Breckenridge Weekly Democrat (Breckenridge, Tex), No. 44, Ed. 1, Friday, June 10, 1927 Page: 8 of 12
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TEXAS BRIEF
FROM OVER
THE STATE
NEWS
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U MHKK IM)l STHV OK TKXAS IS
GRKAT.
I'll lies recent 1 jrathued !how that
2.5 nun ijk-ii am their hehhixl in East-
ern Txa working in the lumber induh-
tr. In this Hoctir nut and a half bil-
l.'n f e t of lumbal i- produced annually
tht alue of whu h is f.fty-two millipn
dollars. In th- tar 11)26 men working
in the lumber Im-iines were paid wages
aggregating $i::ir0'00.
on.
.ROYALTIES SUBJECT TO TAX
ATION.
According to a recent decision of the
Texas Supreme Court oil roalty inter-
ests are subject to a.se"Fmnt and tax-
ation the ammo a real estate. This de-
cision affects the revenues of every
SHERMAN HAS FINE NEW HOTEL.
Sh rrnan one of the growing uties
of North Texas boasts a fine new h"tel
which was thrown open to th public on
the 19th of May. The new hostelry car-
ries the name of Hotel lira) son and is
a beautiful and commodious building
the cot of which wan $3."0ono. A three-
day program was arranged in connec-
tion with the opening of the new hotel.
All the rooms were reserved by Sherman
people for the first night.
MEASLES LEAPS AS C0MMUN1CA
HLE DISEASE.
Measles is the leading communicable
EXTENSION OF POWER LINES.
The Texas Electric Sen ice Company
lias announced plan-- for the construe-
of the State Health Department. More
than half the number of communicable
diseases during the month of April
were measles. Smallpox came !econd
and chickenpox third.
TEXAS LIMBER SUPPLY.
When we speak of the lumber supply
of East Texas we must use big figures.
Some one has made an estimate of the
lumber in the forests of the eastern sec
tion of the State and estimates that
county in the State In which there is an j the soft wood supply is seventeen bil-
oil held or in which royalties are held lion board feet with about half that
the taxes being payable in the county
in which the land is situated. The de-
cision was rendered in a case taken up
from Orange county in which the own-
er .f some royalties sought to enjoin the
assessor from making further assess-
ments against the royalties and the col-
lector from making further attempts to
collect taxes on the royalties.
much hardwood. The north end of the
lumlier belt is well settled but in the
southern end the forests are heavy and
not so many farms are found.
M.
K. & T. RAILWAY COMPANY
REPORTS INCREASED
BUSINESS.
The report of the president of the M..
K. & T. railway sa s that the road han-
dled in the year 1026 the largest vol-
ume of freight traffic in its history. The
road moved 8.48 per cent more tons of
freight than in 1025. and 3.61 per cent
more than in 1920. .
Tho report shows that while the
freight traffic increased passenger rev-
enues declined steadily. This was at-
tributed to highway improvement and
the development of automobile transpor-
tation. In the year 1920 the road han-
dled 8699660 passengers; in 1926 the
numb r of passengers handled dropped
to L012Oo2.
1 SHOW-GOERS OF TEXAS PAY LESS
TAX.
During the first nine months of the
: government fial year Texas show-
goers paid flOl.196 into the Federal
i treasury as taxe on admission fees.
While thi3 is a considerable sum it is
j less than half of the amount paid during
the same period last year. While the
how-goers of Texas have paid less
"nuisance" tax rlub members have paid
more than twice as much as was paid
' during the first month of the previous
fiscal year. This year the club mem-
bers paid $174017. against only $87411
last year. The total collected in the
United States from these two forms of
"nuisance" taxes is approximately $20-000000.
THE LARGEST GARLIC FIELD.
Texas leads in so many things that it
is quite likely man people have over-
looked the fact that this great common-
wealth can also establish its claim to the
world's largest garlic field. As a rule
garlic is grown in rather small patches
a "little of it going a long ways" with
most people. But there is a garlic patch
of six acres near Dcvine Texas said to
be the largest field of this product in
the United States.
disease in Texas aciordine to the renort tion of 160 miles of high-power trans
---- . - - rr. g-
mission lines in western lexas. con-
struction work on portions of this line
have already been begun and the entire
line will be cottiplaled by September 1.
The transmission fines will be extended
to Crane City n Crane county to Mona-
hans and Pyoce ifi Ward county and
also to the oil field in Winkler county.
The 13200o-volt line being built west-
ward from Eastland will be supplied
with energy from the large generating
station at Eastland which has been
largely increased in capacity. A. new
district office of the company has been
established at Midland.
LUBBOCK VOTED BONDS FOR
IMPROVEMENTS.
Lubbock recently voted a $)."oonn
bond issue. Some of the bond mom
will be used to retire other bonds which.
bear a higher rate of interest thus ef-
fecting a saving of about $15000 a
year. The improvements to be made
from the sale of bonds include $75000
on the light plant transmission lines
sewer disposal plant and a new fire sta-
tion in the southwest residence section.
A new standpipe is to be erected at a
cost of ?57.00n. and $28000 will be used
in providing additional equipment for
the light and water departments of the
city.
NEW USES FOR COTTON ENCOUR-
AGING TO TEXAS.
Producing virtually one-third of the
cotton crop of the United States Texas
is of course deeply interested in the
government experiments conducted to
find new uses for cotton. It is hoped
these experiments will find methods by
which about 2000000 bales of the fleecy
staple may be used annually by hereto-
fore unknown methods.
The experiments were authorized dur-
ing the second session rf th last Con-
gress on amendment to the agricultural
appropriation lull and are being con-
ducted b Dr. Youngblood. economic ex-
pert at the A & M ( ollege of Texas.
So far the experiments have been con-
fined to finding practical method by
which ov grade cotton may be utilized
and it is belieed a method has been
evolved for the manufacture of cotton
TORNADOES NUMEROUS IN TEXAS.1 wrapping for cotton hales to take the
No one has undertaken to explain i place of iute. aiid sKo a method bv
which rice -uirnr po'ato and cemert
A TEXAS CITY'S CRIMINAL
RECORD.
During the fiscal year recently end-
ed Dallas policemen made 77255 ar-
rests according to the police chief's
annual report. Of the arrests made 55-
271 were for violation of traffic rules
such as speeding negligent collisions
and driving cars while intoxienhd; of
the latter there were 238. The number
of arrests for drunkenness was 1122
for disturbing the peace 162'. for va-
grancy 3.294. There were. 343 arrests
on charges of violating the Volstead
act.
In the Corporation Court fines aggre-
gating $127603 were assessed of which
$83318 was paid in cash.
During the vear propertv of the value
of $125386 was stolen. Of this $81152
was recovered by detectives and police-
men Besides this property 2542 auto-
mobiles were stolen of which 2375 were
recoered by policemen and detectives.
The number of burglaries reported was
1.320; other thefts 4107.
NEW HOSPITAL FOR FORT WORTH.
Mrs W. L Cook of Albany has
placed in the hands of trustees the sum
of l.l.po000 for the erection of a hos-
pi.l ir Fort Wrrth to be known as the
"V. I Cook Memorial Hospital." Of
tl sun $650.(Oo will be for the huild-
:r ;l'. equipment and $500000 for the
m .' w Trent fund. The contract which
h.. "1st been let calls for the comple-
' 'i f the structure in nine months.
T v nlding will be a memorial to Mrs.
C .k's husband and daughter. One of
tl i- a'n object m establishing the hos-
p 1 is to provide a place whore worthy
w rr-Tg girls and women who are short
) M'.ds may le cared for. However
tl li stitution will take care of patients
w are financially able to pay for treat-
mi ! t.
TEXAS nAS THE LARGEST CIPITOL
BUILDING.
It is in keeping with the eternal f it-
n -s of things that Texas the largest
State in the Union should have the larg-
est capitol building The magnificent
pi'. of granite near the banks of the
Cf lorado in the "City of the Violet
Crown" is larger than serve anv other
State in the Union as its cap'tol. Fur-
thermore it is tho seventh largest
building in the world The national cap-
itol building at Washington which the
Texas building resembles verv much is
larger but counting the statue on its
top the Texas building is seven feet
higher than the great structure which
serves our nation as its capitol
To get an idea of the magnitude of
our Texas capitol. you must walk around
it pass through its great halls and go
from basement to summit. The great
structure is a ninth of a mile across the
long way and f9 feet across the nar-
row way. From the grade line to the
top of the dome is 317 feet In the
great building are 258 rooms. OoO win-
dow and 500 d ors
The Texas cap.tol is one of the fine
buildings of th nation and Texans are
justly proud of it.
why but it is a fact that tornadoes are
more numerous in Texas than in the
long ago. Probably there always have
been cyclones but those who have lived I
long know that the number of cyclones
ha increased with each decade. The
files nf pape-s of half a century ago
show very few cyclones and very little
damage when compared to the toll of
life and property taken by the twisting
winds of recent years. Information
compiled by the Weather Bureau shows
that there were 18 tornadoes in Texas
during the month of April this year.
These disturbances of the winds killed
84 people injured 320 others and de-
stroyed property worth $1747000. The
most destructive cyclone in April was
the one which struck and destroyed
Rock Springs which resulted in the
death of 74 people and cut a swath
slightly more than a mile wide through
two counties.
April is not usually one of the worst
months for tornadoes. As a rule the
twisting winds take their greatest toll
of life and property in May and June
tlvuigh few months pass without con-
siderable damage from winds. When
the figures for May are in they will
show a greater number of cyclones and
a death list and property damage many
times as large.
NEW GAS PIPE LINE FOR
VALLEY.
Within a very few months
marly all the towns of the
lower Rio Grange Valley will
be supplied with gas. Con-
struction work on the Rio
Grande Valley Gas Company
pipe line from the1 Laredo dis-
trict south through the Rio
Grande Valley to Mercedt s
Harhngen McAUen Edii -burg
and other towns to
Brownsville and Rio Grande
City has been under way .since
early in May. Later on the
line will be extended to Miran-
do City where tho gas supply
i line will be secured.
hags roa he maruf.u tnred from short
staple C"'ton instead of burlap
Alread a quant it; of the cotton-baling
mntenal has b a manufactured
and it is beuig gr. en a thorough tt st bv
Hpp'hg the ("'ton so wrapped from
pom' to poo.t in the United States In
' pm i't trie copo'i wrapped with cot-
to bagging l- being suhiectnl to the
hardest and roiight -t handling possible
and the ep -ur--1 to roughest w. at her
to determine whether this dnracter of
wrapping will thonmghlv protect the
staph under the mt adverse circum-
stames. Experiments are also to be
conducted to determine the practicabil-
ity of using cotton wrapping for other
products
It' tin -e i xpeT'nn 'ms show that cot-
ton wiapf mir can -at k be u-ed for the
wnj pmv of th products mentioned.
and can be had at a pr.ee as low or lower
than the price now pud for other wrap-
pings a new market will be found for
approximately 2.0(j00n) ba'es of cot-
fiii anr.ualk. According to figures
compiled bv the Dtjarim nt of Agricul-
ture thi- would automatiealk gie the
m.irU't a ba-is f r a .".-cent advance oer
tre pn -ci' prees nt cotfn. Thus con
tributing materially to the we
South
cotton farmer- and the
eral.
. ' t V
FIRE KILLED 230 TEXANS LAST
YEAR.
Terrible as the property loss from fire
is it is inconsequential when compared
to the loss of human life from this cause.
Think of it 230 people had their lives
snuffed out by fire in Texas during the
year 1026. Of these 219 are classed as ac-
cidental deaths deaths that need not
have occurred. The other 11 who per-
ished from the flames lost their lies in
burning buildings.
Unfortunately people read of these
horrors and forget. They go in the wavs
of those who perished taking the
chance taken by those who were con-
sumed by the flames leaving gasoline
exposed to fire lighting fires with coal
oil throwing matches and cigarettes
stumps into piles of rubbish and in oth-
er was inviting death by the flames.
The State Fire Marshal attempts to
show the magnitude of the toll of life
bv tire last year by pointing out that
if the ictims were stood in a line the
line of men women and children would
be about nn eighth of a mile long. Truly
an awful sacrifice to the fire demon.
"What a funeral pire" says ihe Fire
Marshal. "Let us while we stand with
bo'.ed heads in contemplation of these
horrors pledge ourselves that we will do
what we can to reduce this sacrifice of
human life in Texas "
Traits of the Tonkaways
(Continued from page 2.)
on. He drew the boxes back and insist-
ed that the ladies use them very much
to the surprise and amusement of the
Inelians.
"The truth is u could not hitch thi s
young Chesterfield up in the wrong
place. He was a ('"Uggist b trade. He
set up a little drug store and everybcyh
ga" him their trade and the triad hi.'nd.
The call of the wild was music to his
ears The Tonkaway camp with its
quaint inhabitants of Mother Nature'-;
own children was to him a delight. He
went there often. He became attentive
to a oung squaw named Kittv Gray.
When anyone wanted him. tin inquirer
was directed to the Indian camp. He
finally closed out his little shop and took
quarters in the bpee of Kitt. He let
his hair grow long; A-ore a feather in it
used buckskin leggings and motvasins;
and later on developed Indian features.
He mastei'ed their dialect and was the
only white man one excepted who ever
spoke their tongue fluently. He got to
be head of the tribe and attended to
their affairs with the whites.
"This white husband of Kitty Gray
never lost the respect of his old friends
at Fort Griffin. When the goernment
in the early eighties removed the Tonk-awav-
from their reservation in Texas
to the reservation of the Sac and Fox
in the Indian Territory their white
chief went with hi adopted tribe and
acted a their adviser and interpreter.
After they had been there a few ears
Kitv Grav died and slept with her
father. She died childless. When his
little suuaw wife was buried this white
chief hitched a pair of Indian ponies to
a ramshackle wagon and drove twelve
hundred miles to Arizona to be again
with his white relatives. The small tribe
of Tonkawas lost their distinct tribal
character after thev were settled among
the Sac and Fox Indians in their new
home in the Indian Territory."
Part of the herd of pure-bred registered ToKfjenfourg Swiiw milk
goals owned b) Iluford Itrown of uctin ToXaa. The goat milk in-
du&tr) is a new bumncKb in Texax and is rapidly growing.
TEXAS RAILROADS HAV-
ING BETTER BUSINESS.
For the first two months
of the present year the net
earnings of Texas railroads
was Sl.rrr)793 according to
the State Railway Commis-
sion Th.s was an increase of
$291.072 over th fir t two
months of 1926. The total op-
erating revenue of the roans
for the two months was $41-
518192 while the operating
expenses appregated $31-
982.339. Revenue in eery de-
partment except one was
greater for this yeai express
revenue showing a slight decrease.
The Mississippi Flood
(Continuid from page 2.)
our w.th tho backing of Congress that
will pi'ent a repetition of such oer-flow-s
an jrjve to the citizens of Missou-
ri Illinois Kctitr.' k; . Tennessee Ar-
kansas Mississippi a'.d Louisiana ade-
quate se'uritv from future calam.tn -i of
this kind. The solut'oii will pr babb be
a combination of ihe pre-t nt 1-vee
sstem wtih some sort of ou'lets
at rtt reals and a sy-tem of wr te- .-on-s-ration
at and near the sour-es of the
various streams that enter into the
Father of Waters
The Longhorn Strikes His
Last Trail
(Contirued frern piiRe ?
was sealed. Een the Ameruans could
s-ee that docile animals that ran to beef
and fat were preferable to those
that developed mostly horns legs and
de ilrrent. And so although the new-
come r was not as well suited a- th long-
horn as to the roucjh and read bfe of
the plains the longhorn had to i. Id to
the il mands of commercialism and al-
low his blood to become mixtd with that
of the foreigner.
RADIO NEWS
Tune-In Talks From the
Radio Editor
By DAVID J. MORRIS
Farm Radios Increase 126'
Per Cent Lat Year. i
I. re ar now i - - .-' frm
l i.o I n U ti htat a nj...jii;d
v . idi i reevirc t- tt.i Ha
Jl r.ui .i th I arlmt-nt of
Ato tuu unnoun -
. ; . 'i were but 51 L.t acta on
it i - .a it i tune lat year
Ic . i h.t '.'. '.'.u acts and lftd
a! nn Mti s Indiana rumei
k ' 'l ih M.l-U and Texas
r i -i -'i . i. (.reuse in iU of
S' jjir (.eiu in one ear.
he dtpai tine.il fineli from 10.-
000 aaavtei o.eiied from aues-
tiojuwirM sent out that farm
owaew dMira their aat two to
ana w favor of muaic rather than
educational lectured. When tnu-
ue is daiirad the larger per-
oaoUse wanted old time music
My itockmen reported that
they Iwd gaiaad larg profit
frm pigs cattle and ahaep juat
by listening and following the
trend of the market while a$n
pBltere farmers reported a sim
ilar result by listening to market
reports.
In listening' in 3604 wanted '
new on crops and nulla 231 n
poultry lfcv n fruit and veg-
etables 1h; on l.ettotk 1AM
on agriculture iconomtct and i)2H
on dairing
Mrs. Itanium Continue Her
Sunday School Yin Radio.
Mrs W F Barnum announce
that her radio Bible lessons will
b continued oser lklion WBAP
during the cou.m months She
may be heard every Saturday
evening 7 30 to 8 o'clock
Oklahoman Invents Section I
Radio.
A new radio receiver which
can be enlarged the same as a
! sectional bookcase has been in-
dented by R fe Clayton of Enid
Oklahoma. Back in 1812 when
radio was new Clayton began his
experiments with radio and to
date has made over 276 experi-
mental sets.
i His first work was building an
amateur broadcaster; then when
the war came on he joined in the
army isdio division at Camp Tay-
lor Ki mucky .tue ge'tinp out
it thi arm u'l I n v rk has ben
iii radio
His machine consists of a three
tube affair that tan t- Lu'lt up
by sections to a.s mm .. it ! wn
tubes to suit the ucu.un or de:
tnand. He has patented his in-
vention and ii making at range-
mem to start a mall factory to
build his machine.
Radio in Oklahoma.
Officials of KVOO stale they
I find a aning in radio intuet in
their State due to summer time
' and so many of their listeners
being busy in the fields or gone
traveling and not getting the
time to write in
' Among the latest musical feats
put ovei by KVOO was the Apoi-
' io Club of Tulsa's business men
sponsored by Robert Bo:ce Car-
son city music instructor Ac-
cording to music i ntics from all
I parts of Oklahoma this club con
sisting of 45 voices is one of the
best in the South Carson also
celled i a group of local Tulsa
talent once a week and lets them
brnadiu-t over KVOO
Mi- Marie II nt of Tulbs com-
poher .f the cantata "Christ Tri-
uiiiiil ifii" wu-- rendered orr this i
bUition mentlj and hundnds of
vonipainentar .cturs and tele-
(rrams were received. I
I Kach Wednesday evening at the
dinner hour program of KVOO
listeners have the pleasure of
hearing Tulsa's new high school
organ instructor Philip La Rowe
Cowboy Band Honored.
i The cowboy band of Simmons
College a band of wide known
radio fame was recently honored .
in Tampa Florida by being se-
lected ua the official hand of the
I' nited Confederate Veterans for
life.
I The most interesting thing
about this band is that it is com-
posed only of members who are
either sons or grandsons of Con
fedtiale veteians and every
member is from a West Texas
pioneer family. The organization
is now four years old
Radio Aidfe Cotton Exchange
D A. Peattlee of the I'easlee
& Ninthti Eltctr.i Co.. of George-
town Tt Xdx i using his radio
t!ul to obtain the cotton ma ket
reports as well as every market
and grain report that he can gath-
er from stations WBAP and
WFAA. These report are tab-
ulated on sheets of paper and
placed on the counter of the store
so that all can see it. A large
number of regular visitors all
members of the Georgetown cot-
ton exchange come in each morn-
ing to watch the market reports.
Station Aids Flood Relief.
WOAI the broadcasting sta-
tion of the Southern Equipment
Company of Texas San Antonio
broadcast several programs in the
interest of the flood-stricken peo-
ple of the Mississippi Valley.
Jurmie Klein's "Sun Dodgers"
were the features of these pro-
grams arsuted t" J. O. Cum-
mings station manager.
A sum of oer $4000 was rais- i
ed by this station in the same
for the suffering of the tornado-stricken
at RocU Spring
1". xas Many thousands were ob-
tained for the flood relief
I Radio Fan Gives $100 For
Fund.
After listening to a radio ta'k
given by H. J. Hayes chauman
jf the Bexar County Texas Red
Cross over WOAI Mrs. Rose E
Koyes having been convinced she
I said that the sufferers would get
1 100 cents out of every dollar do-
'nated gave $100 for Mississippi
I flood relief work
Stations Granted Temporary
Permits.
Under the new radio laws radio
broadcasting stations on the air
have been granted only temporary
permits to operate. In Tc xas
been
r are
kFJZ.
thu- fit .:9 stati m ha'.e
gran'i ! .his perm t 1 '
at 1 it Worth UilAI'
krub Dallas ttl KRLD;
Waco. WJAU Ai'i KLT
Houston KFW hl'K KTUF
(.alveston KM I KIM: San
Antonio K(. I K(IK. KGRC.
KTAF. KTsA wuYl H Paso
WDAH KrXH U turnout
KrDM ian H r.t . KILL'; Dub-
lin KFPL; Greenville. KFPM Ft.
Stockton KGFI; Amanllo KGRS
WDAG; Brownsville KWWG
A total of 640 stations have
been granted this permit.
Oklahoma Stations Granted
Oklahoma stations have
been granted permit to continue
bioadcasting by the new broad-
casting comm aion. w
These stations are. KGCB aj
Oklahoma Citv 125 watts 319
meters; KGFG Oklahoma City
50 watts. 384.4 meters; KGFF.
Alva 25 watts 206 4 meters and
KVOO Bristow 1000 watts 374.8
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