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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1926
Page
13
Oct L C Cagle reports mistaking Bill Holcomb aged about 60 for a squirrel while hunting. Holcomb was in a pecan tree wearing a brown sweater matching the color, and a single shot penetrated the right eye corner. State: accident with potential fatal outcome.
Austin Texas October 18 charges allege James E Ferguson husband of Governor Miriam A Ferguson offered road maintenance contractors favored contracts in exchange for assistance in a land sale affair authorities said concrete details were not disclosed in the initial briefing
J D Winder, a Bellville contractor, testified Ferguson offered $7 000 in five and ten dollar bills to secure contracts in five counties. Winder said the April 1925 bribe attempt occurred in the highway commission office and that he feared losing a contract in Austin County. W G Hill, Austin public accountant, said he paid Eugene Smith $2 600 for auditor services and later gave him $8250 in cash to collect the debt, to secure payment from the highway commission.
Austin Oct 15 Governor Miriam A Ferguson signed a bill from the Thirty-ninth legislature making chicken or turkey theft a felony or misdemeanor. Senator Pearce B Ward of Cleburne authored the measure aimed at stopping widespread fowl theft in North Texas.
Winder accused the committee of withholding 20 percent of each monthly estimate on a 17 mile federal aid project instead of the 10 percent specified. He said Ferguson promised repayment if he testified in the Sherman Youmans Construction matter and cited commissioners Lanham and Burkett directing him to Jim Ferguson to determine funding. Highway contractors reportedly understood the 10 percent norm for county maintenance contracts.
Winder testifies Ferguson ordered him to cut a $75,118 five county bid by 20 percent and resubmit to appear cheaper than prior commissions. Ferguson claimed forced accounts would recover the cut and warned of replacing any road supervisor who resisted. Lanham and Ehlinger figures aided Winder in matching budget estimates.
Two unfurnished rooms available for rent in Wehlleb area. Contact A Wehlleb for details and unit access.
With no prisoners to care for Lavaca County Texas residents repurpose the local jail as a storage warehouse for cotton, turning the facility into a depot amid abandoned inmate oversight.
The world’s Jewish population is estimated at 18,080,000. The United States accounts for 4,400,000, leading all countries, while New York City holds 2,000,000 Jews, making it the largest Jewish city worldwide.
Phonographs are widely used in a London school to teach parrots to talk. A Brazilian Indian tribe is noted for a bizarre custom of eating powdered bones of ancestors in the wilderness.
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