The Stamford News
Friday, January 6, 1906
Vol. 6, No. 45

In regard to murder of Stonewall rancher, McGAUGHEY. HILLS followed to City of Mexico, San Luis Potosi, Tampico, Mexico. Wired officers there. Arrest followed Wednesday. Permitted change of clothes. Swallowed sulphuric acid concealed in trunk. Lived thirty minutes. body identified by us. Burial tomorrow. -- R.D. SENTER and O.H. BUCK.
HILLS assumed the name of Jerold C. WILLIS and under that name was arrested and committed suicide in Tampico. That the body of the dead man would be buried in Tampico was also told The Record yestrday by The Record correspondent at Haskell.
Sheriff R.D. SENTER came in on the train Monday evening. He says the reports in the papers of his trip to Mexico for the arrest of J.D. HILLS are in the main correct. He and Mr. I.H. BUCK, deputy sheriff of Tarrant county were not present at the arrest. Their train was delayed for 24 hours, and fearing that HILL would leave on steamer for Cuba, they telegraphed the Mexican officers to arrest him. When changing his clothes before going to jail he grabbed a bottle of poison he had in his trunk and drank considerable quantity before it could be gotten from him. He died in 21 minutes after taking the poison.
Sheriff Senter at the Inn Monday night exhibited several photographs of the dead man taken some 15 hours after death. It was easy to recognize HILLS.

The Business Men’s banquet at the Stamford Inn last Monday night was a great success. Col. R.L. PENICK was chairman and toast-master and his easy and informal presidency put every body in the best of spirits and free from constraint. Mayor SLEDGE was called to the head of one of the tables, and responded to the first toast calling attention to Stamford’s need of a fire engine and better fire equeipment. Mr. HASTINGS said that in coming down from Chicago a few days before, a man learning that he was from Stamford said: “Stamford is that town where they do things so quickly that every thing is done yesterday.”
It was discovered that Col. Thos. FARMER, the polite, the erudite the aeronautic railroad agent of Stamford, goes through.
Mr. SMITH, the host, had studiously provided for the best entertainment.
Near the close of the program Mr. Charles brEWINGTON moved that we have another banquet, Feb. 10, 1906 and that the ladies be invited.
List of those present: R.L. HANEY, E.L. McALPINE, M.L. BIRD, J.A. WHITE, G.L. DAVENPORT, J.P. McDANIEL, Dr. J.R. SLEDGE, C.M. PATTILLO, Walter NELSON, W.E. LEAKE, C.E. SAMMONS, Chas. brEWINGTON, J.H. RUTHERFORD, S. GAY, Wm. McGAIN, W.E. brAZZEL, R.L. PENICK, D.R. STEWART, Milton PATTILLO, Glen RECTOR, Walter brEWINGTON, T.F. FARMER, Frank HASTINGS, R.M. DICKENSON, H.D. PRATT, R.E. McDONALD, G.W. HAMBLET, W.C. BAILEY, C.L. BAILEY, Chas. ZUG, N. LEAVITT, E.J. LEAVITT, L.A. MALONE, R.W. SCURRY, Jack DIAL, C.V. SAYLES, Guests: O.E. PATTERSON, BURKE, and DILLINGER, Taylor County, Sid CASTLE of Anson, Mr. GRAHAM and E.H. RICHARDSON of Corsicana.

Local and Personal
Sheriff J.W. COLLINS of Haskell was in the city.
Mrs. W.H. SEWELL of Merkel is visiting her cousin, Miss Octavia MANLEY of this city.
Mrs. E.M. LANE and daugther left Thursday for a short visit to Colorado city.
Harvy WALTON who was operated on for appendicitis in Fort Worth.
Dr. W. WILLIAMSON from Bell county has been in Stamford. He expects to locate at Sagerton.
Miss Pennie ARNOLD, daughter of S.A. ARNOLD of Hamlin left on the train yesterday for her school at Hico.
Miss Mattie MANNING teaches music at Avoca.

Dr. W.H. MOORE who has been practicing medicine at Texarkana has located in Stamford. Dr. MOORE is an old Stamford boy.

Mr. PATTILLO is having his old frame store house on the corner of Swenson and McHarg torn down.
Tom JONES had two of his fingers on the left hand cut off at the joint after being tangled in a rope handling a mule. Drs. JONES and BUNKLEY dressed the wound.

Anson All-Sorts
District Court is grinding away. The MORRISON case after going to the Supreme court, and sent back for retrial, has been compromised. The Heirs to get half of the property at the death of Mr. Morrison, Mrs. THOMAS gets an advance of $5000 now, and Chas. Walker, gets 400 acres of land and $1000 or the equal of $5000, and the minor children of the other heir will be kept and educated by Mr. MORRISON. The State vs. Jake McKINNEY charged with murder case set for Monday Jan. 15th. Mrs. Lea GRIMES vs. G.J. GRIMES suit for divorce, divorce granted. Judge MILLER and W.L.B. PADDOCK of Fort worth, S.P. HARDWICK, E.N. KIRBY, Henry SAYLES, Sr. and Jim CUNNINGHAM of Abilene were here Monday. Judge B.B. GREENWOOD of Stamford was here.
32 marriage licenses sold in December, 4 deaths, 35 births - 15 girls, 20 boys
Anson will soon have a new lumber years.
B.F. MARTIN and family, old time citizens of Anson have returned here to reside, from Lindsey, I.T.
Ira MONROE has gone to Nugent and will move to that city soon and accept a position with his brother George.
Prof. Jno. F.ODOR of the Anson High School will superintend a play.

Drs. SLEDGE and ROBERTSON were called to Sagerton Wednesday to amputate Mr. KIRKINDALL'S leg. Last week when hauling lumber from Stamford to Mr. PEACOCK in Stonewall county, when near the river, he jumped off his wagon and broke his leg below the knee. He lives at Stonewall county and has a family, and has been freighting from Stamford for some time. He is at present at Sagerton.

Lueders Items
We are sorry to announce the death of our friend, Mr. Grover PARRACK, who died last night as the result of his leg being broken. He and his cousin were out hunting Christmas day when Mr. PARRACK was thrown from his buggy and fataly injured.
Mr. PARRACK was a member of the Missionary Baptist church at this place. He leaves a wife, Father and Mother and an Number of relatives.
It is reported that WEBB and HILL have purchased the Lueders track of land.
Mr. Wayne MITHEL will put up a lumber yard at this place.
Mrs. HAMBRICK returned home Sunday night from visiting relatives in Erath county.
Mrs. WILLIAMS returned from Alexander, Texas.
The school here is getting on nicely Prof. BLACKMAN of Avoca is our teacher.

Last week Mr. W.O. STEELE while on the Clear Fork with a number of gentlemen was very seriously wounded in the foot by the accidental discharge of a shot gun. Mr. E.C. LOGGINS accidentally hit his foot against the hammer of a gun and it was discharged emptying the load into Mr. STEELE'S foot. All the toes were shot off except the great one and the next one to it and it was feared for some time that hte foot would have to be amputated. Mr. STEELE moved to Stamford a few months ago. His children, a little boy and girl were taken with diphteria soon after arriving here and both of them died, and this accident make it peculiarly sad.

The residence on the southeast corner of Moran and Wetherbee streets has been moved and a Christian church will be there, work will begin on the church at once.

Local and Personal
The W.O.W. Installation is announced for January 4th on account of a meeting of the Rebeccas in the Hall.
Married - at the home of the brides parents in Stamford, Miss Bessie CUSHENBERRY and Mr. C.L. BARNABY, Sunday Morning, Dec. 31, 1905. Rev. R.B. EVANS officiating.
Miss Pearl McCLARAN of Abbie visited friends in Stmaford.
Miss Minta MORGAN and Miss Pearl McCLARAN called at the News.
Mr. G.E STOVALL and Miss Hattie ASHER were married at the home of the brides parents west of town last Sunday evening, Elder F.S. GRONER officiating.
S.C. HARRIS has been sick.
G.W. THOMPSON and family have returned from Lawn, Texas to make their home in Stamford.
Mesdames Walter and Joe SAMPLES of Spring Creek neighborhood were in town trading.
We were glad to see our old friend, Frank P’POOL in Stamford.
Harvey WALTOM, manager for MISTROT bros. & Co. at this place is at Fort worth to undergo an operation for appendicitis.
Married - Mr. Will HIGH of Cleburne and Miss Ruby DENSON at the home of the brides mother in Haskell county, Wednesday Dec. 27, 1905, Elder S.A. MANGHAM officiating.
Mr. and Mrs. G.H. BROCK and daughter Lucy came over from Anson Tuesday and Miss Lucy left for Fort Worth to enter Polytechnic College.

Frank HUDSON of Anson left on the train to enter Fort Worth Medical College.

Abbie News
Will WILSON is visiting relatives in Bosque county.
Edgar MIDDLETON is putting up a dwelling near his father’s place.
Mrs. T.C. HUDSON of Gibson, Tennessee is visiting her brother Jordan GAY.
Will FOMBY of Matador has moved on his father’s place.
Arthur MORRISON of near Anson is putting up a residence on Paul brOOKFIELD'S place. Also Mrs. W.H. FIELDS has added two rooms ot her rent house.
Prof. ODOR, principal of the Anson school has bought out J.E. YOUNG, south of Abbie.
Mr. WOMACK of near Austin is visiting his relatives, Messrs. WOMACK, JENKINS and WATERS near Abbie.
Mrs. T.B. MIDDLETON and daughter have been in bad health.
Henry SALES has sold a good deal of his land north of Abbie.
Rev. J.J. LOCKHART will preach at Wise Chapel the second Sunday of this month.

Sunnyside Smilets
Dr. S.M. BOBBITT and wife of Ennis came in Wednesday night to spend Christmas with the Doctor’s daughter, Mrs. Ollie APPLING.
Mrs. Maud GILLEY returned from visiting relatives in Hill and McClennan county.
Mr. John WESNER and sister Miss OLIVER have moved in their new home.
W.L. LUSK and family, of Piemont, Alabama, came in Saturday night. They will make their future home in Jones county.
Misses Cora and Irwill LINK left for Weatherford for Christmas.

There will be a meeting of stockholders in the new town of Goree today at which time business and resident lots will be appraised and offered for sale to investors. Several houses are already building and it is reported that one or more large mercantile establishments from Munday and a branch of the West Texas supply company of this city, will move into the new town. There is also a national bank in plan, R.E. FOWLKES, vice-president and cashier of the Farmers National Bank of Seymour is ready to organize a company. Goree is located a convenient distance from the Wichita Valley railroad, is nicely laid off with a public square, streets, alleys, etc. -- Baylor County Banner

Mrs. WOODY, mother of John WOODY, died at the home of her son last Sunday night. She was buried at the Snyder cemetery Monday afternoon.

Jim STOUT got his right hand caught in the gin saws at noon Wednesday of last week and had his arm broken in two places above the elbow.