Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-08-04
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DOMESTIC.

Clifford Pinchot, one OF the leaders
In the insurgent movement, is the lat
est entry in the New York state gov
ernorship race. Theodore Roosevelt
was urged Friday to give his indorse-
ment to the Pinchot boom, but he re-
fused to give any promise to the
friends Of the deposed chief of the
forestry bureau.
The working girls Of Houston will
soon have a new home, which will
cost approximately $4,000, If the pres.
ent plans Of certain phianthropic per-
sons are carried out.
The coroner's jury impaneled to in.
quire into the death of Ira G. Rawn,
late president of the Monon Railroad,
returned an open verdict Friday night
at Chicago and found he died from
shot fired from his own weapon by
his own hand.
Telegraphersc and station agents Of
the Missouri Pacific and Iron Noun.
tain system were granted G per
cent increase in wages which amounts
to $4,000 year, in addition to con.
cessions granted in rules governing
working conditions, by an award of
the arbitrators under the Erdman act,
which was filed in the United States
circuit court at st. Louis Friday. The
arbitrators found that tie railroad
company had surplus of $17000,C10
n In od hn n o. q
of the last two years were S9,000,000.
The findings are retroactive and the
increase must be paid from June l.
The twelfth annual session of the
Texas Farmers Congress, session
which President Kirkpatrick declares
to have been one of the most profit
able and the most largely attended,
Thursday, passed into honorable his
tory. Inasmuch as the seventeen af-
filiated organizations-.rap prack
rgrrssy seyeiy branch u agriculture.
and nearly every subject relating
thereto received attention during the
three days meeting, this attention re-
sulting In the development of many
new ideas for the more economical
operation of the farm and a greater
increase of the products, it would be
difficult to even approximate the
value to Texas that must result from
the congress.
Dude Archdale, the favorite, had
comparatively little trouble in winning
the $4,000 Paper Mill stake for 2.11
class trotters in Kalamazoo, Mich, on
Wednesday, the classic of the grand
circuit race meet, in which a field of
fourteen horses contested.
The "gentlemens agreement" be-
tween the Russo-C Chinese Bank and it's
missing cashier, Erwin Wider of New
York, who is accused of embezzling
100000 worth of stocks and bonds,
expired Wednesday, when the district
attorneys office was requested to take
action and private detective agency
was put on the case.
American women who long to expert
ence the thrills of an aeroplane fight
will soon have an opportunity to graft
fly their desire. Three of tfie smallest
prettiest and speediest monoplanes in
existence are now on their way to this
country, with three French women to
demonstrate them. The machines
weigh only $50 pounds each, and are
equipped with 12-horsepower engines.
: Temperature from 80 to 10 degrees
below zero. Wind blowing blizzard
most of the time. No human habita-
tion in sight; no covering at night ex-
cept tent and no grub that was
not many times frozen. These are
some of the conditions under which
the recent census was taken in the in
terror of Alaska. The report of Chief
Special Agent Mckenzie covering the
work in the fourth or inland district OF
the territory has just been received
by Director Durand, and while the
story is simply told 1t is wonderful,
thrilling narrative of adventure show
ing that when Uncle Sam starts out
to round up his children he spares no
expense to locate them and satisfy
himself as to their status.
Gov Burke of North Dakota was in
dorsed as the democratic nominee for
the presidency in 1912 at meeting of
the democratic party of the state held
at Fargo Tuesday.
Mayor Bousman of Ridgeway, Va,
was assassinated by dynamite bomb
which was thrown at him Monday. He
died an hour after the explosion. No
clew to the identity of the murderer
OF cause Of the crime has been found,