Long Texas legislative roll includes child labor and prairie dog laws
The legislature passed acts prohibiting long railway shifts for trainmen, extending teacher certificates, appointing a state bar admission board, regulating court procedure and jury charges, and allowing town limits to extend for school purposes. It also enacts prairie dog extermination measures, new judicial districts, pool room ban, and cattle quarantine issues amid statewide debate on ethics and governance.
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Sixty Third
Jeff Davis
Presidio
Brewster Pecos
Val Verde
Kinney
Maverick
Bill
Prairie Dog Bill Local Option Seeks Public Vote
The prairie dog bill passes both houses as a local option measure. It provides for submitting the question and holding elections. Sec.7 states if the majority votes for extermination, the county judge shall issue his order after vote counting.
The Cattle Situation in West Texas and El Paso Meeting
Texas cattlemen show 11000 head traded at the El Paso gathering, a solid showing given adverse conditions. Northwestern buyers were occupied with anticipated losses and demand, while local handlers had not computed the Panhandle storm’s net effect, resulting in little trading on cattle.
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el Paso
Texas
Panhandle
West Texas
Northwestern
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C. H. Larkin
Bryan
Des Moines Register
Lee
Gettysburg
Ben Hill
Frederick
Napoleon
Washington
Socrates
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Claud Hudspeth
Oklahoma
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Arizona
Indian Territory
Houston Chronicle
Col
W. F. Cody
Buffalo Bill
Preai‘dent Roosevelt
United States
Canada
Odd Fellows
Freemasons
Order of Foresters
Woodmen of America
Knights of Pythias
Ancient Order of United Workmen
Woodmen of the World
Knights of the Maccabees
Order of Red Men
Royal Arcanum
China
Globe
Transpecos
Triggs
University of Chicago
63Rd Judicial District
Cox
Kinney County
Tex
Messers, Quitman, Stratton and
Clamp
Interior Department
Perguson
Prairie Dog Bill
Buck’s
W.D. Kincaid Co
Alpine
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