Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1895-12-19
TEXAS in TYPE.


the Lone star state.
G.. II. Figley, local manager of the
Port Arthur Land company, has re-
ceived a dispatch from Kansas City,
Mo, announcing that the contract for
constructing railroad from Port Ar
thur to connection with the Sabine
and East Texas railroad, had been
awarded to i. j. Smith. Mr., Smith is
the contractor that built the road from
Ht yN.on to La Porte. He is now in
Kansas City, but will leave for Beau
mont in n few days and begin con-
stiuction of the Port Arthur connec-
ton us soon as he arrives. Mr.. Figly
has also been notified that the Kansas
City, Pittsbwg and Gulf Railway
company has purchased 20, 900 tons of
sixty pound steel rail that is to be
used in extending the road from
Shreveport, south to Port Arthur.
This steel was purchased at Philadel-
phia and will be shipped direct to Port
Arthur by vessel.
Since July ?, 1892, the abstract OF
titles in Grayson county shows that
,,odo fn,,,,, tha Sn,t,,,,.,., ,,a.ah ,,,as+
~ '' cbonn U '' !, 10 o"tin,oto1 thot 81
.1,, aniai,ni "a oon ~ am. zoon
acres have been changed from pasture
into thriving farms and are now under
cultivation. Other new lands in the
vicinity of Southmayd have been open
ed up. II is conservative to estimate
N,ot -, 1aast * 600 na,.o, 81 ,.;ns;,,
sold have been turned for the first time
within the last two years.
A. Merl,ol T,r,or county Mrs
pryor is cbnrnod ,yitI, r,aI,ina MN.
daEons ossn,,it on har hms,,npd w
R,,ron 18th ba.nha+ tho oti,ar ,,,orr,
ing dnrina fail, o,,arroI ua wns
nrt Il, sa,,onoi ,,iaSos aho,,t no boad
Int not donaerpmsly RYAN wos mt
nnder n s5oO ,ioco bon1 ord Ms
pruor ,,rdomo <Iooo bosd nnsso,it 10
murder. They failed to give bond and
were taken to jail. They have four
small children and a babe of three
weeks.
The Texas Conference has inst closed
it's fiftv-s,xth session at Brennan. The
statistical secretary made the following
report: Members u $40. preachers
ia; churches. ia: value. s34g. 1873,
Baptisms-Adults, S4l; infants, 70Si
parsonages, 60, value 500, 252; other
church property, $4,000; Epworth
Leagues, 61i members, 2l02; Sunday
schools 1872, teachers 1888, scholars
11,3l3.
At Coolxville Titus countv recentlv
a ditcher and Alice Smith went to ex-
anime ditch which the former was
employed to cut on Smiths place. Four
pistols shot were heard in the direction
of the ditch shortly after and later
Smith was found lying on lis face with
four bullet holes in his be one near
the right nipple, one in It left hip and
two through the head. Officers are in
P''' ''"
There is station on the Midland
road eight miles south of Greenville
called Sylvia, 1t has just been made
postoffice, but the name could not be
accepted by the department. Several
no.. i",iies "1se soiiv til iUt seieotioi au
ylie po ',,It a9'n no. seioc'ea Oasn
a. "a 'oouliuaivS VI '1e situ"yion n, snu'
'iio po'''i'"''o' w O"'ii 10 q l. money
At dance the other night at John
Stiles house, ten miles north of Gid
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