Sherman Daily Democrat. (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. THIRTIETH YEAR, Ed. 1 Friday, February 3, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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United Press
Afternoon Dispatches
SHERMAN DAILY DEMOCRAT.
THIRTIETH YEAR
FRIDAY
SHERMAN, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 3 1911
FRIDAY
Teias News
Telegraph Service
50 CENTS PER MONTH
Z, White Sale
Of X Undermuslins S2W%*
Is scoring now surcease* ninl adding now friends each day.
Till* crowds uoo larger onoli day. The sales mount higher.
EXCELLENT VALUER IX NEW UXDKRMl SI.IXS.
49c 74c
98c | $1.19 | $1.49 | $1.98 |
SUPKRR WHITE GOODS VALU
K ON SALK AT
lOc 14c 19c j
24c 25c 29c
SHOK BUYERS, DON'T OVERLOOK OUR
SHOE SALE
Tin* very host, most trustworthy Footwear now ofl'ereil at n
fraction of real value.
JUAREZ IS
afternoon and today's entries stand
for tomorrow.
SERIOUSLY BURNED
MRS DELIA DAY OF RAI.LINGKR
THK VICTIM.
CANNONS ARK OX AI.Ii THK GOV-
j ERXMEVT Rt’II.DIXGS
TODAY.
NO AitTACK UP TO NOON TODYA
It is Xot Relieved There Cun Re a
“oilnhnrduieiit ns It is Xot Thought
Hat Revolutionists Have ArtH-
f
—
El Paso, Feb 3. Ouidad Juarez
\ t practically .depopulated today,
•t-office and banks closed their
'•ords and the money was brought
are. In the continuous fighting
Jutli of town the federals are slow-
,• by falling back under the approach
hf the insurrectos The Juarez
|i( use tops are fortified Cannon
up mounted on all public buildings,
rhV federal commander promises a
-tunborn resistance of the assault
whych tire rebel leader, Orezco, has
et for 3 p. m. The rebel army out-
inmhered the Juarez garrison. The
ederal liopelessness is Indicated by
the action of the pcflice late last
night in blowing up the governmnt
power house to prevent it falling
into the hands of insurrectos.
* El Paso, Feb. 3.- 2 p. m.~ There
was no trace/ of an attack before
yoon, the rebels are presumably
Some distance below the city now.
That Orozco intends to bombard the
tjty is questionable as so far is
Cnnwn here he has no artillery,
fuarez races were postponed—ttris’
The Parents Were Married in This
City Where They Spent
Several Years.
Ballinger, Tex., Feb. 3. MKs
Delia Day, aged 23, prominent in
society circles and the only child
of ope of the most prominent fam-
ilies in Ballinger, is lying at the
point of death as the result, of burns
sustained while burning grass in
the yard. The young lady's cloth-
ing was burned from her body,
aud the physicians say 00 per cent
of the surface of the body is burned,
and that death will result. The
tragedy has cast a gloom over Bal-
linger.
Well Known Here.
The parents of the unfortunate
young lady were married in this
city. Her father is Win. Day and
her mother's maiden name was Miss
Hattie M%Kamet.
Aid For China
Sent From A merica
Nanking. China, Fob. 3.—Deaths
due to famine and pestilence will
total a million before “spring, is the
estimate submitted today to the re-
lief committee. Two and a half mil-
lions are suffering. Belief workers
are almost helpless to reach all,
even were the contributions unlimit-
ed. Murder is adding to the death
roll.
American Help.
Washington, Feb. 3 -The state
department today cabled to the con-
sul general at Shanghai $10,000 in-
creasing the total contributions Of
the Christian Herald tc. $30,0oo.
The. American Red Cross sent $10,-
000.
■^SsStei H
PASSING OF
TIIK POSTMASTER OF SHKHMAX
CALLED RY IIKATip
TODAY.
LIVED HERE FOR 57 YEARS
l our Times He Has Hccn Selected
as Postmaster and Three Presi-
dents Have Shown Their Confi-
dence—Funeral Arrangements.
Captain Tom Richards, postmaster
of Sherman, died at his home this
morning shortly after 8 o'clock Toi-
lopdng a long and wearing illness.
days that the inevitable was
near
of
at hand and the untiring efforts
love and science could not avail.
The death of ('apt. Richards re-
moves from the community a citizen.
to his appointment as post master by
President McKinley twelve years ago
lie had again engaged in mercantile
pursuits.
Since his first appointment Capt
Richards' record has been three
I times re-indorsed, twice by President
I Roosevelt and once by President Taft
I th<> latter appointment came while
j the recipient of the continued confi-
dence of It is government lay strick-
en.
While Capt. Richards differed |>o-
litically from the most of Ills fellow
citizens he was not partisan and no
man had warmer, truer friends than
lie nor had any one a better friend
than lie.
At the age of sixteen Capt. Rich-
ards came to Fannin county, Texas,
from Cane Hill. Tennesse, where he
was born Dec. <‘>, 1836.
In 1 -HiA ho was married to Miss
Mary Palmer who survives hint.
To this union-have been born two
children, Mr. Burton !,; Richards of
Oklahoma and Mrs. Fay Grant of
this city.
In his home life tlie deceased was
a model husband and. father; and
while the community feels, his loss
deeply it is not. for pen or word to
tell tile great grief of the family.
With Capt. Tom Richards and
his parents there came to Sherman
three brothers. Frank Richards,
John Richards and White Richards,
ail of whom have preceded him to
the grave.
Tlie body was composed for bur-
ial by Haynes & Sporer, funeral di-
ONLY HOUSE
IN SESSION
THK WOLF llOr.XTY APPRO! Kl-
ATIOX PASSED FINALLY
THIS MORNING.
PROTECTION FROM FLOODS
'Poultry 'Ratsets
and Gardners
it's time you were looking after your fences.
We want you to see oar
“Electric Weld” Poultry Fence
It is made of extra heavy wires and still the meshes are close
lenough -to make the feuce perfectly chicken-pr.oof—and strong
[enough for stock.
It requires no top rail nor base board—stretches perfectly
[over Uneven ground and, if perfectly stretched, will not "sag'1
find get out of shape.
Best of all, tliia fence costs no more (when you count* the
{tost of top and bottom rails required with the ordinary kinds) than
pie lightest and cheapest netting.
Come in and see for yourself.
Leslie- Taylor
Hardware Co.
Relief (ironing There Will Re \<> Re-
districting—(lovernor Will Not |
Sign New Court Rills Fnless Hie
Supreme Court is Relieved.
who will be missed not alone because
of the prominent place of trust oc-
cupied by him, hut because of hit
long residence here and close identi-
fication witli the growth of Sher-
man.
He was one of tlie pioneer business
men of Sherman and when he came
hero more than a half century ago
there was but one business house
in Sherman and that a log structure
which stood on the Northeast cor-
ner of court plaza on lot now occu-
rectors, and will remain at the fam-
••>' residenceimNoytluerocketi street
until afiorThe services, which will
he tomorrow at 3 p. m. by Rev. It.
\\ renn YV ebb, pastor of lirace Pres-
byterian church, of which he had
been-an aettrean ember for years.
I he funeral will he conducted in
strict, simplicity in accordance witli
the often expressed wish of the de-
ceased.
Austin, Tex., Feb. 3. -Only the
house of representatives was in ses-
sion today and it passed finally the
wolf s'calp bounty by appropriating
$130,000 for the extermination- " of
wolves by offering bounties for their
senilis.
Likewise the bill authorizing the
commissioner of agriculture to em-
ploy an expert civil engineer to work
out plans to protect farm lands from
tloods, conserve the lands and in-
struct the farmers as to the best
plans to pursue to protect their in-
terest's from flood water, was finally
passed.
Tlie Turney hill governing the sale
of mineral lands by the state is still
tinder consideration.
In tho senate there will be no
session until Monday as there will
lie no quorum the members being
out to investigate state institutions
to determine their needs.
I.icutant Governor Davidson today
completed his Jist mf re-districting
committees hut will hot announce
them until there is a quorum of the
senate present Tlie .idea is r.upfdly
growing that there will be no redls-
trietihg. -i
Advocates i f appellate courts at
El Paso and Amarillo are using ev-
ery effort today to limit the number
of appeals -to the supreme court a>
governor Colquitt Jtas given notice
that lie will not approve these new
courts unless steps are taken to re-
lievo tlie states highest tribunal.
Great Reductions
In Ladies’,Children’s and Misses' Hals
Clcan-l p prices are in evidence in the Millinery Department.
Note the remarkable money-saving offerings made possible by our
desire to have a clean house for the .New Spring Millinery:
Ladies' and Misses' Trimmed
Hats, former prices $4.30 to
$6. Oft.
< IHKR'K OF THK I.OT $1.})5
$6.5(1 to $9 00 Hats,
choice..... $3.50
$0.5(1 to $23.Oft Hats __________
$5.00
( IIII.DRKX'S HATS arranged
in two lots for quick selling;
('HOICK I.OT 1 25C
t HOICK IDT 2. 75*1.
Ladies Ready—to-\Vear Hats that formerly sold for $3.30
to $G.5tf, choice................ aj
Bailey's Rubbet Sewing Finger
Marie to prevent picking and disfiguring the forefinger in
sewing. Those who sew will recognize its value.
IT \ VOIDS CAf'siXti OAI.LOCS OR SOUK FINGERS.
Mill not slip off: is light, elastic and comfortable. Ribbed
on inside, and ventilated at small end to avoid sweating or drawing.
TilRKK SIZES. SMALL
MKGIFM AND I Altf.K
Each 5c
♦ Special Sunday Dinner
(■iring ’Notice to Ranks.
Austin, Tex., Fell. 3. State
Treasurer Sain Sparks is sending
out notices to . all—b,i„kiug institu-
tions, giving notire of the fact that
Inds for tlie state depositories must
he in his hands not later than noon
of Feb. G, which is the first Monday
in that month.
Under the. act .just passed by the
Thirty-second legislature, which act
carried tlie emergency clause and
Dost Office Notice.
... i .. 0n accohnt of the funeral of
Pied by the ( ontinenta! Rank build-, Postmaster Richards the business
*n®* .. districts will make but three rounds I *e.nt into effect from1 its passage
He uas engaged in business wiU* : and residence carrier but one round and approval last night, the number
his brother. John (\ Richards for j tomorrow. The collectors will not ‘ f state.'depositories is reduced from
several years just after tlie close of j make their seventh ami eighth the number of senatorial districts
round. j '!l to the number of congressional
The postoffice will close
m.
tlie war.
i.ater on he engaged in live stc-ek I
and cat He breeding and just prior 1
at 2 p.
‘ ““ VUOL LYON IN
l.tfmlale, Miss., Feb. Five
deaths are reported today from an
epidemic of spotted spine cerebral
lever in Greene county with four
new cases. The county health author-
ities are Tiaflted by the outbreak of
the strange malariv A nauun-r of
families ,ire leaving the c>mm.ii.
Dan-Aiiieidean ('onforence.
REACHED TIIK (WRIT \L FROM
OYSTKR RAY ON \ KS-
TKKDAY.
I districts—-1 6. This amendment, in
j effect, will place more money in each
I depository.
Another change in tlie former law.
which is embodied in the Amendment
inst passed ni)d goes into effect to-
day, is that the hanks bidding for
depositories shall deposit, with the
treasurer as security, a sum in bonds
equal to tile amount received from
tlie state.
Mr. Sparks .alls attention to tDo
fact that the time is very short in
which the bids may he-returned to
Hie treasury department and be re-
ceived before noon of next Monday,
which will be Feb. G.
Washington, Feb. 3 —The Pan-
American Commercial Conference to
be held here Feb. 12-1Y, promises to
be the largest and most representa-
tive commercial gathering that has
ever assembled in the national cap-
ital. The Pan-American Union, un-
der whose auspices live conference
will be die Id, has announced that it
lias received notices from ninety-
one commercial organizations, and
2^G firms and individuals of (heir
intention to he present. Every state
in tlie union will be represented.
The conference will be only ot
commercial value. Political questions
will be avovtded and no resolutions
will be debated or adopted.
President Taft, Secretary Knox,
Champ Clark. ‘Senator Root, Presi-
dent Farrell of the United States
Steel Corporation and others are ex-
pected to deliver addresses on the
opening day.
SCHEDULE OF ROOSEVELT
His Itinerary in Toy ns is Announced
in Detail l»\ <’ol. I,yon—Kv-lVesi-
Hent Will Reach Dallas at H p. m.,
March 1:1.
AT THE
Crystal Cafe
CELERY DILL PICKLES
CREAM OF CELERY SOCP’ t
ROAST PRIME RIBS OF BEEF AF JCS
„ MASHED POTATOES
BAKED YOUNG CiflOKEN WITH DRESSING
JUNK PEAS IN CREAM
HANNAN A FRITTERS, LEMON SAUCE HOT MINCE PIES
HOT ROI LS
COFFEE ' MILK TEA
t
T \YK WILL SERVE THE A ROVE FROM 12 UNTIL S O'CLOCK. T
35 CENTS. ♦
^ SHORT ORDERS OF ALL KINDS AT AI.L HOURS.
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ <*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
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Against Phone Rate Regulation.
Austin. Tex.. Feb. 3. House com-
mittee on Municipal Corporations re-
ported unfavorably Hie bill- permit-
ting municipal governments to regu-
j late the rates of local telephone com-
panies.
To Disfranchise Orientals.
Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 3. ha con-
stitutional amendment designed to
take away the franchise from Jap^
nose and Chinese horn in America
was proposed in tlie legislature Wed-
nesday by Senator Caminnotti. It
provides that no native of the
United StnteB whose father was or
is ineligible to citizenship shall exer-
cise the privileges of an elector
in this state.
Rioting in Kirtugal.
Coimbra, Portugal, Feb. 3.—Sub-
sequent to the celebration of mass
at the cathedral in commemoration
of the anniversary of the assassina-
tion of King Carlos, a hand of 2nu
rioters broke Into the Catholic and
Monarchlal Club rooms and destroy-
id Hie furniture and burned the pa-
pe.s and hooks.
Washington. . Feb. 3.—Former
President Roosevelt will arrive, in
Dallas at s_ p. m. on March 13. Ho
will spend tlie night in Dallas and
the next morning leave fqr El Paso,
stopping over in Fort Wed h from
6:30 o'eloek until 10 o'clock in the
morning. Going over the T^xas and
Pacific, lie will arrive in El Paso at
T oVloetd / Wednesdav morning,
Afareh l5 V
Col. Cecil Lyon, national commit-
teeman for Texas, arrived ill Wash-
ington yesterdav from Oyster Bay,
and brought with him the following
detailed itinerary of Col. Roosevelt's
trfp through Texas:
Sunday, March 12 — Arrive at
Houston at lil a m. from New Or-
leans: leave Houston - at noon the
same day and arrive in San Antonio
jft-10 p. ni
Monday, March 13—.Leave San
Antonio at 11 a. m.. arrived at Dal-
las at S p. in,
Tuesday, March I I -Leave Dallas
and arrive at Fort Wojtfli at S:3rt a
m.: leave Fort Worth at 10 a. m.
Wednesday. March 15 \rrive at
El Paso at 7 a in.: leave El Paso for
Alhnouernue, N. M., at 10 a. m.
This itinerary contemplates a se-
ries of receptions and entertain’ments
to the former president of tlie Cnit-
ed Slates and speeches by him. but
the details of this program have not
been fully worked out.
Uedistricting < 'omiiiittees.
Austin, Tex., Feb. 3.-*— Lieut. Gov.
j Davidson said last, night that lie
! would appoint the Vedistricting c'om-
] mittees on the first day the senate
j lias a quorum but. that, he does not
expect a quorum ni Saturday, the
next session day of the senate. He
| declined to discuss the matter Tur-
t.het.
Kulunivsioii.
Austin, Tex , Feh- 3. The sub-
mission resolution amended by the
senate was made a special order in
tlie house for 3 p. m. next Monday,
upon motion of Mr. Gilmore. That
gentlemen said that many members
of th« house who wished to vote
upon this question were absent,
which was his reason for asking the
postponement.
IS THE CANAL'zONE
WITHOUTLEfiSLBESTRAINT?
Note these
Prices on
Men's Shoes
All Men’s $6.00 Shoes now $4.J)5
* ' All Men s $5.00 Shoes now, $3.95 ”,
IA11 Men's $1.00 Shoes now $3.60
All Men's $3.50 Shoes now $2.95
All Men’s $2.50# Shoes now *81.95
Similar Reduction on Alt I .Allies'
and Children's Shoes.
MALONE-PIERCE COMPANY
THE SHOE MEN
h'o - d
Panama, Feb. 3.- Samuel Dennis,
attamev. today filed suit in the cir-
cuit court contending that all laws
for the mnal zone enacted since the
adjournment of tin fifty-eighth con-
gress in 19.04 are void. He declares
that congress enacted laws govern-
ing tlie zone only until the expiration
of tlie fifty-eighth congress and
made no provision for the future. It
sustained the suit would empty the
canal jail, Dennis is representing an
alleged murderer.
LARGE EYE BONE CR0JCHEJING NEEDLES 15c
YAH
Just arrived another shipment of German*
town and Eider Down wool for Crotchetlng
Toques.
Germantown 8 Fold
Eiderdown
• 15c skein
« . 25c skein
BASS-PARRISH & TAYLOR
WAKH OUR WINDOWS
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