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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1905
Page
3
Read Hunter and Chatham's bat advertising. Mentions dozens of residents visiting Bryan, sales at Hunter & Chatham, various goods and services, valentines, theater and lectures, church activities, and local appointments. Includes notices of illness travel and marriages.
In Austin on February 10 the senate discussed Senator Beaty's bill authorizing the Texas and New Orleans Railway to sell the segment between Dallas and Sabine Pass. A Looney amendment would block sales to parallel lines unless state railroad authorities approve, with penalties if not done in good faith. The measure advanced alongside other rail policy bills and various senate proposals on transportation and legal matters.
Dallas February 10 Senator Bailey disapproves of federal supervision and improvement of county roads in a letter read by Commercial club directors. He advocates local control and will not submit roads to the federal government for federal appropriations. The note comes as Texas towns hold conventions endorsing federal aid for road building.
Dr Cuthbert Bullitt, eighty three, died in San Antonio after a life marked by Civil War service. A Kentucky native, he settled in Fannin County at the Civil War’s outbreak and was kin to Confederate general Cuthbert Bullitt and A C Bullitt, founder and early editor of the New Orleans Picayune.
Royston context reports South ern Pacific brakeman W. R. Wallace killed in railway yards. He was decapitated after being thrown between cars, with a hip dismemberment and elbow crushing. He was 37, survived by a wife and four children. Humble, Texas notes Moonshine well No 11 flowing 10 000 to 20 000 barrels daily.
New York Feb 10 B F Yoakum and H E Huntington were elected directors of the Colorado and Southern railroad, succeeding E J Berwind and J P Cotton.
Insurrection in Argentina ends. S H Lewis of Como Texas dies. Charles Hall dies in Houston. Cattle die off around Webster Texas. Mrs John Schroeder dies from a fall in Flatonia Texas. Two unknown men kill C L Brooker in Lake Charles Louisiana. J W Gilpin of Morgan Texas found dead in bed. Government townsite agent pays 80000 to 2000 Choctaws at Fort Townson I T. R L Freeman of Davis I T ships 310 bales cotton to Galveston. J B Reynolds of Massachusetts named assistant secretary of the treasury. Twenty seven gamblers arrested at Hobart Oklahoma and 480 dollars in fines. Mrs John Claudon wounded in Houston Heights. Mrs Josephine Leoni arrested.
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