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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1907
Page
6
San Antonio residents witnessed a rare dry Sunday as the city closed every saloon door following a Friday suit to forfeit liquor dealers bonds for selling whisky on Sunday. Officials anticipate whether the closing will remain permanent during the fair period as the outcome draws interest.
Dallas Oct 21 A self explanatory letter published from Dallas cites Governor and Senator Bailey at a banquet. Attorney General R W Pavinson urges Bailey to provide a written detailed statement on Standard Oil violations in Texas for use as evidence. pavinson seeks sworn testimony to aid prosecutions and asks for an early reply to his department.
United States Judge Thompson rules that union officers inciting a strike for an eight hour day would violate a contract dated May, running to January 1, 1909. The perman ent order bars collective action by officers but does not restrain individual workers from striking.
Machinery of the American Embassy has been set in motion to secure the release of William English Walling of Indianapolis his wife Anna and his sister in law Miss Rose Strunsky. They were arrested at Hotel de France in St Petersburg for association with members of the Finnish Progressive party alongside four others including the wife of Professor Malmburg of Helsingford University.
Reports from Austin on October 21 indicate that Senator Bailey may be summoned to testify after remarks at the Dallas governor's banquet accusing the Standard Oil company of doing business in Texas.
Austin reports the comptroller's office has the Dallas county tax rolls with a 1907 total valuation of $58,100,100, up $11,922,350 from 1906. In McAlester a man named G. T. Arndt was killed while resisting arrest. T. H. Whaleyman surrendered as a posseman. Arndt was charged with peddling whisky.
Colonization firm in Oklahoma City announces organization with capital stock of two hundred thousand dollars. Separate brief items note fifteen prisoners escaping from South Side prison in Birmingham, a man killed by a train at Waco Cotton Belt bridge, O K Reese badly mangled in a cotton gin with doubtful recovery, and W C Albrecht dying from football injuries in Chicago.
President Roosevelt boarded the special train near Stamboul Louisiana and bade farewell to the area famed for his bear hunt. The town renamed for the moment Roosevelt as locals gathered, many workers and residents present, and the president praised the visit while thanking the people for their hospitality. The train carried away the bear skins collected by the party.
Chicago is told Louis and Mrs. Nonnast will sponsor a worldwide search for their 21 year old son Harry who vanished after school graduation. A $400 reward is advertised in Pacific Coast papers and inquiries to Winchester Hotel records hint he may have headed toward a hospital amid health issues and a western climate hope.
Tom Upchurch, a black inmate scheduled for execution in Louisburg, N C, was found dead in his Franklin County jail cell by the death watch. He had secretly obtained a coil of wire and used a cord tied to a girder to hang himself from his cot after tying one end around his neck. Upchurch had assaulted a sixty year old white woman near Louisburg in August.
A special from Evergreen reports W H Bridges, a prominent contractor and builder, was found dead in the woods about three miles from Montgomery. The body showed two bullet holes in the head, indicating a possible homicide or suicide. Local authorities are investigating the shooting.
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