Railroad Rounds and Rumblings Highlights Santa Fe Operations
Santa Fe reports a bi monthly supply train serving plains division station agents and crews with office and building supplies. Rail officials Briscoe Conner Wagner Guy Hart and others are named. News covers traffic moves at Dalhart Colorado and Raton Las Vegas and notes safety emphasis and new diesel locomotive use. A 385 mile Mexican railway project linking El Mante region is described.
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Santa Fe
Briscoe
Plains Division
J. B. Briscoe
E. L. Conner
H. O. Wagner
Homer Guy
Fred Hart
William Conway
Rock Island
Dalhart
Colorado
Bill Futral
Raton
Las Vegas
New Mexico
Woman Dead Husband Wounded In Texarkana Family Row
Mrs. Myrtle Baird about 40 was killed and her husband James W. Baird 50 Texarkana street commissioner wounded probably fatally in a shooting at their home. Baird aided by County Attorney L C Boswell gave a death bed statement that his wife shot him and then herself. Maggie Jones a witness said Baird shot his wife when she moved toward him with a garden hose and then shot himself. Physicians said Baird could not recover.
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Texarkana
Ark
Myrtle Baird
James W. Baird
Texarkanan Street
Baird
L. C. Boswell
Maggie Jones
Major Killed by Vets Gun in Texas Incident
W. F. McWilliams, a shell shocked veteran, fatally shot Major T. B. Curtis and wounded A. W. Turner while en route to Waco with McWilliams, who was captured after a 200-strong search. Curtis died at Fort Sam Houston Hospital. Turner may recover. McWilliams faces a sanity hearing.
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B. Curtis
Waco Veterans’ Hospital
Curtis
Fort Sam Houston Hospital
San Antonio
A. W. Turner
Fort Sam Houston
Turner
Waco
McWilliams
Katy
Here
George M. Allen
M. Franco
Tent Show Slayer Suspect Faces Change of Venue
Darrell Kendall, a Mississippi motion picture projectionist, will go to trial in Livingston on July 25 for the murder of Mrs. Martha Rusk, an attache of a roving show. Judge S A McCall ordered a venue change citing a prior demonstration and stating Kendall cannot get a fair trial in the county. Kendall is indicted for killing Mrs. Rusk with a tent stake in the Brownlee minstrel show tent at New Caney last December.
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S. A. McCall
Kendall
Lou H. Brownlee
McCall
Polk County
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Guy Bennett
A. P. Harrington
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R. R. Meister
Interstate Commerce Commission
Burlington-Rock Island Railroad
Hillsboro
Cleburne
Tex
Hill and
Johnson Counties
Fort Worth
Denver
Gem
John A. Hulen
Wichita Valley
Wichita Falls
Abilene
Stamford
Mr. Hulen
Charles E. Ingersoll
Philadelphia
Choctaw, Oklahoma and
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Sys
Little Rock
Amarillo
Tucumcari
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Clovis
Texas
Arizona
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Ostrokovice
Zlin- Vizovice
Mexico
el Mante
United States
Canada
Plains Plumbing Co
Steffen
Olest
Wat
City Drug Store
Dauggits
U.S
Goodyear Pathfinder
T’res
Sixe
Goodyear
Buick
Chrysler
Oldsmobile
Chrysler Dodge
Nash
Buick Dodge
Essex
Ford
Adkisson & Gunn
Bill Gunn
Frank Adkisson
Tire Company
PAMPA
Borger
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