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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-03-25

first time they meet him, why
not meet him ait New Suther-
land Springs. "A few dollars
invested there at this time will
repay you one hundred fold in
the near future.
If interested, or wishing to
know more about the Springs,
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-03-25

New Sutherland Springs are
located just 30 miles from San
Antonio, and the G., H. & S. A.
runs regular trains to them.
This railroad has promised
to increase the service to the
springs to keep pace with de-
velopments going on there. If
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-03-25
So Shaving Outfit, Prepaid So.
For 20 DAYS Only.

Consisting of SO guaranteed Ra-
zor, 81 hone, strop soc mug and
brush soc, Williams shaving soap.
Use them 80 days, If not satisfac-
tory, money refunded on request.
Order today, don't delay.
O. v. MlLLIGAN SALES CO.,
Houston, Texas.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-03-25

FOR sALE-1OO bushels peas $3.50
bushel, 500 bushels Cooks reim-
proved early big boil 40 per cent
lint cotton seed 81 per bushel. Win
ner at experiment stations over
South; yields bale per acre. Seed
guaranteed pure F. A. Bush, Pres
ton Ga. i "
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-03-25

GENUINE Robinson Improved big
boil, prolific and select Rowden cotton
bushel and ton lots; also alfalfa hay
and seed. d. s. Peters, Calvert, Tex.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-03-25

necessary several trains will be
run daily, and a motor car,
making special trips, if need be.
The magnificent new hotel is
completed. Houses and stores
are going up everywhere, streets
are being laid out and gotten
ready for paving, in fact every
thing is being done to build a
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-03-25

HAY-HAY-HAY - Choice North
Texas prairie hay, also choice John
son Grass hay. Ask us for prices.
Gribble Grain Co.. Sherman. Texas.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-03-25

known springs in the United
States and whose curative prop
critics are so great, as to make
comparison with other springs
absurd.
We are putting these facts
up to you, reader, and if you
are one of those fortunates,
who recognize opportunity the
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-02-17

so strongly by Prof. L. G.
White, state geologist of West
Virginia, that the best coking
coal in the world will not last
forever.
This seam of coal is known
as the Connellsville seam which
runs into the Pocahontas and
New River seams which are all
practically the same, and which
fact the United States Steel
Corporation knew when it made
tests which show that with
proper attention the POcahon-
tas coal can be made with little
difficulty 20 be far better
coking coal that the Connells-
vile seam ever was. The presi-
dent of one of the largest steel
companies m the south recently
said that the Pocahontas coal
was the best coking coal I'm the
world. and bearing this fact i'm
mind 10 is thought that through
the ownership Of Che various
railroads. AIN of which can be
played against each other. I'm
the end the United States Steel
Corporation and thc Standard
Oil Company VIII practically
control every loot of the Gone
nelisvilie. pocahoutas and New
River Goals. B'uricld Tclc-
graph
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-02-17
FROM KEOKEE.

Keokee. Va, Feb Is The
superintendent of the he"kee
Coal and Coke Company, DR..
y. I. Arden, John Sincock and
several others Of keokee attend
I'd court at Jonesville last
week.
Miss Laura Legg, OF Bristol,
* here visiting relatives.
Charles Hale. postmaster Of
Appalachia. was here last week
on business
The Kookce Coal and Coke
Company has a large machine
shop here where they can make
and repair an kinds of machin-
cry. IL is "A first class and up
to-date shop
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-02-17
STANDARD OIL
COMPANY
Reported 90 Have Secured Control of ihe
& o. Railway ard poea-
honias Coal Field

Dispatches from Pittsburg
and New York, together with
private advices 10 the Daily
Telegraph. as evidenced bv
various articles which have apo
peared in this paper. show that
the Standard On Company has
secured control of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railway and
that shortly "a change viii bee
made i'm the directorate of that
road by which Frank &. Van
derlip, of New York. and John
w. Castles, of the same city.
viii become directors and 10 is
possible that III. T.. Huntington
VIII also be a member of the
board.
This fact, taken together
witb the known fact that
STANDARD 8ii Interests and
United states Steel interests
are supposed to be connected
with the Carolina, ClinchGeld
and Ohio Railway and the
further report sent out by the
Associated Press that the
STANDARD 0il Company is alleg-
cd TO have secured control of
the Norfolk and Western.
would go TO show that the
Standard Oil Company and the
United States Steel Corporation
are planning another coup by
which they Will control another
commodity.
fhe commodity is nothing
more RGF less than the Connells-
vile seam Of cokjng coal WHICH
extends from the pennsylvania
field all the way through West
Virginia and into a part of Viz
glpia and Kentucky, where It's
known as the New River and
focahontas seams. 1t is believ-
cd here that the United States
Steel Corporation and the
Standard oil Company have
known for a long time the fact
which was recently brought out
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-02-17

bling the Spanish dagger, is in
digenous TO the higher regions
of Southwest Texas. 1t is SO
full of oil that the leaves, which
are evergreen, burn freely. The
plants are often set on fire TO
warm the camps of travellers
or herdsman. The extraction
Of this oil, it is believed, could
be made a profitable industry.
The sOtol plant is being util-
lied for the manufacture of de-
natured alchol. In some places
on the upper Rio Grande, tons
of the roots or bulks may be
gathered from a single acre.
There are number of plants
that furnish soap 20 the native
Mexicans. and on many of the
ranches, and in the cattle
camps. manufactured soap is
never seen. The roots of these
plants are used both for wash
ing clothes and for physical
additions. a good vegetable
soap is being manufactured
from some Of these plants.
The lechcguilla Dis used much
10y the Mexicans. This plant
is "a native of the higher regions
of the state, growing ON mill
lions of acres of land It's
fibre is very strong. and is used
i'm various textile manufactures.
as the iXtle and heuequin plants
are used.
The stately yucca tree. or
Spanish dagger. raises it's head
over AN the vast cxpanse of
Southwest Texas and Northern
Mexico The trunk is very
valuable as wood material
and Dis extensively used I'M the
manufacture of artificial limbs.
I'm the blooming season DO wears
"a gorgeous caronal of flowers
growing ON the top of a central
stem, and forming a cluster as
large as q water bucket. lts
leaves are sharp and hard point
ed, hence it's name of Spanish
dagger.
in the next number ] viii tell
you of the wonderful aloe.
maguey or century plant then
take you out for a good scratch
ing in the horny thorny, clawy
ohapparal
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-02-17

AS administration q b. n. C.. C..
"a 0f William ID Jones. deceas-
ed and pursuant Co DEGREES OF
the Circuit Court of Wise c0un
tV. Virginia. IN the case In
chancery therein pending under
she stvle Of William McGeOrge.
Jr.. for &c, ". John NJ Jones
60 al. ON
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-02-17
FOREST PROTECTION AND MANAGE
NENT.

Conservative management of
timberlands is assured for less
than one fourth of This coun-
trv's forested areas, the part
contained ia the National For
csts and under the admininis-
tration of the United States
Forest Service. by cutting
only the mature trees and pro-
tecting the now growth by
keeping out fires. the National
Forests will Dee made GO yield
indefinitely. 10 can not be eX-
pected that this small part of
the nation s. forests will supply
the demand for future genera
tions and the one hope i'm sight
is that users of wood and lum
beer manufacturers. viii insure
the permanence of their bust
ness by applying the principles
of forestry in the management
of timborlauds
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-02-17

Gregory Thomas were VISITORS
10 Big Stone Gap Sunday.
c. w. Bondurant, OF St.
Charles. was A visitor 70 Apps
lachia Sunday enroute TO brls-
toll.
DR. Peters was 10 Louisville
professionally the first OF last
week
Chas. Gurtner returned 20
his home IN Bristol last week.
Olive and James Swecker re-
turned from attending their
sisters fuhcra. cine first of last
week
Mr. Gaddy. of Barboursville.
Ky. visited his son. W. II.
Gaddv. last week and was
entertained at Mrs. VI j.
Holiey's
II. r. Whitehead spent sever
al DAYS last week at Richmond.
VA.
COW Snnlov
Mrs Bond. who has been the
guest for several days of her
daughter. Mrs. whitehead. rec
turned tn Cochurn thursday
,,-. ,... c..,,, o-
.-... ,' 'n,' l... tro5,esi,,.
" ''' '" "
Rev. D.. T.. Cash. of Gate CITY.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-02-17
THE FLORA OF TEXAS:
Some Useful Shrubs and Plants.
BY Prof c. Y. Chapman
NUMBER 2.

tions of the United States. the
thickets Of shrubs and plants
are usually called "the chap
paral:" although the term is by
many applied distinctively 60 a
white stemmed shrub. bearing
long white thorns. with points
hard as ivory. that grow thich-
~ along their branches This
chapparal region covers in
Southwestern Texas a terri
cory large as four Nirginias.
extending along the Rio
Grande for 1000 miles, and back
from the river from POO TO 300
miles The prevailing growth
IN this section is the mesquite
tree. also abundant over the
border in Mexico. whence IL isl
thought Co have been intro
duced into Texas.
IL is said 10y the older settlers
here that large areas formerly
covered with grass alone are
now covered with mesquite.
and that 30 is rapidly extending
its areas toward the east. An
old gentleman told me that i'm
boy hood days. lack OF wood for
fuel was one of the great draw
backs to the settlement of this
section. now the mesquite furn
fishes nearly AN the domestic
fuel used here in warming tho
houses and for cooking The
gentleman with whom ! board
recently had piece of land
cleared. with an average
growth of mes quite upon IL pay
ing ten dollars per acre 20 have
the work done. and getting
from each acre wood Co the
value of about fifteen dollars.
None Of the trees were larger
than a good sized Virginia
apple-tree. and most OF them
much smaller ln clearing land
here all timber Is grubbled up
none cut down or girdled, as is
so much the custom in the east.
This tree also produces "a bean
the pods about The size of those
of the pea. which are much
reiished 10y live stock, and on
which bon season they fatten
rapidly During scarcity of
. food. Che MeNicans grind the
beans and make of them "a
bread very alatable and nutri.
t.ous. To lis said that sometimes
the roasted bean isused 90 adul
terate coffee. After the manner
of cotton seed the beans ar,
crushed and used as feed fol
stock. after the oil has been eN.
tracted The tree. at certain
+ seasons, eNudes "a gum of high
commercial value: and it furn.
ichet about AN the fence posts
used Is fencing the great ranch
es and farms of Southwest
Texas The wood If hfu. anC
, durable paving blocks mad,
from IL lasting for twenty
/. yssr4
b The gdaysle shrub, covering
millions 81 acres ia fexae anc
Mexico. contains high per
. centage of rubber; aud larg,
plants, especially in Mexico
e. have been established for il.
manufacture Texas has Z
large rubber factory at Mara
. thon; and az TarrsoB, Nexic,
there is a plant said to repro
sent an investment Of $1,000.
600
The plant called by the Mexi
cans candelilla. furnishes larg,
, quantities of wax of much com
saaFcial value The nativ,
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-02-17
thursday, Ma,a4 9fb 1000,

between the hours OF 10 \. ~.
and s y. VI, az the front doof
~ the bank of Interstate RI
name and Trust Company, i'm
the toW0 IF Big Stone Gap,
Wise County. Virginia, 1 Will
sell at public OUSc~y 90 the
highest bidder for cash Is band
sixty four ,64) shares OF tna
capital stock of the keystone
Coal * Iron Company. a cor
porstion organized and exist
itg under the laws of she state
of Nirginis. having it's princi
pal Office iu Big Stone Gap, Viz
ginia. which shares aFs of the
par value of one hundred dol
lars 100000 per share, but
which have been reduced forty
t40 per cent by dividends
stamped thereon, SO that the
par value at the present time is
sixty dollars $4,000 per share.
=. j. BROADWATER,
administrator. de-. of che
sstste - u illiam ID. Jones.
dcceasca
Irvine x Morrison. p. q.
feb. io c.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-02-17
APPALACHlA DEPARTMENT.

:. A Slower. Will Fuller snd
Gregory Thomas were visitors
10 Big Stone Gap Sunday.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-06
WRIGHT BREAKS RECORD
WITH ONE PASSENGER, FLIES
70 MINUTES AND 40 SECONDS
Covers Over so Miles-Average
Speed During Flight 40
Miles an Hour.

Washington.-The worlds aeroplane
record for two men, as to both time and
distance, was broken Tuesday evening
in a beautiful flight of one hour, twelve
minutes and forty seconds-upward OF
fifty miles, and at a speed averaging
about forty miles an hourly Orville
Wright at Fort Myer, with Lieut.. Frank
P. Lahm, of the Army Signal Corps, as a
passenger. The former record was made
last year by his brother, Wilbur, joint in
ventor with him of the machine in which
both achievements were performed, at
Lemans, France, with Prof. Painleve, OF
the French Institute, as a passenger.
That flight was one hour, nine minutes
and t%hirty-one seconds.
"You just scotched your brothers rec
ord without really damaging it much"
remarked a newspaper man to Orville
after the flight.
That's all we mecnt to do" replied
Orville, with a smile, which his big
brother appreciatively duplicated.
The cheering which heralded the set
ting of a new mark in the conquest OF
the air was led by President Taft in
person, who had sat IN intensely inter
ested spectator throughout the fight and
who insisted at it's conclusion upon per-
sonally congratulating the brothers upon
their success.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-06
WRIGHT MADE RECORD FLIGHT
Established Beyond Dispute Practi-
cability Of Aeroplane.

Washington.-Orville Wright, Friday
evening, attained the zenith of hard
earned success. In a ten-mile cross
country flight in the famous aeroplane
built by himself and his elder brother,
Wilbur, and accompanied by Lieut.. Benz.
D. Foulois, of the Signal Corps, he not
only surpassed the speed requirements of
his contract with the United States gov
eminent, but accomplished the most diff
cult and daring flight ever planned for
a heavier-than-air flying machine.
incidentally he broke all speed records
over a measured course, and he estab-
lished beyond dispute the practicability
of an %aeroplane in time of peace and in
time of war.
His speed was over forty-two miles an
hour. He made the ten-mile flight from
Fort Myer and back in IA minutes and
AZ seconds, including the more than 20
seconds required for the turn beyond
the line at Shutter Hill, the southern end
of the course. He attained a height in
crossing the valley of Four-mile Run OF
nearly 500 feet, and the average altitude
of his practically level course vas about
200 feet above the ground.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-06
HIDES 60 ON FREE list
TAFT WILL HAVE TO GET VOTES
TO PUT REPORT THROUGH.
Cannot Get Free Hides Through Un-
less Duty On Boots, Etc,
Il Also Cut.

Washington,-Hides will be put on the
free list If boots and shoes and other
products of leather are reduced below
the rates fixed by the house bill. I'm
less the advocates of free hides are able
to carry out this bargain the whole pro-
gram is to be called of.
Senator Aldrich has informed senators
from the Northwestern States that he
will not consent to the abolition Of the
duty on hides unless there is a material
cut in the rates on boots and shoes and
other leather goods. In no other way,
he said, can he get the votes necessary
for the adoption of the report in the
senate if it carries free hides.
Senators from c~attle-raising States
have insisted tina: the only way con-
sumers can get any benefits from the re-
moval of the protection on hides will be
by corresponding reductions in the duties
on boots and shoes and harness. The
Rhode Island senator's views coincide
with this statement.
The report, it is said, will be pre-.
sented to President Taft with the state
ment that the conferees had not been
able to muster sufficient votes to assure
its adoption and it would devolve upon
the president to procure the necessary
support for the program.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-06
SHOT DEAD IN COURT ROOM
Scene Was in Little Rock; N. p. Will
lis of Indianapolis the Victim.

Little Rock, Ark.-W. Y. Ellis, of
Pine Bluff, shot and killed N. P. Willis,
of indianapolis, Ind, in the Pulaski
county chancery courtroom Tuesday
afternoon. The court had just made an
order reversing a former order of sew.
eral courts relative to the custody of the
S-year-old daughter of Willis and his for
mer wife, who is now Mrs. w. Y. Ellis.
The shooting was accompanied by
many sensational incidents and caused a
general panic in the building. The Earl
Dill assault case was being tried in the
adjoining room, and when the first shot
was heard, 500 women and men in at
tendance ran over each other in search
for the door. Judge Lea was compelled
to adjourn his court. Willis and his
mother were in Judge Fulk's chambers,
accompanied by Senator JEFF Davis, who
has been counsel for Mr.. Willis in his
endeavor to obtain an order of court
permitting him to visit his child, Mary
Willis. at stated intervals.
Judge Fulk had announced his decision,
which was favorable to Willis, when
Ellis drew a pearl-handled pistol from
his pocket, and pointing the weapon over
the head of Judge Fulk, fired
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-06
HE SAVED ROME, GA.
John n. Wisdom, Who Helped Cap
ture Gen. Straight, Is Dead.

John n. Wisdom, Who Helped Cap
ture Gen. Straight, Is Dead.
Gadsden, Ala.-John H. Wisdom,
whose famous ride from Gadsden to
Rome, Ca, during the Civil VA saved
Rome from destruction by Federal raid.
ers under Gen. Straight, died Thursday.
He was IS years old. Citizens Of Rome
presented him with a silver service for
saving the city.
Wisdom won fame in 1865 by a dar-
ing all-night ride from Gadsden to Rome,
Ca, a distance of sixty-seyen miles,
which resulted in the capture by the
Confederate cavalry leader, Gen. N. B.
Forrest, of Gen. Abel D. Straight, and
the saving to the Confederates of the
foundries and stores at Rome.
Wisdom was a Confederate mail car
rier, and when Straight and his band of
Federal raiders passed through Gadsden
and proceeded up the west bank OF the
Coosa river, preparatory to crossing and
making a forced march to Rome, Wis
dom, with a feet-footed horse, started
from the east shore of the river shortly
after nightfall on his perilous trip, COW
erinp the distance in less than seven
hours, and using on the trip seven
horses. He arrived at Rome six hours
ahead of Gen. Straight, and the city was
prepared for the latter's coming, Gen.
Straight and many of his men being
taken prisoners.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-06
U. S. SENATOR SLABS NEGRO
Stone Of Missouri Taken to Police
Station at Baltimore.

Baltimore, Md.-United States Sena-
tor William j.. Stone, of Missouri, was
arrested here Tuesday for having slapped
the face of Lawrence j. Brown, a colored
waiter on a Pullman car on the Penn
s~ylvania Railroad, shortly after the train
reached Wilmington, Del, on its way
to Washington.
Senator Stone, who at one time was
governor of Missouri, requested Brown
to serve him with some food, and the
negro kept him waiting twenty minutes
after others on the car had been served.
This prompted the senator to remon-
strate with the negro, whereupon the lat
ter became surly and %impudent. The
senator says he tried to ignore the wait
er's remarks, but the latter became SO
offensive that he slapped him across
the face.
The conductor of the train appeared on
the scene about that time. preventing
any further disorder, and when the train
reached this city Senator Stone was
turned over to a special officer.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-06
MEXICO HAS SHAKES
ONE TOWN DEsTRoYED-FoUR-
TEEN DEATHS.
Poems Predicted Disaster Because
the Snow Melted on
Popocatepetl.

Mexico City.-central Mexico from the
Atlantic to the Pacific and from Querato,
on the north, to Oaxaca, on the south, a
distance covering more than 1000 square
miles, was shaken at an early hour FRI
day morning by a series OF the seyerest
earthquakes that have been felt in this
region for the past quarter OF a century.
Returns telling of the loss OF life result
ing from the shocks are as yet incom-
plete, but the official figures show that
fourteen persons were killed outright,
while more than a score were mortally
injured. The towns of Acapulco and
~Chilpancingo, in the stae of Guerrero,
have been partially destroyed. The peon
classes were terribly frightened over the
shocks because for days those humble
folk have been predicting a disaster, be-
cause the SHOWS on the peak of the vol
cano Popocatepetl,, visible from this
CITY, have been melting. An old Aztec
legend declares hat when the SHOWS on
this volcano disappear, SO, too, will the
city at it's base.
The wailing and praying of the In
dams in the Alameda, Zocato and other
public squares added to the weirdness of
the scene and painted an unforgettable
picture on the minds of the haif-clad,
shivering hordes of frightened men, wom-
en- and children, who stood out in. the
drizzling rain waiting for the coming of
daylight. When the sun shone the peo-
pie returned to their homes, having suff-
cieAtly recovered.
A message from G. Peyres, an Ameri-
can commercial traveller, received from
the town of Chilpancingo, says that the
place has been completely destroyed.