Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-01-20

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Daniel c. Reid of New York is out OF
the Rock Island company. He resigned
as chairman of the board OF directors
and also as chairman of the executive
committee Thursday.
James j. Jeffries gathered in $6,-
4S0.9S by his road work last week.
These figures are official and were fur
nished by Harry II. Frazee, manager of
the Jeffries tour There never was
such triumphal march as Jeffries is
making across the continent.
The condition of Frank Newman,
city detective of San Antonio, who was
shot while eating supper Monday night,
is somewhat improved Physicians now
hope that he will ultimately recover,
although he is very weak. The po-
lice still have no clew to the men who
did the shooting
Ray Lamphere, who died recently
in the Indiana penitentiary while serv-
ing a term for setting fire to the
home of Mrs Belle Guinness, near La
Porte, Ind, did not carry the secrets
of the Guinness charnal farm to the
tomb. When he believed death near,
he confessed. The confession was
made to the Rev. Dr. e. A. Schell, for
merly pastor of the La Porte Metho.
dist Episcopal G. =. CHI, now president
Of the Wesleyan university at Mount
Pleasant, Iowa, and held by him as
a confessional secret. He claimed to
have chloroformed the family and set
fire to the house.
Simeon B. Chaplin, head of the New
York and Chicago firm of s. B. Chaplin
&c Co., was suspended from the priv
ileges of the New York stock ex-
change for a periad of sixty days for
participation in the Rock Island fiasco
of Dec. 81 last, when alleged ill.man-
aged manipulation sent the common
shares Of Rock Island from so to 81
and back again in a period of twelve
minutes.
The city council of Shreveport on
Thursday adopted an ordinance pro-
viding for the purchase of the Louis
lana State Fair Grounds, with most of
the buildings thereon, for $4,000,
which is necessary to meet outstanding
indebtedness and add improvements.
The supreme court has refused
writ of error in the case of B. T. Mas
terson vs.. the St. Mary's Orphans Asy-
lum, of Galveston, thereby termi-
mating an interesting and important
piece of litigation. The important point
involved concerns the statutory re-
quirement as to the period within
which will may be probated. The
statute recites that will must be pro-
bated within four years after the
death Of the testator and the probating
of the will of John w. Harris, former
attorney general of Texas, was contest
ed on the grounds that it was sought
to be probated thirty years after death.
1--WE must increase production per
acre by more intelligent methods or we
must face the relentless, certain day
when we shall not produce food enough
to supply our own necessities" said
President VIM. G. Brown of the New
York Central Railroad In an address
Wednesday before the New England
Railroad Club in Boston.
The monthly report of Financial
Agent Barton of the Texas peniten-
tiaries shows that during December the
receipts of the penitentiaries amounted
to $206,130; that Expenditures at Hunts
vile amounted to s149,692; at Rusk to
$1,9S2. and that $S,429 of the expendi-
lures were transferred from Rusk to
Huntsville. That on December 81, 1909,
there was on hand balance of $72, 1924,
as against balance of $16,S25 on hand
the first of December. In figuring the
receipts for the sugar sales from all
the farmers, the report shows that
$107,407 was obtained.