflqwer from $75.00 to $225 00
fta"oo.nB and Peas from ,100 0° 10
"Tomatoes from $125.00 to $400.00.
"Potatoes from $60.00 to $150.00.
"Onions from $150.00 to $800.00.
"Tabasco Peppers from $500.00 to
1900.00 per acre.
"The Chicago Record Herald pub-
lishing the following Individual experi-
ences in South Texas:
"Men who came here with $500 and
$600 a few years ago are now inde-
pendently rich.
"A young man who came to this
country for his health, bought 18
acres and in one year cleared over
$6,000 from it, which was $333.33 per
acre.
"Another man. 65 years old, from 79
acres, sold $5,000 worth of produce,
from which he realized $63.29 per acre
and then raised a Cotton crop on part
of it, which made him $35 per acre,
which made the same land net him
$98.29 per acre for that year."
"Another man from 80 acres in 1904
realized as follows: From Onions,
$2,226.91; from Cotton, $1,800; 200
bushels Corn; 12 tons Hay; 5,000
pounds Sweet Potatoes.
"Another made $3,200 from five
acres of early Cabbage, which was
$640 per acre, and grew a second crop
of Corn and Peas on the same ground
that year.
"Another realized $27,000 from 90
car loads of Cabbage, averaging $300
per car, which was $207.69 from each
of the 130 acres he had planted.
"Another netted, above all expenses.
$60 per acre on Potatoes, and planted
the same ground In Cotton that year
from which he realized $35 per acre,
which made that ground yield him $95
per acre.
"Another realized $32,966 from 230
acres in Melons, which was $143.33
per acre.
"Another netted $21,000 from 35
acres in Onions, which was $600 per
acre. .
"Another netted $17,445, or $79.25
per acre from nine cuttings of 220
acres in Alfalfa, which yielded in one
year 2,475 tons and sold at $11 per
ton.
"Another received $900 from one
acre in Cauliflower; sown In July,
transplanted In August, and marketed
in December."
The same authority quotes the fol-
lowing statement from the Hon. Jos-
eph Daily, of Chillicothe, 111., who
owns thousands of acres in the Illinois
Corn Belt. He says:
"I am one of the heaviest taxpayers
on farm lands in Mason and Tazewell
Counties, Illinois, and I have been fa-
miliar with the conditions around San
Antonio for 12 years. Any thrifty
farmer can get rich, and make more
money off of this cheap land, acre for
acre, than any land in the State of
Illinois, that sells from $150 to $225
per acre."
Come to the land of beautiful sun-
shine and almost perpetual harvest.
Where the people are prosperous,
happy and contented.
Where the flowers bloom ten months
In the year.
Where the farmers and gardeners,
whose seasons never end, eat home-
grown June vegetables in January, and
bask in mid-winter's balmy air and
glorious sunshine.
Where the land yield is enormous
and the "prices remunerative.
Where something can be planted
and harvested every month in the
year.
Where the climate is so mild that
the Northern farmer here saves prac-
tically all his fuel bills and three-
fourths the cost of clothing his family
In the North.
Where the country It advancing and
property values rapidly Increasing.
§ Where all stock, without any feed,
fatten winter and summer, on the na-
tive grasses and brush.
Where the same land yields the
substantial of the temperate and the
:h§£UFles of the tropic zones.
Where the farmer does not have to
Work hard six months in the year to
raise feed to keep his stock from dy-
ing during the winter, as they do in
the North and Northwest
Where there are no aristocrats and
people do not have to work hard to
have plenty and go in the best society.
Where the natives work lesB and
have more to show for what they do
than in any country in the United
States.
Where houses, barns and fenceB can
be built for less than half the cost in
Hie North.
Where sunstrokes and heat prostra-
tions are unknown.
Where sufferers with Asthma. Bron-
chitis, Catarrh, Hay Fever and 1 hroat
Troubles find relief.
Where, surrounded by fruits and veg-
etables, which ripen every month in
tbe year, the living Is better and less
expensive than in the Noith.
Where the wat«?r is pure, sofe and
MiiUful.
Where the taxes are so low that the
amount is never missed.
Where Public and Private Schools
and Churches of all denominations are
plentiful.
Where, peace, plenty and good will
prWhere It la •<> Wealthy that there
are few physicians and most them,
to make a living supplement their in-
come from other business.
$1,000 Reward will be paid to any
one proving: that any statement la
tbls advertisement Is not true.
C. F\ SIMMONS,
215 Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, Tex.
SAW CHANCE FOR REVENGE.
Request of Dying Woman Had Much
Method in It.
Alfred H. Love, the famous peace
advocate, had been protesting in Phil-
adelphia against the great quantity of
military features in preparation for
the Jamestown exposition.
"Really," he concluded, with a
smile, "one would think that the
whole world was animated and kept
progressing by a spirit of hatred and
revenge and bitter enmity. One would
think that—but perhaps you know the
story.
"A pale, wan woman, on her death-
bed, said in a weak voice to her hus-
band:
" 'Henry, if I die, promise me one
thing.'
" 'Gladly, my poor darling. What is
it I am to promise?'
" 'Promise me that you will marry
Mary Simpson.'
"The man started.
" 'But,' he said, '1 thought you hated
her.'
" 'I do, Henry,' the dying woman
whispered. 'I want to get even with
her.'"
Settling the Difficulties.
The ingenuity of the Chinese in sur-
mounting difficulties is well illustrated
by the following dialogue, which r< *
cently took place on the Imperial Chi-
nese railway. Traveler: "I wish to
ship these two dogs to Pekin. What is
the rate?" Railroad official: "No got
any rate for dog; one dog all same one
sheep: one sheep all same two pig;
can book four pig." Traveler: "But
one dog is only a puppy; he ought to
go for half fare." Railroad official:
"Can do all right?" Then turning to
his clerk. "Write three pig," he said
Ex-Senator Is Wealthy.
Since politics went wrong with him
in South Dakota Richard Franklin
Pettigrew, formerly senator from that
state, has lived mostly in New York,
where, it is said, he displays about as
much sagacity in the stock market as
any of the most seasoned bulls and
bears and has accumulated a pile of
money, behind the shelter of which he
feels much more comfortable than he
was ever able to feel while serving his
fickle public in the senate. Mr. Pet-
tigrew has not abandoned his citizen-
ship or interest in South Dakota.
Asbestos in Luzon.
Rich deposits of asbestos covering
hundreds of acres and containing
thousands of tons of the valuable min-
eral have been located in the moun-
tains of northern Luzon, Philippines.
Samples examined in the bureau of
science at Manila, says the Far East-
ern Review, are pronounced excellent
in quality, with only one to two per
cent, of alloy. The deposits are in-
laid between talcum and silica (both
valuable deposits), and the fields of
asbestos are within a few miles of ex-
cellent harbors.
Far Ahead of Her Sisters.
Among the 700 or 800 women in
the United States who are following
the sacred calling of pastorB, there is
said to be onlv one who has so far
qualified for the distinguished degree
of D. D. This woman preacher is
the Rev. Augusta J. Chapin, a mem-
ber of the Universalist church. This
denomination counts about three-
score duly ordained women among Its
ministers, so that, even among her
fellow pastors, the Rev. Augusta
holds quite an unusual place.—New
York Sun.
As to Whist.
The late .Tames Payn was one of the
accomplished whiBt players of his day.
besides being a superlatively brilliant
journalist and novelist. Whist was his
lifelong study. He was never happy
out of the sound of "Bow Bells," as It
were, being a thorough Londoner, and
went daily to his club—the Reform—
for 30 years for his afternoon rubber.
After playing for all these years he
made the remark that there were mil-
lions of different leads and plays in
whist that had not even been at-
tempted.
An actor who is well grounded
can't very well fall down.
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