The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-10-09
ISLAND CITY NEWS ITEMS,
Loss by Three Forged Checks Will
BE Made Good
SAMPLE OF SEA ISLAND COTTON.
Excellent Quality Grown Near Arcadia.
The Halle Expected win a Big
List Of Immigrants.

Galveston. Texas. October 7,-As re-
CARDS the culprit in the master OF At least
taree OF the check forgerics reported yes
terday there is not likely to DE any prose
cution.
The person who passed the forged
checks on three or four merchants satur-
day night is supposed to have been To-
gated IN a distant town and 1t $ possible
he may be spprehended and broign, TO
STEAMER AWAITED.
The North German Lloyd steamship
Halle is due from Bremen and hos arr
r!Na! has been almost hourly ,xpe tel
since Yesterday morning. THIS Us the
met steamer Of :he new sshe; ne
NN.ch les expected to do 50 mllA toward
building up an import business Tor CAR
weston, as well as making this great
atharkauon port for foreign !mml-r. sits.
lhe locd! passenger agens ii ,re rl-.W -
lines are Keeping q sharp look3u; ior the
steamer with the idea Of seeming .rc
passengers, OF which the H3le IS -og
.Mht over hundred. for distribution n
tie interior.
When the Hamburg America ri.. 81
Scotia arrived here not long ago WI i.tty
INN grants the Southern Pam. Ys. me
business grabbed before the -hu ..cast
.he p1rL the business being ~. Di .. He
other SIDE. The North Il, Lloyd
people however refused 70 vie uV tHe
business. giving each line a ra'f %
have the call on the H4ilcs plss.H-er=
an! most Of them will 60 out over fgtt
line. Among them are fif;cen .r 81 l-
ms. and quite a number VII. "1t H
NJ ssipp along the Hnc u tle Aa1
Memphis and Vicks65iGifsg. ''''"
SEA ISLAND COTTON.
Mr.. II, VI. Powell Of Arcadia has sort
a 500 Island cotton plant. grown ~ .t-
place 90 MIR. }. N. Doll OF this IT,
va. en exhibition today and e-tri'.tt
mucn attention. The quality uf Gee
ton Is pronounced eNeellen, md. !, IS
IA g. the yield was SUffi riru. Do max. it-
cultivation profitable IN the asst e'ua-
Speaklng in regard to tbs e4.ueq
ono ~ he gentlemen WHO exam rr : @ail
That for some years sea ISLAM. o. up a
very superior quality mas been Hr .
Montgomery county, near h. toNr =
WINS, hut that ihe culuva .s- nor
been much encouraged by sa'-t-.
market near home.
REHHsTRATION
Colonel l.. c. Fisher. the r.,-' -t.r ~
yo.ors vas kept pretty busy oaiy aen
uis c-- certificates TO the olc-u-s 81.
county who apply for this cy.af- nt
t1e.r r'slt to participate in th- 3. i.'.r.'
!ne q. ION. About Sn reg s.ercI
hr1- The total up 10 nearly +' r
ai tf-a- m. This j considered ,trf'
lyaly ate. for the open nR w,ch
re-i.. holding back for the las- Ia,s vt
e. * -f.4-aon. Interest In tae pcut Is Us
r4 gl IS very much aroused aal B. .s
expected he registration ;h.s sen. niN
No iarre- nan ever before.
UNITED STATES COURT.
The Glowing suits were A!ci So tho
I-r.tst S-a-es coutt today:
.-Ja"e- j. Hnnnt-it; Va. the Nolis Nar-,
ENl-'-- e1nparv for ,ii.nbi aa.r4-os.
Transferred from tho distric' cauc' ot l.io-
egg county,
p as W. She WeNs-r5reo ~
frr IN d..l An NJ ~ f..rr.5
fl inc ls'rici consL at Hsr'y
ifcAL AND Personal
* ybS.. ;rlV. ing passc ller agent
u re Nantsla AMI PENNSYLVANIA lucs.
Ha. t-re pday.
sen, q he so1 - pin rsi'road IS
ger" t"uflv eH.s rg IN" arrival e th.
steamship Halle ~ no Bremen.
Mrs l.. A Fro ard daughter n s..
McSiahon. 2 will remain several
weeks Taen Mr. =. Mahon Will return
with them 10 a. T. as
Colore, Z. iitfirg sher,P of Hinde
county. N!9eiSs,tt'f and =. ola tim,
Texan was .n 'na 'oday Colonel Hard
lng has large business interests in this
Stf'e. wh!ch 20 'es-i ia his vs, ng Texts
every once in a Wh 10.
Arthur p. Homer has returned from n
vacation or sefeft| weeks in tho Eas'
"H"re ~ mas rc-erty purchased lew
INC nery for t1c Galveston rope mill
- which DC Is manager, which VIII in
crease siS capacity about 20 per cont.