Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-09-01
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NEWS THAT is NEWS, WHEN 1T IS
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DOINGS OF DAY and WEEK
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DOMESTIC.


w. G. Crush, general passenger
agent of the Missouri, Kansas & Tex
as Railway, Friday applied to the rail
road commission for a REIMBURSEMENT
of the passenger traiff applying on
party rates with especial reference to
the handling of theatrical companies
and their baggage. The show season
will soon begin and the companies
desire a readjustment of the regula-
tons for handling them.
At the door of such men as SEN
ators Carter and Hepburn and Repre-
sentatives Mondell of Wyoming, Gift
ford Pinchot, the maker of the forest
ry, in severe arraignment Friday lays
the grave responsibility for the ter
rible devastation by fire, the waste of
timber land and the financial loss Of
several hundred human lives.
Five men were killed and one badly
injured when two heavy freight trains
on the river route division of the
Missouri Pacific collided head-on near
Black Water, Missouri, Friday.
The entire business section of the
town of Era, twelve miles southwest
OF Gainesville, Tex, was completely
wiped out by fire Friday with the ex-
ception of one drug store, which was
badly damaged. The buildings were
all frame, built close together, and
with no water protection with the eX-
ception of deep wells and buckets,
the town soon fell victim to the
flames.
The congressional committee which
has been Investigating the Gore brib-
cry charges and the McMurray land
contracts completed its work in Okla
homa Friday and adjourned to meet
in Washington in November. The
committee has taken testimony that
will fill two printed volumes
Fifteen thousand employees of the
Amoskeag cotton manufactures were
thrown out of work Saturday at Man
chester, n. H., when seventeen mills
of the plant closed tor a period of
fifteen days. Curtailment of produc-
ton is the reason for the shutdown.
The scholastic census and the state
apportioament of the available school
fund of each county for the scholastic
year beginning Sept. /, 1910, has just
been tabulated by the state depart
ment of education at Austin. For the
past scholastic year there were 9l9,-
COS children of scholastic age and the
per capita apportionment was $6,25,
making the total apportionment of the
state available school fund, $5,9Si.-
2S7.50. The total scholastic popula-
ton for the ensuing scholastic year
is 96S,267, an increase of 19,261, and
the per capita apportionment is $3.50,
making total state apportionment of
the available school funds OF $6,293,-
1850, an amount exceeding the state
apportionment of the outgoing scholas-
tic year by $362,44S.
Seeking to obtain an additional fee
amounting to about $4,000 in the Che
rokee Indian land cases, Wiley Cox
and Edward T. Scarritt, st, Louis law.
yers, have filed a suit in mandamus
in the supreme court of the district
to compel Secretary of the Treasury
Franklin MacVeagh and United States
Treasurer Lee McClung to reopen the
litigation involving the payment Of
$4,937 03G.16 to the Indians in accord
ance with the act of congress in
March, 1903.
The freight rate between Oklahoma
City and Northern Texas will be re-
duced Aug. 81 on the Frisco accord
ing to statement given out Friday
Attorneys for three former high
officials of the Illinois Central Rail
road, Frank B. Hartman. formerly
general manager; John NJ. Taylor
storekeeper, and Charles L. Ewing
superintendent of the lines north OF
the Ohio River, received setback
on the first day of their criminal trial
In Chicago Friday, when Judge Brug
gemeyer refused the defendants a bill
of particulars for change of venue
The men are charged with participant
ing In frauds by which the railroad
company is alleged to have been
muced out of more than $1,OOO,OOC
through inflated car repair bills.
For the fourth consecutive time
and for the sixth time in his career
as a tennis player, VIM. A. Learned
Of Summit M j., Thursday won the
challenge cup of the singles cham
pionship Of the United States, defeat
ing Thomas G. Bundy of Los Angeles,
on the Casino courts at Newport, r.
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