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The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
by Associated Press

Austin, Texas, March 27.-The Den
ison city charter becomes a law with
out the governors approval, he filing
it unsigned today. He also filed un
signed the bill allowing cities and
towns to mortgage their water and
light plants for not over $4,000 to Sc
cure funds to erect plants. He doubted
its constitutionality.
Governor Colquitt today signed the
following bills:
The Brown county road law.
Regulating the sale of commercial
fertilizers.
Prohibiting dynamiting, SEEMING and
trapping fish in fresh water streams.
Allowing the incorporation of cleo
trio, gas and power companies with
authority to establish s%ubstations in
other towns.
Authorizing cities to contract with
railroads for viaducts and to issue
bonds therefor not to exceed $4,000.
Defining what shall constitute pau
pers under the law.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
[By Associated Press.l

Austin, Texas, March Ex-Governor
Colquitt today signed the following
bills:
Requiring nine Cwner5 TO ~insulate
their wire fences.
Requiring county commissioners to
meet monthly.
Permitting Mrs. ". e. Collins and
her children to sue the state for dam
ages for the death of their husband
and father who was killed by state
rangers.
Validating county line Independent
school districts.
Authorizing the issuance of bonds
for county poor institutions.
Road laws for Brown, Upshur, Wise,
Nolan, Bee, Camp, Morris and Collin
counties.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
FIRST CASE OF THE KIN
Sentence Of Youthful Criminal S
pended and He Released
on Probation.

In the district court yesterday,
trial Of julius Jones, charged with
tempted train wrecking, was ter
mated by the defendant entering a ,
of guilty. His punishment was n.
at two years in the state reformatC
The defendant being only twelve We
of age, the sentence was suspen,
and he was turned over to his fail
This action was taken under the Il
juvenile law passed by the Tbii
second legislature, and Is perhap3
first CASE in the state in which \
law has been applied. Under this
the defendant Is given a suspension
sentence and is turned loose on
pledge of good behavior, his period
probation to be double the time of
sentence. In this case the sente|
being for two years, the defend
must remain on probation four yet
If at any time during the four yd
he should commit any crime the /
pension Of sentence terminates at oil
and the law directs that he be tai
into custody and without further d
sent to the reformatory to serve |
original sentence of two years.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
A. M. WALDROP & COMPANY
&n Show Windows The Home Of Good Clothes for Nc and Young Men
ANOTHER BATCH OF BILLS
APPROVED BY GOVERNOR
by Associated Press.l

Austin, Texas, March Ex-Governor
Colquitt today signed the following
bills:
An amendment to the Paris charter.
Creating the office of chaplain at the
juvenile state training schol at Gates
vile.
Empowering county court commits
sioners to establish experimental
farms.
Prohibiting the feeding of stock or
the storage of feed in mines.
Road laws for the counties of Tyler,
Jones, Haskell, Taylor, Jack, Ell Paso,
'Brazoria, Anderson and Matagorda.
Creating the Secenty-second judicial
district court at Lubbock.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
IN THE RACE FOR FIRST BALE
Half Dozen Towns in Lower Rio
Grande Country Will Contest for
Premium This Year.
Especial to The Bryan Eagle

Mercedes, Texas, March 27.-Last
summer this place was the first in the
state to ship a bale of cotton. This
year a number Of towns in the lower
Rio Grande valley are making an eff.
fort to put the first bale on the market,
Mission, San Benito, Harrington, Meal.
len, Donna and Olmitto will each en-,
deavor to be first to the market cen
tiers with a bale.
The condition of the crop near the
various places named indicates a close
finish in this unusual race, and there is
every assurance that early in June will
see bales shipped out from each of
these towns.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
RANCH GIRL HAS
WONDERFUL MEMO
Knows the Seven Thousand Brand
Texas Cattlemen by Heart.
Especial to The Bryan Eagle.l

Especial to The Bryan Eagle.l
Fort Worth, Texas, March "a
Florence Colston, of this city, is
coded to possess a better and more
curate working knowledge Of T,
cattle brands than any cattlemal
the state. Her knowledge of CT
raising and the many brands was
quired early on her fathers ranc
In all, there are about seven thouS
different brands in use in the 81
and it is said that Miss Colston
locate a majority of these, tell
lively to whom each belongs, wit
a reference to the record.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
M~USKOGEE VS.. A. G. M.

The Muskogee (Okla.) league base
ball team arrived today from Houston
and went out to A. & NJ. college for
a three days series of games with the
A.. e. NJ. team. The Muskogee team
are guests at the Exchange hotel and
will go out each day on the interurban.
This is the second series the A. & NJ.
team has had this season, and these
games will go a long way in deciding
the ability of the A. & NJ. team for the
season. There will be three games
today, Tuesday and Wednesday after
moons, at AIS o'clock.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
AND BROTHER Of
PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT
Came from New York to Texas To Be
Near Son and Brother.
[By Associated Press.l

New York, March 25.-Francisco
Madero, Sr. and his son, Gustavo, left
New York today for San Antonio,
Texas, in order to be near Francisco
/. Madero, provisional president of
Mexico. They had received kilograms
from San Antonio that the i~nsurrectos
ire prospecting.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
OTHER MADER0S NOT CON-
NECTED WITH REVOLUTION
[By Associated Press.

San Antonio, Texas, March 27.-Al-
fonso Madero today denied that on
their arrival here tomorrow his father,
Francisco Madero, and his brother,
Gustave Madero, will be connected
with the Mexican revolution. He said
they are not going to Chihuahua, as
has been stated.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
MARRIAGE

Marriage licenses have been issued
his week as follows:
Frank Burney and Ollie Croker.
Edgar Farris and Deater Johnson.
John Cooper and Mary Wedlow.
Profit Wyatt and Berthina Johnson.
Elmer Rose and Savannah Mays.
j. d. Daniels and Bertha Ewing.
Will Hamsby and Arriler L. Cain.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
A BIG HOAX.
b. Associated Press. ]

Marlin, Texas, March 27.-The story
sent throughout the country Thursday
night that an unidentified stranger was
drowned when he attempted to get
across a gutter here proves to be a
fake, which was worked SO success
fully by a score of persons that prob
ably half the people of Marlin believed
ii to be true at the time.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
NO PARDONs FOR
MORSE AND WALSH
LBy Associated Press.l

Washington, March 27.-From a
source close to President Taft it was
learned today that the pardon appeals
of Charles w, Morse, a former Wall
street banker and industrial promoter,
and John H. Walsh, former Chicago
capitalist and railroad president, will
undoubtedly be denied. Morse and
Walsh are serving long terms in fed
eral prisons, having been convicted of
violations of the national banking
laws.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
KING Of ITALY
C0UATiNG SOCIALISTS
l. Is Probable a Member OF That Party
Will Become a Cabinet
Minister.
[By Associated Press.I

Rome, March 23.-King Victor EN-
manuel received Bissolati, the noted
socialist member Of the Italian parlia-
ment, today. This Is the first time a
socialist has ever officially entered the
royal palace. 1t is possible that a So
cialist may become a member of the
kings cabinet.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
BUSINESS CHANGE AT coLEVlEW

Mr.. Anon Williams has purchased
the interest of his partner in the firm
of Williams & Eden, at Coleview, and
is now sole proprietor. The store car
ries a general merchandise stock, and
Mr.. Williams will conduct the business
along the same lines as were main
tanned by the former firm.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
FOR DEATH PROOF BUILDINGS.
[By Associated Press

New York, March 27.-Fire Chief
Croker today started a slogan for mot
merely fire proof but also death proof
buildings, which promises to become
countrywide. Several searching inves-
LEGATIONS toward improving fire condi-
tons were started this morning.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
FICkEY SCHOOL TO CLOSE.

The school at Hickey, taught by Miss
Lillian Elliott, of Tabor, will close
next Friday, March 81, with a picnic
at String Prairie. The public is in
vited to attend the picnic and closing
exercises.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
MEXICAN FILLIBUSTERS
WERE ARRESTED
LBy Associated Press.l

Sanderson, Texas, March 25.-Held.
ing for the Mexican border, fifteen
Mexican reyolutionists were arrested
here today by United States secret
service agents. They had 10000
rounds of ammunition AMI fifty-six new
rifles.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
Fl. WORTH PATROLMAN
KILLED IN DALLAS
by Associated Press.l

Dallas, Texas, March Ell. X.
Yates, a Fort Worth patrolman, was
shot and MORALLY wounded by Claud
Styers in the l%atter's office here. No
explanation Of the cause has been
made. Styers is an accountant.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
THIRTY-FIGE LEAPED
FROM WINDOWS
Of Burning Boarding House In Fort
Worth--onIy Two Were
Injured.
b Associated Press.l-

Fort Worth, Texas, March %
Most of the thirty-ive male occupants
of a burning boarding house near the
Frisco shops leaped from the windows
this morning, Only two were injured.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
A VERY IMPROBABLE STORY
No Confirmation Of Report That Mexi.
can lnsurrectos Tried to Hire
American Soldiers as
M%ercenaries.
LBy Associated Press.l

Galveston, Texas, March 23.-
Neither the police nor the military
authorities have yet obtained anything
to confirm the story that the Mexican
revolutionists have attempted to hire
regular United States soldiers here.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
The BEAR ABOUT TO
ATTACK THE DRAGON
Russia Demands Immediate Accep-
lance of uItimatum-Looks
Like War.
[By Associated Press.l

Pekin. March 25.-The Russian min
lister to China today presented a note
from his government demanding an un-
equivocal compliance with the Russian
ultimatum of February l6. This gives
a serious look to the war threats.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
WOMAN AND THREE
CHILDREN CREMhTED
[BY Associated Press.l

Harrodsburg, KY, March 27.-Mrs.
]. M. Bridges and three children were
burned to death here last night. They
were asleep on the second floor of ].
T. Veach's home, where they were
visiting.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
RECOUNT Of VOTES
STOPPED BY INJUNCTI
Caldwell County Ants Resist Cohte
ing the Election by the
Pros.
-IBy Associated Press.

Lockhert, Texas. March 24.-The
counting OF the ballots cast in
Caldwell county local option elect
wa stopped yesterday by an inju
ton issued by Judge l.. w. Moore,
LAGRANGE.
The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-03-30
stockman and Farmer Dead.A

Icy HSSoNi"NSN ANSSsl
Cleburne, Texas, March 23.-J
Mimms, a prominent stockman
farmer. died suddenly this mornin
his home here.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-01

at the piano. for doing her special laundering.
for sewing and mending and casting up Of meagre
accounts; the two evenings a week of social di-
version she permitted herself the other stolen hours
and Saturday afternoons spent with her brother at
the hospital; and the seventh day. Sunday, her day
of solace Mab's back, out among the blessed
hills But it was lonely, this solitary riding No
body Of her acquaintance rode. Several girls at the
university had been persuaded into trying it. but
after a Sunday two hired livery hacks they
had lost interest There was Madeline. who bought
her own horse and rode enthusiastically for sew
eral months, only to get married and go away to
live in Southern California. After years of it one
did get tired Of this eternal riding alone
He was such a boy, this big giant Of million
naire who had half the rich men of San Francisco
afraid of him. Such a boyl She had never imag-
ined this side Of his nature.
How do folks get marredT ne was saying
"Why, number one, they meet; number two. like each
others looks; number three, get acquainted, and
number four, get married or not. according to how
they like each other after getting acquainted But
how in thunder we're to have a chance to find out
whether like each other enough Is beyond my
savvee, unless we make that chance ourselves. I'd
come to you, call on you only l know you're
just rooming or boarding. and that won't do
Suddenly, with a change Of mood, the situation
appeared to Dede ridiculousy absurd. She felt
just jollly It was 80 FUNNY. Herself. the stenog.
rapher, he, the notorious and powerful gambling
and the gate between them across wnce
poured his argument Of people getting acquainted
and married. Also, 1t was an impossible situation
On the face of it. she could not 60 on with it. THIS
programme Of furtive meetings In the hills would
have to discontinue There would never be an
other meeting. And II, denied this, he tried to WOO
her in the once she would be compelled to lose
very good position. and that would be an end OF
the episode. It was not nice to contemplate; but
the world Of men, especially in the cities. she had
not found particularly nice She had not worked
for her living for years without losing great many
Of her Illusions
1--WE won't do any sneaking or hiding around about
IT. Daylight was explaining. 'Ws'u ride around as
bold q you please and II anybody sees us Why let
them. II they talk-wel % long q our consciences
Bob WIN have on bis back The happiest man alive"
z shs shook hr bead, pulled in ths mare. wnc wss
impatient to b az for home, ana elanceo stSntn-
:eanfly ht The lenSthening shadoWA
sIfS 1ettine lates now. anyway, DAYLIGHT hurried
- snid W9ve Sektlod nothin9 aftor al Just onof
nees s.ndsy: snyvsy thafs nee sass1ss 80
The Washington herald., 1911-01-01

We've had all day." she said.
"But started to talk it too late. Wen
tackle it earlier next time. This is big, serious
proposition with me, can tell you. Say next Sun
day"
Are men ever fair?" she asked. You know
thoroughly well that by next Sunday you mean
many Sundays"
Then let it be many Sundays" he cried reck-
lessly, while she thought that she had never seen
him looking handsomer Say the word. Only say
the word. Next Sunday at the quarry
She gathered the reins into her hand preliminary to
starting.
Good night" she said "and"-
"Yes," he whispered. with just the faintest touch
of imperativeness.
YES" she said, her voice low but distinct
At the same moment she put the mare into canter
and went down the road without backward glance,
intent analysis Of her own feelings. With her
mind made up to say "No'-and to the last instant
she had been resolved-her lips nevertheless had
said YES" Or at least it seemed the lips. She had
not intended to consent. Then why had she? Her
first surprise and bewilderment at wholly unpre-
meditated act gave way to CONSERVATION as she
considered its consequences. She knew that Burn
ing Daylight not man to be trihed with. that
under his simplicity and boyishness he was essen
TALLY a dominant male creature, and that she had
pledged herself to future of inevitable stress and
storm. And again she demanded Of herself why she
had said Yes" at the very moment when 1t had been
farthest from her intention.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-01

looking the closed gate at Burning Daylight
Not that she would ever dream Of marrying him.
she had a Of reasons against it; but why not
at least see more of him? he was certainly not re-
pulsive to her. On the contrary, she liked him; had
always liked him from the day she had first seen
him and looked upon his lean Indian face and into
his flashing Indian eyes. He was a figure Of a man
in more ways than his mere magnificent muscles.
Besides, Romance had gilded him-this doughty,
rough hewn adventurer Of the North this man Of
many deeds and many millions who had come down
out Of the Arctic to wreste and fight masterfully
with the men of the South.
Savage red Indian. gambler and pronigate,
a without morals, whose vengeance was never
glutted and who stamped the faces Of all who op
posed him-oh, yes, she knew all the hard names
he had been called. Yet she not afraid Of him.
There more than that in the connotation Of his
name. Burning Daylight called up other things as
well. They were there in the newspapers, the mass
zines and the books on the Klondike. When all was
said Burning Daylight had a mighty connotation-
one to touch any womans imagination, it touched
hers. the gate between them listening to the wstfu
and impassioned simplicity Of his speech. Dede was
after all a woman, with womans sex-vanity. and
1t this vanity that pleased by the fact that
such a man turned in his need to her.
And there was more that passed through her mind
sensations Of tiredness and loneliness; tramplins
squadrons and shadowy armies Of vague feelings and
vaguer promptings. and deeper and DINNER whisper.
ings and echoings the huterings Of forgotten genera
lions crystal5ed into being and nuttering anew and
always, undreamed and unguessed subtle and potent
the spirit and essence Of life that under thousand
deceits and masks forever makes for life. 1t was
strong temptation just to ride with this In the
hills. It would be that only and nothing more. for
she was firmly convinced that his way Of life could
never be her way. On the other hand she was ysxed
BY none Of the ordinsry feminine fears and ditieA
That she could take Of herself under any and al
she never doubted. Then why notf II
was such q little thing after an
She led an ordinary. humdrum uee at best She
lte and slept and worked. and that w. about alL
Is II IN review. her anchorits sxistsncs passed be
lcts ber sh days of the vbsk spsat = sthe oGRce
lnd n 1ournsyine hAck md fortA a ~ fl1y: -
The Washington herald., 1911-01-01
CHAPTER XVIII.

IFE at the Office went on much the way it had
always gone Never by word or look did they
acknowledge that the situation was in any wise
~ different from what 1t had always been. Each
Sunday saw the arrangement made for the fol-
lowing Sundays ride; nor was this ever referred
to in the office. Daylight was fastidiousy chiyalrous
this point He did not want to lose her from the
Office. The sight Of her at her work was to him
diminishing Joy. Nor did he abuse this by lingering
dictation by devising extra work that would
detain her longer before his eyes. But over and be-
yond such sheer sel6shness Of conduct was his love
Of fair play. He sc0rned to utilize the accidental
advantages Of the situation. Somewhere within him
was higher appraisement Of love than mere pos
session. He wanted to be loved for himself. with
fair field for both sides.
On the other hand, had he been the most artful Of
schemers be could not have pursued wiser policy.
Birdke In her love Of individual freedom, the last
woman In the world to be bullied in her a8ections
she keenly appreciated the niceness Of h attitnda
She did this conscloasly; hut deeper than al con-
eciOusness and intangible q gossau1ek We're the
eleeu Of thi6 An unsealisable, cave fw soms su-
prsns momsnt, dN IL web q paytshrs perDeaaliU
The Washington herald., 1911-01-01

since the time he came to live under cftv
roofs. so that the flush Of blood showed redly
as it crept up his neck past his collar and
overspread his face. Nor in his exceeding
discomfort did he dream that she was look.
ing upon him at that moment with more kindness
than at any time that day. 1t in her expert
ence to behold big grown up men who blushed like
boys, and already she repented the sharpness into
which she had been surprised.
Nov, look here, Miss Mason" he began SLOWLY and
stumblingy at first, but acceerating into rapidity
OF utterance that was almost ncoherent "Tm rough
sort OF a man, know that, and know I don't know
much OF anything. I've never had any training in
nice things. I've never made love before, and I've
never been in love before either-and don't know
how to go about it any than laundering idiot
What you want to do is get behind my tomfool words
and get feel of the that's behind them. That's
me, and mean all right, if don't know how to 20
about it."
Dede Mason had quick, birdlike ways, almost fit
ting from mood to mood and she was all contrition
on the instant
"Forgive me for laughing" she said, across the
gate 1T wasn't really laughter I surprised of
my guard, and hurt too. You see Mr. Harnish, I've
not been"-
She paused, in sudden fear Of completing the
thought into which her birdlike precpitancy had be-
trayed her.
"hat you mean is that you've not been used tn
such sort of proposing" Daylight said; "a sort of on
theFun. Howdy, glad-to-make- your acquaintance
won'tyou- be miner proposition
She nodded and broke into laughter in which he
Joined, and which served to pass the awkwardness
away. He gathered heart at this and went on in
greater confidence, with cooler head and tongue
There, you see, you nrove my case You've had
experience in such matters. l don't doubt you've
had sathers Of proposals Well l haven't and I'm
like fish out Of water. Besides this amt q pro
posaL It's a peculiar situation, that's ALL and I'm
In corner I've got enough plain horse sense to
know a man amt supposed to argue marriage with
girl as reason for getting acquainted with her
And right there was where was in the hole Num-
Der one, can't get acquainted with you In the of.
fee Number two. you say you won't see me out of
the Office to give me chance. Number three your
reason is that folks will talk because you work for
me- Number four, l just got to get acquainted
with you, and just got to get you see that I
mean fair and all right Number i've there you
are on one side the gate getting ready to Co. and
me here on the other side the gate pretty desper-
ate and bound to say something to make you recon-
stder. Number SIX, said It And now and finally
/ just do want you to reconsider"
And listening to him. peasuring In the sight Of his
earnest perturbed face and In the simple. h0mey
phrases that but emphasized his eArnestnem and
marked the difference between him and ths average
Of men she had known. che forgot to listen and
lost hesself In her own thoughts. The lore oe
strong man = ever lure to Z normal woman, and
nsvse more strongly ala Dsde feea IL iurs taa ~
The Washington herald., 1911-01-01

10 % coleEnsuED NKx1 q
The Washington herald., 1911-01-01
CHAPTER XVII. (Continued).

HE tan had bleached out Of Daylight's skin
since the time he came to live under city
roofs. SO that the flush Of blood showed redly
as it crept up his neck past his collar and
overspread his face. Nor in his exceeding
Emmons County record., 1911-02-02
of John NJ. Melander and family If

this city over SUNDAY.
shtf Stckney is able to wave his
arms about and to help himself
symptoms that he will be able to
pa in his crop this spring
Mr.. and Mrs. Is. G. McElroy passed
east to their home atNapoleon Tues
day from Bismarck where the latter
had undergone a serious operation
Fred Oberg, agent for the Good
rlige-Call Lumber company, re-
turned Friday last from Minneapolis
where he attended the Retail Lum-
Der Dealers convention. He reports
pleasant and instructive trip.
Frank C,lines returned Saturday
las from Bismarck hospital where
he underwent an operation for the
removal Of an ahscess from his face.
As the operation was performed
through the nose it was Somew hat
painful, but Mr.. Glines says he feels
as GOOD as new