The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 23, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 4, 1907 Page: 2 of 8
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STATEMENT OF ONLY WITNESS
The contractors hase arrived and
will begin work on the Henrietta and
Southwestern Railroad Monday.
Ed Taylor of San Angelo, is an ap-
plicant for* the position of inspector
under the new law regulating the bar-
ber's trade In Texas.
The 4-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. !
P. 15. Beach died Friday nig^t at |
Cameron from Lockjaw, caused by a
mesquite thorn being stuck into its
loot about a week ago.
Citizens of Sanger organized a Com
mercial Club Saturday night, with
thirty-live or forty members. P. M.
Ready is president and Homer Col-
lins secretary and treasurer.
King Alfonso is negotiating for an
Island in Northern Spain where he
proposes to build a summer residence
and lay out a farm and breed thor-
oughbred cattle.
District Passenger Agent F. E. Clark
of the Frisco has announced that the
Frisco on June 9 will put on an ad-
ditional train, modern throughout, be-
tween Kansas City and Fort Worth.
Mrs. Sue Shelburne, aged eighty
years, a pioneer resident of Collin
county, died Thursday at her home
near Frisco. She had resided in that
community since 1854.
Dallas County Attorney Dwlght L.
Llewelllng has announced the appoint-
ment of J. W. Pierson as assistant
county, attorney to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Mr. Car-
peotsv,
The brick men of Waco are pre-
paring for the State meeting of the
brick men, to be held there June 5
and 6. J. M. Harry, of Dallas, ex-
pects that half a hundred brick men
of the State will be present.
The -State Health Department has
Inaugurated a system by which the
department will keep track of every
person comifig into Texas.from South
and Central Aiperica and Mexico, and
other yellow fever districts.
An entire International & Great
freight train loaded with merchan-
dise, and an engine pulling a rear
train were burned Thursday night at
Taylor. A rear end collision of freight
trains caused the accident.
The last few days, says a dispatch
from McLennan County, have been
very favorable for the cotton crop,
and the plant is growing yery nicely.
The cool nights had set the plant
back. Uneasiness is felt as to boll
weevils.
By a vote of 25 to 9 the Senate of
New York has passed the bill fixing
a 2 cent a mile rate for passenger
fares on all railroads or railroad sys-
tems over 150 miles in length in that
State. It has already passed the As-
sembly, and now goes to the Gover-
nor.
P. S. Kerr, flel j agent for the Texas
Company, i in Wise County securing
right of way grants for the proposed
oil pipe line from the Henrietta oil
fields to Dallas, traversing Wise coun-
ty from northwest to southeast. A
pumping station will be located on
Sweetwater creek four miles east of
Decatur.
T. J. MeMinn, aged C2 years, at
one time a prominent attorney, died
at his late home in San Antonio from
the effects of shock received during
the San Francisco earthauake, where
he was stopping en route to Austr-a
lia at the time.
"We advise our members against
wearing neckties and fashionable
hats, yet we do not see our way clear
to make this a test of fellowship,"
is a recent declaration of the Dunk-
ards.
Because she was not permitted to
graduate on account of having attend
ed a dance contrary to the school
rules, Miss Sadie McGinnis, of Dan-
ville, Kv, brought suit againut the
Campbell-Hagerman College for ?12,-
000 damages.
Two men lost their lives in a head-
on collision on the Grand Rapids,
Grand Haven and Muskegon interur-
ban line at Celery Farms Friday, a
few miles east of Muskegon, Michi-
gan.
Mrs. J. W. McWhifter Says Victim
Was Eating When the Tragedy
Occurred.
Dallas, May 29. —-Yewterday after-
uoon Tim Sullivan, a white man about
40 or 50 years of age, ski/I' and killed
a young woman to whom, it is said,
he ws recently married, and then
shot himself through the totnple, dying
instantly. The young woman was shot
three times through the breast and
head with a 41-caJiber revolver, and
Sullivan was shot through the temple.
Both of them died within a few sec-
onds.
The shooting occurred at 131 Cabell
street, Ciortly before 4 o'clock. Mrs. J.
W. McWhirteG, who lives in the house,
was in the room where |he shooting
occurred at the time, and claims to
have been the only eye-witness. She
made the following statement:
"Tim SulHvan runs a saloon in Fort
Worth. Last fall he and Allle Carter
were married, and have lived since in
Fort Worth. He was about 50 yea 's
old and she was about ID. Before then
she lived in Dallas. I have known her
since she was a very small child. Mon-
day morning she came to my :iouse
and told me that she had left Sulli-
van because she" couldn't get along
with him; that he was too old for her.
"Yesterday afternoon Sullivan came
to the scree_n door and I asked him In.
Allie was at the toble there eating
some cream cheese. Sullivan sat down
in a rocker just a few feet form her.
I was busy further back in the room.
In a few moments I heard some shots,
but they were not very loud, ami I
thought at first it was a toy pistol.
Then I saw her get up and reel over
backward, and I saw the pistol in his
hand. I inquired if he was going to
shoot me and he said no. I ran out
of the room into another, and right
after me he came out and drank some
water or something and then went
back again into the other room and
the pistol was fired again.
"I ran back into the room, and he
was sitting down with his elbow rest-
ing on the sewing machine there, and
his chin in his hand. In a second after
I saw him ne toppled over."
PREPARING ANOTHER COUP.
Pierce, the Oily, Laying Pipe for More
Exploits.
Kansas City, Mo., May 29.—Friends
of H. Clrfy Pierce are authority for the
statement that the oil magnate is
more than pleased at the result of the
oil investigation instituted by Attor-
ney General Hadley, which will un-
doubtedly result in the Standard, the
V/aters-Pierce and Republic Oil Com-
panies being ousted from doing busi-
ness in the State of Missouri. Pierce
i3 planning, so his friends declare, to
enter the field against the Standard
just as soon as the Missouri decision
is handed down. Enforcement of the
anti-trust law by several States will,
it is asserted, give Pierce and his as-
sociates ample protection in bucking
the Standard. The personal friendship
which has long existed between H. C.
Pierce and John W. Gates, together
with the fact that Gates recently pur-
chased thousands of acres of oil lands
in Indian Territory, and that both
have recently been "trimmed" by the
Standard Oil crowd, lends color to the
story.
TOMATOES OPEN AT VERY GOOD PRICES
Bidding for First Three Cars at Jack-
sonville Is Active.
Jacksonville, Tex., Mav 28. — Two
cars of tomatoes each containing 918
crates, sold at auction on the track
here yesterday. J. L. Heach of In-
dianapolis bought tile first car put
up for $1.S7% per crate. The other
car was sold to the Iron City Produce
Company of Pittsburg l'or $ 1.77Vfe• A
third car is being loaded on which
there is an offer of $1.75 per crate.
This was the first day of the season
when as many as three cars have been
loaded. A large crowd of growers
and a number of representatives from
commission houses were interested
spectators at the sale. Unusual inter-
est prevails about the high prices be-
ing paid and the novel way by which
sales are effected.
DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA.
Scratch From Pet Dog Ends In Terri-
ble Fate of Child.
Temple, Texas: At Holland, on Fri-
day occurred the death, in a horrible
manner, of the 6-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. W. Thornton, of the lat-
ter city. About three weeeks ago the
father and son visited Houston, where
child received a slight scratch In play
with a pet dog. Nothing was thought
of the matter Until last Thursday,
when the little fellow «thlblted all
the sympoms of hydrophobia, and be-
came so violent that it became nec-
essary to strap him to the bed. For
several hours the little fellow was
bleeding and frothing at the mouth,
suffering the most excruciating ago-
nies, all the while being In the full
possession of his mental faculties and
piteously crying, "mamma, mamma,
mamma!" The frantic parents were
compelled to stand by powerless to
lessen their son's agonies, and the
child finally succumbed on Friday, de-
spite every effort made to saVe him.
LARGE GAS EXPLOITATION.
A heavy frost fell all over Eastern
ind Central Kentucky Monday night.
It is feared that it killed all the fruit
and early ,vegetables This is the cold-
est weather ever known in this sec-
tion at this season of the year.
Joseph L. Stickney, the -noted war
correspondent, who stood on the
bridge of the Olympia with Dewey at
the battle of Manila Bay, expired last
Saturday at his home in Michigan.
Clarence Berry, a Kentuckian, aged
about twenty-five years, was recently
declared insane as a result of fright
from a gang oi rowuiea entering an
eating house which ho conducted at
Glidden, Texas, and shooting it full
of holes and then wrecking the es-
tablishment.
The iitate Health Department has
received a report from president Li-
ceaga, of the superior b iard of health
of Mexico conveying the information
that that republic is entirely free of
yellow fever.
Proposition to Pipe Gas to Dallas and
Fort Worth.
S! eveport, La., May 27. — Details
have been practically completed for
placing the order for the piping of a
pipe line from Caddo fields to Fort
Worth and Dallas, a distance of three
hundr^jl miles, as well as from the
fields to New Orleans, a similar dis-
tance. These lines will be constructed
by the Louisiana Pipe Line Company,
of whioh J. P. Cullen is president, and
will pipe natural gas from Caddo to
these cities, it is said. Franchises will
be asked of each to pipe all streets
and avenues, and domestic consumers
as well as manufacturing plants will
be catered to. Manufacturers may se-
cure fuel as low as five cents in each
of the towns, and consumers will pos-
sibly pay something over twenty-five
cents, It is said.
It is stated that the construction of
these lines had been determined upon,
work to be well under way before the
coming of the winter months.
LISTENS TO HARVIE JORDAN.
International Cotton Conference
Opened in Vienna.
Vienna, May 28.—The International
Cotton Conference was opened here
yesterday. There were over 250 dele-
gates In attendance and the sessions
will last or three days. Mr. McAfee
of Great Britain and Harvie Jordan
of the United States, delivered ad-
dresses, In which they reviewed the
efforts of their respective Govern-
ments to put a stop to illegitimate
speculation in cotton.
For Limitation of Armaments.
Rome: According to the latest re-
ports regarding the negotiations on
the subject of the proposition to dis-
cuss the question of limitation of arm-
aments at the coming peace confer-
ence at The Hague, Great Britain is
ready to withdraw from presenting her
petition if the United States decides
to bring up the question, in which case
Great Britain would support the Unit-
ed States.
Americans Get the Plum.
New York: In the face of the keen-
est competition on the part of the fore
most Italian, German and other Euro-
pean concerns, another Important con-
tract has been allotted to American
electrical interests by the Italian Gov-
ernment, The contract valued at about
$5,000,000 was obtained by the West-
lnghouse Company and calls for the
conversion from steam to electricity
of the suburban State railway lines
operating around Genoa.
Three Devastating Tornadoes Spread Death and
Ruin in Their Desolated Trails.
Dallas, May 27.—Never in the his-
tory of the State has there been such
widespread catastrophe from the ele-
ments as o;i Saturday evening. There
eeems to have been three great storm
centers, though there were disturb-
ances all over the State. The number
of deaths run up to a dozen, the in-
jured to scores, and the loss of prop-
erty, and to growing crops is inesti-
mable.
At Wills Point.
Saturday evening at 6:20, a cyclone
struck the town of Wills Point, killed
three people outright, fatally injured
one other, so far as known, and injur-
ed eighteen others more or less seri-
ously.
The dead: Mrs. Tom Douglass,
Jesse Douglass, aged eight years;Ba-
by McClellan, aged two years, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff McClellan.
Fatally injured: Mamie Brisentine,
aged eight years.
All afternoon the temperature had
been sweltering, and shortly before
C o'clock, a seething bank of clouds
of inky blackness began to form
southwest of town; blacker and black-
er they grew, until a few minutes af-
ter 6 o'clock they swept down upon
the panic striken community, wreak-
ing death and destruction.
The little daughter of Mrs. Tom
Douglass was thrown 300 yards, and
when found its arm was broken, its
skull crushed and Its head lying in
a pool of water.
Mrs. Douglass was blown 200 yards.
Her home was completely demolished.
The storm formed about three and
one-half miles from Wills Point, and
proved to be one of the most devas-
tating and terriffic that ever swept
Eastern Tetheas.
It struck the northeast corner of
the community, which constitutes the
residence portion of the town, and at
once death and destruction were ram-
pant.
Wills Point is the principal town of
Van Zandt county; it ig a prosperous
community of 2,000 inhabitants, situa-
ted fifty miles east of Dallas, on the
Texas and Pacific Railway.
At Emory. "
Emory, Tex., May 27.—Saturday af-
ternoon at 6:45 o'clock Emory was
visited by a, cyclone which was un-
questionably the most destructive that
has ever occurred in the State, and
for its width, it exceeds any that has
ever been recorded. The width at
its narrowest point was fully 1,000
yards, and at its widest fully a mile,
and its path of destruction extends
completely across the county, Great
trees fully two and a half and three
feet in diameter were twisted off at
the trunk and others were uprooted
like weeds. At other points along its
path where once stood beautiful
homes are either great piles of debris
or the earth is swept clean. Chickens
and other fowls were picked absolute-
ly clean of feathers and looked as If
they had been cooked. The fact that
the wires are all down prevented the
outside world from getting full infor-
mation as to how destructive was the
storm. Fully fifty dwelllnge were to-
tally demolished, and this does not in-
clude barns and outhouses.
The dead are: Walter. Martin, Sam
Buckhalter, Mr. Ivie, Young Davis, the
8-year-old son of- John Littlejohn. v.
Two negroes are dying. Their
names are Ann Martin and Young
Mlddleton.
The cyclone formed southwest of
town and traveled northwest, striking
the west side of Emory at 6:45 o'clock
In (he evening.
All the buildings at the county poor
farm were completely destroyed, and
of the dead, three met death there—
an unknown woman, Walter Martin
and Mr. Ivy.
At Llano.
Llano, Tex., May 27.—A destructive
tornado about 6 o'clock Saturday night
in the northwestern portion of this
county caused loss of three lives and
the severe injury of a number of peo-
ple. The storm swept the district be-
tween Field Creek, this county, and
Pontotoc, Mason County, twenty-three
miles northwest. Approaching the
northwest, the death-dealing twister
first struck the dwelling of Joe Bar-
nett. This house was occupied by Bar-
nett, his wife and four children. Tha
before Lie storm came. The storm
house was literally blown into kind-
ling.
Barnett was killed outright, his body
being hurled through space for more
than fifty yards.
An Infant baby was blown more than
one hundred yards into a mesquite
tree, a limb penetrating its lungs, its
death being instantaneous.
Joe Barnett Jr., aged 3, had his
skull crushed and will die.
Immediately following the storm a
terrific hailstorm ensued, entailing fur-
ther losses to crops. Chickens and
cattle were killed. The effect of the
cyclonic winds was felt here, a severe
hailstorm visiting this place. - Tele-
phone poles are down, window lights
broken out and roofs damaged.
Twelve miles west of here the hall
was of such violence as to tear roofs
all to pieces and strip trees of e^erjr
particle of limbs.x
It had been raining for several hoursr
swept a mile and a half in distance
and more than two hundred yards
wide. Everything in its path—houses,
trees, fences, etc., were completely de-
molished.
Canton, Texas, May 27.—Martins
Mills, a village of some five or six
stores, ten miles south of here, was
storm-swept Saturday evening. Ev-
ery store but one was completely de-
molished, the one left being unoccu-
pied.
Only one person, Walter Barber,,
was hurt, and he not seriously.
Cold in Chicago.
Chicago, 111.: Chicago, which start-
ed out Sunday morning with a bright
warm morning, suffered a savage-
snow and hail storm in the afternoon:
and at night the temperature lowered'
so rapidly that it caused much suf-
fering among the persons who thought
summer had really arrived and had
left their homes unprepared with,
wraps. The hailstorm did much dam-
age to trees and shrubbery, and It.
is also feared that the crops have suf-
fen-d.
At a meeting of the Brownwood
Fifty Thousand Club, the date for hold-
ing the County Fair was decided upon,
and the first week or November fixed'
as the time.
Found Dead on the Track.
San Antonio: E. W. Haley, a freight
brakeman on the Sunset Route, was
killed Saturday night at Sandy Fork,
between Harwood and Waelder, seven
ty-flve miles east of San Antonio. His
mangled body was found on the track
by Engineer of eastbound passenger
train No. 10. His skull was crushed,
his legs broken and his body man-
gled. He had been sent forward by
a westbound freight train to flag an
eastbound freight.
Mrs. McKlnley Passes Away.
Canton, Ohio: Airs. McKlnley died
<early Sunday afternoon. The transi-
tion from life to death was so peacc
ful and gradual that It was .with dif-
ficulty that the attendant physi-
cians and attendants noted when dis-
solution came. There wag no strug-
gle, no pain, Mrs. McKlnley never
knew of the efforts made for days to
prolong her life, nor of the solicitous
hope against hope of her sister and
other relatives and friends for her
recovery.
The Rock Island Railroad has begun
the erection of a new depot building
at McLean. The building Is to bs
21 x 100 feet.
Charlie Settle, aged about 38 years,
was struck by the Dallas and Mineral
Wells local passenger train, one mile
west of Weatherford, Sunday after-
noon at 3 o'clock. He was walking
down the track and did nip* hear the
approaching train. Ha llvod thirty
minutes.
Harry Wineiand, the 18-year-old son
of H. C. Wineiand, of Dallas, died
Sunday from a bullet wound in the
right temple. The bullet which was
of 38-cnllber. penetrated the brain, but
c'ld not pass entirely through the
hoad. The wound Is supposed to
have been self-inflicted.
Samuel O. Morrow, Ihe patentee ot
a new bed spring, Is arranging to es-
tablish a factory in Dallas. The near-
est factory of thifj kind is Carthage,
Mo., or Nashville, Tenn.
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Banger, John. The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 23, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 4, 1907, newspaper, June 4, 1907; Linden, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth340934/m1/2/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.