Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 48
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, November 6, 1907
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CURRENT NEWS COMMENTS.
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Items of Interest From State and
Nation.
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Scarlet fever is reported in Temple.
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Secretary Taft is heading for the United States.
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The Dallas Fair has closed its 1907 season and it is San Antonio next.
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H. Dorris, a tenant of Paul Holmes, near Texarkana, who was shot by the latter,
is dead.
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At Troy the butchers sell steak at 10 cents per pound, roast at 7 and 8 cents,
pork and sausages at 12 1-2 cents.
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The celebrated Busby case has again been continued owing to illness in the
family of the state prosecuting attorney.
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The slow, steady drizzling rains throughout the state, the farmers say, has put
the ground in condition for next year's crop.
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Mrs. Edmund Kirby Smith, widow of a famous Confederate general, is dead at
Chattanooga, Tenn.
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The land sales of the school land department of the state treasury department
for the month of October amounted to $152,161.39..
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During the recent flurry some of the farmers in the state have turned
their cotton loose, while a great majority of them adhered to their
determination.
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Missouri is going "dry" fast. Already fifty of the 114 counties have voted
dry. About 25 counties are to hold elections before Dec. 31.
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Olin Hoover, 10 years of age, was accidentally shot and killed by Walker
Johnson, 10 years old, while hunting ducks on a pond near Seymour.
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Robert Morrell, a ten-year-old boy of Rockport, is badly burnt by the explosion
of a bottle which he filled with gun powder. The injuries are chiefly on
the legs but very painful.
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W. E. Austin & Co. of Bay City sent to the Indiana fair by express a bunch of
nine Satsuna oranges grown near that city. This is said to be the finest
bunch yet to be seen in Texas.
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The directors' table in the New York Life Mutual Insurance office at which the
elder McCurdy presided many years, and which cost the company $12,000, has been
sold for $110.
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The town of Boyd, Texas, has been summoned to appear before the grand jury in
Sixty-seventh district court at Fort Worth in regard to the unsanitary condition
of the packing houses.
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Report from Commissioner of Agriculture shows for the month of October the
amount of cotton ginned in Texas 536,519,519 square and 26,816 round bales.
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Chas. E. Brewster, of the department of agriculture at Washington, is in Texas
looking over the agricultural situation. In former years he is dubbed the
father of the Texas game warden law.
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Masonic lodge No. 4, of Fredericksburg, Md., appropriately observed Nov. 4, the
155th anniversary of George Washington's initiation into the order.
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In Norway a man cannot vote unless he has been vaccinated, as the law of that
country provides that vaccination is one of the voter's qualifications.
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As a result of the murder of Tom Thompson, assistant chief of police of
Talladega, Ala., Fred Singleton, a negro, was riddled with bullets by a posse.
The officer was in the act of arresting three negro crap shooters when he was
killed.
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The body of Glen Ty, a Chinaman in City of Mexico, was found by the police in a
rooming house with the head entirely severed from the body. Fourteen
Chinamen who roomed with Ty are in jail.
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Two cases of typhoid fever were developed in the Scaritt Bible and Training
School at Kansas City. The pure food inspection department located the
source of the disease upon a milkman who washed his tins in water from a spring.
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Bill Mitchell has been acquitted of the charge of murder of the Truitts by the
jury at Grandbury. The murder is said to have been committed thirty years
ago, for which Coon Mitchell was hanged. Bill was not apprehended until
this year.
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County Attorney Nunn of Williamson county had local officers raid cold drink
establishments in Taylor and in these raid the officers found "O Be Joyful"
liquid at each stand in quantities from a case of 4-quart bottles to a 16-gallon
keg, which were confiscated. The owners were arrested.
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John D., the oil magnate, has cornered the labor market at Tarrytown.
Contractors and others needing men cannot obtain workmen and teams. All
such are employed by John D. at better wages and shorter hours and he holds
them.
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John L. Lewis, a smooth negro artists (sic) was arrested at Ennis for swindling
his race. His method consisted of rubbing and applying liniment which he
offered for sale. On charge of unlawfully practicing medicine he was
committed in default of $300 bail.
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The 37th regular meeting of the Southwestern Tariff Commission of Railroads will
be held on board a steamship in the gulf of Mexico Nov 11. It is claimed
that this will be the first meeting to discuss railroad freight charges ever
held on board a steamer.
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The recent rains and floods which visited France, Portugal, Spain, Italy,
Switzerland and Germany, have, according to official reports, reduced the annual
supply of wine to about fifty per cent.
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During the "old hoss" sale of the Wells-Fargo Express at Houston, a negro put in
a bid of 15 cents for a purse and finding $6 cash in it, he spent nearly the
entire $6.00 buying other packages in the hope of finding more money, but
failed.
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Governor Campbell will be tendered a banquet on Nov. 16 at San Antonio and great
preparations are being prepared for this event. 500 invitations are out
and places are reserved for the first mailing in their invitation accompanied by
the price, $3.00.
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S. B. Young of Abilene is spending a few days in the city on business. He
says that the Abilene country is not so wet as this, in fact has been very dry,
but he still maintains that it is the "best country on earth" and that it will
produce as much cotton this year as Central Texas.
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The proclamation of Lieut-Gov. Sanders of Louisiana assuming the reins of
government in the absence of Governor Blanchard, on a visit to the Jamestown
expedition, fell like a bombshell on the public generally. Governor
Blanchard hurried back as quick as steam could carry him to stop the row.
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Deputy Marshal Grant Cowan of Okmulgee, I. T. offered to pay
$50.00 for the bird dog belonging to H. A. Cross of Henrietta, Texas. The
dog is a wonder and instead of birds, he pointed bottles, empty or filled, with
whiskey, and has furnished clue to discovery of whiskey hidden by bootleggers.
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Geronimo, the aged Apache chief is angry because the issuances (sic) of checks
to the Apache Indians have been discontinued account of stringency occasioned by
lack of currency, and has written to President Roosevelt, declaring that his
people are actually starving and suffering for clothes and shelter.
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The most universal demand by the people of Oklahoma upon their first state
legislature will be the enactment of a "jim crow" law. There are many
valid reason (sic) for this. The first is that Oklahoma is of the "solid
south," just as much so as Arkansas and Texas, from which states a very large
per cent of her population originally came. The second is, the negroes in
Oklahoma, and especially the Indian Territory side of the state, are arrogant,
impudent and aggressive, because the majority of them are land holders and have
money, and long for equality of races.
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