Texas News Highlights From Recent Texan Events
Texas reports from the cold spell include fat hogs slaughtered and meat markets stocked with country sausage and other pork products. Longview Safety League elects Joe Vickery as chairman and Mrs Don Flourey as secretary. Cuero crews repair damage from ice and sleet storm. Cotton totals rise in Shelby County, while Marble Falls pegs a 400000 pound pecan crop valued at $60000. Galveston cattle losses near 10 percent. Wright Morrow named first assistant attorney general under Dan Moody. Texas exports reach 527 million with Galveston district accounting for 96 million. Deer and game law violators fined in Montgomery County. Cotton remaining unpicked in West Texas totals 26000 bales. Textbook commission halts new adoptions, saving about 300000 dollars. Texas safety drive urged for 1925. Southern agricultural commissioners invited for Austin meeting. License No 1 issued to Miriam A Ferguson, governor elect, for 1925 vehicle. Gulf Coast cattle losses put at 2187500 dollars across the region. San Benito Rio Grande railroad extension, the Spider Web, to be completed next year aiding fruit shipments.
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Texas
Texas Council of Safety
Clarence E Gilmore
Railroad Commission
Council
Gilmore
George B. Terrell
Austin
State Highway Commission
Mra
Miriam A Ferguson
Belton
James E. Ferguson
Gulf Coast
Henry Fox
Houston National Bank
H. H. Schutz
Bureau of Animal Industry
San Benito and
Rio Grande
George Winsor
San Benito
Rilo 4Irande
High Court Rules On Sale Of State Land
The Texas Supreme Court declares the official advertising method for state land sales illegal in A V Weaver et al v Land Commissioner J T Robison. Weaver seeks mandamus to stop a sale argued to have occurred before forfeiture. The Yoakum area land sale is cited as affected, with wide implications for thousands of acres sold for nonpayment of interest.
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Austin
Tex
Supreme Court
A. V. Weaver
J. T. Robison
Weaver
Land Commissioner
Yoakum
Supreme
Texas Presses War Claim For Federal Refund
Austin Texas war claims of 250 000 against the federal government are to be pressed for appropriations made by the legislature during the world war. Attorney General W A Keeling says Senator Sheppard will introduce a bill in Congress to provide the refund. The legislature appropriated almost 1 000 000 for war purposes and about 260 000 was used. Keeling has audited accounts and negotiated with the war department for two years for ranger home force pay subsistence for military protection the state council of defense and related activities.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
W. A. Keeling
United States
Sheppard
Congress
Keeling
War Department
Ranger
State Council
of Defense
Christmas Eve School Fire Claims 33 Dead
Hobart Oklahoma reports the death toll from the Babb Switch District No. 42 rural school fire as 33 with twenty more injured. A candle on a Christmas tree sparked the blaze in a one story building packed with students, trapping many near a back exit amid heavy snow delaying rescue efforts.
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Hobart
Okla
Babb Switch
Oklahoma City
Kiowa County
Gompers Estate Valued at 30000 in Probate Case
Washington report states Samuel J Gompers as executor filed Wednesday in District of Columbia supreme court a petition for probate of his father Samuel Gompers will. The $30000 estate is contested by the widow Gertrude A Gompers who would receive only the legal minimum. The executer’s attorneys ask Gertrude Gompers to show cause why the will should not be admitted to probate.
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Washington
Samuel Gompers
Samuel J Gompers
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Gertrude A. Gompers
French Flier Doret Breaks 5000-KM World Record
Aviator Doret of Etampes France broke the 5000 kilometer world record for distance in a single flight carrying 250 kilograms. He averaged about 223 kilometers per hour. The previous record was set by Aviator Meister in the United States last June.
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U. S
Etampes
France
Doret
Meister
United States
Sabatini Wins $10,000 Prize for Scaramouche
Rafael Sabatini is awarded the Adolph Zukor prize of $10,000 for the best motion picture story or play of the year ending last Sept. 1. The Authors' League of America announced the award Friday.
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New York
Rafael Sabatini
Adolph Zukor
Authors’ League of America
Four Perish in Fire at Stamford Inn
Four persons including a mother and two children and a mat died in a spectacular Stamford Inn blaze Thursday night. Mrs. W. B. Winters of Balls Crosby County died from burns at a local hospital hours after the fire. Warren Winters Jr age 3 and Johnnie Bessie Winters 16 months also perished. E. D. Lotspeich 48, Stamford cotton buyer, is listed among the dead.
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Stamford
Tex
Stamford Inn
West Texas
W. B. Winters
Balls
Crosby County
Warren Winters, Jr
Johnnie Bessie Winters
E. D. Lotspeich
Humble Well Delivers 200 Barrel Producer in Vernon Pool
In the South Vernon oil district a Humble Company well, No. 1 Castleberry in section 83, produced 200 barrels from a 32 foot pay zone at 1324 feet. The well extended the productive horizon about a half mile east, starting at the deep 2086 foot sand and showing oil in the 10-inch pipe during completion.
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Wichita Falls
South Vernon
Humble Company
Castleberry
Weather Halts Drilling In Panhandle Oil Fields
Weather stops drilling in the Panhandle oil fields at Amarillo Texas for several days. Wells near pay sand may have completions when weather improves. Notable is the Twin Six producer in southern Hutchinson County owned by Amarillo citizens.
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Amarillo
Tex
Panhandle
Hutchinson County
Well completion links Carey and Harmel pools in Archer County
Wichita Falls Texas report states Murchison Fain and Golding completed the No 1 well on the Cambrell tract, bridging undeveloped territory between Carey and Harmel pools. Sand found at 1183 feet, penetration to 1218 feet, with several flows and production around 400 barrels daily. The new well sits four miles northwest of Olney.
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Wichita Falls
Tex
Murchison, Fain & Golding
Cambrell
Archer County
Carey
Harmel
Olney
Potash Strata Found Near Paducah Texas
Paducah area oil drillers T. J. Woodley and A. J. Harper probe a wildcat test nine miles northeast of town and discover six potash strata at depths of 1100 and 1600 feet. Chemical analysis confirms potash content in the findings.
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Paducah, Tex
T. J. Woodley
A. J. Harper
Texas firm to drill wells near Hondo Medina County
The Texas Company has closed a deal with Ina Oil Company in Medina County south of Hondo to drill a number of wells on the Ina acreage. Operations will start as soon as legal formalities are concluded, according to word received from Hondo.
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San Antonio
Tex
Texas Company
Ina OW
Medina County
Hondo
Ina
Prospecting for a pipe line through Grimes County
The Texas Production Company manager is in Anderson prospecting for a pipe line from Wortham to Houston with route extending to Iola in North Grimes County and likely through Anderson. Rights of way are being secured nearly as far as this place.
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Anderson
Tex
Texas Production Company
Grimes County
Wortham
Houston
Iola
Wortham Oil Field Near Mexia Grows Quickly
In Mexia Texas the Wortham oil field has grown to 292 derricks in various stages and eight producing wells. The field, less than a month old, reports 300 operations in progress.
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Mexia
Texas
Wortham
Pipe Line for Pumping Plant Near Wortham Texas
The Sinclair Pipe Line Company has begun laying out a large pipe line pumping plant with homes for employees and supply houses for operations just outside Wortham Texas.
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Mexia
Texas
Sinclair Pipe Line Company
Worlh
Wortham
Breckenridge Oil Driller Killed in Rig Accident
Breckenridge Texas, Friday report death of J Po Swanson a driller at Walkerwell No 3 three miles north of Breckenridge when a wheel on a rig struck him on the head nearly decapitating him the impact instant.
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Breckenridge
Tex
J. Po. Swanson
Walkerwell No
Gas well in Sheridan fields yields 1.9 million cubic feet daily
Dunkirk New York reports the largest gas well ever struck in the Sheridan fields flowing at more than 1.9 million feet per day on Friday, signaling a major energy find.
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Dunkirk
N. Y
Sheridan Fields
Coast Guard Nets 19 Prisoners and Schooner Patara
Coast guard cutters Rarilan and Seneca captured nineteen prisoners and a British schooner Patara after a forty mile chase. The seizure included three ambers and liquor valued at more than 500000 dollars.
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New York
Coast Guard
Rarilan
Seneca
Britain to raise airship shed larger than Lakehurst
London plans a new airship shed bigger than the Lakehurst hangar to house one of two five hundred thousand cubic feet capacity airships the British government will build. The project targets the era’s giant airships and national prestige in air power expansion.
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London
Britain
Lakehurst
N. Gf
Tag Shbenandoah
Los Angeles
Hoover Named Dead of Sleuths Washington
J E Hoover acting director of the Justice Department investigation bureau since William J Burns retirement. Wednesday was appointed director of the bureau by Attorney General Stone.
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Washington
J. E. Hoover
Justice Department
Buresu
William J. Burns
Wedneay
Bureau
Stone
Slayer of Bride Dies in Scaffold Conviction
Lester Kahl, a 24 year old farmer from CarHoville, was executed on the scaffold Monday for the murder of his bride only 18 days after their marriage.
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CarHoville
Hal
Lester Kahl
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