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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08
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MEASURE OPPOSED.
Pressure OF the Commercial Oraanza-
tons Brought to Bear

pressur. ~ the Commercial Oroaniza-
-. u..,I.t,t - 81,
"O"s o'Ous'' ~ Oa''
one Of the first occasions which call
upon these business mems clubs OF the
&c. o., ,,,,,e.t,s -, G.. nui ~
say LOT v"Hrelteu uc''o" 10 ol' "o"
pending before the State legislature.
Pending the organization Of this union OF
climbs eo,i ,.,,,..i.,,,.,,, - ~ st,+o % h,
,-- 80 W ,'',''I', ''ol' W 'us 80
ING urSeu 10 take immediate action III OK
pressing its disapprova of the following
bill which was introduced In the senate OF
the Texas legislature on January II, re-
ported favoruhly January 2S, and passed
practically without opposition:
Be IL enacted by the legislature OF thv
State Of Texas;
Section !. That chapter H. title II, Re
vlsed Statutes of Texas. hc amended hy
adding thereto t5c following to-wit.
Article 7Isa ANY CORPORATION having ob-
talned or which shall hrrenfter obtain a
hermit To do busfnpug in rho State of Texas
under the provisions or tails chapter, which
Shall bring any suit Ia a Unltcl states
court. or which shall hlc petition Tor re-
moyal I'm the state c0urt of any suit from
such state conn utn the United states
court. upou thp sruupds az diversity VI
citizenship shall f,rf,it uu right 10 do
business In this Stofe' and Il Shall hr the
dutv ~ ths srrrrtnrv Of ,tnto. or commits
sioner Of Insurance. statistics aud history
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08
CALL ISSUED.


The steps to unity the business and com
mercial organizations assumed tangible
form at Dallas on the last Saturday In
January and the call for organization now
being sent out from this city fully explains
the objects and purposes Of the proposed
federation
1t reads as follows:
To the Commercial Clubs and Business Or
ganzations of Texas.
At a preliminary meeting Of the repre-
seutatlyes Of business organizations OF
In response to call made December 10
1902 the undersigned were appointed 4
committee to consider and recommend a
plan for q State federation. This commit
tee met on Friday, January 80, IN Waco,
and after full discussion and careful con
sideration report that In their judgment Il
State federation of commercial clubs OF the
State would inure to the benefit of the
state and the several business organizations
In particular
be most useful In discussing public ques.
tions crystallizing public sentiment and
formulating public opinion upon questions
OF general interest. thereby giving greater
| force and influence to any expression
emanating from the commercial bodies OF
! the State.
We therefore respectfully recommend the
| formation of a State federation OF com
mercial organizations to consist OF not les
] lhan twenty loCul oIbolISd hons' anu tNl'
when twenty have siguihed their willing
ness to join the State federation, tn
chairman OF the committee shall call %
meeting Of the local organizations to meet
at Waco February IA to perfect a Stat
organization by the selection OF a board q.
directors of not less than eleven members
to be selected from different sections o
the State. without regard to the numerical
strength Of the local organization to whic4
they belong. That in said federation eac.
local body shall have one vote upon al
questions coming before the federation
That no local or partisan question shall
ever be presented for consideration, an,
only such subjects as are OF general IN
tercst or import to the business interest
OF tho state That n fee of not more tina
, membership, aud that there be no salaric
, officers. and the funds shall he devoted I
the payment OF incidental expenses sue
as postage, stationery, etc.
There are questions continually comm
, before the people Of Texas for their col
means OF asccrtainlug the Views Of tn
public and diverse opinions are frequent
expressed without due consideration an
without mUturC delibcration, and therefor
q without influence or effect upon the que
lions involved.
We therefore believe that the propose
federation Will be of iuCalculable benefit
the State at large and we urge you
bring the subject before your organizatlo
and send duly accredited represcntatiy
to the meeting at Waco on the day name
, authorized 10 enroll your organization Z
" a member Of the federation, and prepar'
L to participate in the selection OF office
II and directors,
l.. G. Below, Pilot Point, chairman; ]
Woodhcad, Houston, secretary; b: b. Pa
e H. Bowen, Paris; Sam Park, j. Morcne
~ Dallas, committee.
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WILL INCREASE STOCK.
Inc Big DEPARTMENT Store 10 Assume
Gigantic Proportions.

MT MT, John Mendloyitz, accompanied BY Mr..
SS VIA ffeedland, leaves this evening for
New lcrk and other Eastern markets 10
P b an Immense spring stock Tor the
o .,ss department store 1901 to 1908 Con
sIess avenue, Mr., Mendlovitz has. during
the snort period OF his proprietorshin Of
tSet pig department store, demonstrated
,t quS Se AnoWs what 9rtces and good values
WI 90 as q buSlnSks getter IN Honston.
ah NM ne Is planning r>r monster business
when VIII be given 80 the public as soon
as Ihe remodeliug o. the store Is COMPLETED
a EG the old stock OF goods now on inc
orJer es uiSsplaced by the new stock being
Sluereu' orders have been placed for new
fixtures and furniture and store modern
i, tfSry appointment will be the result.
i,sM at Mendlo1tz believes In giving the pub
nc the benent OF his man. Years OF tx.
ltINnce IN the trade and for that reason
v ,astSs 70 go 70 the markets himself and
/ smeke ms own selections rather than bS
forced 70 trnst 70 the Judgment az an.
: o one :, IN, ihe pig department store viii b,
IA OF The largest emporlums in Honstor
when all the improvements now n , coniau,
p1ation are completed. s'''
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Record of Tax Collections

County TAX Collector Glass reports taxes
collected for the month OF January as fol
lows;
current taxes ..''''''.''s,...'.S l92.lN ~
Delinquent taxes ....,..,,.... 1905 90
Occupation taxes ....,,.,,,.., T,OSl 20
Aplal ssss ssss.sfs sssss eN@ultA@A ~
The collections on the Sist day OF Janu-
airy amounted 10 Sl2, l.aS,
The total taxes on the 1902 rolls amount
cd to 1851, 024.22 on the above rolls there
had heen collected up TO the close OF husi,
ness January 81, 1908, S903 dtA0l, leaving
unCo.lected only S07 dt0,2l
The collections for the corresponding pc.
riod ON the 1901 rolls amounted 10 S2Ti,-
1885, and on the 1900 rolls TO 500, 662 30
The increase In collections over 1901 Is
So. 055. O5, and over 1900 So, 95i62
The number OF polls paid on January ri
was so large that the office has not yet com.
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a very quiet one, being celebrated at the
parsonage, l5lo Washington street, and
OF the bride. The groom Is a resident OF
Beaumont and the bride has been living
there, though her home is In Houston'
beaumont Is to be the continued home of
Mt, and Mrs Dixon.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08
Dixon-Bdnsheld.

The Rev S W. Thomas of the Washing
ton Street Methodist church was the off
ciating clergyman at the marriage cere-
mony which last night bound the hearts
and fortunes OF Miss Beulah r. Brlnsheld
aud Mr. Charles Dixon. The wedding was
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08

The permanent organization OF the sun
day club VIII bo Effected today at meet
Ing OF mea held at the rooms Of the Young
Mems Christian Association al o'clock D.
M All young mon interested in work of
the religious department are requested to
attend tho meeting, A few rules for the
gcyernment 81 the club viii be adopted aud
officers VIII he elected
The membership contest Is ON and both
teams are already securing now members.
little change In the usual program There
will be basketball from 10 O'clock baths
from ? 70 1880 and lunch and membership
talk from N;S0 10 1880. The new membegs
viii be specially welcomed.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08
AVS
AADLEF

This desirable piece Of prOpslV
comprising seven and iraI 2loa ~ ~
facing Crawford and jackson ,ll' ~.
with car line, pavement, ssw W. n
water and gas. 1t is the 20, y,
largest piece of residence pE In I.
facing a paved street and W w'a -, =
sold at old time prices and on 'N'
terms.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08
rIIF GIrr.

THIS monument Ia the gift OF those who
knew George Austin Quinlan to love him
It Is the voluntary Offering Of those men
Who worked with him and for him in ad-
vancine the interests Of the railroad prop
crty that Jared so well under his manage
ment The employees of the Houston and
Texas Central railway started a monument
fund directly after Mr.. QuinlAns death,
and the amount in the hands of the mon
umcut committee reached $1,000 within n
very few weeks. The contract was let and
the work Is now completed. All that re.
mains nndone Is the formal unyeiling and
dedication.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08
Eleventh piatrIot Court.

eHon. c; L. Ashe, Judge preAding; Henry
Ainrecbt clerk
william Gaedcke ct al VS.. American Elk
press Company ct al, damagea; special eS-
ceptlous ot defendants to plaintiffs orig.
mai petition sustained, leave TO plaintiff
70 hle nrst amended original petition, pro.
vided same Is flied at the present term OF
court
II. II. Rice rs. Fairbanks, Morse & Co,
breach OF contract, Judgment removing
cause TO the circuit court OF the Southern
district Of Texas Houston division, and
approving removal bond ana ordering clerk
20 prepare transcript, to which the plain
til excerpts.
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same.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08
Fifty.flfth pIsttiet ceurt.

Wen, W. 4. Hamblen, Judge presiding;
Henry Albrecht, cisrk)
City OF Houston Va. L. u. Haya ct nj
continued generally.
w, H. Downey VS.. Weld s. Neville, debt,
continued generally.
Phlllis Freeman VS. IL Baldwin Rice re
ceiyer, damages; continued generally.
ID, Frank Powell Va. II. L. Hohl, motion
20 enter decree oyerruled.
George Lewis et al VS. j. 4, Ellis ct al.
motion TO renstate granted
Robert RuckwarCt vs. susanna Ruckwardt
motion FOR new trial oyerruled, TO which
plalptlG excerpts and gives notice OF ap
peal
s. l. Anderson VS. A. c. & J. c. Car.
penter, motion for new trial overrued, 10
which the defendants except and give no.
uce Of appeal.
Cora b. Foster VS. ] II, Burnett, motion
for new trial oyerruled, 10 which plainLin
excerpts and gives notice OF appeal.
ocelna johnson vs.. Gulf. Colorado and
Santa Fe Railway Company, motion FOR 4
new trial oYerruled. 10 which defendant
excerpts and gives notice OF appeal.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08
Probate Court.


Estate Of Lille May Eudrrs, minor; ap-
pllRuon Of william Enders for guardian.
lhlp.
Estate Of Gus Fredericks, deceased; ap-
plicntion OF Lottie b. Fredericks to probate
will.
Estate Marie Albrecht; inventory and APP
prnlsement approved and ordered recorded
Estate Of Percy II, H. Hardy. deceased;
Application Of William A. Jefferson 70 pro-
pate will
Estate NJ James T. D. Wilson, deceased;
application Of petitioner denied.
Suits Filed for the District Courts.
~ W. Michnux VS.. S. l.. Hahn ct al; debt
and foreclosure.
William NJ. Ray VS.. Susie Ray; divorce.
Marriage Licenses.
j. s. Lloyd to Miss Viola La Burdette.
Charter Dixon TO Miss Bulah Il, Brineh-
AaId.
Ira Lyman to Miss Halle Hicks.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08

The regular February terra OF commits
sioners court viii convene Monday, and
there is much important business to be
transacted.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08

The Ella Koenig murder case is set for
trial Monday. and a special venire OF 100
men has been summoned from which to
select jury to try the case. The defend
mt IL under indictment for killing Pat
Valentine, her lover. last May.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08
County Court.

Estate Maud, May, Bell and Clifton
Matter, minors; application OF guardian OF
wards Maud and Clifton Natter discharged
from further control OF their Interests as
per decree on trial.
Estate OF Ernest, Hllda, Alfred and Emile
Japhet, minors; report OF sale, hled Jauu-
AIRY IS, 1908. is confirmed as per decree
and ordered recorded
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08

Real Estate Transfers.
John d. Ruien to Harris County.
I 40 acres land out Of William
Scott league ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $40
Hollywood Cemtery Association 10
w. =. Owen, lots los and 1903 -. 80
J. o. Ross, Ellen II. Ross, executors,
and Harry Masterson TO A. r. 10.
gan, lot /, block 293, w. r. Bakers
addition ..,,....: ..,.....",.. AIS
Arno Baetcher and wife 70 IA b.
Rumsey, part OF Catherine Cogh-
Ian. 10 2-3-acre tract ........ SIS
Minnie Bringhurst 10 II. Rumsey,
one-quarter acre out OF Bring
bursts 52R-aere tract IN John Aus.
tins tw0-league grant ,...... 20
Minnie BrlnGhurst TO H. Rumsey
4 acres Mouth OF white Oak bayou
out OF John Austin's two-league
kFtNt To-, - - -. .......s..ss.s 3uu
w. d. Roberts and wife to II. r.
Kcpperl. lot 8, block 0, d. Gregg's
nrbE addition ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1900
q simon and wife to A. r. Simon,
north half lot and adjoining
south half Of 4, block III, south
side Buffalo bayou ..,.,..,..... 1900
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08

Hon Charles 2. Ache. Judge OF the
Eleventh district civil court, will open court
Monday. February 0. at 10 O'Clock a. N.
calling all divorce cases set for that day
There are about ninety Of such suits on his
docket
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08
Criminal DIntdot Court.

Hon. J. x, p. Gillaspie, Judge presiding;
Hon. ]. v. Lea, district attorney; oscar
Reynaud, cierk)
Patrick Kennedy, arson; not guilty.
Patrick Kennedy, aggravated assault and
battery; nolled.
Gus Jones. appeal; not guilty.
Gus jones, yagrancy; not guilty.
G. p, Barber, embexElement; continued
by State
W. p. Hill, assault to murder; continued
By defendant.
Cases set for Monday, February Q;
Ella Koenig; murder.
VIII Burk; assault TO murder.
VIII Burk; assault 10 murder.
Uiu pigvaa. hurytarv ~
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08

Thh contest over the appointment IN the
Fl, T, D. Wilson estate OF temporary ad-
Tninistrator was heard by Judge T. Blake
Dupree, who refused to make any other
appointment at this term OF court.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08

County court has adjourned. The next
term will begin March .
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A DAY IN THE COURTS
III
PAT Kennedy, Charged With Arson,
Acquitted.
= y .----------
ELLA EOENIG MURDER CASE MONDAY
Proceedings OF Civil District and County
Courts--comnnlssionersl Court
convenes Mondaylh

The trial Of Patrick Kennedy, charged
with arson, resulted in a verdict OF not
unity. The charge upon which Kennedy
was arrested and tried grew out OF the
,nrnins Of his homestead in this city some
months ago. A full account Of the event
appeared in The Post at the time. Ken
,edy alleged upon the night Of bis arrest
hat his wife, who had entered suit for d.
rorce. attempted TO put him out OF his
aouse. when lamp was knocked over, re-
,ulting in the total destruction OF the
souse.
The charge Of aggravated assault, which
also grew out of his family troubles, was
nol prossed
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I 3 TeST1a 60 Nan St Crescent Drug Store 319 Main St
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-10

sale, for he went to Europe soon after
ward. Belle Boyd had once before
been captured, court-martialed and
sentenced to be shot, but her sentence
was committed to banishment to the
South. At Boston she was again
court t-martialed and second time or;
dered to be,shot, but Harding, through
the influence Of some political friends,
had her sentence commuted to baE!sh-
ment and she afterward went to Eng
land. Harding followed her soon af-
terward and married her In London on
Aug. 25, 1854. He disappeared few
years later and it was reported that
he had died, when Belle Boyd mar
rled Col. Hammond. Harding subse-
quently enlisted in the navy and was
one of the crew of the United States
warship Juniata when she went to the
Arctic regions In 1873 in search Of the
Hal-Polaris castaways, and on which
vessel Commodore De Long and Lieut.:
Chipp made their first Arctic cruise.
At the same time Harding had suit
in the Court of Claims for his pay as
a lieutenant, he having found that he
had neither been discharged nor dis
missed from the navy. General Butler
was his counsel.
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crease, according to officers Of the United
Mine Workers Union, affects 2l,OOO
men, and amounts to Il total of $4,000
| for every day in the year.
Andrew Buchler, n middle-aged patient
at st. Joseph's Hospital. st. Paul, is be-
coming petriied. His stomach and intes-
! tines are so hardened that they resist
every effort of medicine, and are almost
impervious to instruments. Buehler came
| from Northern Minnesota.
Judge Elliott of Minneapolis, Mimi,
has denied DIR. Ames' motion for new
trial. Nothing now remains between the
former Mayor and six years in the peni-
tentiary for bribery except an appeal to
the Supreme Court. The case will be
certified and heard at the October term
John Carlisle, one of the most promi-
nent and formerly one of the wealthiest
men in Cincinnati, died, aged 81 years.
He constructed part of the Ohio and
Mississippi Railway. was formerly vice
president of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton Railway and trustee of the
Southern Railway.
Cornelia Gonzales, on attempting to
enter the home of Mrs. Sarah D. Solano,
who was at home with her two children,
was killed by the woman with an Ak in
Springer. n. NJ. The woman struck him
over the head six times, breaking the
skull in as many places. A coroner's
jury exOnerated the woman.
At Hamilton, Ohio, Judge Belden re-
fused a new trial for Alfred A. Knapp,
the self-confessed murderer of two of his
4 -
fixed Dec. II for the execution. Knapp
took the decision with Indifference and
made no statement. He will be taken to
Columbus for electrocution.
Six hundred coal miners in the No
yinger district in northeastern Missouri
refused to go to work, violating the
agreement made between the operators
and John Mitchell, National President of
the United Mine Workers, at Chicago,
that the men remain at work until the
end Of the Kansas City conference.
Michael Hoolihan, bartender, while
sleeping in a chair in a saloon in Kansas
City, owned by his brother, John Hooli-
han, was beaten to death with a club.
a heavy table leg covered with blood lay
near the body. Everyone in Hoolihan's
was drunk. Hoolihan's skull was crush
ed and his pockets had been rifled.
The Independent Packing Company
was formed at Kansas City by twenty
FIVE stock raisers. The new concern will
erect one plant in the Missouri Valley
soon and another, probably in Texas,
later. The company will have a capital
stock of S5,OOO,0OO, and it is provided
that it shall always be controlled by ac-
tual stock raisers, for the new corpora
ton is formed to fight the older and
larger packing concerns, which are charg-
ed with having formed trust.
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TO FIX ALASKA LINES.
Boundary Comm ission Holds Openin,
n.nnHnv

Boupdary Com I'm ission Holds Opening
Meeting in London. 30.
The Alaskan boundary commissioners
held their first meeting Thursday in
London. An abstract of the arguments
of the United States, given out, sets
forth that serious collision with Can
ada was threatened if Canada had press
ed boundary claims.
1t is declared that the British commits
sioner's contention that "Canada's claim
to the territories at the head of the Lynn
canal was at the time well known to the
United States government" is false.
Continuing, the document says: "This is
a gratuitous assertion. There is no proof
to sustain it. Canada never put FORWARD
any such claim to the United States. The
claim was first made in 1898 by Great
Britain before the joint high commits
sion. 1t has been said that if the Cana
dian government had instructed British
vessels 10 disregard these regulations
there would have been grave danger of
a serious collision There undoubtedly
would have been a collision, just as GER
tainly as if they had been instructed to
disregard the regulations of the port of
New York"
Considerable space is devoted to the
part played by the KlOnGike gold dis
coveries in arousing Great Britain's in
terest in the controversy, and in this
connection notice is taken of an assertion
made by the British commissioners that
the towns Of Dyea and Skaguay owed
their existence to the migration to the
klondike. They assert on the contrary
that Dyea was founded in 1856 and Ska
guay in 1888.
The documents covering the American
presentation Of the case are comprised
in three volumes, making a total of about
eleven hundred pages. In addition there
are also two volumes of maps.
Prior to the formal assembling the
commissioners met in their private con-
ference room and selected Reginald T.
Tower of the British diplomatic service,
formerly attached TO the legation at
Washington, and recently minister to
Siam, to be secretary of the commits
sion. j. r. Carter, second secretary of
the United States embassy, and Mr..
Pope, representative of the Canadian
government, We're appointed assistant
secretaries. Lord Chief Justice Alver
stone was subsequently chosen chairman
Of the commission
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FOREIGN.

Another fissure has opened in Eesu-
vius, sending out large stream of lava,
which fortunately does little harm.
The steamer Francois, with a relief
expedition, sailed from Brest to search
for the Nordenskjold expedition lost in
the antarctic region.
Turkish troops sent to re-enforce the
garrison at Kirk-Kilissch, near Adrian
Ople, We're routed by insurgents, whose
numbers are estimated at 5000.
A proposition has been submitted to
the Chamber of Deputies at Lima to bar
members of religious orders expelled
from France from entering Peru.
The Journal Do Commercio of Rio Ja-
metro announces that a syndicate of
American capitalists is about to purchase
the whole stock of Brazilian coffee.
The old White Star Line steamship
Britannia is on her way to Bremen,
where she will be broken up after twen-
ty-nine years service with her original
machinery.
After a fortnight's work, President
Riesco of Chill has formed new min
istry, headed by Ricardo Matteperez. 1t
10 VI the bame pOulcdl COMpOSltfOu ds
the late ministry.
Grain importers of Europe will hold
an international conference to consider
an agreement against buying the Ameri-
can product on certificates which are is-
sued by the American inspectors.
Andrew Carnegie, in addressing the
Iron and Steel Institute in England, says
the limit of low prices in steel have
been reached. He also predicts the ulti-
mate reunion Of the British Isles and
America.
Rumors are current at Esquimalt that
a new fort will shortly be added to the
EsIuimalt defenses, situated at Albert
Head, jutting into Royal Roads, ten
miles from Victoria, B. C. Reports say
two six-inch guns will be placed there.
The Bulgarian agent at Uskub reports
that Notwithstanding the Porse's prom
Use, on the occasion of the Russian dem
onstration in Iniada Bay, to dismiss
twenty-four officials accused of malprac-
tices by the Russian and Austrian con-
suls, only nine of them have been dis
missed. while some of the others have
been given higher posts.