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The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-08-06
WANT "LLANO ESTACADO" DAY.
Lower Plains Counties Want Special Day at
Dallas Fair This Year Not in Panhandle.

More people than usual are
discussing the state fair to be
held at Dallas on October 16 to
81 this year than ever before and
! the various counties in the
Plains section are interested in
the dates set apart for their par
ticular portion of the state. For
some time there has been a dis
cussion as to the physical divi-
sion of the state called the Pan
handle and many of the lower
Plains counties have a tendency
to want to withdraw from that
cOgnomen claiming that the
word Panhandle" as applied to
Texas does not properly include
certain counties on the plains.
What is known as the Lower
or South Plains counties are
making decided effort to secure
a special day at the fair this year,
as is shown by the following
clipping from the Dallas News:
Joseph Il. Foster, secretary of
the Plainview Commercial Club.
in a letter received yesterday re-
quests the management of the
State Fair of Texas to designate
some special day during the ex.
position this fall, Oct. 1851, as
'Llano Estacado," The counties
interested are Crosby, Lubbock,
Lynn, Terry, Floyd, Briscoo
Lamb. Hockey, Cara, Hale and
Swisher.
Mr.. Foster said he had read
in the News that Friday, Oct. -,
will be Panhandle Day." but
that this day would not especial
ly appeal to his section of the
State, as the people of the Llano
Estacado do not consider that
they live in the Panhandle.
Mr.. Foster plans to have an
exhibit of the products of these
counties at the Fair. He de-
clared that the Staked Plains
are no longer the home of the
coyote, but of prosperous farm
ers. and that the exhibition of
agricultural products that will
be brought to Dallas will prove
this.
Secretary Sidney Smith of the
State Fair in answering Mr..
Foster gave a list of several days
that are not designated as spe
cial days to select from.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-08-06

G.. X. Burrow of the Canyon
Lumber Company went to Amar-
lilo last Friday where he met
representatives from the lum-
Der yards on the Plains and in
New Mexico, the representatives
being from yards in which Mr..
Burrow has an interest.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-08-06
Texas is a Wonderful Section.
New York Commercial.

one of the most important and
the most rOmantically interesting
sections of the United States.
1t has been settled only about
two hundred and twenty-five
years. AS state of Mexico it
shed its blood for freedom and
Independence seventy-threeyears
ago, and gained both, and since
then it has twice been turned
into battle fields and has felt the
devastation of war. 1t has been
in the union only since 1876
about siXty-fOuryears-a since
its first census was taken in 1850
when its population was only
2l2, 592, it had increased to 3.01S,
40 in 1900, and if the increase
since then has been at all pro-
portionate to that of the previous
decade its population by next
years census will show up
around 100000, possibly 4,75O,-
GOO; Texas has thus increased its
people about twenty-five fold
since it was admitted as a state,
and it is today exceeded in popu-
lation by only five states in the
uniOn-Illinois, Missouri, New
York, Ohio and Pennsylvania,
with possibly Missouri already
dropped out of position and trail
ing behind the Lone Star. Al
together a wonderful record, a
most fascinating story. And all
of it is told in the comparatively
brief period since that gallant,
born soldier, General
Sam Houston buckled on his
armor and forced the armies of
Mexico to bite the dust at San
JacintO.
The Texas of today is a most
section of the United
States wonderful in the vast
extent of its resources, in the
and great diversity of its
industries, in the variety of it's
crops and the almost limitless
possibilities of crop development
its cotton product is already
quite sufficient to meet the an
nual consumption of this country
and it equals about one-fourth of
the yearly consumption of the
whole world; in its system of
transportation and the extensive
improvements in this already
provided for and in prospect; in
the effective and profitable use of
its home capital, the facilities
that it possesses for attracting
outside money and the ease with
which it draws this in steadily
for its own development and pro
tit and to the great advantage of
the investors; in the Soundness
of its business methods: in its
system of education and the lib
eral appropriations madefor this;
and finally in the abounding and
ever increasing enterprise of It's
people. their openhandedness,
their tolerance, their good fel-
Iowship.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-08-06

In the Introductory chapter of
his Tale of Two Cities, "describ-
ing the period in France just
prior to the revolutions and not
ing the conditions that then OBJ
tained, Dickens says that the in
duSturial and social contrasts of
the times were marked, and that
some of the noisiest enthusiasts
of the period insisted that it be
received, for better or for worse.
in the Superlative degree of com
parisOn only. To him who would
speak of the great state of Texas
as it exists in this year of grace
1909 comes always the tempta-
ton to indulge in SuperlatiyeS,
but never 50 in anything to her
detriment- to call her territory
the largest. her lands the most
fertile, her climate the most sal
ubriOuS, her forests the most
valuable, her scenery the finest,
her industries the most diversi-
fed, her business the best con
Quoted, her institutions the
soundest and most beneticent,
herself the best governed, her
people the most hospitable, her
men the bravest and her women
the fairest that the sun ever
shown on. And when all this, and
much more has been said some
thing very close to the strict
truth has been uttered. In fact
whoever knows his Texas and
knows it right, whether he be a
Texan or only a stranger within
her gates. is confronted with an
embarrassment of riches when
it comes to talking about her.
Texas as all the world knows
is territorially the largest of all
the forty-siX states in the union.
If it should ever want to cut it.
self up-from which desire may
it ever be spared-it would make
two hundred and thirteen Rhode
Islands, six states the size of
Virginia could be carved out of
it, and there world still be
enough left to construct another
Rhode Island; Illinois, which
considers herself some pump
kins. and with good reason, too,
would have to multiply herself
by more than four IN order 10 be
in the Lone Star class of states;
and even New York, the great
empire state of the sisterhood,
is only about one-tifth of the size
of Texas, no matter how big she
may feel. If these comparisons
lack impreSsiveneSs, let it be
remembered that Texas has two
hundred and forty counties
and in consequence must have
more of local government and
more of politics to the square
yard than any state in the union
and politics is far from being
the worst thing that a state may
possess in abundance.
In history making Texas IS
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-08-06
WORK ON FAMOUS CUTOFF.
Santa fe Rushing Work on Railway Connection
From North and West TO the Gulf.

The people of this section o
the state have a great deal of in
terest in the work now being
done by the Santa Fe system in
extending its line of railway
from Plainview in a SOutheaster
ly direction to Coleman to con
meet with its present line in tha,
city. 1t will give another outlet
to the gulf at Galveston thereby
assuring, for all time to come
competitive freight rates, a thing
that has been badly needed in
building up the Plains country.
The Lubbock Avalanche gives
the following report of work now
being done near that city on the
new line:
The TeXico Cutoff Is surely
making things hum these days.
They are employing all the force
that comes to hand and in every
way pushing the work as rapidly
as possible. On Sunday last a
large force of graders passed
through town bound south and
on Wednesday they were follow
ed by another crew. These out
fits will begin grading about
seven miles south of town. The
Santa F'e is anxious for the com
pletion of this cutoff as it means
lots to them in the way of a saw
ing of time and ton miles. When
once they begin the operation of
trains over this route it will give
them a short route to the gulf
from the northwest. These are
the days of rapid transit and the
road with the short route is the
one that will handle the bulk of
the periShable traffic. California
has developed through quick
transit to the markets of the east
and now comes southern Texas
demanding recognition as truck
producing center. The onion
industry has grown to enormous
proportions in south Texas with
in the last few years and yet it
is practically in its infancy.
Railroad facilities will mean a
development in certain parts of
Texas cO-equal with any section
of the United States. One great
handicap to the development of
our vast resources has been the
lack of transportation. The eyes
of the entire country are turned
toward west Texas today and
with the advent of the railroad
will come the development that
has been the dream of many and
the hope of all. West Texas is
really great country within it
self and the knowledge that it
will produce bou1tiful harvests
has aroused a corresponding de
sire for means whereby these
crops could be conveyed to the
market centerS. The advent of
three roads into the Lubbock
country will furnish transporta-
ton for a large territory. These
roads will traverse practically
new territory and yet enough is
known of these sections to assure
all of their success.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-08-06

County Attorney W. d. Scott
has the honor of making the first
speech in our new court house.
1t was upon the trial of case in
Justice court last Monday.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-08-06

Heberd Smith. a former Can
yon City citizen, but who now
lives at Texico, was shaking
the hands of his many friends IN
this city last Friday.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-08-06

After visiting with relatives in
Tennessee for several weeks,
Mrs. L. A. Presslar has return
ed to her home in this city.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-08-06

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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-08-16

Lowney's candies at Evans Drug
Sos. tt
DR.. c. T. Smith is at st. Joseph s
hospital, seriously i'll with typhoid
fever.
S. A. j. Dorm has sold to J. F..
Richards all right, title and interest
in the Grays Harbor Daily Guide.
Mrs. N. G. Wheeler returned to Ia
coma yesterday, after short Wis
it with Mr.. and Mrs. F. Wheeler.
W. d. Fechter is building a new
$1.S00.00 bungalow in the west end
addition near the H. b. Elder resi-
dence.
The cantons of the Hoquiam and
Aberdeen |. 0. o. f.. are planning for
a big uniform picnic at Elma on La
Dor day.
w. B. Mack, of the S. E. Slade
Co., left Friday for Chicago,
where he will spend some time Wis
iting relatives.
Musical Instruments, music books,
sheet music, instructors, strings fit
tings for all kinds of instruments.
Evans Drug Co. If
The Jolly Girls met Friday after
noon at the home of Mrs. Mary
WeatherwaX on Wishkah street near
Broadway. Mrs. Weatherwax was
an ideal hostess.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. F. Becker and
Miss Matte Dodge left Friday for
Seattle to attend the fair. Miss
Dodge will later return to her home
in Livingston, Montana.
C. A. BreakirOn, of Meadvile, Pa,
is an Aberdeen visitor. Mr.. Break
iron came to visit the A. Y. p, and
decided to see the Grays Harbor
country before returning to his home.
j. P. Nelson, a well known horse
man of this city, was taken to Mon
tesano, Friday afternoon, to be eX-
amined as to his sanity. He was ar
rested Thursday and spent the night
in the city Jail.
The yard crew at the National
Lumber e Box company is busy pre-
pairing the order of 100000 feet of
lumber to be loaded by the Nor
wegian streamer Tricolor. The Tri-
color will load for Balbo and its or
der is on the wharf.
w. J. Johns, r. E. White, Colin
Mckenzie and George b. Stalding Of
this city are off on a trip to Lake
Quiniault and the Olympic mOun-
tains 112 miles north of that place
on fishing, hunting and prospect
ing expedition. Mr.. Johns will re-
turn in a week but the balance of rhe
party will be away three weeks or
more
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-08-16
CHEHAL|S COUNTY
BANK
Tales Of thr Town TerSe|y Told.


Light or heavy hauling. Quick
service. A. A. Star Transfer Co.. Tel.
IA.
c. M. Slime. of Dayton, Wash, is
visiting his son, j. e. Slime, of this
city.
The Aberdeen Athletic Association
is arranging for a smoker in the near
future.
On Friday morning D. Rogan
went to Centralia, where he will re-
main for two or three weeks.
Miss Jane Leland returned on Fri
day to her home in Moclips after a
pleasant visit with Mrs. F. Furth
Miss Elizabeth Mccain left on
Friday morning for a weeks visit
in Seattle with friends and at the
fair
Mrs E. b. Beatty, of Corvallis,
Oregon, is visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. w. r. Spaulding, 211 north
ID street.
Toilet soaps, toilet waters, per-
fumes,in fact everything necessary to
ladies or gents make up. Evans
Drug Co. If
Miss Mary Bunday and cousin,
Miss Price, went to Seattle, Friday,
to visit the exposition for a week
or ten days.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Glaize, arriv-
ed from the east on Friday to visit
their sister, Mrs. A. Morley. Mr..
and Mrs. Glaize have been visiting
the fair.
Warren Egerer, Mrs. Egerer and
Miss Welliver, left Friday by auto
for Seattle, where they will remain
for few days. Miss Welliver will
return with the party.
Gus Saville, an old Aberdeenian,
now of Seattle. came to this city on
Friday to take charge of the Empire
theater, during the absence of Nose
Goldsmith, who is sick at Seattle.
Jos. Farrell & Co., Employment Of
flee 4OSh East Wishkah street,
Positions filled on short notice. We
furnish the best help only. Phone us
at our expense. Phone 1851, Aber-
deem.
Bud" Pernoll, the stocky Black
Cat southpaw, is said to have been
sold to the Detroit team in the Am
erican league. The sum necessary
to secure Buds" services is report
ed to be $4,000.
The peole of North Aberdeen
have petitioned for a school. They
can muster 35 students north of the
Aberdeen bridge. The matter has
been referred to the school board
and favorable action is likely in the
near future.
Mr.. and Mrs II. c. Hotaling, of
Mapelton, Minnesota, who have been
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs Simmons,
left for their home this morning.
Mr.. Hotaling is editor Of the Blue
Earth County Enterprise. and was
one of the party of 100 that took the
trip to Alaska after visiting the fair.
Plans for the formation of a
gravel company to furnish material
for contractors on street work and
concrete buildings, are now under
way by a number of local capitalists.
gravel pit has been secured and
it is planned to bring supplies into
Aberdeen by scows. Demand for gray
ell has so greatly exceeded the capa-
city of present gravel companies,
organizers of the new concern say,
that the business Will prove a prot
liable one. Orders for the entire out
nut of the new company for the next
six months are said to have been
given.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-08-16

For Quincy, Express or Dray, call
IA, A. A. Star Transfer. Your Or
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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-21
rHE CowAnpLY noYcorr.

The Dothan Home Journal has been
threatened with a boycott because 1t
has declared opposition to the propos-
ed amendment to the constitution. The
Home Journal. when it received that
threat should have made a mark on
the calendar to note the time 1t has re-
ceived positive proof that 1t had in
fluence, and that It amounted to some
thing. Whenever a man begins to do
something in the world. he begins to
make enemies: whenever a newspaper
has convictions and stands by those
convictions 1t makes enemies, but IL
1t retains those convictions and con-
tinues the fight it's enemies will re-
spect it as much as Its friends.
The boycott is the most cowardly re-
dangerous and so cowardly that a con-
servative Legislature of Alabama some
years ago put a stringent law on the
statute books against It A number
OF incipient boycotts have been start
id In Alabama In the past six years.
In conflict with that law and the pro-
motors of these boycotts would doubt
less be surprised to learn that they
had violated the law as much as the
man who sells whiskey, notwithstand-
ing the present prohibition code of Ala
bama.
institution than the boycott 1t is a
conviction without trial by jury. It
Is prejudice personified. It is hatred,
inspired and at work. Might Riding"
Is boycott in action.
1t comes from the dark like An as
sassin's bullet. 1t IS tyranny cold and
brutal 1t strikes down its victim and
robs him OF the right guaranteed by
the constitution of free government.
1t is the modern survival OF the bar
barrie law of attainder. in which the
blood kin of a man was made to suf-
fer for his own enmities.
We hope that the threat against the
Home Journal Is only idle talk. An
enlightened community like Dothan
does not afford a suitable atmosphere
for such practices. But let not The
Home Journal be disturbed by the
threats. We know OF one or two pa
which some years back was boycott
ted and which from that very day
grew in Influence. wealth and strength.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-21
Good Birmingham.

Mobile item.
Governor Corners home city is a par
agon of peace and virtue, quiet and
law-abiding citizenry. This IL an In
disputable fact as is shown from the
following news item in Mondays issue
Of The Age
with only 12o arrests, last week
lice department has experienced In
some time. A general condition Of
Quietude has prevailed and patrolmen
coming in off their beats have with
unusual regularity reported nothing
doing
More than a third Of the total num-
Der of arrests during the past seven
days were made yesterday and Satur-
itsered on the warden's docket.
Since last Monday the police have
made ten arrests for alleged violat-
tions of the prohibition law. Sixteen
sixteen cases OF disorderly conduct.
There were fourteen cases of grand
larceny, five cases of petty larceny,
four cases of trespassing. three ARRAYS,
weapons. and fifty arrests for other
offenses. all of a minor nature.
The sherifr's deputies have. during
the past week, made eight arrests, for
of the alleged tigers" having more
than one charge against them
Just think of it-120 arrests in one
week. More than in a whole month
in Bad Mobile. The police department
made ten arrests for alleged violations
of the prohibition laws and the sher-
iff's department eight, OF whom three
had more than one charge against
them. Mobiles efficient and hustling
oflcials, and they are huatlers. beyond
dispute, made a total of two.
Draw the comparison between Bad
Mobile and Good Birmingham, the home
of Governor Conner.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-21
The LEGISLATURE.

Cullman Democrat
The political junta, at Montgomery,
is grinding out legislation and new
offices with all the facility of a young
boys debating society.
Prohibition is the watch word and
the jugglers are Matching out all kinds
of diabolical schemes for furthering
political ambitions. The impression
has gained that prohibition Is popular
with majority OF the voters of the
state; Conner was the first local option
anti -prohibitionist to jump on the
prohi water wagon and the small fry
bama more fool things than any sane
man ever dreamed of being placed on
the statute books.
The proposal to place prohibition In
tics. pure and simple. II 1t were not
politics it would be idiocy. We have
a state wide prohibition law, the blind
tiger will be run under 1t, SO 1t viii
under Constitutional prohibition. The
tiger is blind, he can no more see and
will have no more respect Tor prohibl-
ton in the Constitution than he has
now. The placing of prohibition in the
constitution of state Is unheard OF,
no other state has ever thought 1t
necessary Personally the editor of The
but we shall oppose any further at.
tempts to make political capital out, OF
an issue that Is dead. Alabama has
enjoyed prohibition for the past year
get the law prohibiting the sale Of
iouor repealed There has been no
question before the people that calls
for agitation.
Boomiet after boomlet has been set
off at Montgomery. It has been stated
that Carmichael. that Weakley that
Tom, Dick and Harry might ind 1t
necessary to go before the people to
save the state. The Birmingham
ledger said. before the call for the
extra session was issued. that 1t would
be a political caucus, and the predlc-
ton has proven true.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-21

"why not fake a Pole?" asks the
Pittsburg Sun. and then proceeds to
explain this way:
In view OF all that Is at stake in the
way Of wealth and worldly honor, is
1t not strange that some explorer has
not already discovered" one pole or
the other by working a clever frame
up?" Suppose one were to go north.
hire a few Eskimos, disappear for a
reasonable length of time. then burst
upon the world with the announce
ment OF the discovery of the North
Pole? Who could gainsay the claim?
This may be deplorably unscientific
suggestion, but to the lay mind there
seems to be no valid reason why such
shell game might not be worked up
on a gullible world by some genius
shrewd enough and unprincipled
That Is a great suggestion. and IL
some one acts on 1t we need feel no
surprise. If, as Barnum use to say.
people like to be humbugged we know
of no better plan than thia to Go
about It II some man should claim
that he had actually discovered either
the North or South Pole we do not see
how. his claim word be disprovsn. OF
upon what grounds his claim could be
dfscredited.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-21
A Threatened Boycott.

Dothan Home JourhaL
The old Democratic doctrine that
will not allow the Constitution to be
changed without vote from the
people is perhaps the only barrier that
our present set of lawmakers did not
or ruin policy of legislation that has
not vet ended and now because the
people through the various news
papers which are their mouthpieces.
fanatical legislation, there goes up y
great cry from the fanatics, that the
press is being subsidized and tina
people led astray.
Who are the people? who is the
press? And who are your
Aren't you sp'a tSa4 yS 9nr opt opinion
Because The Home Journal last
week saw fit to denounce some of the
recent legislation and express an
opinion that the whole thing had al
ready been carried to the extreme, we
have called down on our mead the
curse of some of the most ardent pro-
hibition leaders in Dothan and have
been openly threatened with such
be possible to continue in business.
Uh. the hypocrisy of 1t all!
What are we coming to?
1t is high time for the people tc
wake up to true realization Of their
rights before they are entirely ousted
from any say in governmental affairs
whatever.
Neither a bulIdozed press or sub.
IL the people set idly by and have nc
sense of the appreciation of a God.
| given liberty or freedom which is be.
| ing usurped by a few who when elect.
power recognize nothing but theh
| own supreme will.