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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1906
Page
6
An advertisement offers landowners a brokerage service to list and sell large tracts from 100 to 200 acres. The broker claims ready buyers and emphasizes reasonable charges, inviting owners to visit the office to arrange a sale.
In Austin on December 1, Davidson answers Senator Bailey by denying misrepresentation and argues that vouchers from Waters-Pierce Oil show Pierce reimbursed expenses. He notes that some funds tied to Texas anti-trust matters were charged as expenses and asserts no public duty to suppress evidence.
Justice Brewer of the U S Supreme Court telegraphed Mrs Aggie Myers attorneys in Kansas City saying the court will hear their appeal for a writ of error as soon as they appear to argue the case She is jailed in Clay county Missouri under a death sentence for her husband murder.
G F Bodley of London and Henry Vaughn of Boston arrived in Washington at Bishop Satterlee’s invitation to arrange plans for a new Episcopal cathedral. The edifice will cost more than 2 000 000 dollars.
Harry Thomas of Taylortown La was arrested and brought to Shreveport on peonage charges. He appeared before U S Commissioner Jackson and was released on bond. Authorities allege he held a negro woman and her child in bondage. Thomas denies the charge.
Four persons were killed and several injured when a gravel train rear ended a passenger train near Vergennes Vermont. Two passenger cars were wrecked and caught fire in the Rutland railroad wreck of December 1.
Judge Brooks granted a defense motion in the State of Texas versus Waters-Pierce Oil Company case delaying proceedings to the next term of court. The March term opens the first Monday of next March in Austin.
In San Antonio Dec 1 Governor Frantz of Oklahoma and U S district court Chief Clerk Hunter, after days here, have purchased 17 000 acres in La Salle county and plan to reach 30 000 acres total. They may relocate to La Salle. In Madrid Dec 1 Minister of Justice Romanones resigns. Senor Barroso to replace him with Senor Quiroga de Ballesteros taking interior.
Colonel W. W. Leake a prominent Texas bar member for over thirty years died at his Dallas home from a paralytic stroke. Born in Abbeysville South Carolina in 1833 he studied at the University of Mississippi and the University of Virginia and earned honors at Yale and Harvard. A Civil War veteran with Forrest's command he later practiced law in Camden Arkansas before moving to Dallas in 1873 where he partnered with judges and justice figures including W L Henry Olin Welborn and Seth Shepard.
El Paso dispatch reports Mrs. Maria Ponce de Gonzales, a leading Juarez resident, arrested on charges of harboring revolutionists. Her husband was already seized as a revolutionary, and she allegedly misled police during a citywide search. Forty alleged revolutionists remain jailed across Chihuahua and elsewhere.
Report from New Orleans dated December 1 states Lancashire and Manchester Cotton Spinners intend to buy large cotton lands in Red River Averilles Ouachita and Tensas parishes Louisiana and similar tracts in Mississippi. Aimed at direct farm to mill shipping to cut middlemen costs. Delegation, led by Colonel W. M. Welch, will confer with rail and shipping heads in St. Louis and New York before final deals after returning to England.
Guthrie December 1 delegates introduced twenty eight provisions to a committee list including child labor regulation intermarriage prohibition inheritance tax separate submissions for Indian Territory and Oklahoma prohibition initiative and referendum clauses and primary nomination arrangements. Other items cover trusts education state printing plant school lands sales and divorce laws with adulter y abandonment felony conviction and a 10 percent interest rate cap.
James M. Wright founder of the Ray County Missouri Republican died suddenly at his Lawton home at 3 a.m. of heart failure at sixty one. He was born June 20 1845 in Huntsville Missouri and served in the Civil War with the Ninth Missouri and the Fourteenth Veteran Missouri Cavalry. He leaves a son Frank W. Wright editor and publisher of the Lawton Daily News Republican.
Lawton Oklahoma December 1 Lee Bowman a prominent young farmer two miles northeast of Lawton was accidentally shot and killed near the Big Pasture by a revolver in the hands of James Nattock Bowmans half-brother to Bowmans father in law M W Lewis a real estate man. The men had been on a trip into the pasture and were returning to the city. The ball penetrated Bowmans heart.
Washington reports W M Hallaway of the Bureau of Plant Industry is drafting an important report on a Texas cotton variety named Bush cotton. The find is said to mature before August and could escape boll weevil damage, with the department believing a successful outwitting method exists.
C B Cauthorn, a leading sheepman, was found dead in his buggy three miles from Del Rilo Texas with a bullet wound in the heart. It is the second murder in two days as posses and rangers search for suspects and the city remains on edge.
In front of about 6000 people, W. T. Brooks and Miss Effie Long were married by Rev. B. F. Hall atop an elephant at North Fort Worth. Two friends and the clergyman joined them on the animal during the ceremony and many gifts were presented to the newlyweds who live in North Fort Worth.
Memphis authorities arrest J E Hutchinson former second vice president of Delta Cotton company on charges of embezzling $68,000. Weeks earlier Hutchinson attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a razor.
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