T. R. Batte & Co Sale and Real Estate Listings
We offer for sale three brick buildings on Main Street and multiple lots including Cavitt's addition and near the graded school. Properties include a Joe B. Reed residence, W. B. Hudson two story home, Keistler place, and many rental or sale options. We handle farms, Brazos bottom lands, cattle and hog ranches in Texas and Mexico, with flexible terms and exchanges. We also offer insurance services for fire and life with broad company access.
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Courthouse Square
Cavitt
Joe B. Reed
W. B. Hudson
Inc
Keistler
Brazos
Burleson
Texas
Mexico
Indicted Chickasaw Officials Tied to Warrants Fraud
The Department of Justice reports indictments of Ward the Chickasaw treasurer Johnston the governor United States Marshal Colbert and others over reissuing school and general fund warrants. About $60,000 of the school warrants issued as payments for education were alleged to be fraudulently reissued amid a $330,000 congressional appropriation.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Ward
Johnston
United States
Colbert
Purdon
Atorneys Mansfield
McMurray
Corbish
Congress
Interior Department
Police Guests. Crump Furnishes Reading Matter, Ice Cream and Cigarettes
In Muskogee on June 24 W J Crump a lawyer in charge of Indian police continues to conduct business despite failing to repay tribal taxes from March 1902. Two Indian police have occupied his office for three days while Crump provides magazines newspapers cigarettes and ice cream and even a cot for guests to nap.
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Crump
Muskogee
W. J. Crump
Disastrous storms damage farms and injure child in Oklahoma
Disastrous storms swept Payne, Lincoln and Noble counties on Friday with wind and lightning. A tornado destroyed the home of Joseph Osterchek, a Bohemian farmer in Payne county, critically injuring his twelve year old daughter. Lightning killed a team of horses belonging to Frank Hafner near Perry.
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Guthrie
Payne
Lincoln
Noble Counties
Joseph Osterchek
Payne County
Frank Hafner
Perry
First Cotton Bale Paraded Through Rio Grande City
Rio Grande City June 24 A first bale of Starr cotton was paraded through town led by Mel Guerra of Roma and consigned to Moody Galveston. Five hundred acres near Roma are in fine condition as a brass band accompanied the bale and Manuel Guerra reportedly has the county's only gun. A Galveston hat and shoe firm offered $5 above all premiums for the consigned bale.
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Rio Grande City
Tex
Mel Guerra
Roma
Moody
Galveston
Manuel Guerra
Galveston Hat and Shoe Company
Noted Texas Trials Yield Harsh Sentences And Death Threats
In Waco Lee Robertson, a Black defendant, is found guilty of attempted criminal assault on a white woman and sentenced to one thousand and one years. In Texarkana Charles Anderson, aged thirty five, convicted of attempted criminal assault on a ten year old white girl, receives ten years. Austin sees R R Parker of Dallas granted bail in a murder case. Bryan reports the death of Sam Traut, cattleman, who drowned in Hog Creek Grimes county.
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Waco
Lee Robertson
Texarkana
Charles Anderson
Arkansas
Austin
Court of Criminal Appeals
R. R. Parker
Dallas
Frank J. Bell
Hog Creek
Bryan
Tex
Sam Traut
Martin Prairie
Grimes County
Tallmadge Faces Subornation Charge in New Mexico
Benjamin H. Tallmadge of Chicago has been arrested in Roswell on subornation of perjury tied to the S. L. Tallmadge Southwestern company. He posted a 5000 bond after a warrant by United States Land Commissioner Karl Snyder, following a government complaint by special agent Grosvenor Clarkson. Authorities plan further prosecutions over alleged fraudulent land entries in the artesian belt of New Mexico. Tallmadge says all dealings were legal and will be proven.
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S. L
Engineer killed at Hodge Fence Lumber mill in Lake Charles
Thomas Spencer twenty six an engineer at the Hodge Fence Lumber mill was killed in a gruesome accident while starting a belt. His sleeve caught on a pulley and he was wrapped around the shaft tearing off both legs and breaking both arms. He died about two hours later. Spencer had no wife and no relatives in Lake Charles.
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Lake Charles
Thomas Spencer
Hodge Fence Lumber Company
Spencer
Treadless Machine Aims at Shreveport Factory
Captain J. M. Brosious of Jackson Tennessee inventor of a treadless sewing machine visits Shreveport by invitation of the Progressive league to seek local support for a factory. The Jackson plant valued at 250000 dollars would resemble it and would employ over 500 men.
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Shreveport
J. M. Brosious
Jackson
Tenn
Shreveport Progressive League
Loomis Sailed for Southampton on Special Mission
Francis B. Loomis assistant secretary of state sailed on the Philadelphia for Southampton to receive Paul Jones. he is also on a secret mission for the state department per President Roosevelt. He will not disclose details but hopes to return in about a month, possibly without joining the warship squadron. Funerary services for Jones are set July 7 in the American church of Paris. General Horace Porter, retiring ambassador, spent his own funds locating the body and awaits reimbursement.
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York
State Department
Roosevelt
Francis B. Loomis
Southampton
Philadelphia
Cret
Faul Jones
Loomis
Paris
Horace Porter
France
United States
Equitable Chairman resumes duties after resignations
Paul Morton returns from Washington to resume as chairman of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. He meets with expert accountants investigating the society under his direction and says no further resignations have been accepted and he will not indicate when more may occur.
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Equitable
New York
Paul Morton
Washington
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Morton
Thirtieth Drown Report From Vigo River Disaster
Advices from the Minho river near Gaminha say a bark capsized while entering the river from Portugal, drowning thirty people. In Lebanon Judge Stephen Neal, author of the fourteenth amendment, died at his home after a several months illness surrounded by relatives and friends.
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Vigo
Spain
Minho
Gaminha
Portugal
Lebanon
Stephen Neal
Two Oklahoma men arrested for Weaverton post office robbery
Madill Oklahoma June 24 Carl McGhee and Bob Moore two young men from the Weaverton area were arrested by U S Marshal Evans on a charge of robbing the Weaverton post office on the night of May 31.
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Madill
I. T
Carl McGhee
Bob Moore
Weaverton
United States
Evans
Weaverto
Hammond convicted in Bearmouth train robbery
George Hammond known as the Bearmouth train robber was found guilty and sentenced to one year by a jury in Phillipsburg Montana. Rail officials expressed disappointment at the outcome. Selma likely to acquire Natchez Cotton States league franchise.
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Phillipsburg
Mont
George Hammond
Bearmouth
Two Fatal Doses Reported In Elyria And Washington Dispatches
Elyria Ohio June 24 Mrs Lawrence Worcester who had been married six months drank two ounces of carbolic acid and died in two minutes. Washington June 24 Secretary Hay left Washington for his summer home at Lake Sunape New Hampshire where he will remain probably until autumn.
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Elyria
Lawrence Worcester
Washington
Hay
Lake Sunape
N. H
Mobery Moberly Lynched After Jones Killing Near Meridian
Meridian Mississippi reports Pierce Moberly, the suspect who killed Ed G. Jones last Saturday, captured near Roberts Mills and lynched. The body was found Friday with bullets through it, after he had stolen a mule and a horse trying to flee.
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Meridian
Miss
Pierce Moberly
Ed G. Jones
Roberts Mills
Moberly
Papers Displease Berlin Over French Note
Berlin papers express disappointment with the French note as Premier Rouvier appears to persist with the Deicasse policy and seeks to understand Germany. The Vossische Zeitung says Rouvier continues the Deicasse approach.
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Berlin
Rouvier
Germany
Vossische Zeitung
Man Found Dead in Box Car at Wellington
C A Moorehouse of Dallas Texas an elderly engraver was found dead in a Santa Fe box car in Wellington Kansas. Police investigate foul play though robbery unlikely as a substantial sum of money was found on his person.
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Wellington
Kan
C. A. Moorehouse
Dallas
Tex
Minor Matters Across Texas and Nearby States
Tom Green county reports 2090 school children while Italy oil mill posts $3467.81 net. Mountain Park will rebuild nine miles away as Brownsville sells 4000 acres at $4 per acre. Matt Halliday dies after a fall in Galveston. Abilene summer normal starts with 91 attendees. Wills Point cattlemen ship 18 carloads on the 23rd. Denton farmers prepare to fight boll weevil by cultural methods. Henry A. Perry Jr. shoots himself at Riceton in Fort Bend. A rattlesnake fatally bites multiple livestock near Colorado. The snake has fourteen rattles.
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Tom Green County
Texas
Italy
Tex
Mountain Park
Okla
Brownsville
Matt Halliday
Galveston
Abilene
Wills Point
Henry A. Perry, Jr
Riceton
Fort Bend County
Colorado
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J.L. Fountan Mer. Real Estate Dept
T. R. Batte & CO
W. H. Lawrence
Over Haswell’s Book Store
Bryan, Texas
W. C. Fountain
Crown
Burt Norwid
Tom Bond
Hortman Old Stand Bryan
Hattie Lou Hudson
Juanita Pickett
Liberty
Edaline Belk
Houston
Charlie Hudson
T. C. Nunn
Laula Coulter
Howell
Fish Pond
W.S. Howell
Ethel
Sadie Cavitt
Fannie Howell
Calhoun
Denny
Brown
Nonie Adams
Keeling
Nellie Butte
Hooper
Calvert
Peverley
Herndon
Rhodes
Garth
Belk
Messrs. Dunlap
S. K. Wilson
Howard Cavitt
Chatham
Stevens
Hendrix Conway
Farley
John Wilson
R. A. Harrison
Robinson
Dr. Lawrence
Potts
Burton
Nellie Cole
Wesa Hobgood
Irene Beard
Sara Allen
Armory
Alice Lirette
National Toilet Company
Paris, Tennessee
M. H. James
E. C. DeWitt & Co
Chicago
Parker
Ghost
Paul Jones
Francis B.loomis
Hammond
Selma
Montgomery
Natchez
SIZAS
B. Johnson Parker
Montreal
Som
Rohde
ST. Louis
Iron Mountain System
Louis
Union Station
St.Louis
National Lines of Mexico
Laredo
San Antonio
Mexico City
Vial
G. N
Monterey
Saltillo
San Luis Potosi
Torreon
Durango
L. Price
John Wittman
Denton County
South
North
Austin Oe T
M. L. Robbins
G. P A
Houston, Texas
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