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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1904
Page
2
Across Texas reports a prohibition election planned in Panola County on December 10 following a previous dry vote by a small margin. Dallas leaders invite Mr. Roosevelt for a spring visit while statewide incidents and civic updates unfold, including bank actions, fires, and local trials.
Calvert Texas November 29 Colonel B S Peters president of the Texas Cotton Growers Protective Association urges farmers to hold back 35 percent of their crop and seek 10 cents a pound interior basis middling He warns the boll weevil will spread across Texas Indian Territory Oklahoma and much of Louisiana and Arkansas and calls for coordinated action to reduce acreage and sustain higher prices through collective resistance.
San Angelo Texas report says Otto Barnett and Charlie Weber two boys were playing with a 38 caliber pistol when it discharged wounding Charlie Weber in the head. The ball entered the right eye and exited the left temple destroying the eye and leaving the boy fatally injured. He is the 12 year old son of Mrs A Campbell.
Paris Texas officials condemn Paris High School after declaring the building unsafe. The school board has abandoned the facility amid safety concerns and plans for future use or replacement.
The Diet gathered to allot sections and appoint sectional chiefs. Managers informed the cabinet the assembly was organized and adjourned. The Emperor opened the session with the throne address read aloud.
Mukden reports Henan province viceroy implements Dowager Empress orders to replace traditional queues with European uniforms for troops. This marks a staged modernization move in the city and its garrisons.
Postmaster George B. Zimpelman announces a major rural carrier system expansion in Texas starting December 1. The Texas carrier payroll for next month will rise to about $7,000 above this month, which cost $5,000.
Mill managers report minor gains as all print cloth mills restart Monday. Hargraves No 1 briefly opens then shuts. six corporations resume operation. AFL at Washington sends 5000 dollar relief draft to aid strikers entering week nineteen. Indigo prints cut price by half a cent affecting New York market.
Eva Tinnon a black girl about 20 was run over and killed by International and Great Northern train No. 10 about two miles south of Buda on Monday morning. Details are unclear with conflicting reports of her crossing or being unaware of the approaching train. The engineer says she was on the opposite side from him suggesting she was not on the track.
A nameless man who boarded a train from Houston was shot by Deputy City Marshal Turner at the Nacogdoches depot while attempting to flee after being arrested for conduct. The shot struck his arm by accident.
Maud Buquor aged 17 granddaughter of V P Buquor early San Antonio mayor died by taking carbolic acid Monday morning. The cause is a mystery. She was soon to marry Jean Lorenzo a sober industrious young Mexican.
Col Morgan Jones has been in Wichita Falls for several days and is said to be considering a branch railroad from the city toward Windthorst Archer County where a large land tract will open for settlement. Jones visited the Valley line to Seymour on Monday.
The U S cruiser Columbia carrying Secretary Taft Rear Admiral Walker Minister Obaidia and attorney William Nelson Cromwell arrived in Colon Sunday night during Taft s tour of Panama Sec Taft travels to inspect canal progress and meet canal company interests aboard the cruiser Columbia in the Caribbean port.
San Antonio cattle man J M Chittim charged with the murder of Hr Elwell of Wisconsin faced a scheduled trial in the Thirty-seventh district court. The case, tied to his $1,000,000 estate placed in receivership, is described as a major mark in local court history and is expected to draw a large crowd.
Trustees secure Prof. Thomas M. Colston to lead Flatonia High School until Prof. D. C. Lake recovers from illness. Colston, a longtime local educator, previously taught at the school.
In Austin Texas Governor Lanham continues work on his upcoming message to the legislature outlining policy priorities and legislative agenda for the session.
Houston Texas Nov 28 last night Mr W D Hunter of Victoria government entomological expert Judge J C Pugh of Shreveport and Col F Maxwell of Mound La two latter members of the investigat ing commission appointed by the recent boll weevil convention held in Shreveport to tour Texas to look into the plans for fighting the boll weevil as adopted by Dr Hunter returned to this city from the West They visited Victoria Cuero Yoakum Luling and Lockhart and made a searching inquiry into conditions Judge Pugh said he found farmers reporting a crop ranging from ten acres to three bales on 150 acres He said cotton raising is a thing of the past Banks would not grant credit to cotton raisers and negroes were leaving the country The western region would be cultivated by white farmers using cultural methods of scientific farming The negroes would have to give way to them He concluded there is no hope of preventing a boll weevil invasion into Louisiana Judge Pugh will go to Galveston and Col Maxwell to Shreveport to rejoin others at Lockhart to continue the investigation
Crowley reports a serious knife attack after a country dance near Eunice Saturday night. F M Fleure and E A Blanco two SP brakemen from New Iberia were slashed by two Frenchmen La Voile and Richard of Eunice. Floure suffered deep wounds and is not expected to survive. Richard was severely cut but expected to recover.
Denton Texas reports that over half of the southern county cotton is held by farmers for higher prices. Farmers unions gain influence and urge holdings to push markets up. As a result fall trade in Denton is not as strong as anticipated.
Frank Felton, charged with fatally shooting Guy Roche on Broadway Thursday, was arraigned before Coroner Scholer and held at the Tombs. A bail decision will be made Monday after a conference with District Attorney Jerome.
A whiskey still blew up in a New York Allen Street tenement Sunday night. The blast started a small fire but caused little damage as tenants fled in a panic. Police found a wrecked stillroom plant. occupants were unknown to other residents. Revenue officers have been notified.
A preliminary program for December 1 at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition names the day in honor of D. R. Francis. Children under 16 and all orphans will enter free. The closing address is by President Francis, with a parade of all nations and extended gates and illuminations till midnight at Plaza St. Louis.
The old barkentine Quickstep, water logged and rudderless, drifts in northern seas with a ten-man crew ashore in San Francisco after nine days of privation. Captain John Roberts of the Tampico transferred the crew to the Homer off Gray's Harbor.
Frank Holycross a Danville bartender was fatally shot Sunday during a desperate fight with three holdup men who entered the restaurant after planning to stop a train. The bartender knocked down two attackers before the third fired, a dozen shots fired and a crowd gathered as the desperados escaped.
Ida Englehard, arrested in New York, confessed she roasted her infant before a furnace and exposed the body to heat in a cellar. The infant, found in an ash barrel by Moses Z Laforge in Paterson, died from burns after hospitalization. Investigation led to Englehard’s arrest. she claimed motherhood of the child.
In El Paso Texas a Sunday law enforcement uproar grows as many groups complain. The sheriff says he was denounced for enforcing the law and argues he is unfairly treated while strictly applying the statutes.
Two burglars who had dynamited the Farmers' State Bank safe were fired upon by awakened Wabash citizens as they fled after the first blast. The attackers returned fire while fleeing. No injuries are reported.
The department of admission reports week ending November 26 attendance at 699 552 and a grand total since opening of 18 317 457.
In Appleby Texas buyers refuse cotton seed at gins and on the streets reports show seed sales nearly ended with buyers slow to purchase any remaining lots.
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