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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1908
Page
4
In front of the Court House Bryan Texas details the location and business of the Law Henderson surveying and abstracting firm. The notice situates the office adjacent to the courthouse for public access.
Thomas H. Tibbles, Populist vice presidential nominee, claims $5,000 of the New York fund financed a 96,000 copy Independent edition to back George W. Berge for governor. He says the remaining $10,000 and a $15,000 Nebraska payment to Bryan to back Parker are unverified. Bryan allegedly wrote I shall support Parker after returning from the St. Louis convention, and the line appeared in the Commoner before the Nebraska vote.
Detectives investigate a Chicago alms syndicate that claimed to collect hundreds of thousands for feeble elders. Funds were said to support institutions named House of Hope in Grand Island Nebraska Denver Colorado and Shreveport Louisiana. Shreveport telegram denies any House of Hope there.
Veterans and visitors arrive on every train for the Confederate reunion in Birmingham next week. General Tyler of Forrest's cavalry asks all survivors to meet in a preliminary session at Hotel Morris. The corps will join the big parade on horseback, as city decorations spread across blocks with 100 workers setting up hunting, portraits of generals, and small flags.
The St Dennis reports W. F. Walker, banker from New Britain Connecticut, arrested in Lower California, has won his case in Mexican courts and orders revoking the Ensenada imprisonment should reach Ensenada soon. If appealed, release hinges on Mexican court delays.
President Roosevelt studies plans for next summer to visit British East Africa accompanied by his son Kermit. He will bring a full hunting outfit and devote time to studying animal habits and gathering material for a book.
Mail advices from Australia report Australia to host the American battleship fleet with a series of banquets balls picnics regattas cricket and baseball matches. Sydney and Melbourne plan to spend 250000 each on entertainments.
New York report states Bishop Potter is at his Coopertown home recovering from a nervous breakdown and has abandoned his planned trip to Europe. The illness is described as causing the halt of his European journey.
Sixteen Chinese men found starved in a sealed box car in San Francisco yards after a ten day journey from Galveston. Officials suspect smuggling across the Mexican border and note one man carried a valid entry certificate. The rest were handed to immigration authorities.
Denison reports the wagon bridge linking the town with Oklahoma was swept away Friday morning after a flood. The 600 foot structure, built in 1891 at a cost of 60000, carried seasons of trade for merchants. S. B. Fisher leads efforts to salvage the railway bridge piers while diversions protect piers. A man named Dalton drowned when swept away.
The railroad commission grants the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway authority to reestablish delayed through passenger service into Texas from St. Louis. After Red River bridge washout north of Denison, trains will detour via Paris with northbound routes reaching Durant and Hugo before reconnecting to Texas and Pacific tracks to Paris and Denison, adding about 200 miles and several hours.
The Texas governor attorney general and land commissioner signed a five year contract with Walter Willett of San Antonio. The state sells Willett Candallia plants growing on unsold public free school lands in Brewster and Terrell counties for 1000 dollars payable 200 a year. Willett plans to manufacture the plant into paraffin wax under the Gayule act of the Thirtieth legislature.
Cecil Allen sixteen and Fay eleven depart Fort Worth for Panama via New Orleans to settle there. Their grandmother Mrs Mary Allen eighty accompanies them while their father J C Allen, formerly of Cle burne, now serves as a canal superintendent.
Washington June 5 Thomas Gore the blind Oklahoma senator is undergoing treatment at the Episcopal hospital and believes sight will be restored. If there is improvement a slight operation may be performed. The treatment nourishes the retina of the left eye separated from the optic nerve.
General Manager Nixon Superintendent Cebluyer and Office Manager Levy of the Frisco opened temporary offices in Paris Texas as crews from the Red River division arrived to relieve the Frisco situation there.
Amarillo Texas June 5 Jack Freeze quartermaster of Troop B was arrested after a shooting Friday morning on downtown streets. An army gun was recovered as Warren was wounded.
Senator Bailey shows no change in condition as he prepares for throat surgery. He says his ailment is not serious, reporting stability while plans for the operation proceed in New York.
Damage across Wichita Falls Texas and nearby areas estimated at 300000 dollars. Farmers suffer the greatest losses as the Denver detours over the Katy between here and Henrietta.
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