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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1908
Page
7
Pittsburg and nearby regions endure a major flood reaching thirty seven tenths feet at noon Sunday and slowly receding. Widespread damage Includes collapsed or submerged basements and electrical plants rendered a total loss. Thousands of homes, businesses, and livestock suffer, with many residents living on upper floors as cold weather and snow add misery.
Washington reports another Federal action in the fight against Harriman rail interests. Criminal cases are to be begun in California and other states against the Southern Pacific for alleged rebates totaling about half a million dollars.
J F Wider a wealthy saw mill operator and president of the Mississippi Pine Association shot and killed W L Booth at Epps Station on the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad twelve miles south of Hattiesburg Mississippi over a $2000 account. Booth was a real estate dealer from Dallas Texas.
The crop reporting board reports Texas has the most mules in the United States on January 1, 637000. Missouri trails with 321000, followed by Tennessee with 284000, confirming Texas pre-eminence in animal stock.
Congress has appropriated about $1,000,000 for Trinity River improvements. The money will enable completion of locks 1 2 4 6 and Hurricane Shoals, making the Trinity navigation project a reality as envisioned by Capt. Wolfe.
Jackson Mississippi Senator Sample introduces a bill imposing a five dollar annual privilege tax on pistol carriers as a prerequisite for defense of carrying concealed weapons and for the right to purchase cartridges. The measure would require pistol merchants to maintain public records of buyers.
The Diario Espanole, Havana, charges the United States with planning the Maine explosion to justify Cuba’s seizure. It cites as proof the Maine officers attending victims’ funeral in full dress and argues the wreck has not been raised to hide the magazine explosion.
Dr L W Largent with Smith Wilcox contested the vital statistics law in a habeas corpus hearing before Judge J M Pearson. The judge ruled Monday that the statute creating the Department of Vital Statistics and demanding reports of all births and deaths is vague and unenforceable without remuneration.
Nearly all industrial concerns in the Wellsville vicinity have resumed operations after weeks of inactivity. Extra labor is being sent to the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railway shops. Extensive railroad improvements have begun, signaling renewed activity in the area.
In Biddleford Maine the Pepperill Manufacturing Company and the York Manufacturing Company in Saco returned to full-time work on Monday, affecting about six thousand operatives across the two mills.
Roscoe Snyder and Pacific suspend laying steel to surface and grade the track already laid. Helmleigh becomes the current terminus, with plans to extend to Snyder once the line is ready for traffic. Holt and Yarbrough, contracted to build depots at Wastella and Hermleigh, say work will begin immediately.
College Station reports Commandant Wares issued a notice urging all students to return to classes and to call on Dean Puryear for reinstatement. Records show 138 men on ground or furlough with about 200 more expected to return by week’s end.
William Sells, last of the three Sells Brothers who ran the famous Sells Brothers circus, died suddenly Monday in New York after a period of illness. His condition had been improving recently and he was thought to be on the road to recovery when a rapid decline proved fatal before a doctor arrived.
Dr. D. F. Houston, president, announced a plan to begin a university mail study program. The correspondence schools would allow Texans unable to leave home to pursue higher education by study by mail, following the success of other institutions.
Nathan F. Whipple a Christian Science reader collapsed and died in the pulpit during a Thursday night service at the Christian Science Church in Oakland. The crowded meeting continued briefly as prayers were offered and his body was removed.
Students at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas abandon campus after a strike alleging gross partiality. The board of directors upholds President H H Harrington on all charges, prompting remaining students to depart within 24 hours. Commandant Moses announces the decision as cadets react.
J D Cargill of Austin left his sister’s home four miles south of Hico to shoot a rabbit. About an hour later he was found dead on a vacant house gallery, seated with his rifle between his knees and a bullet wound in his forehead. Parents in Austin were notified.
Mrs Dora Jane Dowie of Chicago intends to take over leadership of the Christian Catholic Church from Zion City. She says she aims to unite the warring factions and rally Dowie's followers to her standard if she gains the position.
Col E L Russell of the Mobile and Ohio and Southern Railroad proposes a flat passenger rate of two and a half cents per mile on interstate business. He would issue interchangeable mileage books in 1000 and 2000 mile forms at two cents a mile. The submission was made to the House Committee on Railroads under President Finley’s instruction.
Treasurer reports Hamilton County is out of debt with the last bond paid Wednesday and more than 5101,000 in cash credited. In a separate tragedy, J. H. Holt, a well known farmer from northeast of Denton, was struck by a passenger train near Into Sunday afternoon and killed instantly.
Tyler Texas February 15 a sudden cyclone struck in the eastern residence district before four o clock yesterday morning tearing houses to kindling and killing four people. The Francis family husband wife and baby Mose Lee an aged negro were among the dead. The Francis home was lifted bodily and scattered over a mile with the baby found in the street away from the home. Mose Lee perished in debris daybreak revealed the wreck of his house across the street Tom Jackson also suffered destruction but occupants were unharmed.
A Mississippi tornado yesterday virtually demolished Mossville Service and Soso in Jones County. Reports list from six to ten dead, with six likely. The noon strike carried buildings off their lots, leaving fields strewn with wreckage and scattered household items.
Fort Worth filed a damage suit seeking 25 000 actual and 25 000 exemplary damages in Forty Fourth District Court Friday morning against The Record Company by O P Pyle and George B Latham through attorney E G Senter. The petition states January 16 the paper published in a conspicuous place false defamatory libelous publications about the defendants.
The worst winter blizzard hit Custer County Oklahoma with one to five feet of snow. Temperatures hovered 20 to 30 degrees above zero as a north wind howled all day. Rescue committees formed by businessmen carried children from schools to their parents, and snow drifts blocked vehicle use.
Wee and Charley Summerlin, a father and son duo described as negroes, were hanged in the Carrollton jail yard on Friday for the murder of Jethro Jones, a wealthy farmer. They allegedly shot Jones as he stood by a bale of cotton he had found stolen near his cotton gin.
In Greenville at 8 oclock Thursday night Mrs Ida Gresham House Point, Raines County, Miss Lutie Gresham wed Mr Robert J Templeton with Rev J L Ross officiating. Best man was D B Walker of Waxahachie and bridesmaid Miss Nell Horton of Fort Worth. The bride is the daughter of the late Newt Gresham, organizer of the Farmers Union.
Reports indicate plans to convert the Chicago Auditorium Theater into a hotel or office building, noting the theater has never been a profitable investment. In El Paso a report claims Yaqui Indians killed five laborers in Sonora, Mexico. Denton College of Industrial Arts dormitory work nears completion at about 60,000 dollars. Ballinger accepts a Carnegie library donation and secures the building lot.
A long, mixed list of local incidents and developments across Texas and nearby states includes a strike at a Breviary related workplace, push for a Dallas creamery, reopening of First National Bank in Brooklyn, a San Antonio post office expansion bill, a fatal accident from fainting at a sewing project, a Dallas clothing theft, a hunter’s heart attack near Oklahoma City, and railway and municipal news. Also noted are political, crime, natural disaster, and court actions including a jail break prevention, smallpox in Tyler, and a rattlesnake den discovery near Robbinapore with a fatality from a theater accident in Texarkana.
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