Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-11-04
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OOINGS OF DAY AND WEEK
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DOMESTIC.


at Alpharetta, Ca, within the next few
days for the purpose of seeing three
to four bales Of cotton growing to the
acre.
It. has been wild week in cotton
with a jump of IS to SO a bale at the
exchange in New York. This was
based on growing conviction that 1t
is short crop and that there is moth
ing sor 1t but much higher prices be-
fore the season is ended. Whether
this advance will eliminate by the end
of the calendar year Is, of course,
matter for the future to determine,
but bulls are talking Of crop of only
100000 to 10,500000 bales and o
consumption of 15,000,000 to 13.500000
bales, although to many it is not clear
how the consumption can reach such
quantity unless the present crop
estimates are too low. Only 100000
bales OF American cotton were carried
over from last season.
With a view to drawing the uni
versities OF the United States and
Great Britain into closer cooperation,
George R. Parkin of London has come
to America to hold a series OF confer
ences with educators of this country.
Five thousand people seated COM
fortably at dinner in the biggest float
yard in New Orleans is the novel ex-
perlence promised the delegates to the
Lakeste-the-Gulf Deep Waterways con
vention next week.
The Cook-Barrlll Mount Mckinley
controversy was enlivened Friday by
the announcement of the securing of
an affidavit from Geo, w. Snolleder.
a farmer of Ravilla county, Mont, liv-
ing near the homes OF Barrill and
Printz, In which Snoleder declares
| Barrill told him he and Dr.. Cook had
climbed Mount Mckinley.
An early decision is expected in the
Standard Oil case from the United
States court of appears, at Washing
ton, and an appeal will follow prompt
ly to the Supreme Court of the Unit
ed States. It is by far the most Inn
portant antitrust case now pending.
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for the negro insisted that as cham
pion his name should go first-signed
articles in New York Friday binding
them to fight forty-five or more rounds
to finish not later than July 5, 1910,
before the club offering the best finan-
cial inducement. the winner to take a
side bet of $4,000 and rs per cent OF
the purse, the loser to take rs per
cent.
The commissioner OF insurance and
banking was Friday advised by an
East Texas national bank, having $780,
900 capital and $4,000 surplus, of its
intention to Immediately surrender its
charter as national bank and incor-
porate as state bank. The depart
ment has received similar advlces
from number of national banks with
in the past few weeks.
While working out preparatory to
entering the motorcycle raves at the
| automobile race meet at the Texas
State Fair at Dallas Thursday, Eu-
gene ]. Marsh of Dallas was thrown
from his motorcycle and almost In
stantly killed.
Two suits were filed against Ring
ling Bros circus at Austin Thurs
day by County Attorney Brady, in the
Twenty-sixth District court. The
suits ask for $4,000 for back occupa-
ton taxes said to be due the state
and Travis county by the concern, to-
gether with interest.
A violent earthquake shock occur
red at Redding, Calf. Thursday night.
Houses trembled and sleepers were
awakened. The shock is said to have
lasted ten seconds longer than the
San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
The quake was felt at Chico and
as far north as Grants Pass. Oregon.
Charging that her husband. Kanzan
Cho-Yo, author and former instruc-
tor in the University of Toxic, had
crippled her by applying jiu jitsu
methods OF cruelty, Mrs Gretna A.
Cho-Yo. an American girl, wife of
the Oriental, was granted decree OF
divorce In Chicago Friday.
:. Ministers from every church In
Houston and from many Texas cities
were present in Houston at st. Pauls
Methodist church Thursday morning
to listen to the eulogies and to pay
tribute to Bishop Seth Ward of the
Methodist church, whose mortal re-
mains were given to the earth after
the services at the church. Bishop
Ward died in Japan several weeks
ago: on Wednesday the body reached
Houston from the Far East and the
funeral services were held Thursday,