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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1901
Page
5
Beecher argues that actions in youth anchor a person in old age and that judgments formed in private mind can be cruel and biased. He urges diligent duty in all tasks from personal care to family obligations, quoting scripture to emphasize honesty and perseverance.
A reflective critique argues labor is sacred and robbing labor is robbing divinity. War is murder regardless of side. The piece condemns praise of the rich without payoff and warns political use isolates common people from justice. It laments hypocrisy in religion and politics and warns about provision tied to cash.
In Houston at Yadon's saloon Officer W. F. Weiss was killed by a heart shot and J. T. Vaughn wounded fatally after a lengthy pursuit through San Jacinto and Franklin streets. Vaughn collapsed within fifty feet of the fallen officer as Rabouin clinched the pursuit in a stairway at 1113 Congress. Elsewhere, Geo. T. Edmunds of Plymouth found his missing daughter Sadie nine years after she vanished from Alpena. She now lives in New Orleans as Mrs. Lawrence Bryce.
Judge George Miller and attorney William Boyce with Coffeen filed a supersedeas bond for Capital Freehold Land investment in Fort Worth. The bond approved by Judge Wallace preserves the syndicate’s hold on its property and blocks receivers from taking charge pending appeal to the court of civil appeals.
Beaumont oil gains fame with orders reaching Kansas City and St. Joseph Missouri. Higgins Oil and Fuel Co shipped twenty five cars yesterday, at freight rates of 38 1 2 cents per hundred pounds, as Missouri manufacturers seek cheaper fuel than coal.
Fort Worth plans another railroad within a year with a 600 mile route from Corsicana to Houston. Chicago capitalists represented by C C Palmer have spent a week consulting with local business leaders and studying Fort Worth and potential links to unsettled districts northwest south and west of Jacksboro.
San Antonio machinists who had been on a two month strike for union recognition ended the action this morning. Employers agree to wage increases but refuse to sign union contracts.
Earl Jenkins of Seattle Florence Nevins and Amelia Cole of Buyalino drowned when their rowboat capsized on Spanaway Lake. Bodies recovered several hours after the accident in Tacoma Washington on July 30.
Morgan plans to allow the Amalgamated association to keep union lodges in mills that were non-union before the strike but stopped under President Shaffer. Leechburg Duncansville and Moness plants would be unionized. US Steel would run Carnegie mills and sheet mills at Apollo Vandergrift Saltsburg with wages on the union scale, a nine-plant gain for union workers.
Envelopes were sprinkled into wheels causing a two hour delay in the drawing. James R. Wood Weatherford and Miss Mattie Beals Wichita Kansas hold the right to make first filings in the Lawton district likely on adjoining quarter sections valued about $40 000 each. Stephen A. Holcomb Pauls Valley and Leonard Lamb Augusta Oklahoma drew numbers one and two in the El Reno district.
Minerals in Sutton County Texas draw wide interest as zinc lead and silver finds expand the explored area. Prospecting continues with samples sent for tests to determine ore value and potential. Reports pending will clarify the significance of the deposits across a large stretch of land.
Eight threshing machine crews stormed Golwich Kansas on Sunday, smashing five saloons and wrecking pumps after liquor was barred by law. Citizens attempted arrests but retreated. rioting resumed. Sheriff requested immediately.
London July 30 reports a strong rumor that General Lyttelton will succeed Lord Kitchener as commander in chief of British forces in South Africa. Kitchener says the war may end soon, making Lyttelton’s role mainly administrative while Lord Milner handles the final problem.
In Georgetown on July 30 a compromise was reached between C. H. Booth et al and Texas Trust Company over the title to Spindle Top Heights at Beaumont. An agreed judgment is being prepared with Price authorized to prepare the document.
At College Station July 27 the Farmers Congress closed with reports on organization and farmers institute and home comforts. A committee on pure food law was named. a resolution to boost the Agricultural and Mechanical College funding was adopted. praise was given to Prof Attwater for his address and to Stewart Sbisa and others for music. A transportation committee was appointed and a pledge against slaughtering song birds and doves passed. The final report urged organizing local farmers clubs and institutes nationwide.
Washington reports 24 hours of favorable changes with rains in Western Kansas Nebraska Missouri Iowa Arkansas and parts of Oklahoma. Temperatures range from 92 to 100 while showers are expected to continue, easing the drought across the corn belt.
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