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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1905
Page
4
The Dallas State Fair, owned by about fifteen hundred prominent citizens, plans a 16 day event from Sept 30 to Oct 10 1905 with a $100000 fireproof building and $90000 in premiums. The fair features livestock displays racing with $30000 purse, and a home seekers exhibit of Texas and sister states resources.
C A Keating serves as president and Sydney Smith as secretary for the State Fair of Texas.
New York July 29 All passengers of the Mallory Line steamer Alamo were transferred to Hoffman Island and released after 24 hours of observation. None were found to have yellow fever following careful inspection and monitoring.
A Gulfport dispatch reports Governor Vardaman placed Adjutant General Fridge in charge of Mississippi quarantine operations. Civil forces are to be replaced by state troops and Camp Ward personnel to enforce a bayonet point quarantine across the state. The Mississippi National Guard units will handle the siege against yellow fever with stringent measures.
Seventeen persons including two first class, five second class cabin passengers and ten crew members were taken from the steamer Seguiranca to a detention hospital for observation on arrival from Colon. Eight crew members had been ill, six were convalescent, and four crew members with yellow fever were removed before departure from Colon.
In Los Angeles Bishop Couaty confirmed a Los Angeles donor sent a personal check for 225000 to the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor as construction begins. The benefactor’s name was not disclosed. In Mississippi, health officials reported no new yellow fever cases at Lumberton and enforced health certificate entry. Two yellow fever cases near Wagaman in Jefferson parish were isolated and recovering. Houston reports the Southern Pacific cable notes Havana extending Gulf quarantine from Florida to Sabine river.
A southbound train on the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern line wrecked near Diaz Arkansas. Engineer William Horton and Fireman A Doolin killed. Five passengers and two mail clerks injured with one passenger seriously hurt. Total injured about fifty. Separately a Little Rock and Fort Smith wreck near Ozark injures fifty including A F Gant of Memphis who is believed fatally hurt.
A sensational quarantine move by Governor Vardaman detains Colonel C C Wyatt to mobilize Mississippi state troops on the Louisiana boundary. Major Brown sends Cameron Light Artillery to Gulfport for quarantine duty as armed troops sit along the Pearl River.
D O Lively reared in Dallas died in Panama of yellow fever while in banking business. He worked with the Times Herald for years, edited a Fort Worth live stock paper, then held a stockyards job in Chicago. Earlier he was in Beaumont oil business. M T Lively, a Dallas attorney, is his brother.
Martin Mayo, Galveston health officer, died from a gunshot wound after attempting to arrest Eugene Hull for abusing a woman. Hull, a Black man, is held on a murder charge. The incident occurred July 29 in Galveston.
In a special session the grand jury returned an indictment charging Sank Majors with criminal assault on Mrs. Clintie Robert wife of Captain Ben Robert of Golindo. Judge Surratt scheduled the case for trial next Wednesday in his court.
Patrice Ti gerina, a Mexican baker, was shot and seriously wounded in an affray at Lockhart. He had both arms broken above the elbow and may need amputations. The assailant escaped and remains at large.
In El Paso on July 29 thirteen Chinese men were hidden in box cars and slipped into the country before being found trying to flee the train. Immigration officers surrounded the group and arrested all twelve men.
Jack Gorman awoke to barking dogs and crying, discovering a five or six day old girl abandoned in a basket in the middle of the street near his Hutchins home. The infant’s condition and origin remain unknown as police investigate.
Satinola claims to remove freckles pimples tan liver spots and other eruptions within 20 days with money back if ineffective Thousands testify to results Miss Alice Lirette of Thibodaux La reports her four year freckle and pimple problem disappeared after two Satinola packages and praises the product The ad lists prices 50c and 1 00 and notes availability from Paris Tennessee and Bryan druggists led by M H James
In Washington on July 29 Judge Wright ruled in Haas's cotton report leak case that Secretary Wilson's report puts Haas in a defendant’s posture and he cannot be forced to answer whether he lived in Washington or worked for the Agriculture Department or whether he knew Holmes or Peckham.
Guthrie July 29. John H. Seger founder of the Seger Indian Industrial school in Custer county and longtime instructor and missionary to the Cheyenne in western Oklahoma resigns due to trouble with the interior department.
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