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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1907
Page
2
Excerpts note the Bryan Post Office listing as second class matter, discuss Judge Landis and the Standard Oil ruling, and question liquor treatment per Dr. Abbott. The Eagle praises local manufacturing support and cites Sam Houston Normal Institute’s 1907 catalog. Also mentions Rockefeller critics and Memphis 1879 commission government.
The Commercial Appeal urges Memphis to adopt the Galveston plan, an 1879 modification. Waco Cotton Exchange president W C Lawson notes Texas cities lack cotton mills despite huge annual cotton expenditures of about 40 million dollars, predicting investments shift to factories as returns change.
The last legislature created a Bureau of Cotton Statistics under the department of agriculture. Custom ginners must obtain a certificate from the county clerk and file an affidavit agreeing to report monthly bale totals to the commissioner of agriculture at Austin. County clerks forward names and addresses. ginners receive blanks for sealed monthly reports by the third. The commissioner tabulates county reports by the eighth and publishes results on the ninth. violations by county clerks or public ginners are pursued.
The law imposes a misdemeanor with a fine from 25 to 200 dollars for releasing cotton ginning data before 11 a.m. on the ninth of each month. The county clerk must issue certificates to ginners and take affidavits free of charge to ensure accurate statistics, with penalties for officials who disclose numbers early.
The Bryan council in regular session ordered the suit against Bryan Water Ice Light and Power Co. dismissed. City depositories named First National and City National banks on a 2 percent daily balance bid. A county road and jail arrangement was approved, with city use of jail for prisoners and road work near town under the deputy marshal. July receipts totaled $1742.99 with marshal collections of $139.99.
G B Abercrombie buys the estate of the late Judge Spencer Ford in Bryan. He plans moving the Central hotel back, adding ten to twelve rooms, a front, and repairing the old section. Awnings, concrete walks, and a thorough modernization will follow after title transfer. price paid is $2 500.00.
K L Beard announces a Postal Telegraph office will operate within his tailor shop in Hunter and Chatham's store. He invites public patronage in both lines and provides phone contact 266.
Railroad Commissioner Colquitt reports Galveston handled 3 481 598 bales last season and urges amendments to compress rules to load unmixed cotton at origin or interior points with average daily freight rules and reciprocal demurrage. A hearing is planned for Sept 8 on express office segregation. Swedish Methodist leaders in Texas plan a higher education school with the city offering best advantages.
Los Angeles reports a major pugilistic scandal as the Joe Gans Jimmy Burns twenty round bout set for August 15 at the Pacific Athletic club is canceled amid allegations of a fight trust offering money to disrupt the match. San Francisco officials claim involvement and note Britt and Gans articles for a September bout and a Gleason club deal offering 75 percent of receipts with a $25,000 guarantee.
Fort Worth August resolutions by the Texas Farmers' Union favor parcels post legislation. The group also voted to set up mills to convert poor cotton into cheap bagging, aiming to market a previously unmarketable product. Executive committee members elected: H Laas Waller, J Ed Montgomery, J C Albritton, Peter Radford.
Fort Worth Aug 9 Major Beardsley begins surveying from the Mineral Wells end after $100000 was subscribed. A second crew will start from the Fort Worth end on Wednesday. Committees at both ends finish subscriptions and grading is to start Monday.
The Twentieth Century westbound train collided with freight cars placed on the track and derailed two passenger cars near Chesterton. Passengers were shaken but uninjured. engineer Downey and conductor sustained minor injuries. Nancy Miller pardoned by President Roosevelt for manslaughter in Indian Territory years earlier.
Theodore Halsey, a telephone official, is dying from appendicitis at St Francis Hospital as his bribery trial with supervisors was postponed due to his critical condition in San Francisco on August 9.
Portland August 9 Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company and Southern Pacific boilermakers on Oregon lines went on strike after being ordered out by the district president.
In Greenville Kentucky on August 9 Harrison Alexander a black man convicted of assaulting Mrs Florence Whitehouse a mentally disabled white woman was executed by hanging.
Canton reports all opium dens shut down and the public celebrates. Officials say the measure ends a long campaign and local residents express relief and approval.
Reports from Tangier describe a massacre with 100 to 1 000 Moors killed and many corpses in the outskirts. Bombardment and night attacks by Kaybles provoked heavy gunfire as searchlights exposed the slaughter. News from Casa Blanca and Rabat adds to the horror and chaos.
Mrs. J. T Hill was acquitted on the charge of killing her husband in Marlin Texas. The jury had previously failed to reach a verdict in the first trial. Lieutenant V. C. Mahaffey of Sulphur Springs Texas has become a first lieutenant in the coast artillery.
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