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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1920
Page
1
Twenty five Texas Rangers left Wichita Falls at noon to take possession of disputed boundary property. Sam Sparks, a Texas claimant, said the Rangers would face no anticipated resistance from Oklahoma officials in the Texas Oklahoma border dispute.
Austin, Jan 24. Assistant Attorney General W A Keeling, who has been in Wichita county on the Texas Oklahoma boundary dispute, returned to Austin and saw no signs of a pending clash between Texas Rangers and Oklahoma deputies. He believes the matter will be settled in the courts.
Senator Jim Reed of Missouri, in the Senate, accuses Herbert Hoover of acting as a go between Col. House and top British officials during wartime negotiations. Reed labels Hoover’s candidacy as a “semi promoted boom for president” and says he was so close to the British government he served as a convenient link.
Champion Johnny Kilbane will face Johnny Murray of New York in a six round featherweight match in Philadelphia tomorrow night. Murray must weigh 122 pounds at ringside while Kilbane appears at catchweights. Kilbane receives 1500 dollars plus 35 percent of gross receipts. Murray gets 20 percent.
The Times presents a daily forecast from the U S Weather Bureau in New Orleans. Tonight will be cloudy and colder with temperatures from 24 to 28 degrees. Sunday is expected to be fair and cold.
Observations for the 24 hours ending 7 am show a maximum temperature of 62 with a minimum of 47 degrees. Wind general direction from the north. Sky cloudy.
Chicago January 24 indictments were issued against 40 men and women named as high in the counsel of the communist libel party. Virtually every prominent radical in the United States faces trial in Chicago. Six tradition papers are being prepared for those indicted who reside in other states.
At least two men died when a blaze swept the main hotel in Dallas downtown. Two occupants leaped from windows and were hospitalized with injuries. Firemen search the wreckage for additional victims. The dead include T. L. Chastain, night watchman for American Express, and J. Cowan, a Western Union lineman.
Centenary events mark Henry J. Raymond and Gen. John M. Thayer as notable figures. Twenty fifth anniversary of the Chicora steamship disaster remembrance. Cornerstone for New York Civic Auditorium to be laid by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Also Burns birthday observances and bishops’ anniversaries noted for Sunday January 25.
January 24 marks the sixty fifth birthday of Charles Niehaus a leading American sculptor born in Cincinnati educated in public schools there and at Munich Royal Academy His works are scattered nationwide including Garfield Ingalls Morton and Allen portraits at the Capitol Washington study of Gibbon and Moses at the Library of Congress Trinity Church bronze doors in New York Hooker and Davenport statues at the Connecticut State House McKinley and Harrison memorials at Canton and Indianapolis He won the contract to design the Francis Scott Key national memorial in Baltimore three years ago.
AP dispatch from Paris reports Britain France and Italy to meet before the deal for former Emperor William von Holland. The central issue is whether the surrender demand will go to The Hague or Berlin. London hosts the next meeting with date not set. In other war news Field Marshal Haig plans February 1 retirement and navy command reverts to the army council.
A severe earthquake shock was felt in Vancouver British Columbia shortly after 11 o clock last night. People rushed from buildings in alarm but there was no material damage reported beyond telephone service interruptions. The quake originated near Seattle and was felt across the area with evacuations and light disturbances noted.
Three distinct earthquake shocks were felt last night in Seattle Washington with no material damage reported so far. Shocks were also felt in Bellingham and Anacortes, where windows were broken and brick walls cracked in a number of houses.
Cautionary storm warnings for small craft were ordered displayed along the Texas coast by the weather bureau. Moderate northerly winds are predicted and freezing temperatures are forecast near the coast by Sunday morning.
Chicago reports Dr Earl C Carr senior grade lieutenant in charge of the main laboratory at the Great Lakes naval training station has isolated the influenza germ, he announced today.
Influenza and pneumonia continued to spread in Chicago today at a rate exceeding 12,000 new cases every 24 hours. Authorities warned of rising patient load as hospitals prepared for surges and emphasized preventive measures amid the winter outbreak.
The document presents the Laredo National Bank of Laredo Texas closing figures for December 31 1919 including assets such as loans and discounts bonds and securities and cash and exchange totaling about 2.4 million and liabilities with capital stock surplus undivided profits and circulation. Officers listed include M W Brennan Asst Cashier A L Vidaurri Asst Cashier and J R Fasnacht Asst Cashier.
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