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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1891
Page
9
A fragment from the Weatherford area lists the Pacific Trail with Serta Fe Railway timetable details for mineral wells and Weatherford, noting a bid by Mineral Wells for Gordon county seat. The piece also covers local politics, health, and legislative turnover, mentioning Rev Sam Jones’s health, Senator E K Wilson’s death, and editorials on Texas legislature.
The Sioux dances continue with Sitting Bull back, drawing about 1000 Keechies area Indians. Less enlightened members are loudest, threatening to move away Christian sites as hundreds waver. Rev Hicks and the Indian agent see a serious, uncertain outcome.
At the Texas and Pacific city depot last night after the eastbound passenger train arrived a trunk loaded west of Dallas exploded on the platform scattering bystanders and rainmen. Contents including coats vests suspenders hose a pistol shotgun shells and other items burst into flames when a cap struck something.
Centrania Indiana February 24. Unprecedented rainfall has caused floods that drown hundreds of hogs and wash away fences and bridges. The Kaskinska river swelled unusually, rising rapidly and flooding low lands. Many fog rafts broke free, causing heavy losses for lumbermen.
A Texas Stockman and Farmer correspondent urges careful selection and maintenance of farming tools, storage, and organization to save time and improve work. The column includes political notes on Cleveland's 1892 nomination, Interstate Commerce Commission wheat rates, legislative education, and real estate promotion, ending with a note on a pen account shortage.
A survey of lawmakers’ plans as Congress adjourns shows Illinois figures Cannon and Payson departing for the West and Washington respectively, Baker seeking treasury aide, Butterworth taking up World’s Fair duties, and Texas members returning to practice or farming. Debates over Indian depredation claims and the court system follow, with figures like Faulkner and Hogg debating funding for schools and bonds while Comptroller McCall is cleared of any wrongdoing.
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