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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1906
Page
2
From City of Mexico dated June 8 a Guatemala dispatch says General Toledo commands about five thousand armed men in the south. General Leon Castillo cooperates under his orders as aid pours in and activity increases among the revolutionists.
Articles of incorporation filed in Austin for Trinity Valley and Northern Railway to operate a 25 mile line from Dayton Liberty County north to Cleveland. Principal office Dayton. capital stock 25000 dollars. Road connects Texas and New Orleans with Houston East and West Texas lines. Hearing set June 19 on milling in transit rule amendment adding alfalfa.
Washington June 8 Representative Garner of Texas spoke forty minutes with the board of United States engineers on the commercial necessity of a ship canal through Turtle Cove bay from Corpus Christi to Aransas Pass. He presented figures showing strong potential benefits and the only remaining question concerns effects on the Haupt jetty plan at Aransas Pass.
In Denison on June 8 a strike occurred at a large berry patch as several boys quit work after the proprietor insisted on muzzling them to stop their eating berries. The unusual labor dispute centers on farmer control over berry consumption by youth workers.
The Agricultural and Mechanical College at Bryan may see Prof. John Craig resign as director of the experiment station due to ill health. J. W. Carson, currently director of the Farmers' Institute, is expected to be named as his successor. Carson is an alumnus with over fifteen years of association with the institution.
The Eagle chronicles the death of Dallas Hawkins of Engeld North Carolina on a Saturday. He was 67, a pioneer Texas drummer who lived in Bryan before returning north eight years ago. He leaves a wife and three children and was a longtime Methodist and friend to many in Bryan and the state. He was brother of Mrs. J P Wilson and visited his sister during the last winter.
The notice invites readers to visit the new Hunter and Chatham store location one block from Haswell's Book Store as the trolley line passes by. It notes expanded, comf ortable quarters and urges patrons to follow the move with the same courteous service. A fire at the seed house near the H T C stock pen was quickly controlled after noon with no major damage.
City officials in regular session with Mayor Butler present authorize electric fan and acetylene gas plant franchises to Fritz Braatz and C M Camp. Committees to draft ordinances, inspect sanitary rules, hire city convicts, and screen cisterns. Finances noted with 1052.44 receipts and 867.31 disbursements.
The portrait presented by Columbia University to the University of Berlin will first be displayed at Columbia before its shipment to Germany. The exhibition occurs in New York in June.
June reports from Chicago and Dallas note J H Dalton and L A Gourakin sentenced to four and a half years and fines for mail fraud. Vernon district wins Bell medal for efficiency and Dallas earns the banner for membership gains while all officers are re elected. The TCU Endeavor convention will convene in Fort Worth next year.
A party of Indiana business men arrived on a special train at Denison on Friday morning. They will tour the state prospecting for investments and exploring opportunities.
Brief items report the death of Judge W A Bramlette of Texas in Bonham. Other notes mention the Oklahoma incidents near Billings and Waurika with a $5000 loss from a hotel fire and a boiler explosion. Ned Stewart, Republican governor candidate, cites his mother as his only kiss from a woman.
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