Road Overseers Appointed for Precinct No 4 1900
Commissioners Court lists appointed road overseers for Precinct No 4 for 1900 including Jacob Gembler Jake Stather Gus Huebner and many others. It also notes increases to land acquisition allowance and approves various accounts such as per diems printing interpreter fees and feeding prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Gembler
Jake Stather
Gus Huebner
Chas
Henry Applewhite
Burr Whitaker
Fred Chavez
Chris Loemtier
George Stewart
Harry Pawpa
Henry Hehterhof
Gec. Ritmann
Fritz Winkelman
Gustav Brocknow
Frank Pierdella
Tom Dillon
Jesus M. Sanchez
Alex Michalak
M. Pittman
Tom Mahuia
Albert Jacob
Fred Gembler
Julius Hauer
Antonio Cadena
Louis Brehm
Thomas Calloway
Fred Hobrecht
Luz de In Fuente
Wm. Herndon
Henry Adams
Frida Real
B. F. Ackermann
J. A. Pirrle
F. Goebel
Martin Mahula
G. Vogt
Leal
Luz de la Fuente
Cassiano
Justice P. EH. Shook
Butler Kenty
Joan P. Campbell
Distinguished Visitors From Interstate Commerce Commission
Members of the Interstate Commerce Commission and their families toured San Antonio arriving by Southern Pacific from Galveston yesterday. They plan hearings starting March 21 with stops in Phoenix and many western cities, before continuing to El Paso and Phoenix. The visit included a Confederate monument committee report in Austin and plans for the monument on Alamo plaza.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce ‘Commission
J. C. Clement
Georgia
J. D. Yeomans
Towa
San Antonio
Southern Pacific
Galveston
West
Interstate Commerce Commission
el Paso
Phoenix
Ariz
Martin A. Knapp
Joseph Fifer
Tiinois
San Bernardino
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Portland
Denver
Oma
Monuai
Albert
Sidney Johnston
Frank Arnold
Business Men's Club
Austin
Alamo Plaza
Arnold
F. A. Hess
Mr. Arnold
Hicks
W. L. Stiles
W. C. Kroeger
T. J. Sargeon
J. C. Carr
John B. Hood
Menger
Col
Arn
City
E C Old Woman’s Relief Corps Plans March Birthday Party
The E C Old Woman’s Relief Corps will meet on the first and third Wednesdays each month at 3 PM at Mrs. Dient’s residence 10 Casino to arrange activities for the state encampment April 19 20 21 A birthday party will be held at the G A R hall Houston and Navarro streets on Friday night March 23 to entertain delegates and visitors.
City issues several building permits yesterday
City Clerk Johnson issued permits for Carl Hodging to erect a house at 610 Polaris Street for 20 dollars, Mrs C Kampmann to erect a gallery at 809 Nacogroches Street in Ward 6 for 40 dollars, Jesse D Oppenheimer to erect a dwelling at 300 Madison Street for 100 dollars, and J P Smith to erect a gallery at 23 South Pinto Street in Ward 9 for 49 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
Carl Hodging
Polaris Street
C. Kampmann
Nacogroches Street
Jesse D. Oppenheimer
Stu Die
Madison Street
Wards
J. P. Smith
South Pinto Street
Famous Jurist Judge Roy Bean visits city with escort
Judge Roy Bean, famed for controversial rulings, is seen in the city from his ranch west of San Antonio accompanied yesterday by Capt. W. D. Druse. He is remembered for a killing and a fine against a deceased man, amid broader talk of his uncoventional law and influence. Engineers from across the country plan an excursion through on the 26th, with a welcome visit and Mexican supper on the plaza. A fire at 212 East Street damaged a two room house owned by Reine Garrat, burning the roof while extinguished, with loss of furniture and about $60 in cash reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Bean
California
Maine
New York
Florida
Sam Antonio
W. D. Druse
Judge Bean
Hicks
East Street
Reine Garrat
Licensed to Wed Engages Four Couples in Ceremony
Legal notice lists I. S. Starling and Annie May Addington, John Tucker and Rosa Guerrera as parties. A separate pairing of Antonio Leterio and Maria Nevas is noted. The fragment outlines marriage licensing activity with multiple surnames and partners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. S. Starling
Annie May Addington
John Tucker
Rosa Guerrera
Antonio Leterio
Maria Nevasone
Fragments Describe City Clerk Actions on Public Works
Fragmentary text notes permission to lumber and trench work for water pipe repairs. Mentions canal areas and wards, names such as Pine and Macon, and a bottled reference to Bally's box. Details are unclear. the piece reads like a partial public works notice with several garbled phrases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ban
Cody
North Plore
Betes Mare Hain
Macon
Is Vine Gaa
Bally's
SCALPED TICKETS ON RAILWAYS SQUAWKED
A Sunday Light report notes rail lines policing scalper tickets as crowds turn away buyers nightly. March 17 dispatch mentions repeated returns of scalper passes and cites a preacher among offenders, with Southern Pacific traffic chief Morse vowing no more round trip tickets to New Orleans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Railway
Ulassenger
Southern Pacific Road
Morse
Orleans Poultry Show Promises Strong Exhibition
In Louisiana on March 17 the state fair poultry show expects about one thousand birds from all species. Judge Loring Brown of Bolingbroke Georgia will head the panel with an eastern contingent. Prizes include 25 for high scoring fowls, 15 for second, and 25/15 for largest Louisiana exhibitor plus 1 and 50 cents for single classes like cooks and bens, with merchants offering premium offsets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maren
Loring Brown
Bolingbroke
Louisiana
Georgia Senator Race and Kansas City Primary Context
In Georgia the state committee set an early primary amid race tensions with Senator Bacon favored by the executive, while Judge Dick Russell emerges as a leading potential candidate. Russell claims wide county support and hints at a quick public announcement as two months separate the primary. Special dispatch notes Rhodes's horse shipment to South Africa and questions Rhodes influence versus British troops, with 1000 Texas horses intended for country people free of charge and distributed across Jameson raid regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Atlanta
Con
Bacon
Kansas City
Dick Russell
Russel
RHOD
Texas
South Africa
Cecil Rhodes
Dfas
Prosperous Sam's Commerce in Washington March Record
March 17 report shows February 1900s foreign trade at a record high with exports averaging five million dollars per business day and total exports surpassing imports, exceeding prior Februaries by large margins. Gainesville Ga reports Pacalet Milling buys land for a million dollar cotton mill to employ 1400 workers and process 30k bales yearly, plans by Boston architects for full operation next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Sunday Light
Washington, D. C
BIG Southern
MILI
Gainesville
Maret Pacalet Manufacturing Company
Pacalet
Boston
Smallpox in a College Prompt Quarantine Nine Students
Missouri special to Sunday Light reports a college student developed smallpox after a Kansas City trip. He shared a room with eight others. all nine are isolated in tents south of town for fourteen days. The patient, Shelton, resides in Slater Missouri where his father pastors a Baptist church. Capt. B White, US Department of Agriculture special agent, visits cotton leaders in Vicksburg to discuss acreage and planters' concerns for the coming season. Queen sails from Holyhead to Kingstown on April 4 aboard the Victoria and Albert. will return April 28 escorted by cruisers Australia and Galatea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunday Light College
Kansas City
Sheldon
Slater
Vicksburg
Miss
B. ©. White
United States Agricultural —Department
Indian Territory
Texas
Ireland
London
Holyhead
Kingstown
Ictoria
Albert
Australia
Galatia
Windsor
Kentucky's Phase Sparks Push for Federal Aid in Kentucky
In Frankfort on March 17 W S Taylor plans to seek federal intervention if the state court of appeals rules he is no longer governor. A conference with ex Mayor George D Todd Danville's John W Yerkes and General D W Lindsay outlined a call to the president for federal troops to quell a claimed rebellion. Taylor will first dispatch a Washington appeal as a feeler to test the president's response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfort
W. S. ‘Taylor
Court of Appeals
Kentucky
Idaho
Taylor
Washington
Out of Politics Says District Clerk Nat Lewis
District Clerk Nat Lewis declares he is positively out of politics while acknowledging his influence. The statement implies an opening for district clerk with John Stappenbeck already announced and Alderman George Surkey discussed as a potential candidate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nat Lewis
John Stappenbeck
George
Surkey
Out Finlands Court Oath Abolished by Czar
Berlin report in the Cologne Gazette states the czar has abolished the oath for district governors entering Russian state service tied to the Statute of Finland as grand duchy. Powers of local governors and the Sensite will be curtailed, Lieut. Gen. Arocope resigns and the post is abolished with no high Finn official to represent Finnish interests at St. Petersburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finland
Berlin
Cologne
Grand Duchy
Arocope
St. Petersburg
Prominent Gulf and Manitoba Railway Seeks Massive Capital Increase
The Gulf and Manitoba Railway, formed in 1890, announces to the State Railroad Commission its plan to raise capital from 50 000 to 7 000 000 and extend 700 miles from Duluth through Missouri to Kansas City. President Frank T Campbell notes the decision was made February 10, 1900, aiming to connect with the Kansas City Pittsburg and Gulf line now under receivers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duluth
St. Paul
Minn
Gulf and Manitoba Railway Company
State Railroad Commission
Missouri
Kansas City
Frank T. Campbell
Gulf and Mantoba
Kansas City, Pittsburg
Gulf ‘Railroad
American Rice company issues prospectus for stock issue
New York March 17 The American Rice company issues a prospectus announcing 8 percent preferred stock totaling 250 000 and common stock 650 000 par 10 per share The company is formed to acquire cultivate and operate rice lands irrigation and transportation plants in Louisiana It owns 16 000 acres of rice land near Grand Lake La valued at about 160 000 and from current plants in operation expects annual receipts of about 101 952 according to expert reports
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
American Rice Company
Louisiana
Grand Lake
Brigdegroom Arrested in El Paso Marriage Flight
Louis J. Harvey arrested in El Paso as a fugitive from Seattle Washington where four warrants charge embezzlement. He married widow Jeanette Wheeler on March 4 and they planned a wedding tour to Mexico. On returning he agreed to go back to Seattle without requisition papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el Paso
Texas
Louis J. Harvey
Seattle
Washington
Harvey
Jeannette Wheeler
Mexico
Southwest Pass Prospects Improve With Congressional Action
M J Sanders reports a favorable reception in Washington for the New Orleans delegation seeking funds to open Southwest Pass. He says rivers and harbors committees were impressed and expects a future appropriation, likely in the next Congress, to begin opening the Pass. Capt. Bryant remains in Washington awaiting Congress action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
M. J. Sanders
Louisiana Waterways Association
Washington
Southwest Pass
Congress
Capt
Bryant
Louisiana
Mr. Sanders
Hoar questioned over Clark Quay seating arrangement
Washington March 17 A proposed Senate agreement by Senator Hoar to take up Senator Quay’s case on April 3 and use unfinished business raises questions. Critics say Hoar may have been tricked or signaled to Clark supporters, while Quay foes push for timing that limits debate and delays any privileged action.
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Clark
Quay
Washington, D. C
Hoar
Jana
Senate
Senator Long
Senator Quay
Senator Clark
Une
Aimeult
Senator Hoar
Firend
Pennsylvania
Tough Mountain Lawyer Fixed Jury in Davitt Case
In Helena a sensational affidavit seeks a new trial in the Michael Davitt mining case. Eustace Wheeler, Helena attorney, accuses Judge B D Weed of fixing the jury to favor the defendant Montana Ore Purchasing Co. Wheeler says Weed admitted the jury was fixed and cites a letter outlining influence over citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Mont
Michael Davitt
United States
B. Rellins Morse
Boston and Montana Mining Company
Eustace Wheeler
Helena
Hon
B. D. Weed
Montana Ore Purchasing Company
Wheeler
Weed
Waco Street Fair Opens April 9 With Wide Grounds
The Waco witnesses have organized a street fair and merchants carnival to run ten days starting April 9. City council grants 2000 feet of street plus two vacant blocks for grounds. Association officers include F A Winchell president M Holderman vice president Homer D Wade secretary and W W Seley treasurer. Parades planned by Travelers Protective Association United Commercial Travelers Texas Lumbermen’s Association and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waco
Texas
Winess Men
F. A. Winchell
M. Holderman
Homer
Grand Commander Shaw to visit Missouri on inspection tour
Albert G. Shaw commander in chief of the Grant Army of the Republic will arrive in St. Louis on Friday morning March 30 and speak that evening at the 14th Street theatre. City post commanders cooperate with Mrs. Ripley presiding to arrange the reception and committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
St. Louis
Albert G. Shaw
Grant Army of the Republic
Watertown
N. Y
14Th Street
Two white men accused in lynching drive by shooting
In Oxford Mississippi March 17 a 17 year old black boy and his mother were riding home when Mullens and Sanders, two drunk white men, halted them and shot the boy dead. The men fled on one horse. sheriff and deputies captured them and jailed them. The victim had a reputation as an honest, peaceful citizen and widespread indignation followed the atrocity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford
Miss
Earnest Kelley
Mullens
Sanders
Kelley
Board of Health Seeks Northern Port Similar Restrictions
New Orleans March 17 At the recent state board of health meeting resolutions urge that vessels from plague ports undergo Mississippi River quarantine disinfection before approaching the city and be subjected to same rules as southern ports they request Congress to require northern ports to enforce identical restrictions for ships with yellow fever exposure and coming to the United States. Amusements list acts at Grand Opera House include Murray and Mack mimicry and The Lude Minstrel, with Wrights Nashville Students and Gideon's Minstrel Carnival as featured attractions. Cyrano de Bergerac with Mansfeld and company is slated for March 22 with elaborate scenery and costumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
State Board of Health
Mississippi River
Louisiana
United States
Congress
Mississippi River Quarantine Station
Otter
Mr. Charles
Rohman
Grand Opera House
New York
Wrights
Nashville
Gideon
Tchad Mansfeld
Cyrano de Manat
Witi Xcenery
Probate Court to Hear Will Applications Tomorrow
Probate court opens tomorrow for the Moren term with two weeks of sessions. Applications for probate of wills include Mary Zigmond Fredericka Kuefner Patrick Stewart Katherine Bender Edwin Wittig Veeder August Robin George Hailes John H. Wagner Mary J. Mastella Clarke Elian Ho John Lowell Herbert Meyer Weldenheimer. First Church of Christ Sciantiste corner Avenue D and Fifth Street invites public to services Sunday at 11 am and Wednesday at 8 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will
Mary Zigmond
Fredericka Kuefner
Patrick Stewart
Katherine Bender
Edwin Wittig
Veeder
August "Robin
George Hailes
John H. Wagner
Mary J. Mastella Clarke
Elian Ho
John Lowell
Herlbert Meyer
Weldenheimer
First Church of Christ
Sciantiste Corner Avenue D
Fifth Street
Avery
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August Schemmel
Peter Shields
Erin
Burns
Nat Washer
Ellen Herff
Owen
Estelle” Burns
Gus Bobnet
Gounod
Bessie Belle Brown Andrews
Plato
Thorne
Estelle Burns
William L. Herff
Casino Association
George J. F. Schmitt
Bertha
Grothane
Berthold
Miss Haueisen
Mr. Goldstein
Steve Andonette Schmeltzer
Son of
Beethoven
George J. F. Schmit
Bassocolo
Alamo Council No. 44
Order of Chosen Friends
Arbeiter Verein
Mission Garden
Tor
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State Capital News
Tex
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Temple
Houston
Ital
Lott Milling
Lott
Falls County
Shuttles Bros
Lewis Co
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Cedar Valley Land and
Great Britain
Bankers’ Mutual Casualty Company
Des Moines
State Board of Education
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Uncle
McKinley
Tough Mountain Lawyer
Grand Commander
Shaw
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