Progress of the Orient Route Readies Track Laying
The Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad resumes grading and prepares for track laying from the upper Red River to the Rio Grande and into Chihuahua. Directors Gould and Purdy push conciliations, while materials and bridges advance. the line aims to connect with major Texas rails and reach a western Pacific port by summer 1904, promising vast land development and new homesteads.
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Kansas City, Mexico & Orient
Red River
Rio Grande
Texas
Chihuahua
Mexico
George Gould
Warren G. Purdy
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad Company
Orient
Siam
China
Korea
Southern Pacific
Texas & Pacific
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Fort Worth
Denver
Steel
Property vs Life in American Economic Thought
A Financial Bulletin writer asserts property is more sacred than life and wealth, prompting the Houston Post to condemn the extreme materialism. The discussion centers on the clash between property worship and broader civic values and sanity in print.
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New York Financial Bulletin
United States
Houston Post
Divine right of property echoed as fanatic belief
The text rails against the divine right of kings and elevates property ownership as a sacred claim. It argues that the idea of property rights is a fervent, almost fanatical belief, likening royal prerogatives to childish pretense.
Gould Orient railway pact and Texas court terms
President Stilwell says Gould will not fund the road but the Gould Orient plan will create the continent's shortest route by 700 miles and connect the Gould system to the Pacific with an Orient line from Sweetwater Texas to Kansas City in eighteen months. A bill to install a dispensary system to curb saloons is expected in the next legislature. A Texas federal courts bill would give El Paso a five week term, per Judge Maxey. A Kansas editor jokes about flattening the earth and a surveyor remains the busiest westward.
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A. E. Stilwell
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway
George J. Gould
Gould
Gould-Orient
Orient
Pacific Ocean
Orient Road
Sweetwater
Tex
Kansas City
South Carolina
Burleson
Texas
el Paso
Maxey
Kansas
Victoria Advocate
Fort Worth Love Letters and Fort Worth Laundrymen Incident
A Tarrant county girl in Fort Worth writes love letters home declaring affection for Ping Pong. Her stern father warns Amarillis Jane against loving any Fort Worth Chinese laundrymen, saying she will be cut off without a cent. A deadly pet hunter threatens Texas deer supply if unregulated, risking scarcity in years. A Kentucky widow receiving pensions for four Civil War vets collects four payments, hinting at remarriage prospects.
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Tarrant County
Fort Worth
Amarillis Jane
Texas
Kentucky
Roping Contest at El Paso Midwinter Carnival Rules
Rules for the El Paso roping contest during the midwinter carnival set prizes of 1000, 300 and 250 dollars. Limited to sixty entries with an entry fee of 30 dollars. Steers will be numbered and drawn, rope handling starts after the starter’s flag, rope must go over head or horns, no foot roping unless horns are caught first.
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el Paso
Eentrance
Southern Pacific Holiday Rates Offer One Fare Plus Two
The Southern Pacific Sunset Route announces round trip fares to northern eastern and southeastern points at one fare plus 2 with a 30 day return limit on Dec 13 17 21 22 23 and 26. Double daily service includes Pullman buffet and excursion sleeping cars free chair cars and day coaches with direct New Orleans connections. Write to request rates schedules and details.
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Southern Pacific
Pullman
New Orleans
Roosevelt plans Alpine stop as West roams Brewster Jeff Davis
Land Commissioner Terrell reports a five slain week while a party seeks targets for a hunt. James R. Anderson owns dogs and offers them for pursuit despite political disagreements with the president.
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Roosevelt
Thea
Brewster
Jeff Davis
Terrell
Jas. R. Anderson
Parsonage Renovation Creates Apple Pie Order
Workmen have been busy this week renovating the Methodist Parsonage and putting everything in apple pie order. The home is now a bright factor toward neatness and beauty, reflecting the saying a thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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G. H. Larkin Company
Progress OF
Pacific
Galveston News
Ozona
Ozona Kicker
W. D Kincaid CO
Alpine
Thomas Dean
Dean M’f
San Antonio
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