Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-07-14
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NEWS THAT is NEWS, WHEN IT Is
NEWS, FoR ALL
DOlNGS OF DAY AND WEEK
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DOMESTIC


Colonel John s. Mosby, the veneer
able guerilla leader of the confeder
acy, has been dismissed from the de
partment OF justice by Attorney Gen
eral Wickersham. Colonel Mosby was
appointed special attorney by Presi
dent Roosevelt to prosecute certain
cattlemen in the West, who were
operating on public lands in bold dis
regard of the law.
Another brief but interesting con.
tribution to the record OF the growth
OF Texas in the past ten years was
made by the census bureau Saturday
when the population returns for
Karnes and Runnels counties were
made public. Runnels County was
shown to have a population of POSES
against 5.379 in 1900, gain of 49,
479, or 2S7 per cent in ten years.
Karnes County has 1892 against
e,6S1. gain of 70 per cent. This
makes twenty-five Texas counties re-
ported upon. They show an aggregate
population of 39S,S1s against 279,362
In 1900, an increase for the twenty.
Ave counties of 119.454, or nearly SO
per cent.
John D. Rockefeller celebrated his
seventy-fi-st birthday anniversary
Thursday in the same way he spends
practically every other day in the
summer at Forest Hill, Ohio.
Congressman Walter Preston Brown
low died at Johnson City, Tenn, Fri.
day, Mr.. Brownlow was GO years Of
age. He represented the First Ten
nessee district seven terms in success
sion and had been nominated for an
other term. He made record sur
passing all other congressman from
the South in point of achievement
IN the way of appropriations for his
; district IFS death VIII result in a
state of political confusion and strug-
gle is looked for between the Brown
low and Evans republican factions.
Carl Etherington, 30 years old, en-
ployed Thursday night by the State
Anti-Saloon League as blind tiger
raider was lynched at Newark, Ohio
Friday following day of almost con-
tlnuous rioting. The heavy doors OF
the Licking County jail were battered
down and Etherington was dragged
from his cell. He was shot, kicked
and bruised before the street was
reached, and the finish followed quick
ly. Etherington early in the day con-
fessed that he killed VIM. Howard, pro-
prietor of the Last Chance" restau-
rant and a former chief of police in a
raid on a saloon.
The latest development of the Mica
raguan situation is found in the appar-
emily authentic information which has
reached the state department that
overture to aid Estrada, the head of
the revolution party which is dragging
along In the vicinity OF Bluefelds.
These reports come from several
sources to the department and are to
, the effect that Zelaya has proposed to
Estrada to pull off the Madriz gunboat
Venus and give the insurgents freedom
from interference from the sea If Els.
trada will protect Zelayas property
in Nicaragua and refund to him the
first installment of $4,000 which re.
laya paid to the United States on the
Emery claim.
The order signed by President Taft
withdrawing S,493,731 acres of the pub.
lie lands, in accordance with the new
law authorizing the president to with
draw public lands from entry. did not
include any public land not hereto
fore withdrawn.
More than twelve tons Of frozen or
dessicated eggs. shipped to New York
from Chicago, were seized as unfit for
human consumption at the Kings Coun.
ty Refrigeratory Company's plant in
Brooklyn Thursday.
Fifty thousand garment and cloak
makers, of whom 5000 are women
walked out Thursday in New York
at the call OF the International Ladies'
Garment Workers Union, which de
mands an eight-hour day. an increase
In wages and guarantee that the
contractors shall stand behind sub
contractors for wage payments.
A. S. Campbell. chief law officer OF
the reclamation service, in a letter
Mandatory OF the cabinet officers, has
rendered his resignation to Secretary
Of the Interior Ballinger. Mr. Camp
ell will sever his connection with the
interior department July rs to talt'
nm the practice OF law In Denver.