Typed as spelled and written
by Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 57
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, December 7, 1907
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GENERAL NEWS IN BRIEF
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Items of Interest Condensed for
Busy Readers
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Reports say that farmers throughout Texas are bringing in their cotton very
slow, and a very few are selling notwithstanding the recent advance in the price
of cotton.
During the
Beaumont carnival, an Indian connected with one of the shows was seriously if
not fatally stabbed by a white man.
Three white hoboes compeiled Victor Lockett at Hearne at the point of their fire
arms to furnish them with food. Officers are on the trail to catch them.
Wyoming may be the next state to feel the force of the flood of prohibition
sentiment that has recently swept over a large section of the country with such
remarkable results.
Rufus Williams, charged with robbery by assault on Sallie Giobson and taking
$61,000, has been discharged since the jury failed to agree on a verdict of San
Antonio.
The convicts of the Huntsville penitentiary, under a new rule are barred from
the use of the daily papers, but they are permitted periodicals and magazines
only.
Burnet county comes to the front in the low price of pecans--three cents per
pound. The cause is due to the financial stirngency and the heavy yield.
Between thirty and forty men, most of whom were foreigners were entombed in a
mine by an explosion and so far reported only one escaped. He reached the
surface thhhrough the airshaft but immediately dropped dead from the effect of
inhaling the gas fumes.
Henry Kaegi, a former government official of Switzgerald, arrested in San
Antonio for alleged embezzlement of $100,000 (?) will not fight extradition in
his country and will await for the necessary papers.
Local lumber dealers in San Antonio have announced a cut in prices of an average
of $2.50 per 100 feet on common grades of lumber in order to create an incentive
to building activity in that city.
Cadets A. J. Smith, C. E. Jones, H. W. Faust, G. W. Norton, J. W. McCown and
-----Muller of the A. & M. College are in Chicago attending the International
Livestock exposition and contesting for the valuable prizes given for excellence
in judging stock.
A. A. Bouis, in charge of the dining room of the male annex No. 1 of the Terrell
Insane Asylum, was attacked and stabbed by a Mexican patient, and auso his
throat was cut. The knife used in slicing lightbread was the weapon used.
The injured man is believed to be fatally hurt.
The city and county officers in San Antonio are co-operating in a movement to
keep indigent sick persons from coming to San Antonio from outside places.
During the year ending October 31, 1907, Bexar county has paid out $15,593.38 in
cash for grocery allowances to paupers, railway for sick paupers leaving the
city and for the paupers at the poorhouse.
A telegram was received from Congressman R. L. Henry by the Texas Banking and
Investment Company of Houston to the effect that he had consulted with the
United States treaasury officials and secured their assurance that the cotton
certificate plan inaugurated by the officials of the cotton people had their
indorsement.
Three thousand Chinese residents of San Francisco attended the funeral of How
Kong, late president of the Yung Wo association. The deceased was said to
be the most highly educated Chinaman in America. His body has been shipped
to China for burial.
Now it is claimed that to live almost exclusively on a milk diet will insure
long life and health. It is claimed by the adherents of this belief that
the Bulgarians live longer than any other race and that this is due to the fact
that they live more nearly on an exclusive milk and cheese diet than any other
people. Statistics claimed to be reliable show that there are at the
present time about 4,000 persons over 100 years old in Bulgaria, which would
mean one out of each thousand of the population who achieve such an advanced old
age.
Attempt will be made by Capt. C. V. (?) Johnson of Delaware, J. E. Phillips of
Colorado, and S. F. Phillips of Illinois to find the gold that went down to the
bottom with the "Golden Gates," an American ship, sunk off the coast of
Mananilo, Mexico, on July 24, 1862, with a cargo of $2,000, 000 gold and 200
persons.
A 60,000,000 feet gas well was brought in by Galbreath-& Chestnut, 24 miles west
of Muskogee, I.T.
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