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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1913
Page
2
The Ava Zeitung enters its 23rd year amid a New Year greeting and thanks to subscribers. The issue notes Pecos faces a typhoid fever outbreak urging sanitation, and condemns a Marfa incident where a few soldiers brutalized locals, calling for officers to discipline the unruly elements.
The management of this paper announces the resignation of Mr. R C McKinney after many years with the stock company founded article. Ill health led him to leave the newspaper business and pursue a new field, with best wishes from colleagues in the office and readers alike.
A reader argues Alpine Fort Stockton and Marfa should become linked hubs with a 40 acre land transfer law in Texas. The piece notes current limits hinder sale and settlement, urges lawmakers to pass a 40 acre provision to boost taxes and home ownership, and cites Alpine’s valley land prices from 2 to 30 dollars per acre. It mentions Dr Hensley of the Marfa Light and a hope for regional unity.
Classified notice for a two room cottage available to rent. Includes running water and directions to apply at the Avalanche office.
Word arrived from Alpine of the killing of Tom Tucker near Pecos in Reeves county. Tucker, an old time ranger and peace officer, was shot twice by a single barrel shotgun in the hands of Jack Hiles, who surrendered to the sheriff. Beever, a longtime Alpine business figure and farmer, is noted as dead after early Frio county days and Cowboy career under George F. Hinds.
The State of Texas issues a citation by publication to SH Bennett and many named heirs and executors to appear at the Sixty Third Judicial District Court in Alpine. The suit, No 680, filed December 2, 1912 by Fred Brasted, seeks action in a real estate or estate matter. Publication runs weekly prior to February 10, 1913.
Buyers for ranch property and stock offered at right price. An old property in exchange for sale dated 11-14-41 by B. F. McDaniel Uvalde Texas.
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