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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-08-07

connections.
Bill creating state tax board to
fix the tax rate every year. known
as the automatic tax bill.
Bill amending the fee law SO as to
allow fees in examining trials only
after indictment
Bill relating to judgments OF the
supreme court
The gross receipts tax which. in
which a gross receipts tax Of so per
cent is placed on all pistol dealers
The new law relating TO the sale
and disposition Of the states public
free school land
The inheritance tax laS
Bin increasing the fees for filing
charters
Bul Increasing the franchise tax
~ corporations
The court steuosflphers l8w
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-08-07
NEW LAWS IN EFFECT.
list of Those Which VIII Become
statutory August 10.

The following acts of the called
session of the legislature will be
come effective Saturday, that day
being the ninetieth day after the ad-
iourumeut of the first called ses-
sion;
Bill amending the Law as to filing
statement OF facts aud bills of escep-
fiOu
Bill fixing the time tn which local
option elections can be contested, or
prescribing the method as TO con
testing local option elections.
The school text book Law,
Blll amending the antitrust stat
ate. which recently caused certain
rust newspapers TO have spasms.
rhe fgu property rendition la~
ulW reQulring telephone aud tele-
sranA companies 90 make physical
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TWO upl ~t~ III E>tb.
| citag~~ Hs'ioaging Ia Nr~. Ne.ssi.
i,-f fA-struyrsi hp tires

Two cottages situated on water
street In the Cotton Mil addition.
aud be3oug!ne 20 Mrs Minnie wood
iief os Dallas sere completely dc~
troyed hy fire this morning bet~een
. and 10 o'clock The flr. started to
a house that was empty and when
discovered he roof was blazing An
alarm ~as Immediately turned In
but before tn department could
reach the scene an adjoining buIld-
ing occupied by W A Byars began
blazing The household effects of
Mr. Hysra we're t.moved and saved.
Another cottage occupied by Reuben
Johnson was also omp'ied OF it's con-
tents. This building was badly dam
aged Cotton mill operatives brought
out the long hose from the mill and
assisted In subduing the flames.
Mrs Woodllef's loss on the two
houses Is estimated at about 81 ,o0o.
Each house was insured with X. u.
McCombs for about 500.
II is said that children were seen
playing In the vacant house shortly
before the fire was discovered, and
1t Is believed that the blaze was
caused by small boys smoking cigar
cites
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-08-07
VOTE ON AMENDMENTS


Returns from the election held
yesterday at which the people of
Texas voted Oh six proposed amend
meats Ia the state constitution sho~
the yer~heinIng defeat Of five out
of six propositions. The amendments
covering the city improvement dis
providing for bond issues for public
roads. creating a department of az
riculture and authorizing the legis-
iature 10 establish a state printing
house II deemed expedient, were
lost The amendment authorizing u
home for the widows of Confederate
soldiers appears to have been the
only amendment to escape slaughter
The vote was uniformly light aud
1t is doubtful IL Is per cent of the
vote of the state was polled. II APP
pears that those opposing the
were prompt with their
ballots. while those favoring were
in a hopeless minority, The indiffer-
eut voter who did not take enough
interest in the matter 10 even ex-
press an opinion or a preference was
more numerous by far than those
who elected to exercise their right
of suffrage
In Waxahachie the amendments
at the head and tail of the ticket
carried by small majorities. but the
others were defeated. The amend
ment to increase the pay of legisla-
tors was voted down by fraction
more than five to one. The total
vote for and against the proposed
amendments cast at the four voting
precincts in the city is as follows:
For women's home 1874, against
I76, against 10; for pay of legisla-
tors 2S, against 1853; for public
roads 1903, against 50; for depart
ment of agriculture CT, against 116
for printing house SO, against 121.
The result at other places In tn
county, so far as heard from, is .
follows.
ENNIS.
For women's home 1879, again
So for city improvement distric
81, against 81; for pay of legislato
IS. against 1884, for public roa(
81. against 76: for department
agriculture Ga, against SS: for prin
ing house 70, against So
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-08-07
STREETS FOR railway
kssis lA1sssA Uiy xietist N Lssk1
Teixs Trkt,sa tse>Ssy

Last ~inser whea fh@ e8sY ssss sae8l
granted the Ccnfsai TesAx Tfast@ss.
company frAaehles 10 buiid. sasEaa
tain and operate an interafb*n tai
say lire through a'anahaehge lbs
document provided that the stfs@ts
10 b. used should be designated
within ninety dags. Al th. explfstBgn
of that time the company asked s0s
an esfrhsscn OF sir months Ia which
10 select a route through the city
Tn. designation AZ made by ths
company was filed with the city sec.
|retary last week and was read 30 the
council aud approved By that body
last night The route selected Ia as
follows
over Williams street 70 Ferris
Second Addition and then over VIII
liams avenue to Marvin avenue
over Marvin avenue 10 College street
over College street through the
public square TO Washington street.
over Washington street to jefferson
street, in an easterly direction over
jefferson street 10 Get2endaner ay-
enue and over Getzendaner avenue
in northeasterly direction to the
terminus.
The reports of officers were re-
ceived and approved and accounts
against the city allowed and ordered
paid.
A petition signed by goodly num-
Der of business men was presented
to the council, asking that a Bell
telephone be installed in Fire Chief
Deyenport's residence and paid for
by the city. The request OF the peti-
TONERS was granted.
j. f, Morton, a house mover. ap-
peared before the council and stated
that the electric light company and
telephone companies had notified
| him that in the future he must pay
| for all wires cut while moving hous-
les He was instructed to disregard
lsuch notices until a test case nov
lbefore the supreme court is dispose
lof
The resignation OF Chas. w. Wa
4 ters as city secretary was accept
and Tom n Herring appointed
,e fill out his unexpired term. Otf
n applicants for the place were NJ.
. Founders. J. NJ. Cumby ard NJ
! Lola Curlin.
The water committee report
that a contract for boring ne
well for the city had been awarde
to Morgan & Franks The contra,
price is $500 per foot If one well
bored and s1.75 per foot for eacl
well If two are bored.
| An ordinance authorizing the
Waxahachie Street Railway company
to transport policemen free was read
and adopted
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-08-07

iEuna~ay ,ceiient Which Resulted
Fatally IN Nan xandt county

Iuuey.rW Texas. Aug Mon
day uishf 1t fs a.5i5sk bs NJ X
Cibaou. Who lives near suwmsrfie'd
,bur,b. SIX miles nortb ~ tbiH place
Nas returning fram Injfau twn
milee Vest ~ ssmueffjelt @hvrv
hr. wilb pFetehef tad heeH sltrBd
lnE uspaf ebafth #eFvlera fHst ts
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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-08-07
BODY CUT IN TWO.
TWO Mexican toroncr> Have Brake
mans Corps. Between Them.

mans sorI~' Between Them.
El paso. Texas. Aug 7--Oue-half
.of mans body held by the authori-
ties of one state. the other half held
by another state, and each state rr-
fusing To- give up the half 60 holds.
ls situation now existing Iu Mex
ip1.
Nigue. Martiuez. a Mexican Cen
uuI brakeman. went r1 sleep under
one uI thr cars uf bi- train while lt
was coca o. ,ldlug 9t Esp.rius Saut0.
ZarHfrGs The train started up and
.u. lfr brakeman sluareIy iu tsu
at lHr Uelr HALF tbo body rolled to
fhe sId. off fHr ragF. while ths ofh.
sr ma'f becoming ruausI,l Iu tg
huE, asam vas carried tu salinas
san IHs ratosl
THr coroner .u .l.h .faI. fa1a
possession ot taf ... Hodt aad
sa.t refuses u ruru Hu taIf over
t1 fr. effer Nu off..al n,,siisa
t.u aH rfassrI efa1ut ebo.,
u.p.. Iaa.r .ar s.IEnHIIr. arr at
seuras aaibe .HG tt. relative. af
rhs faaB war .-. ...H.. H f1 HHI
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4 NEGRO WAS LYNCHED
Tlkea from Cell ead Sfruas ID IN frsas
Of City ClIsboose.

Runge, Texas. August Tom
Hall a negro hailing from Goliad.
was arrested here late Monday af
ternoon on a charge of attempted
criminal assault upon two white la
dies of this city He was lodged in
the city Jail shortly after the alleged
offense occurred
Monday night between 8 and 10
| o'clock mob quietly congregated
iabout the calaboose. took him from
the building and hanged him to a
\tree In front. His body was found
about ~ O'Clock by the officers.
number OF other negroes who
= made improper remarks concerning
l. the lynching were rounded up yester
. day morning and ordered to leave
town. They left.
There is no excitement and tbs
town is as quiet as If no unusual in
cident had occurred
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DIGGING FOR BURIED CITY.
Excavations Being Made About
Rock Wall in Texas.

Dallas. Texas. Aug. ii. f. Hess
of Dallas returned today from
Rockwall county, 80 miles northeast
of Dallas. He brought with him a
sample of rock wall from which the
little county got its name.
Mr. Hess says excavations are be
ing made about the wall in the hope
that the ruins of a buried city viii
be found. The wall, which extends
for 20 miles, is covered by soil to a
depth of three feet, and is known to
lbe forty feet in height. 1t is built OF
native sandstone.
| The slab stones SO far unearthet
lare of uniform size and symmetrical
in shape
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-08-07
RED OAK.

For widows home 1G. against
12; for department of agriculture 7,
against IS for change in Legislators
pay 8. against "a for city improve
ment districts s, against 19; for
printing 5, against rs, for increase
in road tax 10. against 1G.
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ITALY

For widows home IS. against 70,
for department of agriculture 90.
against 90, for increase ia legisla-
tors pay 6. against 81, for city im-
proyemeut districts e. against 20:
for printing lG. against So. for in
crease iu road TAX g.. UsJiust 3D.
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SlNYPENRI

For HlIowa hom, o.. tsa.gsr 10.
Tor department ut agriculture 4.
against t5. for increase ia Iessia.
tors. pas 60. against BOB f1s sitl lm
pfusemeat districts A" asalust $50.
tor printing 90 asl.uat DO. for Ia,
crease lH road f8N "a. against 80
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-08-07
ASSAULT Is CHARGED.
Abbott Negro Arrested and Placed
in Jail at HilIsboro,

! Hillsboro, Texas, Aug 7.-Jame
! by Constable Phil Davidson has
been brought to Hillsboro and placed
in Jail on a charge of criminal as
sault. 1t is alleged that he commit
ted an assault on Jennie Wildcat,
an Indian girl, about / years old
II is said that the negroes of ABB
bott are considerably aroused over
the matter, and that could they
have their way. Laskey would have !
been roughly dealt with.
The grand jury is making an in
sestigation
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In Warm Weather

Vinol is as delicious as fresh
orange, and as soothing as can be
to the weak, irritable stomach. Ii
coaXes back lost appetite, improves
digestion and creates strength
throughout the whole system. We
strongly recommend Ninoi o. aii
who are weak and rundown from
any cause, particularly Co delicate
women and children. old people
aud for those who have pulmonary
toublcs. Money back II you Try
Niuol and are not satisfied.
ifood 4 Curtin, Druggists.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-08-07
MIDLOTHIAE.

For women's home 81. against ot:
for pay of legislators ~. against
1924; department of agriculture &c.
against 115. Vote very light, one
third full vote poled.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-08-07

When next springs gentle zephyrs
develop into cyclonic disturbances.
the citizens OF Forreston will be pro-
yided with storm houses i'm which
they may take refuge Joe Jarrett
accompanied by several negro la
borers, went there this morning Co
begin the construction or six con-
crete storm cellars.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-05-02
STOP AND FIGURE.

You hear so much idle talk about the
great prosperity we are enjoying and
we do not like to be croaker but did
you ever stop to think and figure a lit
tie bit? If not, suppose you do so now.
Suppose you stop moment and figure
up the cost of living. And this cannot
be counted as political calamity howl
ing because there is no campaign on
and we don't care whether you believe
or like what we say. The facts are just
the same. You get the same wages you
did ten years ago. Every lawyer and
doctor and preacher and editor in the
whole country is getting about what he
did then but we will consider the news
paper business. We get S1.50 for a
years subscription. We get about the
same price for advertising. Job work
a half higher, type is twice as high,
help is dearer, everything costs more
and the cost of living is far and away
higher. Where does the editor come in
on the prosperity? The lawyer gets
about the same fees and his living costs
him twice as much. The doctor charges
as much per trip and no more. His liv-
ing and horse feed and his medicines
and his instruments all cost him from
% per cent to so per cent more. Where
does he in get on the prosperity? May
be he is more prosperous. Maybe he is
getting rich. Maybe all professional
men are getting rich but we know one
profession that is decidedly not getting
rich and they won't as long as prices
remain where they are. We will say
farther that we believe more newspapers
are running at loss in Iowa that are
getting rich. If you want to imagine
that everybody is getting rich and roll
ing in afluence you may do so. We do
not believe it. If you do not like this
you may lumpit. We believe it is true.
Washington Democrat.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-05-02

Admiral Winfield Scott Schley was in
formed the other day that he was again
being doomed for vice president. The
veteran sailor said with marked ANNA
ton: "My whole life's training has
tended to unfit me for civil duty and l
feel sure that if were to accept re-
sponsible Office Ishould soon be heartily
despised. No man trained to the trade
of the soldier or sailor is fit to hold
office in a government like ours. Every
one who has tried it has proved a fail
ure So to the duce with this talk of
me for vice president or anything else.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-05-02
WHO GETS THE MONEY.

There is no news in the latest story
from Washington which says that
powerful faction of the republican party
is preparing for a bitter and stubborn
fight to prevent control of the next
national convention by President
Roosevelt and his friends.
The Aldrich and Foraker forces have
been fighting him ever since his cleo
ton, and nothing has been more certain
than that they would keep up the fight
until the nominations are made, perhaps
longer, if Roosevelt should win.
Nor is there anything surprising in
the story that the anti-Roosevelt lead
ers have already raised S5,00O,00O as
the nucleus of fund with which TO
carry on the war. If it is not true, it
is, perhaps, only because the amount is
not given with the accuracyof a tinan-
cial statement.
These significant facts in the news
we are getting these days is that when
ever two or three big republicans get
together to talk high politics they talk
high finance. In their calculations the
political principles, the wishes, the will
and the power of the 15,000,000 or
$4,000, 900 voters in this country are
nothing, the money bags everything.
But who gets the money? The liberal
expenditures for headquarters, for spell
binders and distribution of campaign
literature, generally mendacious, hardly
accounts for % per cent of the vast
funds which the interests in control
of the republican party have poured out
in the political campaigns of the last
ten or twelve years.
Who has been getting the rest of It?
There are not enough purchasable
voters in the United States to absorb so
vast sum in the sale of their votes at
so much a vote. If the balance was not
used to purchase corrupt officials
throughout the country Or in convert
ing trusted leaders, it surely must
have been thrown away, or it must have
stuck to the fingers through which it
passed.
In what honest way can the Penrose-
Aldrich- Foraker republicans use $4,000,
900 in their efforts to gain control of
ton?
These are sure to become burning
questions as public attention becomes
concentrated upon them. During the
next fifteen months both President
IeoooONOlo duet Ills oPPoilCAeo dlO 1lhOiy
be called upon to answer.
Everybody knows in general way
that the republican magnates have been
spending much corrupt money to gain
and keep control of the government in
Washington. 1t was for years known in
st. Louis, in a general way, that graft
and boodling were rampant in the city
hall. Both in city and national govern
ments the evil seemed without q
remedy.
But at last there came day of reck.
oning for the boodlers in st. Louis
That day has come and is still coming
for corrupt legislators in Arkansas
The big republican bosses who tall
glibly about millions with which to con
troll political conventions and elections
will do we'll to profit by their example
st. Louis Republic.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-05-02

The Chicago Record-Herald says that
Abraham Lincoln would not feel battered
by the claims of many people that they
look like him. But if Lincoln were
sensitive he would have been heart
broken long ago over the claims of re-
publican newspapers that they thought
like him. Omaha World-Herald.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-05-02

According to figures complied by the
census bureau at Washington divorce
suit is filed every two minutes during
working hours of court officials. and a
divorce granted every three minutes in
the United States. This has been the
average for the last twenty years, and
census officials say the number is in
creasing at an alarming rate.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-05-02

The Philadelphia Record suggests that
President Roosevelt direct Secretary
Cortelyou and Treasurer Bliss to publish
detailed account of the receipts and
expenditures Of the republican national
campaign committee. This is calculated
to make Mr.. Cortelyou wriggle if not to
talk.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-05-02

The assembly of the New York legis-
lature passed, with but one dissenting
vote, the bill providing for fat rate Of
two cents a mile on all railroads in the
state.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-05-02

Mr.. Roosevelt thinks that "conspir-
acy'' has been formed to defeat him in
1908, whereas, Mr.. Hartman asserts
that Conspiracy" was formed to elect
him in 1904.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-05-02

Senator Depew is sending out his
senatorial speeches to his constituents.
They ought to be accompanied by the
receipt for the restitution
of that stolen money.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-05-02

Secretary Taft is coming home in the
Mayfower. 1t is safe to say that with
a true Pilgrims foresight he will be-
ware of the Foraker Indians.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-05-02

The paper trust which was "put out
of business by the administration"
seems to have gone right along in utter
ignorance Of the fact.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-05-02

1t is a little short of remarkable how
many republican leaders are just now
making a noise like man kicked on the
shins.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-05-02

The continued silence of Speaker Can
non may be taken as as Indication that
he would much prefer being literally
quoted to being sadly defeated.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-23
EAGLES HEAD HERE
Worthy President, Newly Elected, to Come
 Friday.

The regular session of the Fraternal Order of Eagles was held in the tenn porary quarters yesterday afternoon and considerable routine business was transacted. committee of twenty five members was appointed to take charge of the entertainment of the new grand worthy president of the order, Congressman Theodore A. Bell of Ma pa, California, who was elected to that office a few weeks ago at Norfolk The grand worthy president is to make a visit to the local aerie on Friday even ing of this week. The committee is to hold a session tonight to arrange plans. It Is likely that the affair will be held in the lodge rooms and will be in the form, of large open meeting.
 It is stated that nothing was done in the matter of the suit against the railroad company for the destruction of the old Eagle building or in the mat ter of the erection of a new building. It is said that nothing will be done until after the suit has been tried in court next month.
 The next meeting of the aerie will be held on the second Sunday in Octo- Der and this will be the last of the Sunday meetings, as at the national convention just held a vote was passed forbidding any further meetings on Sunday in the country.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-23
ATE POISONOUS SEEDS
Little Fair Haven Girl Nearly Loses
 Her Life.

The three-year-old daughter of Mir and Mrs. Harry w Flint of S7 East Pearl street, came near losing her life Saturday in consequence of eating poisonous seeds, gathered in the woods. During the day one of the Flint children went to the woods with several other children and they gath cred stramonium, thinking that they were the seeds of the milkweed Some of the seeds were taken to the Flint home and the little daughter of the household ate several. In a short time she became violently i'll and phy- sician was called. She gradually grew worse, and during the night it was feared that she would die. It was only by recourse to the very best skill and nursing that the little one began Ito revive, Yesterday the patient was much better, although quite weak and last evening 1t was believed she was out of danger She had a very mar row escape from death.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-23
BURTON IN PULPIT
New Yale Professor 0ccu- pies That of Howard Ave.
 Congregational.

Rev. Marion LeRoy Burton, Ph.D., assistant professor of systematic theol- ogy at Yale, supplied the Howard ave- nue Congregational church, yesterday, for the first time. It is expected that he will supply the pulpit while the church is seeking new pastor. When ever candidates are not being heard, Prof. Burton will in all probability con duct the Sunday morning services dur ing the fall.
 Prof. Burton took as his text, Man shall not live by bread alone" He had for the two leading thoughts of his sermon Ambition" and "Inspira- ton of Religion"
 Prof. Burton comes to Yale univers- ity to give special instruction in his chosen field, theology. His sermon yes- terday morning was well received and was developed in an exceedingly help ful manner.
 How soon the Howard avenue church will be able to settle on a pastor is problematical but the pulpit committee is keeping careful lookout for the right man to succeed Dr. Mutch, who served so long in this heli Meantime, Prof, Burton will doubtless attend to the pastoral requirements of the church in addition to his work of in- struction at Yale.