Land listings in Brazos county advertised for sale
J. W. Batts offers Brazos county land titles and property for sale. Listings include about 105 acres near the courthouse, 400 acres of postoak land in the northeast at 2.50 an acre, a quarter acre near the schoolhouse, a six room house and two lots four blocks from Main Street, a quarter block east front near Allen Academy, 25 feet of railroad frontage at Otto Boehme’s lot, and 13 acres south of town with a four room house priced at 1000. Prices range from 250 to 1500. Will sell part or all.
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Court House
Snall
Mx. Street
Allen Acamy
Otto Boehme
Lands and Houses For Sale Near A M College and City
Lamar Bethea offers 92 acres near A M College suitable for dairy and hog farming priced at 1000. Courthouse shares include 314 lots with a seven room house, barn and outbuildings and a fine water well at 2200. Pochila two story house, northwestern city lots and corner lots at 25 and 35. Pearson place 99 acres with 69 cultivated and 49 in creek bottom. One mile west of city I G N R passes through. price 1500 or trade for city property. Many other lands available.
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A. & M. College
Wixon Creek
Pearson Place
City
Grand International Washington Birthday Fiesta At Laredo
Laredo Texas and Nuevo Laredo Mexico celebrate George Washingtons Birthday with a two day border city event February 22 and 23 featuring Spanish ball fights cattle roping torchlight parades naval fireworks mock battles and pageants. Excursion rates to Laredo and Monterey Mexico are offered with ten day stopovers to witness the celebration. For details contact ticket agents or D J Price G P and T A Palestine Texas.
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Laredo
Texas
New Laredo
Mexico
George Washington
Monterey
D. J. Price
G. P
T. A
Palestine
Four Men Die in Fort Wayne Factory Explosion
An explosion at Eckart Packing company in Fort Wayne Indiana killed four men John Foltz Red Matthews Henry Piepenbrink and Conrad Miller and fatally injured John Vorst while seriously injuring four others and causing flames and ammonia to fuel the blaze The factory section measuring about 50 by 100 feet was wrecked with property valued at $15000 and rescue efforts followed as workers remained in danger amid the ruins.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Fouren
Eckart Packing Company
John Foltz
Red Matthews
Plymouth
Henry Piepenbrink
Conrad Miller
John Vorst
Wm. Kintz
John Kolbach
Clem Keller
Foltz, Matthews, Miller and Piepenbrink
Right of Immunity Question in Hunter Son Case
Ex-Minister Hunter asks Guatemala City whether the United States waives immunity in his son's murder trial. The State Department confirms it has waived rights in the case, noting the son was not connected to the American legation during the killing.
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Hunter Aska
Washington
Jan
State Department
Hunter
Guatemala City
United States
Fitzgerald
Boy Bitten by Lion in Charleston Cage Fatal Wounds
Raymond Bowman twelve, bitten in a lion cage, lies dying in a Charleston hospital. Trainer Miss Hall admitted him against attendants protests. The largest lion leaped the trainer, mauled his left thigh, and other lions joined the attack. Men with pitchforks rescued him after a fierce struggle.
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Charleston
S. C
Raymond Bowman
Plague Crisis Deepens in Mazatlan as City Tightens Measures
In Mazatlan many people in the lazaretto are expected to die. More families obtain permits to leave the city. A disinfecting apparatus arrived aboard the steamer Limantour and a plan to disinfect circulating money is proposed. A child with plague, abandoned by parents, was taken to the lazaretto. Relief contributions continue to arrive.
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Mazatlan
Mex
Limantour
Shaft House Destruction at Quincy Mine Traps Eight Men
An avalanche near Park City Utah tore the shaft house of the Quincy mine apart. Eight workers were buried. three were found dead E J Cotter J G Gaffney and Chas Frank. Five others were rescued alive but badly injured.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Park City
Quincy
E. J. Cotter
J. G. Gaffney
Chas. Frank
Federal Courts Uphold Tribal Tax Ruling in Cattle Case
United States Judge Townsend ruled that federal courts cannot aid cattle raisers whose stock was seized by Indian police for failure to pay tribal taxes. The decision reiterates federal officers’ position in the Ardmore Oklahoma area on tribal tax enforcement.
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Ardmore
I. T
United States
Townsend
Trains Collide Near La Fox. Three Die
Three killed, four seriously injured, and eight slightly hurt in a rear end collision of stock trains on the Chicago and Northwestern near La Fox. Also note: Houston Chronicle case Marcellus Foster held not to prohibit publication in Dallas Court of Criminal Appeals.
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Chicago
Chicago and Northwestern
la Fox
Court of Criminal Appeals At
Dallas
Marcellus Foster
The
Houston Chronicle
5-vee 5 tweet s in Southern Pacific Collision
In a head end collision between the Sunset Limited west bound and another passenger train between Tucson and Vails on the Southern Pacific, January 29, at least twenty people were killed and many injured. The wreck followed a telegraph orders failure at Vails station, with the Sunset Limited passing without proper right of way and colliding six miles west of Vails. The Sunset Limited, at speed, crushed the leading locomotive and cars amid the debris.
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Southern Pacific
Tucson
Ariz
Sunset Limited
West Bound
Southern Pac
Vails
George Clough
G. W. Parker
Jack Bruce
Wilmot
Crescent City
Esmond
Limited
National Printing Trades Ratify Final Compact Details
At the national conference in Indianapolis on January 29 the final details of the printing trades compact were arranged. A joint board of appeals will include presidents from the International Typographical Union, the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants union, the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders, and the International Stereotypers and Electrotypers Union. Each body remains distinct while disputes over labels or sympathy strikes go to the board, which cannot call a strike. The Typographical Union holds three votes, the Stereotypers and Electrotypers one, and the Pressmen and Assistants one.
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Indianapolis
United States
International Typographical Union
International Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ Union
International Brotherhood of Bookbinders
International Sterotypers and Electrotypers’ Union
Board of Appeals
Sterotypers and Electrotypers’ Union
Pressmen and Assistants’ Union
Venezuelan blockade shows no change says London officials
London reports from the foreign office state there is no change in the Venezuelan blockade, with premature talks of immediate raising rejected. Compliance by Venezuela with terms set by Washington powers governs action, as other claimant terms stay out of the arrangement. German warships are expected to refrain from entering Lake Maracaibo.
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London
Foreign Office
Venezuela
Washington
Lake Maracaibo
Attack of Yaquis Captures San Marcial Mining Town
The Yaquis attacked San Marcial Mexico’s mining center and nearly seized it. More than twenty Americans defended the town with eight killed including ex superintendent McAlester and former foreman Pendleton. Other identified casualties were E4 Schutt and George Carroll.
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San Marcial
Mexico
Canmanea
Mex
Sem McAlester
Frank Pendleton
E4. Schutt
George Carroll
Burleson's Resolution Seeks Safeguards for Public Lands
Washington January 29 Representative Burleson of Texas introduces a concurrent resolution directing the secretary of the interior to report steps to prevent illegal fencing of the public domain in New Mexico Wyoming and Nebraska. It requests counts of applications for public lands in Nebraska and Wyoming during 1901 and 1902 and asks the attorney general to file suits to void fraudulent land appropriations and restore lands to the public domain. Panther Did Not Fire First in Caracas Crisis German commodore's claim about the Panther firing on Fort San Carlos is disputed after a storm forced refuge near Willemstad and misinterpreted signals.
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Burleson
Washington
Texas
Secretary of the Interior
New Mexico
Wyoming
Nebraska
Panther
Caracas
United States
Marietta
la Guayra
Scheder
Willemstad
Fort San Carlos
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