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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1908-10-01

The moving. picture show
given at the opera house last Fri
day and Saturday nights was az
tended by full houses and gave
the best of satisfaction, The
pictures were all frst-class and
Mr.. Wilks can congratulate him
self on giving a good entertain
ment,
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1908-10-01
Residence for Sale.
Notice.

All persons indebted to me
will please call as soon as posi-
BILE and make settlement as mon
ey is needed.
G.. w. ESCHEN BURG.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1908-10-01
At The Fair.
Farm for Sale.

A farm of 40 acres, a miles
S. E. of Sinner. 99 acres in cul-
tivation, 2 houses, 2 wells and one
windmill. All in good condition.
For price and terms call on
JOHN PATEK, Route 1,
8. At. Sweet Home.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1908-10-01
Cotton Receipts.

Up to Monday, Sept. 28th. Shi-
ner had received 1850 square
bales of new cotton and 1913 round
bales. Total, 1898 square bales.
Average price, 8 1-2cts.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1908-10-01
Time Table.
1ooKnARr BRANCH.

Train No. 40 arrives from Lockhart
at 1910 p. m.
Train No. As arrives from Yoakum
at 2:55 p. m.
WACO BRANcH-wAoo no YoAKUM.
Train No. 42 arrives from Waco at
1850 pm.
YoAKUM TO WACO.
Train No. Al arrives from Yoakum
ut $40 a. m.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1908-10-01


Hot Tamales every Saturday
at Emler's Restaurant.
Mrs. H. o. Grasshoff left last
week for a visit 10 relatives at
Kennedy.
Mrs. Earl Fry returned Mon
day from a visit to relatives at
San Marcos.
Mr.. G. w. Blaschlze and fam
lily made trip to San Antonio
Sunday for short stay.
-Messrs, Ben Kempe and P.
Kerr of Flatonia were in the city
on business several days this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. r.. G. Merse-
burger went to San Antonio Sat.
Nrday to take in the first sights
Of the Fair
Window glass and putty at
Schlottmann Drug Go. store.
Mr.. Lyt Mittanck of Gonzal.
es was here Thursday on bust.
ness and made this Office a pleas
ant call,
-Chas. Welfel and R. A. Drey-
er are new subscribers to the
GAZETTE. They are both on ru-
raj route No. 2.
Mrs. Holiday, mother Of
Mrs. r. w. Ledbetter, left Mon
day for her home in Mississippi,
after a pleasant visit.
Fresh Oysters received
every week at w. c. EN-
ler's Restaurant.
Mr.. Chas. Flato has been alb.
sent at Roswell, New Mexico,
for a week, looking after his
property interests.
Mrs. e. II. Long and little
son of Hallets1ille we're in the
city last week visiting the family
Of Prof. II, j. Ponton.
There was a little scrap in
town last Saturday between two
prominent citizens, but we hope
Z there will be no more trouble.
Mrs. Christian Wageuer re-
tnrned Sunday from Moulton,
where she had been on a visit to
her daughter, Mrs. VIM. j. To
masko.
Mr.. J. A. VOTERS was feel
ing good last Monday over the
celebration Of his 18th birthday.
May he live to see many more is
the wish of all his friends.
The anti-prohibition mass
meeting has been set for 8 o'clock
at the opera house. The meet
ing will be strictly non-partisan.
Atlantis are invited to be pres
ent, regardless of their politics.
The GAZETTE received let
ter and a remittance last week
from Mr. Gerhard Wichering OF
Red Wood Citv, Cal. Gerhard is
now running cigar factory and
is doing fine business. He asks
to be remembered to his Sinner
friends
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1908-10-01
Farm For Sale.

A good farm of 100 acres, six
miles west of Sinner. Well i'm
proved. Price, $500 per acre.
Apply to scHULzE & GRAY,
Sinner, Texas.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1908-10-01

"A big stock of paints, oils,
yarnishes and enamels at Schlott
mann Drug Co.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1908-10-01

The late cool snap was a
whizzer, the temperature going
as low as 4S degrees.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-09-23
Airship Is Wrecked.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.-After hav-
ing drawn the attention of the world
to his aeroplane flights at Fort Myer,
and having established new worlds
records for heavier.thau-air flying
machines, Orville Wright today met
with a tragical mishap while he was
making two.man flight. The
aeroplanist was accompanied by Lieu.
tenant Thomas E. selfridge, OF the
signal corps Of the army. Lieutenant
Selfridge was fatally injured and died
at $40 o'clock tonight. Mr.. Wright
was seriously injured, but is expected
to recoder.
While the machine was enclrcling
the drill grounds propeller rod
snapped off and hitting some other
part OF the intricate mechanism caused
it to overturn in the air and fall to
the ground, enveloping the two occu'
pants in the debris. Soldiers and
spectators ran across the field to
where the aeroplane had fallen and
assisted in lifting Mr.. Wright and
Lieutenant Selfridge from under the
tangled mass of machinery, rods,
wires and shreds of muslin.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-09-23

HELENA. Sept. 1.-THE state board
of railroad commissioners has just
projected an arrangement with the
Great Northern whereby the reduction
in rates on farm products recently
made with the Northern Pacific will
also be made effective on that line.
It is estimated that it will result in a
saving to farmers of Montana of an
immense sum annually, Gallatin
county alone expecting a saving OF
IS, 900 thereby. The rates are ap-
plicable on mixed or straight car.
loads of all farm products except hay
which Is covered by special com.
modify tariffs.
Another feature of the new rate is
that Is applies to mixed car loads: a
farmer can fill out his car with pota.
toes If he has not enough grain to
make the full tonnage at the time.
This is an important item. All in all,
the new schedule is one of the mos,
important pieces Of work which the
railroad commission has yet accom-
Dlished
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-09-23
Charged With BlackmaiIing.

LEw1sTowN, Sept. l7.-Charles j.
Jones, the alleged author OF the
"Black Hand letters sent to S. S.
Hobson of the Bank of Fergus county
through the mails several weeks ago,
was given preliminary hearing be-
fore Justice Edward Brassey today.
These letters directed the banker to
place $1,000 in a designated spot
about mile and a half from town,
threatening him with death if be fail
ed.
County Attorney Ayers conducted
the case for the state and made a
very strong showing against Jones
who went on the stand and denied all
knowledge of the letters. The state,
however, had secured number of let
ters written by Jones to party in
Iowa, and the handwriting in these
letters and in the "Back Hand
nissives is said to be Identical. Jones
was held for trial, has bond being
fixed at $1,000.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-09-23
Great Northern Agent Arrested.

SAND POINT, Ida, Sept. 2l.-After
forging express orders to the extent
of 900 on the Conrad National bank
of Kalispell, Mont, and appropriate
ing to his own use 5000 additions al
which was returned on q legitimate
express order, r. r. Brown, agent OF
the Great Northern at Warland,
Mont, beat his way to Sand Point on
a freight train and was captured here
by officer Elcorn.
A man named Strick, the proprietor
of saloon at Warland, sent, through
the agent, an express order for $500
on the Conrad National bank of Kali
ispell. Brown has confessed that he
filled out 40 orders for $50 each and
forwarded them to Kalispell, forging
Strick's name. 81. 200 was returned
and then Brown, who was working
under the name of Fink, left, telling
Warland people that he was going on
hunting trip.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-09-23
Railroad Magnates Are Coming.

HELENA, Sept. ia special train
over the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul railroad will bring into Mon.
tana next Tuesday party ofIthe most
distinguished railroad magnates and
capitalists that has ever visited the
Northwest. Although the persouel of
the party has not been announced, it
is expected that William Rockefeller
will be a member and it is known tn at
Roswell Miller, chairman of the board
of directors of the ST. Paul, will also
be in the party. President A. j. Earl.
ing and George Il. Peck, head of the
legal department, and some OF the
heaviest stockholders and sother high
officers of the road will make the trip.
The special will leave Mobridge, S.
D., on Sept. 20.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-09-23
ORE RATES REDUCED.
Railroad Commission Issues Orders
to the Railroads.

HELENA, Mont, Sept 16.-The Mon
tana railroad commission issued an
order this afternoon directed to the
Northern Pacific railway to reduce
its rates on ore shipments from all
points in Montana.
The order Is the outcome OF the re-
cent hearing on ore rates and means
reduction of 36 per cent on chip
ments to Butte and II per cent on ship.
ments to East Helena.
The same orders will soon be issued
to other roads. The order Of the
commission is not q surprise to the
railway companies as the latter ex.
pected that some more favorably
rates to shippers would be ordered.
During the hearing in July the rep.
resentatives for the companies asked
for a conference with the attorneys re.
presenting the shippers against the
rates and it was understood they were
willing to reach settlement on the
basis of reduction Of 25 per cent.
The attorneys for the shippers re-
fused to consider this proposition and
the conference was not held. The
shipper demanded reductions totaling
about Al per cent Of present rates.
The findings OF the commission are
evidently a compromise between the
extremes.
Evidence was adduced before the
commission to show that ore rates In
other states are considerably below
those of Montana.
The new rates will prove great
impetus to mine oper ators in isolated
localities and many mines which have
been shut down for years owing te
unfavorable rates will resume within
the next few weeks.
In fact, it was stated here during
the session of the commission on tht
question of ore rates that as soon al
a more equitable rate is established
the ore tonnage would be greatly in
creased, both along the line of th'
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
roads.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-09-23
Cholera In Manila.

MANILA, Sept. l6.-Thirty'one cases
OF cholera have been reported in this
city, in all; and the death record up
to the present time is II.
The health bureau was yesterday
given assistance in its campaign
against the disease, and today loo
additional inspectors we're started out
to investigate the sanitary conditions
OF the city. The bureau is devoting
every effort to the work of stamping
ou, the plague before it gets grip on
the city. The schools and churches
are co.opes ating in the work, gen.
eral movement to check the spread OF
the disease having been set afoot by
the authorities. and the health officers
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-09-23

lowing spring came to Montana In.
stead and engaged in placer mining
in Last Chance gulch. He also en-.
gagged in mercantile pursuits. At the
time OF his death he was member of
the firm of Woolman, Miller & Co., one
of the largest mercantile concerns Of
Dawson in the Klondyke.
In 1876 MIR. Woolman represented
Montana at the Centennial exposition
in Philadelphia and in 1878 he was
appointed auditor of of the Territory
and continued In that Office for eight
years. During the capital fight Of
1894, Mr.. Woolman was chairman of
the executive committee of the state
capital commission. In 1897 he was
appointed United States Marshal for
Montana and in 1898 and 1899 he was
chairman of the republican state cen.
trail committee.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-09-23
Politicians Are Getting Busy.

HELENA, Sept. ia monster rati-
fcation meeting of the republican
party is to be held September "a at
Missoula, the home city OF that par.
tvs nominee for governor. Excur-
sions will be run from Butte, Helena,
Anaconda, kalispell. Great Falls and
Intermediate points. 1t is expected
that by that time Sena Carter and
Dixon and Congressman Pray will be
present. A series of such meetings
will be held all over the state, with
the western part of the state covered
first.
The republican state central COM
mittee has been org anized by the cleo.
tion of DR.. O. NJ. Lanstrum as chair
man, F. H. Hathorn of Billings, vice
ch airman; Z. A. NARROW of Helena,
treasurer; George o. Freeman, secre'
tary.
The democratic central committee
has opened headquarters here. w. B.
George, state chairman, will come
to Helena next week and remain dur.
ing the campaign. c. B. Nolan has
been made vice chairman at Helena
and Harry Gallwey vice president al
Butte.
The first big meeting of the cam
paign will be at Butte September q,
when Senator Gore will speak. The
next will be at Helena, September %,
when Representative Bell will be the
speaker. Mr.. Bell is member OF the
California delega and president
of the national order OF Eagles.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-09-23
Blackmailers Folled.

New York, Sept. 16.-Failing to re-
ceive the sum of 81, 900 they demanded
of Santa Beda, q well.to.do real es'
tate dealer ,Iblackmailers for the fourth
time in month sought early today tc
kill him and his family by setting fire
to his home in the upper part of the
city.
Extraordinary measures were taken
to prevent their escape, including the
wiring of all the outside doors OF the
home. All the family must have per-
ished if q neighbor had not discovered
the fire and summoned the firemen.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-09-23
Montana Pioneer Is Dead.

HELENA, Sept. 19.-Word was re.
ceived here today of the death OF Jos.
p. Woolman, former United States
marshal of Montana, at Philadelphia
yesterday OF heart disease. Mr.. WOOL
man has been engaged in the stock
business for a number of years in the
state and was one of Helena's wealth.
lest livestock owners. He was also q
large land holder and had extensive
mining interests.
In 1864 Mr.. Woolman crossed the
plains by team, and that winter
taught school in Centervil!e, Utah,
near Salt Lake City. He had origi.
nally started for Idaho, but the fol-
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-09-23
SUFFERING FROM DROUTH
Several Mines In Pennsylvania Goa
District Are Closed.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 19.-Practic-
ally the entire state of Pennsylv ania
east of the Allegheny mountains is
suffering from one of the worst
drouths in years. In some parts of
the state no rain has fallen in more
than two months aud rivers and
streams are so low that many indus.
tries have been interfered with and
in some instances plants have been
shut down for the lack OF water.
Forest fires are burning in several
sections and some localities report
that crops will be entirely ruined un.
less rain comes soon.
At Shen nandoah, in the anthracite
region, the water supply is so low
that farmers are bringing water to
the residents in the town instead OF
vegetables, as there is more profit
hauling water than peddling pro.
duce. Water sells at eight cents a
gallon and many are compelld to
walk three and four miles to get a
supply even at that price. Several
coal mines in that region have been
closed because of lack Of water to
run the power plants.
At Duncannon, near Harrisburg
the Susquehanna river is lower than
it has been in more than q hundred
years. In September. 1874, the river
was lower than it had been since.1S93,
and stone in the Susquehanna
opposite Duncannon was marked and
dated. Yesterday the stone showed
tn at the river is now ten inches below
the mark placed there in in 1874.
In Philadelphia, the Schuylkil
river is lower than it has been at any
time since 1869. and canal boats are
stranded at different points in the
river between here and the coal re.
giOns.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-09-23
James j. Hill Is Seventy.

ST. PAUL, Sept. 17.-When Jas. J..
Hill, the great American railroad
king awakened yesterday he had
reached the scriptural age of three
score and ten. But time has dealt
gently with him and physically as
we'll as mentally Hill is today as
strong and fresh as few men 20 years
younger.
During his. lifetime he has acquired
an enormous fortune estimated at
more than one hundred million dollars
and has brought under his control
greater transportation interests than
are or ever have been in the hands o1
any single individual. He controls
the Great Northern system, which he
reated, and also the Burlington anc
Northern Pacific. AS the head OF the
Great Northern he has more thar u
600 miles of track under his control
the Burlington gives him 5000 mile;
and the Northern Pacific about 5000
miles. The tracks of his railroads, il
placed together would come within
5000 miles of reaching round the
earth. In addition to that he con
trolls the largest steamer line between
the United States and China and tht
fine steamship line between Buffalo
and Duluth. He is also supposed te
have controlling interest in the Erie
railroad and important interests il
many OF the Atlantic lines.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-09-23
Making the Candidates Hustle.
Chicag go Daily News,

"Candid ates coming through drum.
ming up votes, eh:' said the broom
peddler. II suppose they are kissing
babies, as usual:'
The farmers wife in the pink dotted
unbonnet laughed.
"Kissing babies is old, mister" )"
she responded. "The last candidate
that stopped helped to kill chickens
and then washed dishes. Now, it the
next one expects to get any votes out
of this family he'll have to turn the
churn, scald out the milk pals and
cut halt cord OF wood. Work is
more practical than kissing babies,
stranger"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-09-23
CAPTAIN HEALY IS DEAD.
Well Known Montana and Alaska
Pioneer Passes Away.

News of the death of Captain j. j.
Healy, which reached this city
several days ago, is confirmed by q
press dispatch from Los Angeles
which says the we'll konwn pioneer
succumbed to an attack of heart
disease on Tuesday last. Captain
Healy, who was about 73 years old
at the time of his death, was sheriff of
Chouteau county in the early eighties,
and subsequently, went to the Pacific
coast. He was among the first to
realize the Importance of rich gold
discoveries in Alaska, a sketch Of his
career in that connection being to this
effect:
Captain Healy first became pro-
minent in Alaska nearly 20 years ago.
He established a trading post at Dyea,
in southeastern Alaska, point which
before the advent of the railway line
over the White Pass was the end OF
the m ain travelled trail from the coast
to the gold mines of Yukon valley.
The firm name was Healy Il Wilson,
and they outfitted prospectors in the
early days of the Birch creek and
Forty Mile districts, long before the
discovery of the Klondike mines.
In 1895, Captain Healy chartered q
small steam schooner and with mum.
ber of business associates, some OF
whom shipped as members OF the crew.
started from Seattle for St. Michael,
at the mouth of the Yukon. In small
boats the party assembled the Yukon
river for the purpose OF establishing
trading posts for the North American
Transportation & Trading company,
which Healy had Incorporated.
1t was in August, 1896, that placer
gold was found on the banks of q
stream entering the Klondike, In the
heart of a mining district that within
year was made famous throughout
the civilized world. Captain Realy's
steamship, the Portland, brought to
Seattle the first large number OF
argonauts from the Klondike, landing
there in July II, 1897, with more than
81 ,OOO, 900 in gold dust aboard.
In month the story of marvellous
riches of the Klondike had encircled
the globe. Captain Healy was quick
to see the enormous advantages to
Seattle and to his company from the
gold discoveries. He increased the
capacity OF the stores and warehouses
of the north, contracted for the con.
struction of number of river steamers
and induced Michael Cudahy, the
millionaire Chicago packer, to back
him financially. Later Healy return
ed to Seattle and sold out his interest
in the company.
For nearly ten years there was no
man better known in Alaska than
Captain Healy. In frontier days he
had been q sheriff of county in
Montana as large as some of the New
England states, was an Indian fighter
and soldier, as we'll as keen business
man. Healy's later years were spent
in an endeavor to finance trans.
Siberian railroad project with French
and Russian money, and he even
talked OF tunneling under Bering sea
for the proposed road.
Captain Healy had no fear of hard.
ships and privations OF early Alaskan
days. 1t Is related of him that, IN
1906, although then past the biblical
three score and ten years, he headed .
party of men who in the dead OF
winter travelled on foot from Dawson
via Fairbanks to the coast, coming
o,,t mann Nal6az
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-09-23
To Welcome American Fleet.

TOXIC, Sept. 15.--Drawn up in bat.
tie array, their big guns in instant
readiness to belch forth death and
destruction, the warships of japan
will assemble just month from today
to welcome the American fleet. AS the
great vessels floating the Stars and
Stripes steam into Yokohama harbor
the following day, every ship in the
long battle line of Nipton's navy will
boom forth q thunderous salute. But
no shells will shrek across the water,
and the booming of Japanese guns
will carry a message OF friendship In
stead of marking the pnlashing OF the
dogs of war.
officials of the Japanese navy de-
partment declare that the spectacle OF
the mighty feet from the west being
welcomed by the greatest feet ever
assembled in the east will be the most
emarkable naval display, in time OF
peace, that the world has ever known.
All of the ships of the Japanese
navy are now gathering at the vari'
Gus stations for maneuvers, the mos,
elaborate and intricate ever under.
taken in the Orient, and the welcome
to the American feet will come as the
climax of the months naval activi'
tils.
Practically all of the important yes
sells in the mikado's navy will take
part in the maneuvers and the subse'
quent welcome to the American fleet