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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1910
Page
1
In Fort Worth on August 2, Texas Farmers' Union leaders seek unity over the central selling plan. President Loudermilk opens the convention as county unions without new charters join the floor. About four hundred attend hoping to resolve disputes over withdrawal from the National association.
The notice states the bank has more than twenty five hundred regular customers and invites inquiry into the manner of service rendered.
Dalhart records four inches of precipitation over three days including Sunday. The week’s rainfall highlights widespread wet weather in the area and affects local conditions.
New Orleans La August 2 forecast calls for generally fair weather tonight and Wednesday with clear skies and light breezes. Winds from the south to southwest at modest speeds. Highs and lows not specified in the fragment.
Governor Campbell will urge enactment of a quart and three mile liquor law when the House convenes this afternoon. A Senate poll shows 16 to 15 against passage, with pressure mounting. If defeated, Campbell is expected to request a constitutional convention.
The Dallas News tally shows H Bascom Thomas ahead by 51 votes over A B Davidson in the lieutenant governor contest. Returns have not yet confirmed the final nominee as to which candidate will secure the nomination.
Dallas businessmen hosted Democratic governor candidate W. B. Colquitt at a Monday night banquet. He urged the fire rating board law be disposed of, warned against radicalism, and promised to oppose statutes that scare capital or endanger honest money. He pledged no extra sessions and to govern with the Constitution in hand.
The Palestine jail holds eleven white men on charges of involvement in the Slocum killings. Eight to eleven black victims are reported, with a grand jury in Anderson County investigating the affair.
Dr Crippen and Ethel Clare Le Neve are likely to remain in Quebec until August 18 under British law. They will not fight extradition on charges of murdering Belle Elmore, the doctor's actress wife.
Austin Aug 2 Senate passes final bill to retire 1 553 700 in state bonds maturing 1919 and 1910 with emergency clause. House already approved. Liquor bills to curb intoxicant sales near state institutions and a quart law are planned. Senate exec session set. fireworks loom over Canales Reaves probe into a stale fund in recent primaries.
Reports from San Benito indicate six Mexicans were killed in a clash with state rangers and local citizens. A 1125‑strong posse hunted the Rio Grande region for the ambushers who killed Rangers Henry Lawrence and P. Carnes. Brownsville dispatches say the excitement subsided.
A compiled list reveals most candidates filed detailed accounts of campaign expenses. Names include S. T. Coleman, W. C. Orr, J. W. Beaty, H. V. Hennen, Sam Hawkins, Oscar T. Button, and others with amounts ranging from under 3 dollars to over 192 dollars.
Craighead the ranger who was wounded near Benito on Sunday is improving and likely to recover. It is learned he was shot by his own men when they approached in an automobile and he fired to halt them, receiving a volley in the breast. No arrests yet. Papers were sent to Mexico for the arrest of the Mexicans involved.
State Superintendent Brasky projects Texas scholastics at around 915,000 with a per capita figure near 6.25 dollars. The rise is tied to an increase in voting numbers totaling about 25,000 as smaller counties weigh in.
In Brenham Texas early today Ed Hughes and Perry Callahan dueled with a revolver and a shotgun. Hughes was shot in the breast and killed while Callahan sustained a gunshot wound to the right leg.
The fragmentary Census Bureau data provoke Republican concern as Southern gains outpace Eastern states. Talks consider recalculating representation by votes rather than counts, potentially reducing Southern influence consistent with Negro vote elimination. Texas and Oklahoma drives surge, with Oklahoma up 585 percent and Texas up about 48.7 percent in ten years.
Oklahoma City Aug 2 voters press to the polls as Democrats and Republicans hold primaries for governor and state posts. In the Democratic race Lee Cruce faces W H Murray while the Republican contest pits Joe McNeal against Horonia Ferguson. In Muskogee clashes erupt over political disputes as Black voters oppose the grandfather clause and boycott candidates.
Seymour Texas August 2 Baylor county grand jury investigates the killing of Watt Cline nineteen by William Green about nineteen at Man s ranch five miles from town Cline was stabbed eight times and died in minutes Both families are prominent their quarrel over a sweetheart led to the fatal incident.
Reports from Slocum and DeLeon say peace now reigns after recent race riots in which eighteen to twenty five Black residents were killed. Eight white men are jailed awaiting grand jury indictments expected this afternoon. Saloons reopened at noon as Adjutant General Nawton returned to Austin.
Attorney General Wick ersham rules no censorship over statues sent to Statuary Hall and notes no ethical reason to remove Robert E. Lee. Mississippi legislature already authorized a Davis monument to stand in Statuary Hall unless Congress acts to block it.
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