Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-12-16
COAST NEWS ITmMIzED.
interesting Notes of Improvement
and Casual Happeningl.

selling lands. Every day brings in
farmers from North Texas.
Every day sees emigants hunting
homes In Atascosa county. There Is
room for them and welcome.
Whooplng cough has been epidemic
among the children In Dewitt county
this winter and three or four have died
with it.
The real estate men all over the coast
country are kept busy selling lands.
Every day brings in farmers from
North Texas.
The schooner Edward II. Blake,
Smith master, cleared and sailed from
Sabine Pass Friday for Tamplco, with
5000 feet of lumber.
A great many farmers are coming TO
Brazoria county from North Texas,
mostly in wagons, looking for locations
on the fertile prairles.
The city of Victoria is full of prairie
schooners almost every day and the
lumber yards are doing an immense
business with newcomers.
The Simms murder case has been
continued to the next term of court
The large number of witnesses have
returned to their different homes.
Hon. e. L. Dunlap is shipping many
carloads of hay from his ranch in Vic
torla county. He was unfortunate
enough to have 100 acres burned yes
terday.
Waller county, with population of
about $1,000, has shipped out, so far
this season, over 10000 bales of cotton
which gives for the year 1896 over
bale Of cotton per capita.
The assessors rolls of Liberty county
for the current year show an increase
Of $4,000 in taxable values over last
year. This is an evidence of the ma
torlal growth of the county.
On November 80 the John A. salzer
Seed company, La Crosse, Wis, the
largest seed potato growers in the
world, received an order for 5000
bushels of seed potatoes from one firm
in Texas.
The Norwegian steamship Washing
ton, Salveson MASTER have arrived at
Sabine Pass; also Norwegian steam
ship Breiford from New Orleans, and
Norwegian bark Vision, nonneson mas
ter, Ayr, Scotland.
DR.. Greer of Van Alstyne Graysou
county, has purchased the o. a. Barry
farm of 625 acres about four miles
southeast of Angleton, on Bastrop
bayou, on which he intends to settle a
number of Grayson county farmers.
LAZY Ward, wealthy Jackson coun-
ty ranchman, owning 10000 acres, will
cut up LOCO acres for sale to farmers
in small tracts convenient to the town
Of Edna. This will greatly help the
growth and prosperity of that place.
At mass meeting of the citizens of
Hampstead on the Goth Of November
Mr. w. II. Dickerson read a proposition
from Mr.. Il. A. Ellis Offering to put in
an electric light and water works plant
here, and as all the conditions asked by
Mr.. Ellis have been complied with,
Hampstead is reasonably sure TO have
water and lights in the near future.
The cabbage crop of Brazorla county
WIFI ulllOuul " NullsAhtAtiblN tllAS W ~
ter There is a large acreage planted
and in fine condition. The earlier
planted are now heading and carload
shipments will soon begin. One man
shipped 1000 pounds Of fine heads yes
terday.
Seven prairie schooners from Ne
braska passed through Georgetown
this week en- route to the coast coun-
try. The men looked thrifty and en-
terprising and their stock was in splen-
did condition. One of the party said
their object in moving was low prices
for their products and the severe win
tiers and billiards..
Olivia, the second point of import
ance in Calhoun county, has bright
prospects. The town is located on Kill
lers bay, twelve miles from Port La
vaca, and not only the Swedish settlers
bur the fishermen and residents OF
low er Jackson county help to sustain It,.
Many visitors from the interior camp
there in the summer.
A prominent official of the Gulf and
J3rnzos Valley railroad consolidated
with the st. Louis, Oklahoma and
Texas Air Line writes that IL the peo-
pie of that section give propet encour-
agement they will run e>Ahe imme-
diately from the Texas and Pacific rail
road to Granbury. Hamilton, Lam
pasa1, Ilano, Fredericksburg and
Comfort on the Arapsas Pass railroad.
The people of that county make a very