Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-06-06
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III " kSNAt1NACiA.
= Bolton is full of strangers
and there is much inquiry for
real estate-all this is at the
prospect of the Santa Fe rail-
road.
= The Sherman opera house
is unfortunate in the selection
of lessees: Brown, the last
one, has gone tc meet Elkin.
= The military plaza in San
Antoniois mighty crowded with
stands for the sale of chile-con-
carne, frIoles, tamales, tortillas,
etc, etc.
Mr.. A. P. Boyd, of the
N0JM Texan has met with sad
affection in the loss of a bright
little boy aged about 20
months.
= Every town in Texas of
any pretentions whatever, has
its gun club. Manufacturers of
glass balls are doing a "land Of
fee" business.
= Bolton is beginning to as
sumo the airs of a city. An
opera house has been compile
ted and the Mitchell Combina-
ton are playing to good houses.
= The..Galveston Neses ven
tilates Jesse Stancel lately ar
rested in Dallas county for land
crookedness. He was, just af-
ter the war, an alderman in Gal
weston and was crooked even
then.
= Mr.. L. Johnson, a drug
gist, of Fairfield, has received
from Missouri, a genuine simon
pure mad stone" which has
been in his fathers family for
sixty years. They are indepen-
dent of mad dogs over there
now.
= The. town marshal of Mex
la arrested fraud, who claimed
that he was one of Pickerton's
detectives and also a lieuten-
ant in the United States army.
Who ever heard of an army Of
fcer acting as a detectivea
= A man, evidently sec
ton hand, was beheaded by the
south-bound train on the Cen
trail near Ennis. The pay car
had been a long the day before
and upon this hypothesis his
presence on the tracks, accoun-
ted for.
| = w. G. Freey, travelling
man, was met near Borden by
two masquerader who exhibit
ted to him a six-shooter each.
Although he did not ask or re-
quest to see the pistols he kind
ly paid them $3.50 for the sight.
- A new jail has become
necessity in Grimes county. The
people want one and Anderson
and Navasota both aspire tothe
place of its location. Anderson
is now the county seat and Nav
asota desires to be the county
seat. The two newspapers are
quarreling about it.
Dallas Items.-An attempt
was made to assassinate Newton
Ogden, ex-city assessor, at his
RESIDENCE. M. Gay was stab
bed at beer garden by w. T.
Morris-a woman.-James Stan.
eel was arrested for land crook
edness IN Montague county.
= A. M. Hoel arrived in Dali
las the other day, looking for a
runaway daughter. The story
is Short: She was of legal.age
and wanted to marry a cowboy
father objects-young folks
runaway-old man now wants
EN- legally married and is will
ing they should come home.
"A superb opera house is
to be built at Waco and if has
already progressed far enough
to be on paper-plans have been
drawn; the proposed building is
to be 1ooxI65 feet and is to
cost $40, 900. A stock compa-t
ny has been organized and S2o,-
900 is already subscribed.
- On the 10Th inst, Mr.. Al
exander Walters, an old Texas
veteran and one of the heroes
of San Jacinto, died at his home
on North holland, in Bell coun-
ty, in the sixty-nintfl year of his
age. He had lived twenty-sev-
en- years in Bell county and thir-
ty-four in the state, devoting the
best years of his life to the cause
of patriotism.
"A man named Graham live
ing near Maysfeld, Milan coun-
ty was waylaid, murdered, and
dragged eight or ten miles to a
thicket and hidden. His body
was found by trailing where it
had been "snaked" on the
ground. a man named Hubby
is suspected. He has left the
country.
- Another horrible murder
has been committed by the In
diands. On the Ist inst. at the
Colson ranch twenty-five miles
from Bracket, Mrs. Colson and
two chilred were met by Indians /
and murdered. Mr.. Colson had
a wife and child killed by Indi-
ans eighteen months ago. He
had again married two weeks