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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1908
Page
2
A Bryan Texas local notice discusses 1908 postal matter and hints at a broader push to censor press via post office funds. The article recalls Tolstoy book controversy in Lampasas and notes a 20th century shift toward curbing press freedoms, referencing a Penrose bill and citizen protests.
A passage claims a bill makes every postmaster a censor with power to destroy material deemed unfit. It warns such censorship threatens liberty of the press. It also cites the militia law giving the president direct state militia control as further eroding constitutional protections.
Lawyers dispute how section 120 of the Terrell election law should be applied to ballot proposals. Prohibitionists require a simple majority of votes on the proposition, while anti prohibitionists demand a majority of all ballots cast. The text explains the differing interpretations and potential court fights if the majority falls between these thresholds.
In San Francisco, Louis Dabner and John Siemen, called the gaspipe thugs, are to be executed at San Quentin for the murder of Japanese banker Munakata. They and their gang carried out bold robberies with violence, and are linked to at least two other murders. Governor Gillette rejected appeals for clemency due to the condemned men's youth.
A sweep of political moves includes Gore Hughes in Ohio and Youngstown September event to start the campaign. James G Phelps Stokes and Rose Pastor plan runs in New York. Warner seeks Michigan renomination and Conn eyed for Indiana on Independence ticket. Elly and Ellyson seek renomination in Virginia and North Carolina gears for August 26 convention. Pettigrew backs Bryan. Yates aims Cook County victory. Holtzmann to stump for Bryan Kern ticket. Loeb rejects Roosevelt speech. Kern invited to Muncie Labor Day event. Heart to Indiana Independence convention August 25.
In Boone’s cave above High Bridge on the Kentucky river a Cincinnati party reports a carved mastodon image in solid rock and petrified bones likely from prehistoric inhabitants. They entered the Chamber of Needles and found a river inside the cave with a crooked course and a shallow bottom, while many sharp stones hung from the rock walls.
The thirty fourth annual Battle Ground camp meeting in Lafayette Indiana opened today under Northwest Indiana M B Conference auspices. A ten days program features only prominent divines and laymen from the Northwest Indiana Conference with visitors already taxing local hotels and cottages. For Rent fourteen acre pasture inside city limits by R R Knowles at 204 with possession January first.
Royal Raymond of Wisconsin learned his brother H. J. Raymond, thought dead since 1895, was alive in Sprague Washington. A belief of imposture led to a false pretenses charge, but a sheriff’s investigation and facial recognition by Royal halted the case. The brothers then left for Wisconsin together.
The Houston and Texas Central Railroad announces round trip rates for trains leaving Bryan on Saturday afternoon August 1 and Sunday morning August 2. The rates are 1.95 to Houston and 2.20 to Galveston. Usual return limit applies.
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