Cherokee County Banner. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, February 12, 1904 Page: 4 of 8
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CHEROKEE COUNTY BANNER
J. E. McFARLAND, Editor and Prop’r.
Dice of Publication, - Jacksonville, Texas
Branch Offices at Rusk and Alto.
Obituaries, Resolutions of Respect,
Cards of Thanks—all matter not NEWS
_will be charged for at the rate^of one
cent per word. Poetry double price.
PUBLIfaHED WEEKLY.
Friday Morning, Feb. 12, 1904
__^WWOONCEMENTS. •
The following gentlemen announce them-
selves as candidates for the offices under
which their names appear, subject to the ac-
tion of the Democratic party:
For District Judge—
H. B. SHORT
of Shelby county.
For Clerk of the District Court-
B. S. JONES.
For Sheriff—
C. K. NORWOOD.
TOM SINGLETARY.
W. Y. FORREST.
W. R. MATHIS.
E. T. DOROIIGH.
For County Judge—
R. L. ROBINSON.
W. J, GAYDEN.
J.P. GIBSON.
For County Clerk—
LOUIS TITTLE.
Eor Tax Assessor--
D. B. SINGLETARY.
For Tax Collector—
LON BALLEW.
For County Treasurer---
E. S. (Bud) BOLTON.
Q. C. LOONEY.
J. B. COLLINS.
It is the general opinion that
the Baltimore fire will result in
the raising of insurance rates in
Texas to a still higher point.
They have been on the increase
"for several years past, and have
now reached a point where they
are almost prohibitive. It is
hard to tell how we can stand
for any higher rate.
A young woman fainted while
dancing at Springfield, Mass.,
Monday night, and died in a few
minutes after she had been re
'inoyed from the ball room. The
doctors say the pressure from
corset stays, the result of tight
lacing, caused heart failure and
death. — Nacogdoches Sentinel.
No doubt the girls will now
all swear off from dancing and
wearing corsets.
The Banner having recently
commented very favorably on
' thegrad^ of cantaloupes grown
at Winnsioro last year and the
year before, the article has
been reproduced in several
papers, including the Packer,
and has attracted considerable
attention. We have received a
letter from M. M. Wheeler of
Winnsboro, who represents him-
self as an expert grower, and he
has offered to come to Jackson
Japan and Russia.
It seems that the war cloud
will not down, but is darker
now than ever. If this conflict
could be confined to these two
nations it would be of less con-
cern, but, if war comes, it is
hard to set limits to it. It may
not be generally known, but
Americans have more business
enterprises and more money in
vested in them in Korea than all
other nations combined. These
interests are in railroads, light
plants, water works, and mining
concessions. Both parties to
the contest are already jealous
of American feeling and sym
pathy.
The real cause of the war is
Manchuria and Korea. Both
nations want a controling inter-
est in these. Both these
countries are desirable. Man-
churia is the richest province of
China. It is three times as
large as the Island empire of
Japan. It has a rich soil, rich
mines of gold, coal, iron and
copper. Korea is, however, the
main bone of contention. Rus
siais already in Manchuria, and
intends to stay there, and also
desires Korea to complete her
ends. She wants Korea, not be
cause she needs the population
to strengthen her throne or the
country with its fine soil, climate
and rich mines as an outlet for
her surplus population, but to
find an outlet to the Pacific
ocean for the purpose of con-
troling the commerce of the far
East. This she is deteimined to
do.
Russia’s interest in Korea is
purely commercial. She wants
an open way to the Pacific: har-
bors that are not ice locked at
any season of the year. Man-
churia does not furnish such an
harbor. She therefore would
find it on the Korea coast. This
she wants and intends to have.
Japan wants Korea for different
reasons. She needs it as an out-
let for her surplus population.
Its nearness, its climate and
soil and mines render it very
desirable to Japan. Then for
another reason she feels that
she must have Korea. If Rus-
sia should take possession of
Korea, she sees the dagger of
her arch enemy pointed at her
very heart. Her very existence
demands that she, rather than
Russia, should have a controling
interest in Korea. For this
reason she must fight. To
yield seems to her death. Un-
less compelled by outside pres
sure to yield to the proposals of
Russia, she will fight.
The relations of the United
States to Korea: “Under a treaty
negotiated in 1882, the United
States and Korea agreed that if,
at any time, either of them were
put upon by a foreign nation, and
her integrity and her soil threat-
ened, the other would come to
her- assistance and use her best
THE BALTIMORE FIRE.
Loss Probably Not as Great as at First
Estimated. Insurance People
Place it at $135,000,000.
Baltimore, Md., Feb. 9.—The
estimate of the insurance peo-
ple is that the loss by the great
fire will amount to about $135,-
000,000 and that the insurance
losses will approximate $90,000,-
000.
The fire burned for twenty -
eight hours, and was only
brought under control when it
reached a small stream running
through the center of the city.
Over one hundred and forty
acres of fine buildings were de-
stroyed, the burned area being
practically in a square form.
Many of the finest buildings in
Baltimore were totally de-
stroyed.
The city was promptly placed
under martial law, and all saloons
were at once ordered closed.
As a result, there was very
little disorder, and practically
no looting.
Though the property loss was
immense, there was very little
loss of life—in fact, only one
case reported, that of a fireman
who was crushed by a falling
wall. There were many nar
row escapes, and a number
were injured, but not seri-
ously.
All of the principal newspa-
pers of the city were burned
out. They are now issuing
their papers from Washington,
which is only 37 miles away.
Neighboring cities and towns
sent fire companies here to as-
sist the local firemen, special
trains being used to transport
them
Several vaults have been
opened today and their contents
have been found intact. It is
believed that most of the valua-
bles deposited in vaults through-
out the burned district will be
recovered, and this is one
reason why the insurance ex-
perts have reduced the estimate
of the total losses.
will pa^ hrsr expenses,
proposition is up to
g^wers.
The
our
.---- - . her- assistance ana use nor
vilie and give our peopte “U^^eavor to ward off injury from
structions free of charg^if theyJ ^er a]ly.” In case of war be
tween Russia and Japan over
Korea, the United States might
be placed in an embarrassing
position.—Rusk County News.
/ We have been “spoke to” some
more about running for the leg-
islature, and are informed that
we are running like an automo
bile in Angelina, San Augustine
and Shelby counties. Haven’t
heard from Rusk and Cherokee
yet.—Nacogdoches Sentinel.
We can’t support you uphere.
If you should happen to go to
Austin as a member of the legis-
lature it wouldn’t be six months
before some Smart Aleck would
be saying you took the job “to
make ends meet,” and to help
support your newspaper. Then,
besides, if you should happen to
get started in that direction, no
telling where you would stop—
apt as any way you would wind
up by selling rotten tomatoes for
a living.
H. GETZ
the
Leader of
Low
Prices.
(l ETZ’S
Estab-
VJl l—rf 1 JL*
lished
Big Cost Sale!
in
Alto
Over $10,000 Worth, of
in 1894,
Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Hats
and nillinery»=gilt edge mer=
chandise==at Cost.
DEMEMBER H. GETZ bought the Black, Powell & Co. stock for
iess than 50c on the dollar, and the stock is still complete in
many lines. Don’t miss this opportunity! You know our
j§§g competitors cannot meet this Cost Sale and pay expenses.
Mr. H. Getz and Hr. John Summers are now in the best mark-
_ ets looking for the very latest and nobbiest goods in every depart-
^ ment, and will give the biggest sale that has ever been known in
Jacksonville and surrounding counties, when all the new Spring
Goods arrive.
niLLINERY! MILLINERY I
We expect to have several ladies in charge in the flillinery de-
partment with the very latest of novelties in every design. Re-
member that we expect to have the most up-to-date and experienc-
ed milliner that money can procure. In the meantime we want
all of our customers to take advantage of our Cost Sale.
Watch for me; you will hear from
me again before the birds sing and
the flowers bloom. Yours for business,
The Nacogdoches Sentinel
contains the following, in regard
to the T. & N. O. schedule:
In proportion, this new sched-
ule of which'Dailas is entering a
loud complaint, is vastly more
damaging to Nacogdoches. Such
a schedule operates first to con-
demn Nacogdoches as a town.
What town of any account in
Texas, or any other state, which
has a line of railroad running
through it, is regarded by the
railroad company as of so little
importance that trains run to
within a few miles of it and stop
for the night? What town is
regarded as of so little import-
ance that its citizens are not
accounted as more than cattle,
so far as theii conveniences
are concerned? We can not go
to nor come from Dallas, Pales
tine, Longview, Tyler, or other
points west, without stopping
over night in Jacksonville. We
paid more than twenty thousand
dollars for this road and were
told that it would be a trunk
line. What shall we do about it?
LOCAL OPTION IN TEXAS AT PRESENT.
Carefully Prepared List of Counties Dry,
Partly Dry, and Entirely Wet, Shown
By Election Results.
Take a car on the Texas & Pa
cific railroad at El Paso and ride
the entire distance of 613 miles
to Fort Worth, and Baird and
about one other town are said to
be the only places where you
would be able to buy a “high
ball,” although you might have
plenty of dough and feel as
thirsty as a wolf..
Take a car on the Internation-
al & Great Northern railroad at
Austin and ride the entire dis-
tance of 257 miles to Fort Worth,
and Taylor, Georgetown and
Waco are said to be the only
places where you could buy a
drink.’
Take a Houston & Texas Cen-
tral car at Galveston and travel
to Sherman, a distance of 384
miles, and Houston, Bryan, Cor
sicana and Dallas are said to be
the only towns where whisky
could be bought.
Take a Central car at Fort
Worth and travel to Houston, 300
miles, and Corsicana and Bryan
are the only places on the route
where whisky is said to be sold.
This affords some idea of the
extent to which the wave of pro-
hibition has swept over Texas
during the past two years. A
better idea of the extent to which
lacal option has been adopted
would be afforded by giving
list of the counties where it is
now supposed to be in force, but
since there is no record kept in
the capitol this can not now be
done with absolute accuracy.
Austin Statesman.
Mrs. S. M. Braly of Mixon is
visitingher son, O. A. Braly and
family.
Claims Allowed, Feb. Term of Commis-
sioners’ Court
S G Clements—$8 00.
E S Bolton—47 67.
W H Merriam—10 00.
J E James and son—24 95.
Eugene Roach—45.
Mary Roundtree—2 00.
John Roundtree—1 25.
Alex Shaw—9 00.
F E McCay & Co.—75.
J W Pace—1 50.
Maris and son—1 00.
S R Gee—1 75.
J W Martin—45 50.
J O Moore—2 00.
W B Mayfield—22 50.
J W Gill—6 60.
J M Sowell—1 85.
J C Suttles—1 50.
Collier & Spruce—14 47.
J B Spruill—7 00.
J C Jarvis—8 15.
J R Lindsey—3 00.
J M Crawford—58.
J W Harrison—30 00.
W T Boyd—10 00.
L G Brewer—7 95.
Alto Hardware Co.—2 80.
J G Ellis—50-
L G Brewer—2 30.
G O Germany—5 00.
P T Butler—5 75.
Wesley Love—40.
R R McDaniel—40.
Andrew Waits—1 50.
T M McClure—5 85.
C C Hamilton—4 05.
G W Reynolds—9 40.
W D Lewis—2 00.
T M McClure—1 25.
D H Darby—26 50.
R H Bell—1 50.
Y O Wallace—4 00.
J M Williams—6 75.
J J Casey—4 50.
Eugene Roach—8 00.
W D Prince—2 00. ,
D Sylvester—5 40.
Brazelton & Johnson—12 60.
T W Brazelton—8 95.
Mrs. Ann Murphy—10 00.
R B Longmire—10 00.
C F Jay—2 00.
T M McClure—4 80.
J W Summers—8 10.
Cherokee Telephone Co.—1 00.
M Fromowitz— 75.
E A Priest—1 25.
J E McFarland—375 60.
West Disinfecting Co.—24 00.
T M McClure—4 50.
Tom Guinn—13 70.
Knox Overton—50 00.
J E McFarland—1 25.
W A Newton—17 40.
A A Atkison—31 00.
E E Dover—23 36.
A J Sherman—9 45.
Ambrose Johnson—22 10.
O F Paris—48 26.
Mrs. Dave Golman—7 50.
A J Sherman—2 76.
James Pryor—75.
S H Townsend—6 00.
Knox Overton—8 00.
W C Isgate—14 00.
Ceci’ mith—3 75.
G C ite- 11 00.
John rapson—5 00.
SpiM . uison—1 50.
J W Vining—5 00.
One
Price
to All.
H. Getz,
JACKSONVILLE, TEXAS.
Successor to Black, Powell ®. Company.
For
Cash
Only.
S H Townsend—20 25.
J T Wiggins—11 76.
Industrial Press—6 75.
R B Longmire—10 00.
W J Davis—11 58.
W J Davis—2 94
W J Davis—22 40.
Cherokee Telephone Co.-
-1 75.
Yesterday’s Cotton Market.
Liverpool—Spots steady and
24 points up; mid. 7.18d. Sales
6,000.
Liverpool futures closed quiet
and 52 to 56 points up.
New York—Spots quiet and
55 points up; mid. 14.80 Sales
100 bales.
New Yodc futures closed very
steady and 71 to 83 points up.
New Orleans—Spots steady.
Mid. 13|. Sales 2,150.
New Orleans futures closed
steady and 87 to 90 points up.
All markets will be closed to-
morrow except Liverpool and
New Orleans account Lincoln’s
birthday.
Excursion to Laredo and Monterey.
The T. & N. O. will sell excur-
sion tickets Feb, 20th and 21st,
account celebration of Washing-
ton’s birthday, at following rates
for the round trip: Laredo, $14.-
55; Monterey, 117.55. Laredo
tickets limited to 25th for re-
turn; Monterey, ten days from
date of sale Route is via Beau-
mont and Houston to San Anto
nio, and via I. & G. N. to Laredo
from there.
Cannibals of Africa are said to
prefer “pork” to “human”
meat. Savage practices have
thus been checked by cultu-
ral methods and the pig attracts
attention as the greatest civilizer
of the age.—Farm and Ranch.
Scissors and Razors Sharpened.
I make a specialty of grinding
scissors and honing razors. Any
pair of scissors made to cut like
new for fifteen cents.
W. W. Pledger,
At the old Leddqp. Barber Shop.
Gent Affairs.
Gent, Texas, Feb. 9.—Tom
Durrett, wife and babe, also his
sister, Mrs. Cummings of Alto,
are visiting relatives here.
Miss Audrey Smith is visit-
ing her sister, Mrs. Conner,
south of Rusk,
J. M. McKnight of Dialville
made one of his semi occasional
visits to this neighborhood
recently.
Socials too numerous to men-
tion separately.
Farmers busy preparing for
another crop. Quite a number
will try the tomato again this
year. It is reported the state
railroad will be in a position to
handle tomatoes and truck gen-
erally this season from the Hern-
don old place nine miles west of
Rusk. Hope so. J. H. C.
Foley’s Honey and Tar is best
for croup and whooping cough,
contains no opiates, and cures
quickly. Careful mothers keep
it in the house. Devereux-Bolin
Drug Co.
f RRE YOU RUPTURED?
IT GIVES THE BESLRESULTS.
LIGHT, 44 'TRADE 9‘
isssr The SMITHSONIAN
CORRECT TRUSS
HOLDS
IN ANY
POSITION.
If so, lose no time in
having yourself fitted
with a Truss. In ad-
dition to the celebrat-
ed Smithsonian, shown
here, we carry a num-
ber of other standard
makes, the principle
one being the “Honest
John.” We make truss
fitting a specialty, and
guarantee perfect sat-
isfaction or money re-
funded.
Dmreux ■ Bolin
Drug Co.,
Jacksonville, Texas.
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McFarland, J. E. Cherokee County Banner. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, February 12, 1904, newspaper, February 12, 1904; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508044/m1/4/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Jacksonville Public Library.