Graham Leader. (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 1, 1890 Page: 4 of 8
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«/. ORAVKS, Proprietor.
A prohibition state convention
hftfl been railed to meet at Fort
Worth on May IS, to nominate can-
didates for Htata offices.
San Francisco,
by an earthquake
but little or no damage wa« done—.
the shock being very slight.
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Bar!>er, formerly of the
TNC MEEK COUNTY CONTROVERSY.
The question
Greer'county is likely to be deter-
mined at on early day. Congress
has under consideration a bill pro-
viding for the settlement of this
controversy by suit in the Supreme
Court of the United States. Texas
having the possession, the United
} States will be plaintiff and Texas
Cal.,.was visited j defendant in the suit. This ques-
on April 24th;
The Supreme Court of Texas de-
of ownership of aided lapt week in the ease of Davis
vs. Burnett, from Wichita county,
that the commissioners’ court has
G. P.
Aurora Light, has started a new pa-
per at Seymour called the Weekly
News. It is neatly gotten up and
ably edited. Succoss to the News.
The recent rains did great dam-
no authority or power to add to the
roils property not previously as-
sessed or to -take from t.hnm prop-
erty which they embrace. The
function of the board is to correct
errors in valuation of property
properly assessed, and if the county
assessor improperly assesses any I
nroperty for taxation the remedy is 1
by injunction and not by an appli-1 Highest Cash
cation to the board of equalization
of the county.—Vernon Call.
J. M. HAMAN,
{Bucccssor to J. M. Hwnan A Lo,,)
,_DEALER Ml--
Wool, Hides, Pelts
Weatherford, Texas.
Jfct
Having
Toy triune
hereby a
saij office
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tion should have been decided years
ago, for Greer county is now filled
with people who do not know wheth-
er their titles are good or had nor
whether they are subjects of the ,‘*u" wm. TT° lA> neon<
Met ormick has sold his fine
State of Texas or under the territo-
rial sovereignty of Uncle Sam.
age all over Texas. Railroad bridges
were washed away along the creeks
and crops were injured to some ex-
tent in all parts of the state. The
oounty bridge over Pease river, near
Vemon, wap washed away, and at
Fort Worth the" great tank at the
depot burnted and flooded the im-
mediate vicinity.
THE W. M. W. A N. W. RAILWAY.
A brief talk with Mr. W.. S. Stone,
brother to president Ston'e and a
leading factor in the enterprise, ver-
fied the facts heretofore stated as to j at Graham for a generation, at least.
the —~
The federal court house at Gra-
ham will have to go. Hon, A. P.
. ...... gift”
residence and will move to Dallas.
He will no longer be an obstruction
to its removal.—Cisco Roundup,
How do you know ? Judge Mc-
Cormick is on record as favoring the
retention of the court (not the house)
Prices Paid. Liberal Advances Made on Consignments
19*Send for Quotations Before Disposing of Your Wool.ritt*
For
Wo
Oou.ru t
and Tax(
Norombo
FURNITURE ON THE
Easy Payment Plaij,
This contract leases the goods, but lease
money can afterwards be applied to pur-
chase if parties so desire.
Wo are
kll as K (
the fiiwuii
We an
Thomas a
office of (J
action.
Cow
for StSSS lh“ -q* «*•
ford, Mineral Wells A Northwestern
Railroad. President Stone is now
in Kansas City and may not return
for a week or two, but bis brother
dence does nof warrant such an un-
just remark. He has other valua-
ble property interests here.
2nd ns®- FURNITURE
Baldj
in town
is in charge and will begin the work
at the earliest practicable day. He
SOCIETIES.
Bought and Sold.
Parties breaking up house keeping had
4 fc
Go to
Pocket iuj
The c
crop wil
The Dallas News urges the people
to oontinue the agitation of the
oounty roads question and never let
up until something is done to better
the condition of the public high-
ways all over the state. JVe will
never have good roads under the
present law, so we must look to the
next legislature for redress.
exhibited a telegram Monday even-
ing which said that the engineer
left that day for Weatherford, and
Mr. Stone stated that as soon as he,
the engineer, arrives he will proceed
at once to organize a force and pre-
pare work for the contractors. He
nsd hoped to commence the grading
this week, but owing to the delay
occasioned by the non-arrival of the
engineer, he thought it probable
the grading cannot be commenced
till early next week. To the direct
question: “Mr. Stone, are all ob-
M^sonsrio.
YOUNG COUNTY LODGE No.
485, A F & A M, meet, on Saturda
of or before the bill moon of eac:
month. John TatloX, W. M.
O. E. Fixlat, See.
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better see me and get the highest cash Jffcfci
for their goods. McJIMSEY’S
Mrs.
last wee
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R. L. B
cheaper tb
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Twtn MotnrrAnrLowreNo. 22S2, Knight,
of Honor, meet, on the 1st and 8rd Tuesday
night, in oach month.
B. B. Garrett, Dictator.
J. W. Gravm, Reporter.
Corner 4th & N. Main Alley,
Graham, Texas.
Invitu
Beck hat
W.mII
DAILY MAIL AND STAGE LINE.
1.0.0. F.
The Quan&h Quirt has undergone
.vary marked imr^mflnt ImJ^liitlUtlianS. -XSmUVedr
S * , nAtir in /inn/lilinn In Knnrin Inn nmalr
A DELPHI LODGE, No. 261, meet, in
Bankhana Hall nn 1 «t jmdftcdfisterday
size and beauty and It now comes
out under the name of the Quanah
Tribune. We always thought
Quirt was too suggestive of the
bronco and the uninhabited plains,
and we congratulate the Tribune
man upon the taste displayed In the
change of name.
now in condition to begin the work
and carry it forward without hind-
rance to completion?” Mr. Stone
answered, “Yes, our arrangements
are perfected, all obstacles have
been overcome and we ate going to
build the road rs fast as occasion
demands and circumstances will
permit.-—Weatherford Constitution.
night, in each month.
J. Poara, N. G.
8. B. Street, R. 8.
FROM QRAHAM to WEATHERFORD
TURNER & GALLAHER, Proprietor^
CairefuT drivers anff good teams. ~ "
Sundi
May 1st
attendee
Gall and
i ^
Mrs.
been qui
now rec
iWADLEYl
IS
The people of this county have
every reason to congratulate them-
selves upon their prospects for a
year of general prosperity. We are
not enjoying any sudden boom, but
a steady and substantial growth that
promises for Young oounty promi-
nence in the near future. AH we
need is a railroad or two to make
this the banner oounty of the north-
west.
The friends of Throckmorton are
not advancing his claims by urging
the fallacy that Texas owes him a
debt of gratitude, on account of hie
Aionli/M) from tha nnvarnnrahin bn
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the federal government under the
policy of reconstruction. Texas
owes no man anything that she
does not * owe to every other man
who was in the same wreck, and
the ex-governor should stand Or fall
FullAgain
Kramer & Bboyl rs.Agente.
_Graham, Texas.
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to K. L.
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on his own merits, just as the other
candidates must do.
The Fort Worth Mail has openet
a crusade agaiusi the crime ofmdr-
der and announces itsell as op
posed to assassins. It fays:
Tarrant county, which sends one
of her vilest assassins to the peni-
tentiary for five years, should be
ashamed to send a thief there for a
greater or even as long a term of im-
prisonment. If we are to condone
crime, let us show equity in our
dealings with criminals.
It is not a
question of pensions, but of men
and measures that will control the
convention.—Weatherford Consti-
MiaBt--:--'—-
CHUCK FULL OF
Bargains!
Miss Delia J. Robinson, the first
woman lawyer to practice in Boston,
was married last week to E. A. Saw-
telle, well known in the piano trade.
__ WE WANT
500 500
I Hope You Are
Enough to do without Drugs of any kind; but if you
are not you ought to get the very
BEST AND FTJRSS1
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Locale
rains aee
ness ove
CdT at
work.
Yon can find. I ha ve them, They may qot be pleasaol
to take but they are PURE, and when you have oocftakro
to use them you may be sure that f
You Drink Your Own Health ’**
In a pure medicine. But Drugs are not all. I hstve
full line of
The happy oouple tyre on a wedding
journey to the national capital,
where Mrs. Sawtelle will seek ad-
judge Boarmao, of the Federal
Court at Galveston, has recently
decided that lawyers’ occupation
tax is an unconstitutional burden
upon, that profession. If such be
the case U stands to reason that the
tax imposed upon alk other profes-
sions fall under the same category.
We have often doubted the justice
of taxing people for the privilege of
pursuing an honeet oalling and we
predict tj^is deqbipiurin be followed
by some sweeping changes in the
law in regard to occupation taxes.
Goday’s Lady’s Book keeps on
mission to the bar of the supreme
court of the United States. Both,
will oontinue to be bread-winners,
she in the practice of law and he in
the piano business.
LADIES
If yon bear an ugly rumor about
your neighbor, and you must repeat
it to somebody, tell it to the alleged
erring brother. If it be true, he
may be constrained to reform, and
if it be f&lBe he will possibly be in a
position to refute it—at all events
you will be free from the stain of a
scandal monger and have a con-
of ha
To Know ve are
Tie Cheapest
People
In Town !
sdousnees of having done right. Come and Sefe Ollf
Charity wreaths -a garland of ros-
es over the “black mark on the
neck” of the victim of the scaffold,
but malevolence magnifies the faults
of an erring brother and attains Its
foil stature where the noxious weeds
of false rumor and suspicion have
unstinted growth.
expenditure of its proprietors,
is crowded every month with en-
gravings of a high order, colored
and plain fashion plates, recipes for
the booeehooki, patterns, end a
stoie of tales, essays, poems, and
wi*e editorial articles.
JOHN POHLMANN,
Manufacturer an«l Dealer In
BOOTS * SHOES,
It is safe to say that anything
which has real merit; for which, ,_AW „
there is need or want; or for which i GRAHAM. TEXAR
a want can be created; and which i ***
ODORS, TOILET PREPARATIONS, BRUSHES, Ac.
My prices are as low as they can be made* -
DAVID r. azs*»
IF YOU WANT
Letter Heads, Bill Heads, Statements, Cards, W
Invitations, Ball Tickets, Funeral Notices, Dodgers,
Postere, Pamphlets, Legal Blanks, or any
Kind of Job Printing, send it to the
LEADER OFFICE
——--i-mum
Haily eMail and Utage
Graham to Henrietta!
FROST & WHITE, Propriety.
Good teams and careful drivers. Will put"^™
through on good time. Office in Graham
Hoi’te.
F t RK—$4.00 one Way: f 7.00 Round Trip,
Freela
with M
thrir dry
Vioiiut,;
Rt ell price
The pi
oonditior
will havt
passable
Parties i
attended to
Fishi
in
rise and
aretakin
tunity.
Full fete
The i
Cspt. Ga
this plan
as 81-4 ii
Call at
l am net
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Chris topi
ride and
with his
etc., who
Hit Hi
- up i^ain
poritoopi
Graham
▲rffto Fho
B#w» Marble Woks, j;-McC5
tells at a liberal price, can be profi-
tably adyerUeed m th» newspapeiWi.
t regard good roads as a very in>-
Boston has made arrangements
for an oversowing dtp treasury. A
new ordinance which, has just gone
> tmp<
AH kkA rf wpWiteg aettly gotta,
■snnaklv jfitea me s trial. .
lUffikop wont sida PiiHTr Rn—r*
H. SCHUSTER.
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Universal benevolence will hasten
QRAHAM; TEXAS.
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Graham Leader. (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 1, 1890, newspaper, May 1, 1890; Graham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1116521/m1/4/: accessed May 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.