03 Dec 1909
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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1909
Page
1
United States and Chile face arbitration by King Edward of England over the Alsop claim. Chile offers direct settlement of 335 000, down from 3 000 000, amid conflicting diplomatic accounts and protocol disagreements.
Edgar G. Harris reports Americans jailed in Managua and other Nicragua towns for refusing Zelaya war fund payments. Some bought release, others remain in prison. Washington delays on Grace and Cannon killings hinge on whether they served with a revolutionary army. US v ic e consulate seeks details as ships and marines may be concentrated on the Nic araguan coast.
Engineer corps reached Gabriel as Rockdale funds the survey. Town confidence rises that the line will be built, opening Texas territory. If extended by Santa Fe it would become the shortest route to San Angelo and the far west.
In Columbus Texas Mr. J. Davidson a Southern Pacific freight clerk and baggagemaster died Friday from a gunshot wound believed to be self inflicted. He had suffered a bruised leg and foot for days and fainted in the street on Thursday amid despondency.
Houston buyer F. T. Williams purchased over 300 acres sold by J. C. League in Harris County section No. 2 of the Washington County Railroad company survey for 33 957.50. The land lies about eight miles from the county courthouse in Houston.
Lonnie Alexander of Cedar Creek was enlisted in the army and deserted from a Michigan post about a year ago. He was captured at his father’s property near Cedar Creek on Friday by Deputy Sheriff Murchison. Sheriff Townsend sent the prisoner to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio for authorities there.
The department of insurance and banking approves Houston National Exchange Bank of Houston and Guarantee State Bank and Trust Company of Dallas as reserve agents for Buckholts State Bank of Buckholts, Texas.
Brenham and nearby towns in Washington County hold a record with at least eleven weddings on Thanksgiving Day.
Sixty seven coops of turkeys shipped by express from a small station on the San Antonio and Aransas Pass road to slaughtering houses to be dressed and sold in the East. The birds average twelve per coop totaling 804 fowls and near one thousand dollars in potential farmers’ earnings. Clara C. Starr paid Texas state taxes totaling 3437.94 on land across Texas with taxable values over 1.5 million dollars.
The state penitentiary board ordered the sale of twelve million feet of standing timber from state forests in Cherokee county, located between Rusk and Palestine, at an informal session this week. C. C. French of Fort Worth visits Nacogdoches to pursue land matters for a demonstration hog-raising farm for Fort Worth yards.
In Yoakum Texas turkeys sell for 1.50 or more and remain scarce. Local produce houses are paying 10c a pound while supply is tight, signaling potential foregone holiday meals as demand stays high. White quail note follows.
El Paso customs officials seized 400 cans of opium valued at 7000 dollars with no arrests made.
Flatonia Texas reports the turkey killing plant processed more than 700 turkeys on Tuesday. The facility handles hundreds of fine turkeys hauled in daily.
A Tioga woman tests servants by interviewing candidates in her parlor with her Angora cat Billy present. If Billy purrs and sits on the lap the applicant is kept. if he retreats, she is dismissed. The method hinges on temper and kindness as key traits. A Brooklyn Citizen joke notes shopping without a chaperone as improper.
A historic injunction case involving Adina De Zavala was sustained at the Alamo, marking a notable legal action tied to preservation and local heritage. Details remain limited but indicate a ruling upholding the injunction.
The First Court of Civil Appeals in Galveston sustains the Harris County lower court ruling in favor of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas in the Adina De Zavala case. The decision grants perpetual injunctions prohibiting De Zavala and her faction from using the DRT name and meddling with Alamo property and funds.
The attorney general's department approved for registration several bonds including Bell County common school district No. 80 schoolhouse bonds $1,500 five tens at 5 percent Bell County common school district No. 77 schoolhouse bonds $700 five tens at 5 percent Wood County common school district No. 2 schoolhouse bonds $800 ten twenties at 5 percent district No. 10 $1,100 City of Canyon City water works and sewerage bonds $25,000 twenty-fours at 5 percent.
Corpus Christi Texas completes half of its five mile street railway track by Wednesday and promises car service by January 1. The project aims to expand urban transit with ongoing construction and future operation plans.
August Jaehne living about four miles northwest of Giddings Texas was shot in the head and shoulder and left dangerously wounded as he returned home from town on Wednesday.
Austin Tex Wednesday Commissioner of Labor Statistics Myers said he was most thankful at Thanksgiving that eleven violations of the child labor law were reported to the department and each case was settled without court action.
Austin investigators completed and sent to the governor a report on convict treatment and penitentiary abuses and adjourned to reconvene in Huntsville likely around January. McKinney: Louis Coffman, ex-constable, convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, the second white man sentenced to death in Collin county in thirty years.
Authorities report the Red Front store in Cisco Texas robbed Wednesday night of goods valued between 800 and 900 dollars. Stolen items include rings watches chains sterling silver toilet sets silverware and many other articles.
Brownsville Texas witnesses recount explosions of cartridges during the Fort Brown barracks fire on October 15. Hearing notes material evidence destruction and public access since troops left. witnesses place risk to Brownsville city safety and describe grass burning preceding discovery.
Flatonia Texas reports up to date 1850 bales weighed with Kristek's gin producing thirty bales Saturday. The harvest is all fall crop and a great help to farmers.
In San Marcos Texas at dawn on a farm owned by Robert Kyle, Margerita Navarro was shot and killed. A bystander or suspect named Reyna was also shot in the stomach and is expected to die.
Lee Dunham and Robert Dunham, two young white brothers famed in Harris and Chambers counties, were killed by gunfire Saturday about one mile from Houston. Ea Weber, jailed on murder charges, admits firing but refuses to discuss the tragedy.
A local firm bought 103 bales of Farmers Union cotton from Motley county farmers, parading Main Street with forty wagons. The sale brought about $8,000 at an 18.90 cent middling basis, with nearly all bales grading middling.
Victoria Texas Enrique Gonzales 22, Mexican, member of an extra gang of the Sunset, was killed at the Y near the old off mill grounds Sunday. Z M Ratliff 38, timekeeper of the gang, was arrested charged with the killing after Gonzales was shot in the stomach, death instantaneous.
Word reached Forest Mississippi that Dr Clay Henderson was shot and killed Tuesday night by Bell Hudson his brother in law near Zion about twenty miles north of Forest No further details are known at this time.
Mount Pleasant Texas constable P A White arrested his own son Walter White after the killing of Mat Dodson a negro at Winfield eight miles west of Mount Pleasant in an altercation in which White reportedly fired the revolver into Dodson.
Big Springs Texas reports persistent rainfall with two and a half inches measured on Saturday, marking a wetter period in West Texas not seen since May 1908.
The California Fig Syrup Co claims unique methods and chemists’ work produce Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. Buyers should ensure the full California Fig Syrup Co. name appears on the package to avoid imitations and ensure proper effects.
A Kneeling Proposition notes the death of Pony Moore at age eighty, describing him as one of the last minstrels and recalling a joke peopled with regional dialect. A telegram from Atchison reports the engagement of Hiram Hardesty and Suzette Snarley, set on a red sofa in her parlor where the couple share a kiss and ink their future.
A Walker County Messenger correspondent recounts a criminal court verdict where a man named Crum was found guilty of bigamy. Judge McReynolds offered the minimum sentence, prompting Crum to plead for mercy and prefer prison over the alternative.
A Memphis wife recounts how her husband recovered from stomach and heart troubles after stopping coffee and using Postum. She notes a gain of thirty five pounds in a year, says boiling Postum fifteen minutes improved taste, and urges others to switch. The piece promotes a pamphlet called The Road to Wellness.
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