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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-05-20
FIVE PERISH IN A FIRE
Father, Three Children and Their
GRANDMOTHER Lose Lives in Blaze
Others Have Narrow Escapes.

Faribault. MINI. May 1i-Bert
Sperry. his three children and their
grandmother we're burned to death in
fire which destroyed their home in
this city Mrs. Sperry and two chill
dren were saved
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-05-20

Aingion. May 1.-THE state de-
N ht mas begun negotiations with
wv o'trnment Of Cuba for permits
.5, raise the wreck OF the battle
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-05-20
HADLEY ORDERS OUT TROOPS
Four Companies Of Missouri Militia
Are Sent 20 llssco to oueil
Labor Riot

jefferson City. Mo. May I7.-Gover-
nor Hadley ordered four companies Of
militia to Ilasco. Rails county. 10 sup
press a riot Of 1900 foreigners en-
ployed al the Atlas Cement works.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-05-20

has reached. This. the president de-
clares. is what was done in the case
IN point Coupled with this statement
is an explanation By the president that
il vas AZ his direction that Attorney
General Wickersham dated back the
report on the CLAWS charges about
which there has been so much contro.
versy before the Ballinger- Pinchot in
vestigating committee. The president
declares that here again a long
lished custom was followed. The at.
toney- general early in September
made a verbal report from notes IN
the Ballinger affair and left these
notes with the president From the
notes and the verbal report the presi-
dent after a study Of the records.
reached his decision. As he was anx-
ious 20 dispose Of the case before h.
departed on his transcontinental trip.
he dictated the letter generating Sec
Rotary Ballinger and instructed the at
torney general to prepare a detailed
report and date il as Of the same day
that the verbal report was made.
Writes Letter 20 Nelson.
The presidents statement is in the
shape 81 a letter to Senator Knute
Nelson. chairman Of the joint commit.
tee which is investigating Secretary
Ballinger. II was issued after a long
conference at the White House in
which az various times the attorney I
general. as well as Secretaries Maggie
and Dickinson participated. Secrc- I
tary Ballinger was not called into the
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-04-07
Twenty Years in the Pen.

Hallettsville, Tex, March 81 The
case against Tom Adams, colored,
charged with the murder OF A. L. Tur-
ner, another negro, in the spring OF
1909, was concluded yesterday after
noon. About two hours after being
submitted, the jury returned a verdict
finding the defendant guilty, assess
ing term of twenty years in the peni-
teutiary. The killing occurred in town
at negro supper.
GIVEN A NEW TRIAL.
Hallettsville, Tex, April a. The
motion for new trial in the case OF
Tom Adams, convicted of murder in
the second degree and given twenty
years in the penitentiary, was granted
this morning by District Judge M.
Kennon. Adams killed two other
negroes within block of court house
square M arch 6 of last year.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-04-07

his name being written on the
ticket by the voters.
Prof, F. p, Guenther and Prof.
K. A. Jones of Hallettsville, Prof.
John Kloppenburg of Sublime,
Prof. A. ]. Elstep and Prof, o. @.
Schonyogel of Whiting were
among those who attended the
teachers institute here Satur-
day. They also favored this office
with a brief call.--Moulton Eagle.
The Gazette is informed that
Mr.. Milton eMcMurry, who has
been attending the Medical Uni
versity of Pennsylvania at Phila-
delphia, has received an appoint
ment to Belyue Hospital at New
York. Milton is a Sinner raised
boy and his many friends here
Will be pleased to hear of his ad.
vancement.
Messrs, G. Fl. Flato, Ed. Drey-
er and DR., r. w. Ledbetter went
to Houston last week and re-
turned through the country,
bringing with them two Over
land automobiles. They struck
bad weather on the return trip,
but the Overland brought them
through all o. X. with the excep-
ton of little mud. Mr.. Flato
says 1.-THE Overland is one of the
best"
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-04-07
Nichols Carnival.

Nearly thirty years experience
in the amusement world should
fit q man to present the public
with the best performances on
the market. Mr.. Nichols who
opened his carnival company in
LAGRANGE yesterday demonstra-
ted the fact that his many years
of service in the amusement
business were not in vain, ais he
carries an assortmentof excellent
shows.
The principal feature of the
entire assortment is the man
Strahl, who opened the carnival
with a balloon ascencion yester-
at O'Clock. This fellow is a yeri-
table daredevil and he not only
leaves the earth occasionally
but falls from high ladder fire.
quently. Really he is whole
show in himself.
This company carries all the
features of the modern carnival
companies and every exhibition
is clean and moral-not a word
being said or an act offered which
could offend any person. The
company will remain during the
present week.-Fayette County
Record,
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-04-07
RESOURCES

RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts. ,.$213,14S 40
Overdrafts, secured and unse-
cured. -. ..a............. 1921 So
U. S. Bonds to secure circula-
ton. ............... 10000 90
Bonds, Securities, ETC., ...... 70,566 5S
Banking house, furniture and
fixtures. ..,......,.., 10000 90
Due from National Banks
mot reserve agents. ..... 23,191 sc
Due from State and Private
Banks and Bankers, Trust
Companies n d Savings
Banks. ..,,.........,. 1896 90
Due from approved reserve
agents .......,......... 40, 6ZU 70
Checks and other Cash Items % 80
Notes of other National Banks. 900 90
Fractional paper currency,
nickels and cents. ......... LOG 10
Lawful Money Reserve in
Bank, viz
Specie. -. ,$10,937 so
Legal Tender
Notes 80. 5000 90 1887 so
Redemption fund with U. S.
circuIation) ~. .......... 1000 90
Total, ,$43s, 647 SO
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock paid in. ......$ $4,000 90
Surplus Fund. ......,,... $4,000 90
peasos and taxes paid. 49,, e,2e5 %
ing ........,....,........ s9,597 so
Due to other National Banks 534 81
| Dua to State and privata
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-04-07
PRUNES DID 1T.
Whole Family Ptomaine
Poisoned.

Yoakum, Tex, March 31.-Monday
the family of Anton Hollum, a farmer
living about eight miles south of town,
had prunes for dinner. A few minutes
after dinner the entire family were
taken violently i'll and DR.. John Boyd
was summoned from this city. When
he arrived he found the entire family
suffering agonies from ptomaipe
poisoning.
What are the poor people going to
do now that prunes are dangerous3
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-04-07
No. 562s
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
First National Bank
No.. 5e2s

At Sinner, in the State of Texas, at the
close of business, March 30, 1910;
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-04-07
Worse Than Bullets.

Bullets have often caused less suffer
ing to soldiers than eczema L. w. Harri-
man, Burlington, Me-, got in the army,
and suffered with, forty years. "But
Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured me when
all else failed" he writes. Greatest
healer for Sores, Ulcers, Boils, Burns,
Cuts. Wounds, Bruises and Piles. 25c
at all druggists.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-04-07
Farm for Sale.

My farm OF, 100 acres, seven
miles south of Sinner, near main
road. Good houses, four rooms
and hall. Good we'll and wind
mill. For prices and terms see
Frank Hurta, Sinner, Texas, r.
No. 2. 34-3t
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-04-07
Strayed.

One red mule branded 1.-TWO
Us connected with bar at the
top) about IA hands high, now in
my pasture near Sinner. Owner
can get same by calling and pay
ing charges.
EDWARD KUBECKA,
34-2t Sinner, Tex.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-04-07
Lost |

On the road between Sinner
and Yoakum a check book con-
tanning papers of no value except
to me and So in money. The
finder can keep the money if he
will return the papers.
r.. T. DANIEL,
Cuero, Texas.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-04-07
OLD MAIDS ~ --
CONVENTION
WILL TAKE PLACE AT
THE OPERA HOUSE
On Saturday, April 9, for
the Benefit of Mothers
Club, all by Home Talent

If you enjoy a good laugh,
come out and see it. Admission,
reserved seats so cents, general
admission 80 cents, children Is
cents.
Seats now on sale at Schlott-
man S drug store.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-04-07
ROR SALE.

Good large house with two lots
good we'll and C. Close in. Price
$500. Also few more of these
choice lots inSWest end addition
For particulars see
16-t,f. DIR. G.. SCHULTZ.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-04-07
Hay For Sale,

Six or seven loads of good hay
for sale. Apply to John H. Fless-
ner, r. No. 2, Sinner, Texas.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-04-07
LOCAL NEWS.


DSAAAlE3 1SO w ~ OAAoOOOs
Window glass aud putty at
Schlottmann Drug Co. store.
See those elegant new ladies'
hat pins at Schlottman Drug Co.
store
W. T. Bagby, Esq, was in the
city last Thursday on profession
al business.
For fine eyeglasses n d
spectacles go to the Schlottman
Drug Co. IS store
DR.. Blackwell of Hochheim
was in Sinner last Thursday on
professional business.
Ladies necklaces and brace
let's, new and up-to=date styles at
Schlottman Drug Co, store.
A ball is to be given at Sunset
school house next Saturday,
April g. Everybody INVITED.
Mrs. Dora Thornton left last
Friday for Lane City on a visit
to her daughter, Mrs. Ed. VOL
tiers.
See the old maids made over
into charming young maids at
the Opera house next Saturday
night.
Messrs. S. A. Carnes & Son
of Yoakum and Sinner shipped
out another car load of eggs last
week.
The Mothers Club will give a
tea at the Opera house Friday
night April 8, for the benefit of
the school.
Ground bones are fine egg
producers. Get some at l.. B.
Richter's and feed them to your
chickens.
Ifyou want to save money let
me figure with you. w. j. To-
masco, practical painter and
paper hanger.
See Prof. Makeover in his
startling new Transformation act
at the Opera house Saturday
night, April 9.
Don't put off your painting
Brighten up, now is the time. W.
], Tomasco, practical painter
and paper hanger.
Decoration Day for this year
has been set for Sunday, April
"a, and everybody is requested
to be in readiness.
Owing to the Carnival adver-
Using this week, several letters
from correspondents will be held
over until next week.
Charles Weiss, tromhonist, of
Sinner assisted the Moulton band
at The children's picnic and dance
at the Herman park last Mon
day.-Moulton Eagle.
Say! look over your stationery,
and see if you don't need some
more Letter and Noteheads, Bill
heads, Envelopes, etc.
Read and ponder over the
statement of the First National
Bank in this issue Of the Gazette.
1t is a fine showing and excels
that of any other bank in Lavaca
county.
The Old Maids Convention will
hold forth at the opera house
next Saturday, April 9. Reserved
seats on sale at the Schlott-
man drug store.
There will be a young people s
prayer meeting at the Baptist
church every Wednesday night
beginning on Wednesday, April
10. lIyerybody is cordially in
vited to attend.
Don't forget that we are selling
the best riding and walking Gull
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-04-07
Found.

One gold ring, owner can get
same by describing it and paying
for this notice.
w. H. GRUsENDoRF,
Sinner Texas.
The Glenwood post., 1910-12-24
Minor Mention.

U. S. Census gives Weld county a
population of 39,177.
The Telluride brewery was damaged
100000 by recent fire.
Thieves recently entered store in
Clifton and carried away $500.
The construction work on the new
jail at Brighton is progressing rapidly.
A fire company has been organized
in Grover, under the auspices of the
Commercial club.
The cattle disease called black leg
has been found in the herd of E. A.
Carter of Brighton. Re-
possessing the shortest name in the
state. He is A. Elk.
In the Steamboat Springs vicinity
more than 100 acres of strawberries
will be planted in the spring.
Workmen are now tearing down the
old stage house just outside of Salida
that has been standing since 1865.
The annual Catholic fair given by
-
has closed. The receipts were $1,000.
A 50o-barrel flour mill to cost $70,-
600, is proposed for Milliken by local
business men and Kansas capitalists.
Death claimed one of the pioneers
of Pueblo county when ]. D. Andrus,
who came to Pueblo in 1865, passed
away.
j. S. Johnson, farmer, near Rocky
of cantaloupe seed, for which he re-
ceived s1,S00.
Wanted in Salt Lake City on d
charge of robbing diamond broker Of
100000 worth of gems, Walter Parish
is in Jail in Pueblo
Not content with stealing ton of
coal from Orville Harsh of Greeley
thieves carried off Harsh's dog,
placed to guard it.
The case against Mrs. Mike Flynn,
charged with the killing of Gordon
Wilson, in Browns park at Steamboat
Springs, has been dismissed.
Aullltleuly lue largest ana WOSl Ell
thusiastic convention of the Colorado
State Board of Horticulture recently
closed a two-day session at Rifle.
The Pueblo poultry show is the
largest ever held in that city, over
700 entries having been received.
The premium list is also large one.
The Commercial Club and Associa-
tion of Retail Merchants of Greeley
are making arrangements to entertain
the retail merchants of the state jan
Is, 16 and H.
In addition to the strict quarantine
kept on dogs in Greeley, for the pur-
The Glenwood post., 1910-12-24
WESTERN.

Fire destroyed nine buildings in
Fairbanks, Alaska, entailing loss
IN excess of $4,000.
Andrew Russell, wealthy stock
raiser and farmer residing two miles
south of Guthrie, Okla, was shot and
killed at his home.
Hookworm has been discovered
among Chinese, Hindoo and other I'M
migrants from the Far East arriving
on the Pacific coast.
Earl Ward, aged 80, who robbed the
state bank at Paradise, Kan, securing
$4,000, killed himself when surrounded
by posse of farmers, fourteen miles
north of that place.
One man was killed and thirty-one
were seriously injured when three cars
of a southbound Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe train were thrown from a
bridge into the Washita river, near Da-
Wis, Okla.
TWenty-siX men were entombed by
| an explosion of gas in the Greene mine
of the Bond Coal Company, near Ia
coma, Va. --latest reports indicate
that twenty-five of the entombed min
ers are dead.
Twenty-one of the oldest and best
| developed agricultural counties in Ne
traska have lost 1878 people in the
last ten years while the state of Iowa
has lost 1859 people from some of the
Oldest counties in the state.
For criticising the court in connec-
| tion with the granting of temporary
injunction to an electric railway COM
lany in Seattle, Leroy Sanders. pub
Usher of the Evening Star, was ad-
judged in contempt of court and SEN
| fenced to four months in jail.
/ The Rev. Mr.. Thos McKinzy of Bat
tie Creek has appealed to the COVER
Eors Of New York, Ohio, New Jersey
and West Virginia, where electrocu-
ton is in use, to grant him a legal
execution by this means. Mr.. Nc,
Kinzy is hopelessly blind and is in
danger of losing his voice
In the near future 200 high schools
OF Colorado are to receive collections
numbering 10 specimens each of the
typical rocks, shales and mud of Colo.
rado, which have been collected and
classified, labeled and described by
nearly years work under the direc.
ton of state biologists Prof. R. D.
George. of the department Of geology
of the University Of Colorado.
The Glenwood post., 1910-12-24
Weeks News from All Over Colorado

can farmers may be required in the
future to raise all the potatoes eaten
n this country. At present 100000
900 bushels of ''spuds" are imported
annually to supplement the supply
grown by America. The greater por-
tion of these imported potatoes must
be replaced by the irrigated lands of
the Western country. Colorado will
have large share in this production.
The measure is not designated pri-
marily to erect wall of protection
tor the potato industry, but is aimed
to prevent the importation of disease
epidemics which are devastating for
eign potato fields. Agricultural sci
entists have been watching for some
time for traces of these fatal diseases
In America, and with the discovery
that they now exist to some extent in
Massachusetts and New Foundland,
they Immediately took steps to pro-
cure national legislation covering that
point.
The Glenwood post., 1910-12-24

/ pose of stamping out rabies, the same
regulations may be established on
cats.
| An appropriation of 100000 for
sprinkling Denver streets during 1911
has been asked for by Thomas Phil
lips, superintendent of the highway
department
| In the matter of the bill of excep-
tions on the confirmation of the bonds
of the Greeley-Poudre irrigation dis
trict no decision has been rendered
by Judge Garrigues.
| The Rocky Mountain Limited of the
Rock Island line, running out of Den
yer for Chicago and other Eastern
points will not be discontinued, as was
unofficially announced.
A Colorado product dinner" will be
given to the visiting horse and cattle
men in January, when they meet at
Denver, from all over the country, to
attend the January horse show.
A bill sure to be introduced at the
coming session of the Legislature will
be to change the method of assess
ket value of the property.
| W. A. Groom of Boulder was elected
president of the Northern Colorado
Poultry Association at it's meeting a.
the poultry show in Fort Collins. Boul-
der was selected as the next place for
the show.
Cattle owners of the Williams coun-
|
| jubilant over the open fall and the
mildness of the season. 1t saves hay
and means a larger profit than usual
on stock.
| Frank Van Amburgh, who robbed
the safe of the St James hotel in
guilty in District Court and was SEN
fenced to two to three years in the
penitentiary.
pair of white rats purchased by
C. w. Beer of Greeley for pets fifteen
years ago, but which soon disap-
peared. returned recently with a large
family, overran Beers chicken yard
and killed his poultry
Two young sons of Hon. Archie Nc
Lachlan of Craig broke through the
ice while skating, and sank in ice cold
water. The elder boy was resusci-
tated after nearly two hours work, but
the younger one was drowned.
Governor Shafroth received a check
from Washington for s50,306.1O as Col
orado's proportion of the amount Of
money collected from the forestry
reserves in the state.
Because of the heavy fall of snow,
about two and one-half feet on the
Laramie side of the Greeley-Poudre
tunnel. work has been stopped for the
winter on the tunnel reservoir
The Glenwood post., 1910-12-24
GEN ERAC.

The charity ball, Philadelphia S
largest and most important society
event, may not take place this year.
One of the fashionable hotels in
New York permits women to smok
in any part of the house
| Dan d. Mccain, former captain and
first baseman of the New York Ma.
tionals, committed suicide in Louis.
vile, Ky.
William Baker, employed in a tele.
graph office in Detroit, shot and
killed Mrs. Katherine Devine and then
committed suicide.
The New York Stock Exchange will
close December 25th, preceding Chris.
mas Day, and remain closed until
Tuesday morning.
Andrew Carnegie's gift of 100000.
600 for the furtherance of information.
al peace brings the total of his bene,
factions to something like s1SO,OOO, 900.
The strike of the Missouri Pacific
hoShihiolS, DOlleTHdReTS ana black
smiths, which has been in progress for
nearly seven months, will be called off
| A report has been received in New
Orleans that score or more persons
were killed as result of an earth
quake at Port Limon, Costa Rica. The
cable companies were unable to con.
firm the report. One report says sew
enty families were killed
John B. Moissant went to height
of 1884 feet, if his barometer read
true, at Memphis, Tenn. In the Unit.
ed States Armstrong Drexel and
Ralph Johnstone alone eclipsed this
distance, which is within 1,135 feet OF
the present worlds record.
The war of the Chicago BARRIERS
Association against safety razors will
reach its climax when, at a meeting
in Metropolitan hall, members Of the
association will vote on proposition
to charge every man who shaves him
self, at least so cents for hair cut.
The court was startled and the
crowded room stood aghast when a
body was carried in by direction of
District Attorney Thames and offered
in evidence by state in case of Rose
Minor, charged with the murder Of
George Smith, in vicksburg. Misa
The Glenwood post., 1910-12-24
c. G. S. Awards Contract.

Greeley.-The Colorado & Southern
railroad has awarded the contracts for
the construction of new line from
Wellington, Colo, to Cheyenne, Wyo
The new line will be thirty-five miles
long and will cost 81 100000 when COM
pleted. The contractors will imme-
diately throw 1000 men into construc-
ton camps. The new line is an i'm
portant link in the projected gulf-to-
coast route of the Hill roads. The
contracts awarded cover the grading
and bridge work and all substructural
work up to the rails and ties. The
company will lay the track. Camps
will be stretched along the entire route
and the work will be rushed as fast
as possible.
The Glenwood post., 1910-12-24

Postmaster General Hitchcock says
everything will be in readiness for the
postal savings banks to receive Gepos-
its January 3rd, the first working day
Of the new year. The task of drawing Z
up regulations, forms and instructions
has progressed so far as to assure the
beginning of operations. One expert
mental office will be opened in each
state and territory to make the first
test of the service as thorough as pos
sible under the limited appropriation.
Nothing short of omniscience can
of this year is the statement of the
secretary of agriculture in his annual
report for 1910 At no time in the
worlds history has a country produced
farm products within one year with a
value reaching sS,926.0 900, which is
the value of the agricultural products
of the country from 1910. The value
of farm products from 1899 to the pres
ent year has been progressing without
interruption. II the value of the prod.
ucts of 1899 is placed at 100, the value
for this years is 1S9, or almost dou-
bic the value for the census year
eleven years ago. During this period
of unexampled agricultural production,
period of twelve years, during which
the farmers of the country have stead.
lily advanced in prosperity and wealth
and in economic independence. in in.
telligence and knowledge Of agri-
culture, the total value of farm prod
ucts is $79.000.o .o00. .000."
The Glenwood post., 1910-12-24
Irrigation Bridge Suit.

Greeley-By the appeal from the
decision of the District Court in the
case of Walter Chandler against the
Supreme Court, most important
matter to irrigationists and ditch COM
lanies all over the state will be de-
cided, concerning the. legal width of
irrigation bridges. Chandler was
awarded s1,7Oe of. the s14,50O damages
asked because he claimed he was in
jured when his team was pushed off
the bridge over the Pierce lateral,
which he alleged would not have hap
rened had the bridge been the re-
quired twenty feet wide.