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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-12

Springfield H.. May 12=B. F.
Carr. who was arrested by deputy
sheriff yesterday on suspicion Of being
Erie Muenter, was released from jail
last evening. the officers being con
ylnced that he is not Muenter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-12
smith Center 3, PhiIiipsburg ?

PhiIipsburg. Kan, May 12-Phillips-
burg and Smith Center played a hotly
contested game of baseball here. Friday
afternoon. Smith Center won the game
by punching hits in the fourth inning
Score. to 2 batteries: Stanley and
Lands; Neal and Mcbride.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-12

Chicago, MaF 12-Fofeeaet for Kan
sas. Generally fair except probably lo-
cal thunder storms in west portion to-
night or Sunday; continued warm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-12
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

The remains Of Jason Miller. who died
at the Santa Fe hospital Friday Of
stomach trouble. were sent to Reading
Kan. for burial.
J. B. RowIes, one Of the early settlers
of Shawnee county. died at his home,
five miles south of the city last night
of heart trouble at the age Of "a years.
Mr.. Rowles was one of the best known
farmers in the county and has been
trustee Of Topeka township for the past
he accompanied to Bridgeport, Ohio,
where they will be inferred in the fam
lily burial ground.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-12

The first of the state candidates ~,
the Democratic ticket to arrive in low
vas W. A Harris. the candidate for
governor. Harris came in Vs. - -
afternoon. Friday morning L. q Al
born arrived Ahlborn is the 250-polnd
candidate for secretary Of state from
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

State and by the Confederacy. the men liable to military service went prompt ly to the field. Heavy drafts were made by the authorities on the plantations for lebor to build fortidcations, near and remote, and in response careful selections of their negro men suitable for the work were sent well provided for camp life. Spinning wheels and hand looms were put in operation on every estate and soon the negro wo- men became expert hands in the weav- ing of jeans, stripes and oznaburgs. in which slaves. master. mistress and daughters at home and sons on the front of war, were alike clothed. The Confederate Quartermasters and Com missaries had long lines of tall rail pens, filied with corns in the shuck. at every shipping point and piles of bacon from the smoke houses of the plantations. Every woman in the land was an enthusiastic Confederate m homespun. All the broadcloth coats were cut up for shoe velts, tackled to the soles of ball room clippers.
 We read, the French grant" It may he more properly written, the Bona partists grant Congress, by timely forethcught, in 1877, offered three sec- tions of land east of the "Chickasa Gallery" the White Clin on the Tom Bigbee, to the disowned supporters ot that lonely genius, who had converted a rotten despotism to . glorious coun- try.
 The Bonapartists brought no negro slaves and no money to buy slaves. Some attempt to introduce German la borers resulted fin failure The exites were not farmers in France. They had been hastily banished. wearing the silks and ve1vets Of the most splendid court of Europe. They brought little wine, and received more from friends over the sea. No people were hrayer. They dfned and danced in their log huts. but In ten years disastrous effort had driven most of the colony away. One or two living olive trees at Demopoiis and a grape vine or two near Greens boro, mark the places they left. Gen. eraI Lefebvre- Dennouettes was lost at sea, returning to France; Colonel Raoul went to Mexico; Madame George, M Ravesies and others. went to Mobile. Fournier, Bayol Stollenwerck and q few others remained and have ever been identified with the society and the country since
 The peculiar and interesting legfsla- tion of Congress, intended to relieve the misfortunes of so romantic peo- pie as the Bonapartists, naturally di; rected the attention of young tobacco planters of Maryland and Virginia. and young cotton planters of the Carolinas and Georgia to the land grant aban- doned. The fame of it's fertility spread abroad. John c; Calhoun was Secre-
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years owned land and negroes, clear of all eneumbrance, worth at public sale, not less than $500,00o. He never married but brought from Virginia relations of his name who inherfeed hti lands and are among the valued citi- zens of the community.
 John Royall Robertson came to the parish in 1928, from Nottaway County Virginia, with many negroes. He wal known as Q cotton planter of excep- tioal energy and success. He was gentleman of distinguished lineage and courtly manners. Ills wife was Miss Cooke of a noted Virginia stock. Two of MT. Robertson's sisters came younr ladies, to Port Royal, on the Warrior river, with an uncle, Mir. John D. Royall, who settled the place. They married respectively MT. Asa B. Wtnn and Mir. Robert Macon, planters. Chil- dren of Mfr. and Mrs Robertson were Richard M, a physician and an officer on the staff of General Wilcox of the Confederate army; Miss Elizabeth, whc married pr. J. A. Groves, physician and a surgeon in the Confederate army; another daughter married MT. Thomas Cunningham, q merchant ot Selma. John R. Jr,, was merchant of Selma. Major Richard M. Robert son was a notably valuable citizen ot Alabama.
 Mir. Asa B. winn bought the plan tation, as we have seen, that Colonel Foy got by marriage of Miss Cecile Davide, stepdaughter of Frederick Ra- vesies. He died early in life, leaving two sons and a daughter. The sons were Walter E. and Henry Jasper the daughter, Virginia, married pr. Henry W. Reese, all of whom we shall make mention presently.
 James Henry DuBose, bought the :'Riehland" plantation and residence of Robert V. Montague in 1858. and lived there with his family ssis~wife was Miss Harriet Evans Pegues of South
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v
 horse might penetrate twenty feet fin veyors could make only two or three miles a day in their work. When the boys went out to drive In the dairy cattle. horns were continually winded sto guide them home again. Deer, foxes, wild cats. a great variety of birds. turs keys and ducks abounded.
 Vast Plantations.
 Tn twenty years from the time the Bonapartists finally ceased to attempt the occupancy of their aiIotments, gay, by 1856. the territory between Uniou- town and Demopolis, east to west. and between Greensboro and Dayton, north to south, twenty miles by thirty, had become one vast area of plantations. penetrated by numerous broad roads. inhabited by thousandE 3f happy and industrious people, living on hundreds of estates maintained in highest culti- vation. The native cane was all gone. "a mile square of original forest was hardly to be found. There Is no exam pie of agricultural labor in achieve ment 50 notable as this. Not a stroke of hired labor was given to 1t.
 The Tong divining wand" of South ern civilization rested on the great plain. The young planters, University men and their wives polished as the pillars of the temple.''.. came with cara vans of black toilers. There was q coat-of-arms, centuries old, &ngraven on the plate on mahogany sideboards in many a double log eabin: ancient family portraits hang n low white washed walls; plano and mahogany dining table set upon puncheon floors that were covered with heavy carpet ing. A little way of the double row of log cabins. ''the quarters" where
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Carolina. sister of Colonel, c. c. pa- gues. He moved his family from South Carolina to AEarenRo counfv in 1s40, but lived on his plantation irl the eastern part of the county, mean time His eldest living daughter, Miss
 Evelyn married Colonel T. w. Bondu-
 rant of Virginia, who became a dfstin-. guished artillery officer in inc con federate army. Dr. Eugene D. Bondu- rant of Mobile, an eminent physicia0 of the Southwest is their son. Another daughter married Captain A. IF. Ravesies of the Confederate army. grandson of Frederick Ravesics. HIS eldest son, Captain Walter DuBose married Miss Matilda Lee Johnson. H4 was killed in the siege of Petersburg 1884. Isaiah DuBose married Mist Adele and K. c. DuBose. IT., mas ried Miss Pauline, daughters of Co1onoe and Mrs. John McRae. Of .Athol."
 Minor W. Gracey settled the "VvaId. vic" plantation, coming from south Carolina in the forties. He died of yellow fever, in 1858. contracted at De. mopolis. Tn his life time "waidwiee was noted for the elegance of it's hose pitality. Mir. Gracey was a handsoms man and q thorough man of the world, in the ceremonies of social life, intelils gent and cheerful. Mrs. 0racey wac also a South Caroliiiian! After two or three years Of wtdcwhood she married Hon. Willis P. Bocock, Attorney Cen- eral of Virginia a gentleman oe rare intelligence and a positive gain e the community. Young people had now become numerous and "WaldwicH dtfas nerB, ana balls were unsurpassed.
 John William Tayloe was the most prominent of the young men of the oanebraSe, in the zenith of it's social glory. The reason was plain--he was the wealthlest there of his generation In slaves and land. He owned tho most residence and neither he nor his young wife knew any limit to their pleasure in the entertainment of neigh bors. Mir. Tayloe was a Yirgindan. ed- ucated at the Virginia Military Inafi- ute and there recognized as an except-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

epitome in a newspaper column At random. as 1t were. names are now written and neighborhoods described. Nothing written is sufficient to the jus- tice of the theme.
 St. Andrews Parish.
 The Rev. Francis K. Hanson was not numbered among the earliest plo- Ieers or the Canbrake, nor was he a planter, a slave holder or master of a home. Ho came, a bachelor. in 1S39 q
 priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and lived out q long life there, so prominent in the experiences of the community and in the affections of the people that none is better remembered
 A Marylander by birth he had the polish of manners of the gentlemen of his native land. His cheerfulness, dig nity and intelligence and wit, secured for him a place Nat every dinner and an invitation to every ball. Yellow fever reached DemopOiis in the memor- able coast visitation of 1858. Mir. Hanson, in the prime of his strength. devoted himself to the sick. As I remember him. he rode a success sion of snow white horses thoroughly groomed He was a tall man, with full head of prematurely snow white hair. a ruddy complexion, a clean shaw en face. bright deep blue eyes He joined bird hunting parties and was a good shot. A brass tablet in St. An- drews Church is memorial of the long faithful priest and friend
 The planters of the Canebrake were a type, made by conditions, as much alike, one to the other, as men of type or class may be.
 Captain Reuben Vaughan, a soldier of the Virginia continental army, under General Washington, came to St. An- drews in 1S2S or about that year, with many slaves. He and his family be ught connecting tracts of land, seven miles long. He had two sons, both phy- sicians, who settled there. Dr. Alfred Vaughan married Miss Pierce of Hunts vile, and finally moved to Demopolis pr. Samuel Watkins Vaughan@lived on his plantation. He married Miss Tur- ner of Tennessee. Dr. Samuel Watkins Vaughan enjoyed a reputation as phy- sician in Alabama without q superior. He was we'll educated and a ceaseless student of his profession. He pros pered as a planter, and both he and his elder brother, Alfred. reared large fam lilies.
 The two doctors Vaughan, now emil nent physicians at Hot Springs, Ark. are, respectively, his son and grand son. MT Paul Turner Vaughan, a prom inent citizen of Selma, is his son. Among other children and grand chill dren in the State. Robert Vaughan Montague and Henry Duggar, Virgin fans of the parish, were sons-in-law of Cartain Reuben Vaughan. Mir. Monta- eue moved from the parish with Q young family, to Louisiana. Sons of Mir Duggar became prominent citizens
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
THE DEMOCRATIC ARIST0CRACY OF THE CANEBRAKE.
PLANTERS AND PLANTATIONS: .I# IH#F I#

alive with singing workers. The mas ters shorty built commodious residen- ces, the blacks multiplied as nowhere else. the children grew to form so- cIety. che leisure, culture and security of which Is most Interesting and val. uabie feature of Alabama history: in- ded of American history. Alabama presents various salient points in po- iitical and industrial character. but none which illustrates so directly the power of the lost Institutions as the original canehrake community of ls25-1set.
 Incidentally and necessarily, here mentioned, the data collected by the present writer, six or eight years ago. from planters or their pcsterity of the Canebrake, dispersed in various parts, of general and biographical character, is among the collections of the State Department of Archives and History. It Is too voluminous for even a just
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

BY JOHN wTTHERsPOON DuBOsE.
 The Advertisers benefleent festival edition greets the expectant muittnde. I ami invited to the grateful liberty pr this page of it's recurring proclamatlo,n, i, s,e welcorne to the season. I am to tell somewhat of home and neighbors.
 The story of the settlement of the eastern watershed of the Tom Bigbee snd Black Warrior rivers, at their function, known as the "Canebrake. is an isolation of pioneer history. unioue in the conquest of American wilds, north, south. east or west. There ,e no Counterpart to that tale on the nages of pioneer achievement in any land.
 Green in .midwinter as the banana
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

running horses In America. He en' tered them at Columbus, Ga, Mont4 gomery, Mobile, Jackson, Miss, Liv. insston and Greensboro, Ala, and New Orleans, with uniform success. He was one of tho earfy matriculates oa the University of Virginia and delight ed to recall incidents of Mir. Jefferson'i married Miss Nareissu Jemison. Chan celIor W. E. rayioe is their sony Judge R, L. Maupin is' their son-in- law.
 John Collins came to tho parish in charge of the wagons and negroes brought out by Mir. H. A, Tayioe, and remained as overseer. He saved his small salary, bought 160 acres of lana and a few negroes; Increased his acres
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

tary of War in the time of the Bona partists' occupancy. When his eldest son, Andrew, left Yale to begin a planters life, the father pointed him to this Alabama land Those who came to see, saw the majestic forest, im- mense in all varieties of oak, ash, gum, walnut cedar, standing thickly in canebrake. so tall that the tops of the reed mingled with the limbs of the trees and so dense that neither man nor
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
Gainea~ood Near Dsnopos Ala, Residence of Gen Whitfield

lived the blaclsa. Aupsr, no roof less soul, no locks on the doors, no sheriff's warrant served, no riot Here was the culture of the Lges applied to the patriarchal principle.
 As far as the eye could reach. the plantations spread before 1t. Like the dew after a spent tempest, the surface rose and dipped ceaselessly, no two hills alike, no two valleys parallel. Winter and summer. the fields were
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

plantations of the tropics, the match less splendor of the primeval forest stood. The sun at zenith did not pene- trate the fastnesses of its shade. In later time of habltation, no land was go viriIe of the noble structure of southern social and industTdal life as this.
 Tn the political crisis of. 1860 the planters were not united in. opinion but when final action was taken by the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

iohally promising soldier; an early es- timate of his capacity which he well sustained by test of the great war He had just arrived at manhood when he took possession of the Walnut Grove estate, his inheritance. He was a son of George F. Tayloe of Roanoke County, Virginia. His wife was a daughter of pr. Robert Carter Randolph of Greens- boro, Miss Lucie Randolph. They lived In beautiful style, servants, carriages, horses--all appurtenaneese-o fashion, able society thoroughly maintained. Their dinners and balls, frequent, were looked forward to by the hundred or moro guests as events marking the season. Their daughter. and only child. Miss Anne, married Dr. Albert J, Hens ley of Demopolis. Mir. Tayloe, as eap~ tain, led the best equipped and mounted and drilled cavalry company that wan4
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
Bell Telephones Ring Out
 The Progress of the South

MORE 100000 Bell Telephones operation lines owned M Southern WI Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company h territory Every subscriber these and with the American Te phone Telegraph with millions other Bell telephone subscribers throughout tho United States
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

THE Farmers removed the farmer the south from isolation The the farmer by lines that tho South with a network of wires
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

IN the city Bell Telephone has facilitated the business saving tho
 busy trouble The stands modern agencies of nercommunicaion
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

GcOntinued on Pags sfE.l
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

IN the Bell Telephone that other agency M Ready
 day dress deepes duty. The absent father husband need about these at home there Bell Telephone the house
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

Made Them All: the Zinc Etchings, the HaIftones, all the Cuts. Write for Prices.
The twice=a=week herald. (Amarillo, Tex.) 1887-1906, 1906-08-31
Armstrong Specials.

Claude, Texas, Aug. 2S,-Thero
have been good rains in most parts
OF the county during the past week,
which was not greatly needed, though
thoy did not come amlss. Showers
help to perfect the growth or rather
maturity Of corn and cause the feed
crop to perfectly mature,
There are being shipped out a hne
lot Of fat stuff in the cattle line. Last
week Mr., Darter, one Of our SUCCESS
full farmers and hog raisers, market
ed at Fort Worth 50 fat hogs, with
which he topped the market at $685.
per hundred. This Is the second time
Mr.. barton has topped the Fort Worth
market in the last two months. His
hogs we're plains raised and fed and
fattened on alfalfa and maize raised
by Mr. laughter on his Section of
land. Think of II, over $4,000 for
hogs alone sold from one section OF
land, And yet in the East they talk
Of arid plains
Protracted meetings have been the
order Of the day for some time. Re-
Gently the Baptist held very sue
cessfu series OF services, the sermons
we're earnest and very helpful AT the
present time the Methodists are en-
gagged in meeting at Fairvlew neigh
borhood South OF Washburn, This is
one of the most progressive commu-
mites outside OF the towns that Is in
the West, 4 nice church ediiice with
a progressive and refined people
Our country schools are good. The
school buildings, comfortable and
well supplied We look forward to
the coming scholastic year as one
which will be closely attended to by
those having supervision over the
them. One good sign is that many
who are buying lands in the South
and West part OF the county are buy
ing for homes and not for specula-
lation. Some have sold and are buy
ing again. They nearly always have
to pay more for lands than they re-
ceive
Our people are beginning TO real
lie that news can be gotten even here
on the plains, and out of daily at
that
The twice=a=week herald. (Amarillo, Tex.) 1887-1906, 1906-08-31

Colonel Cecil A. Lyons feels Ike
Col, e, H. r. Grecn, the Rcorgan-
izers candidate for governor is on
a cold tran for republican leader
ship in Texas Gooseneck Bill Nc
Donald is the Star Performer through
whom Col Green hopes to retire Col,
Lyon from leadership. Col Lyon Is
sound in his contention that Goose
ncck's claim to the DIIlcc of National
Committeeman is contrary to pre-
cedent and party practice But Goose
neck is as black as the ace of spades
and Just how strong a card he will
prove in hosting Col Green into the
saddle is yet TO ~ seen. We are not
dabbing in republican oliucs but our
sympathies arc with the white fac
ton Of the republican party and we
are glad to see that Panhandle re-
publicans are staying to a man with
the regular organization.
The twice=a=week herald. (Amarillo, Tex.) 1887-1906, 1906-08-31
PLAINVIEW PICKINGs.
South Plains City Enjoying IN Era
of Prospcrity-Many Buildings
Going Up.

Plainvicw, Tex, Aug 90, 1906.
The long felt want of good laun-
dry in Planyicw, we are glad to
chronicle, will soon be filled. A gen
lleman informs us that he will cstab-
fish a good up-to-date laundry al this
place as soon as the machinery can
be got here, and which we think is
now in transit.
Niessrs. Moreland and Braselton
went to work Wednesday morning to
take the census Of Plainylew, getting
exact population.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Todd gave a
lawn party Friday night, Miss Meeks
acting as hostess
r. b. Irwin is erecting very hand
some cottage on the west side 1t is
built on modern lines and will be an
ornament to that part OF our city,
Last weeks business Of the Perry
Dowden- Harp Realty Co, footed up
$61,640 in the sales OF Hale county
lands.
There is a fair fruit crop in this
country, in fact most apple orchards
are fairly well Laden with fruit, while
grapes aud plums are very abundant
J. NJ. Braselton is lust completing
a very comfortable residence on
South Prairie street. which will be oc-
cupied by our new lumber man, Mr..
Atkinson. and his family.
\ Dorohon is now Greeting 4
handsome cottage on the west side
that will cost several thousand dol
lars
Lon ehronsbiro has his new cottage
,oar,,. oor,r,o,od and win nova ne
soo, -. tho n,,arhoroers oct tbrouoh
u,,,h ,boi, ,yorR
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The twice=a=week herald. (Amarillo, Tex.) 1887-1906, 1906-08-31
HOW PETER WOOD CAME TO THE
PANHANDLE.

II there Is any complaint about
August dampness report II to Peter
Wood and he VIII make 1t up in Sep
tember Peter has presided over our
seasons and given great satisfaction
for many years. Several years ago
Mr., Wood was sent out 10 this coun-
try TO die. His friends hRured that q
favorable climatic change would pro.
long his life somewhere between sixty
and ninety days Peter landed In
Amarillo with Just enough Of him
left 10 cast shadow He had re.
turn trip ticket FROM Erie, Penn. The
return trip specified box and
charges for handling In transit. He
drove out on the prairleS and took
deep inhalatlons Of oIonizod air. The
mirages that are only found in the
Panhandle and Egypt made him on
claim how distance lends enchant-
mont TO the view He forgot about
dying, wrotc his friends that he had
found a country worth living in and
had postponed dying indefinitely.
Peter says the thirty or forty years.
ahead OF him viii all he spent in the
Panhandle, except a short visit occas-
ionaly cast when called to attend the
funeral OLA relative or friend,
The twice=a=week herald. (Amarillo, Tex.) 1887-1906, 1906-08-31
Panhandle Pickings.

Panhandle, ToX,, Aug 2S,--
Judge scaggs e. building 4 nice
barn on the nr. Wisdom lots just
south west OF his residence
Miss Clara Wright (nee RoTey) left
FOR her home In Amarillo Tuesday
morning
Commissioners court was In session
Monday and Tuesday,
Tho grand Jury only lasted two
DAYS found bill.
~ NJ, Young and W. A, Harper
nave put In good street crossing
from The hotel 10 the ONCE also a side
walk in front OF their lot between
tho old barber shop building aud Nod
Merchants barber shop.
County Treasurer Callaghan Ia In
receipt N check for $40, S12,57
from o. q, Slaughter, assignee OF r..
s, Fellel, the same being 20 cover Tho
amount due on August Goth, 1906,
20 Carson County, Texas, on the sale
OF the Carson County School land
In Cochran County, Texas, known as
the Leagues 1870, 1870, 1871 and 1872,
according TO the terms of certain
contract OF sale executed by Carson
County Texas, to Il, S. Ferrel, Of
Tarant County, Texas, on the 2Sth
day of February 1898.