Weather and crop conditions from Washington to Texas
The weekly crop bulletin notes cooler conditions in the upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys but overall favorable temperatures. Rain is still needed across the Gulf states and much of the cotton belt, with poor cotton germination in central and western districts. In the Carolinas stands are fair to good and improving.
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Gulf States
Cotton Belt
Washington,d. C
Weather Bureau
Mississippi
Missouri
Texas
Florida
Stnes
Mississippi Valley
Carolinas
Seven Burglary Counts and Counterfeiting Charge in San Antonio
Paul Stern a well dressed young man who recently arrived in San Antonio is jailed on seven burglary counts and one counterfeiting count. The burglaries targeted the homes of leading citizens and totaled over $1000 with much jewelry stolen. Jewelry was melted into gold bars and later recovered. A full set of counterfeiting tools was found in Stern's trunk after his arrest.
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San Antonio
Tex
Paul Stern
Stern
China can pay tribute by taxes on trade says editor
An article by Prince Ouchtomsky in the Viede-Inceti, after his return from China, asserts that China can easily pay the demanded sum by greatly increased taxation on exports and imports. It argues China’s volume of trade is so large that tripling taxes would not disrupt commerce.
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China
St. Petersburg
Viede- Inceti
Prince Ouchtomsky
Brakeman Shot on Texas Train by Negro Fugitives
In Sanger Texas on May 15 brakeman J C Bever ly was shot in the arm by a negro while he and Conductor J A Glenn tried to eject three African American men found in a box car as the train prepared to depart. The wound is not serious.
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Sanger
Tex
J. C. Beverly
Santa Fe
J. A. Glenn
Glenn
Heverly
Smooth Hore Poet Heads South To Drill Oil Near Alice
Corpus Christi Tex May 15 The poet Joaquin Miller famed for Sierras and romantics returns from East Texas and says it is well to be here He plans to bore a hole on his land near Alice a station on the San Antonio and Aransas Pass railroad He owns 700 acres and shifts from hermit idyll to Beaumont oil fever seeking to strike oil and venture to China in a bold effort to learn what lies beyond his familiar world
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Texas
Joaquin Miller
Alice
San Antonio and
Aransas Pass
Beaumont
China
Kelley well remains undecided at 1300 feet
Reports from Wilmore Texas indicate the Kelley oil well is not dry and sits over 1300 feet deep with a contract to reach 1600 feet. Nearby wells like Warren and Lucas show mixed results, dry at 1200 feet, underscoring uncertainty about the oil line and regional prospects. The field caveats that one dry well may sit beside a producer.
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Wilmore
Beaumont
Texas
Kelley
Warren Oil Company
Lucas
Bullock League
President McKinley to Enter San Francisco for Reception
At the Golden Gate San Francisco on May 15 President McKinley will make his official entry into the city with his cabinet. The party will be welcomed by an imposing reception and the entourage travels with him across the continent.
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San Francisco
McKinley
The Wheat Crop In Texas And California Declines
Returns to the Department of Agriculture show winter wheat area at May 1 about 28.267 million acres, down 6.7 percent from last fall and up 7.7 percent from last year’s harvest. Losses in Texas and California drive the reduction due to the wheat rust and forage plowing, with state-wide delays in spring plowing noted across several states. A cotton acreage report is slated for May 31. Jacksonville notes a fire aftermath with clothing shortages and a labor squeeze among Negro workers as commissary systems and rationing tickets are organized.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Agriculture
Texas
California
North Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
Tennessee
New York
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Minnesota
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Highway Robbery Near Omega Road Oklahoma
A noon highway robbery west of Guthrie near Omega road left J. J. Glasgow robbed of about eight dollars. Two men, aged 25 to 30, one portly and the other with a mustache, fled in a buggy after stopping Glasgow. Sheriff alerted as authorities search for suspects.
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Kingfisher
Here
Omega Road
J. J. Glasgow
Guthrie
Glasgow
Americans Leaving Pekin Amid Evacuation Controls
Americans have evacuated most districts around Pekin except the forbidden city which they will keep until Washington orders otherwise. General Chaffee informed Count Von Waldersee of planned evacuations adjoining British districts with remaining areas assigned to Germans. Indiana transport delays Manila departure due to smallpox quarantine at Nagasaki. American troops in the city have been vaccinated.
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Pekin
Forbidden City
Washington
Chaffee
Count von Waldersee
Manila
Indiana
Nagasaki
El Paso Men Attempt First Rio Grande Voyage
Charles Zieger and John McLaughlin, noted locals, launched a specially built boat at Down the Rio Granite on May 11 to float downstream as far as the water allows. They aim to cover at least a hundred miles and return by rail, seeking to test how far the boat can travel in a nearly dry river.
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Rio
el Paso
Texas
Rio Grande
Charles Zieger
John McLaughlin
Stabbed Boy in Dallas Dies. Juvenile Suspect Held
Giles McLean a 16 year old colored boy died after being stabbed through the heart in Dallas. A younger boy of likely ten or eleven, also colored, was arrested and charged with the crime. The weapon was a bent pair of scissors found in a northern yard. The youth will be held for the Grand Jury though too young to be prosecuted.
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Dallas
Tex
Giles McLean
City Hall
Texas
Watonga bank authorized to commence business
The Comptroller of the Currency authorizes the First National Bank of Watonga Oklahoma to commence with capital of $25,000. W R Kelly is president and Chas H Nash cashier. The Girard National Bank of Philadelphia approved as a reserve agent for the National Exchange Bank of Dallas and First National of Waxtehachie. Dallas Post Office April 1901 gross receipts were $19,537 vs $15,799 last year, up by $3,758.
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Hanking Matters
Washington, D. GC
Comptroller of the Currency
First National Bank of
Watonga
W. R. Kelley
Chas. H. Nash
Girard National Bank of Philadelphia
National Exchange Bank of Dallas
First National
Waxtehachie
Dallas
Fount Explodes in Texas Bottling Works
A copper fount exploded while gas was being charged at the Fount works in Fount, Texas. Manager William Watkins was struck in the face and killed instantly as the upper half of the vessel blasted upward. The force threw him ten feet and the lower half collapsed the floor. Watkins had led the works about fifteen years and was regarded as an excellent manager.
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Ola
Texas
Wm. Watkins
Watkins
Prisoner Cremated in Jail Fire at South McAlester
A young man Vidgit Hurley was arrested for disturbing the peace in South McAlester I T. The wooden town jail caught fire during the night, trapping and consuming both the building and the prisoner before aid arrived. A similar Chelsea incident occurred recently.
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South McAlester
I. T
Vidgit Hurley
Chelsea
Army orders transfer SY recruits to Fort Sam Houston
General army orders transfer SY recruits from Columbus Barracks Ohio to Fort Sam Houston where they will join the Twelfth Cavalry now forming at that post. This moves adds 113 men from Fort Slocum to the regiment who set out today under Captain George W Kirkpatrick.
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San Antonio
Tex
Columbus Barracks
Ohio
Fort Sam Houston
Twelfth Cavalry
Fort Slocum
George W. Kirkpatrick
Drowned Boy in Brazos River Near Weatherford
Drowned 8 year old Bullington, son of Press Bullington, near Buckner Texas, while swimming with boys in the Brazos River yesterday afternoon at Brazos River locality southwest of Weatherford.
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Weatherford
Tex
Bullington
Press Bullington
Buckner
Here
Brazos River
Lawrence
Eugene Sibley
Roland
Frank Sibley
Spring Creek
Victoria
Wide range of Texas news from mid frontier era
Entries report local incidents across Texas including curfews, court sessions in San Antonio, infant deaths in Paris and Roxton, rail and jail bond actions in Laredo and Van Zandt, storm damage at Thornton, and notable deaths from Dallas to Abilene with echoes of Confederate links and railway work.
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Capdeville
E. C. Horner
Helena
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Gibson
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R. L. Hetmn
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Texas Bankers’ Association
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Downs
Wm. H. Leavelle
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Levi
Smooth Hore
State Dental Board
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Texas State Examining Board
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O. B. Staple
C. C. Weaver
M. D. Merchant
T. L. Westerfield
Wilkens
H. H. Grant
the Golden Gate
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Naval Stores and Commission Comany
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Lone Star Lines
Alice High School
Denison
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United States Court
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Memphis
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Lamar County
Effie Moone
Fort Sam
Floyd Street Methodist Church
D. G. Hill
Taylor County
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Navarro County
W. M. Francis
Peter Bozetti
Texas and Pacific Railway
Strawn
Grand Lodge of the Sons of
Hermann
LaGrange
Attorney General's Office
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J. Lt. Jordan
Roxton
Ben McCullough
Decatur
Rosenbaum Grain Company
Chicago
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J. M. Biard
Court of Criminal Appeals
Thomas Ballard
Sratoria
Henry William von Aldehoff
Prussia
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Col
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Texas Volunteer Guard
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