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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1909
Page
3
Mr Taft traversed Texas on Sunday from El Paso to San Antonio drawing cheers from crowds along the route. The journey showcased support across communities as he spoke on national issues and toured key sites.
President Taft completed the first leg of a 1600 mile Texas tour as his special train joined an eastbound Southern Pacific passenger train into San Antonio. He will rest at his brother's ranch near Corpus Christi before continuing to St Louis via Houston and Dallas.
Laredo reports the Mexican government has temporarily rescinded the duty on corn to replenish depleted supplies amid severe drought and looming floods in the northern corn belt. The shortage in growing crops and low storage levels risks actual suffering and high prices.
Sixteen days without food or water except rain and scarcity from a waterlogged schooner’s hold, told by survivors of the Kate Feore of Mobile bound for Mantanzas Cuba, rescued by the Winnifred at sea and brought to Port Arthur.
Dallas will entertain the National Association of Wholesale Druggists next year with several hundred manufacturers and jobbers expected to attend. The invitation was accepted during the convention in Richmond Virginia this week, aligning with plans near the State Fair period.
At a Brownsville meeting Captain John C. Oakes argued Brazos de Santiago Pass could serve as a deep water port and urged Congress to authorize an intercoastal canal from the pass to the Rio Grande about nine miles.
Dallas reports show a cold wave moving into the Southwest with readings around 40 degrees in parts of the Texas Panhandle and nearby Oklahoma. The advance was noted from multiple points Monday night as temperatures drop across the region.
In Muskogee Oklahoma engineer A P Vance of Fayetteville Arkansas was crushed beneath his engine and killed instantly. Fireman Henry Smith of Monett Missouri sustained a broken shoulder but is expected to recover. The wreck occurred on the Frisco line three miles east of Tahlequah Oklahoma Saturday night.
Admiral Togo the goat will visit San Antonio during the president’s stay. Wool from Togo’s back was used to weave the famous pants presented to President Taft at his inauguration. The event ties a local animal to a historic gift for the president.
Dallas reports the Texas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium opened for inspection as staff prepared for regular care of medical cases. The facility is described as having the most complete operating quarters in the South or Southwest and was showcased Wednesday for the first time.
Ennis reports cotton selling at 13.15 cents per pound, the year's highest price reached in the town. The market shows a strong run as buyers bid up the fiber value locally.
In Waxahachie Ellis County farmers, stirred by a poor corn and cotton crop, plan renewed extensive cultivation of small grain after years of limited cereal farming. The move reflects regional crop diversification amid challenging harvests.
After remaining out thirty minutes the jury in the K. Jones murder case returned a guilty verdict on Thursday with death as the punishment.
In Beaumont a handcar carrying seven Black workers collided head on with an eastbound freight train on the Beaumont Sour Lake and Western Railroad Sunday. The three men died. others were injured.
Dallas County tops the state with 102,552,150 in taxable values, Harris County follows at 101,057,125, widening Dallas County’s lead by 1,492,025.
Austin reports a flaw in the gross receipts tax bill. A provision requires quarterly reports of gross receipts from gas and electric utilities to be filed with the Controller, with penalties up to 1000 dollars, but the law applies only to towns over 10,000 inhabitants when it comes to tax payment.
Penitentiary commissioners at their regular Austin meeting decided to begin establishing a cotton factory under Thirty First Legislature funding of 100000 dollars. The board did not yet locate the factory, undecided between Rusk or Huntsville.
Falls County police report a murder and arson on Bud Kirkpatrick’s farm near Chilton on Tuesday night. A barn fire claimed the life of a sleeping young man named McGill, a Black resident.
Decatur resident R E Florida of the Greenwood community harvests five alfalfa crops from eighteen acres in a single year. The crop brings about 18 to 20 dollars per ton, with another cutting already in progress and a third likely.
One man was killed and ten injured when the Houston and Texas Central passenger train bound for Llano struck a burning bridge one mile beyond McNeill, an hour after leaving Austin. The train was almost completely consumed by fire.
The fire loss ratio in Texas for 1909 will be the largest in years, a record-breaker. Fort Worth’s April fire is cited as a major factor, with Dallas, Houston, and other cities also reporting substantial losses.
In Corpus Christi Ramon Mancillas an aged Mexican resident was struck and killed Saturday night by an automobile driven by its owner L. V. Mallett. Mancillas dodged across the road when struck and the driver could not stop in time.
San Antonio notes a former Pennsylvania Railroad worker James Fagan, aged switchman, who years ago earned a Carnegie planned distribution. Carnegie supervised. funds set aside long ago for employees are now paid out.
Dallas Texans returning from New Orleans report that the Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers Association executive committee announces its annual meeting will be held in Little Rock on May 12 and 13.
A good roads committee of the Board of Trade met Tuesday to map out plans for a campaign in favor of a good roads bond issue for a district including Denison.
In Kaufman County a fund of 1200 was raised to erect a Confederate monument under the auspices of the Confederate veterans and other friends of the Lost Cause.
The Southern Presbyterian Church in Quanah plans a $6,000 brick church building. Construction will start soon.
W T Jones, a farmer, was held up by two unknown men just inside the Kaufman city limits Thursday and relieved of $120. Officers fired several shots but were unable to halt the escape.
Heavy rain and wind Friday night caused significant damage in southwestern Smith County near Tyler. Trees were uprooted and several houses blown from their foundations.
People in from Capt. Wright's oil field at Red River City report a successful strike this week. The well reaches about one thousand two hundred feet. a few days ago black oil began flowing as drilling continued.
Washington reports the Dallas post office revenue rose 17.94 percent in September from the same month last year. The gain reflects higher mail volume and service activity across the district.
Amarillo reports about one and a half inches of rain since Sunday night with lower temperatures, the heaviest since June. The rain ends the dust nuisance in cities and towns, replenishes stock water, and enables land breaking, aiding widespread wheat sowing across Texas towns including Fort Worth Abilene San Angelo Belton and Childress with one to two inches reported.
A boiler explosion at the Griffin Sawmill Company plant near Eldorado Arkansas Monday killed seven workers and seriously injured three others. The blast destroyed a large section of the mill after a steam register reportedly failed to indicate overpressure.
Fourteen Chinese men were arraigned before US Commissioner May and, after an examining trial, ordered deported. Police had arrested the Celestials as they attempted to smuggle into the city from the west.
Madrid reports large gatherings of working men in anti government meetings at Bilbao and Corunna on Monday. Violent speeches were delivered as troops are held in readiness to quell potential disorders. The Imparcial states the government is concentrating troops at Madrid to replace those dispatched to Morocco.
Washington reports a major drop in pension rolls with 51,581 total losses last year. Of the 48,312 names struck, 82,381 were Civil War survivors. The invasion of death thinly ranks war veterans reading across national pensions.
Little Rock's T. J. Gay of the Gay Oil Company said he will ask Governor Donaghey on Wednesday to appoint a commission to work with the Oklahoma Commission on establishing an oil pipeline from Oklahoma to the Gulf.
Mineral Point Wisconsin reports F B Hanscom cashier of the wrecked First National Bank of Mineral Point shot and killed himself on Monday. When his body was taken to his mother in law Mrs John Gray's home she dropped dead.
Bodies of Engineer E. B. Crawford and Fireman Thomas Stuttsman killed in the Katy wreck at Halstead, twenty five miles below, were brought to Katy on Monday.
By order of the Court the Muskogee town lot defendants were given twenty days to file and present their bill of exceptions to the court rulings.
In Washington the council of the Scottish Rite for the Southern jurisdiction of the United States held its biennial meeting on Monday, attended by high standing Masons from across America.
Four men were burned to death and another fatally burned in a Wichita feed yard fire on Monday. Thirty horses also perished in the blaze. Local firefighters battled the flames as authorities investigated the cause.
Oklahoma City officials let a drainage canal project thirteen miles long along Deep Fork in Oklahoma and Lincoln Counties. The work will reclaim 8,000 acres of land and was awarded for $75,000 on Monday.
Ray Robinson, 17, a worker at the St Louis Brownsville and Mexico shops in Corpus Christi, was fatally caught by clothing and pulled into a main shaft on Monday.
A Paradise morning shooting leaves W T Klepper dead, allegedly killed by his son in law Ben Burnett. The incident follows a busy news day reporting bank deposit gains, fires, storms, and regional incidents across Texas and Oklahoma.
The Dallas post office reports a 17.94 percent revenue increase in September from the same month last year. Separate items note Oklahoma’s cold wave, a fatal accidental target rifle discharge in Decatur, and the slaying of Newport mayor Y Z Newberry. The rest covers diverse reports from Texas and national items.
A compilation of Texas news notes including Mason plans for a new building in Marshall, cotton selling around 13.15 cents, a Katy brakeman R. P. Wallace killed at Whitesboro, Dallas County leading state taxable values, and major developments in Denison Tyler gas plant contracts. Also mentions Osage of Vancouver, B C, and plans for a Dallas wholesale druggist convention, railways, surveys, alfalfa mill talk, bond issues, oil strikes, fire stations, and a new Dallas Texas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium site opening.
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