Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1897-02-17
ALI. OVER THE COAST.
NEWSY ITEMS FROM VARIOUS
SECTIONS OF THE STATE.
General Summary of Crops Produced
Immigration and improvement Notes of
Our sister Cltles-Piclups That IRE Of
General Interest.


lions at Tyler in charge of VIM. Ne
black, known as Neblack's Fruit Pal
ace store. was conveyed by deed Of
trust to ]. B. Wofrord of Athens. The
stock will invoice about $500.
From Yorktown, Dewitt county,
Thursday, William Metz shipped two
cars of beef cattle and j. V. Roeder
shipped one car of beef cattle to St.
Louis.
The announcement of the appoint
ment OF Miss Jessie l.. Reese as post
mistress of Velasco, meets with salts
faction. She succeeds Captain Chinn,
who has moved to Sunny side. Miss
Jessie has been promoted from a dep
utyship.
The Southwestern Telegraph and
Telephone company is putting in a
first-class telephone line between San
Antonio and custom. The construction
force are now erecting poles through
Iuling.
Two young men. Jim and John
Choate of Erath county. were at Gran
burg Tuesday. Friday Deputy Sheriff
Henderson and County Tttorney 4.
q. Martin went to Erath county and
arrested them on charge of passing
counterfeit money and bringing them
here, put them in Jail at Granburg.
At meeting of the Ministers as
ISOLATION OF San Antonio resolutions
were adopted calling on congress to
ratify the arbitration treaty provided
the senators believed that "sad treaty
was wise and Just to our nation"
The DuIaney hotel being built at
Angleton which will be the largest
building Of its kind in the county with
the exception Of the Velasco hotel, is
nearly completed. Mr.. Dulaney ex-
poets to open it to the public about the
18th instant.
The recent cold weather did very
little If anw damages to cabbage and
other garden truck in Brazoria county,
outside of checking growth. Straw
berries will be plentiful again by Marcel
4.
Many farmers have come in Brnzor.
ia county and located from north Tex
as and every farm that was for rent
has been rented for the coming crop by
good class of farmers. Many others
are preparing to break new ground,
build and make other improvements.
The heavy rain Of last week will de.
lay farm work in Brazoria county for
some time on old ground, but the ma
well in hand and the prospects are
jority of farmers have all their work
that crops will be planted much earl
fer than last year.
William A. Clonch trumpeter of com
pany B, Eighteenth United States in
fantry, at Fort Sam Houston, commit
ted suicide Saturday night by throw
Ing himself from one Of the upper win
dows of the guard house. He was suf-
fering from the effects Of protracted
spree, and had been put in confinement
until he could sober up.
The most encouraging news item to
the people of the coast country for the
month just past is the positive an
nouncement that the contract has been
let for the dreding of Sabine lake from
Port Arthur to the head end of Sabine
Pass. The distance to be dredged will
cover something over five miles and
will relieve, for the present at least,
the necessity of an appropriation by
the United States government for that
part of the channel. or course the
government win be asked for an APP
propiation to cover n channel across
Sabine lake so as to get deep water
connection for Beaumont and Orange,
but the channel to Port Arthur will les
sen the expense to the government at
least one-third. The Port Arthur end
of the work will be well under way by
the time the government is ready to
act on the other channel matter.
The steamboat Charles Lee has Sc
cured n contract to deliver 1000 cubic
yards Of clam shells at the Sabine
crossing on the Sabine river, to be used
In the center pier of the drawbridge
now being built by the Kansas City,
Phtsburg and Gulf road. The same
boat closed n contract for transport
ing 1000 barrels of cement from Or
ange to the bridge.
Cattle buyers are numerous In Burke,
selling cattle, although in bad condi-
tion. Hogs are dying very rapidly,
seemingly starving, on account OF
there being no mast the past season.
Mr.. Ballln is now making brick to
erect large two-story establishment
nj Karnes City for general merchan-
disc business. Several others speak of
building brick houses.
The lumber business everywhere is
considered an Indicator pointing to the
advancement of community. Judg-
ing from this standpoint Port Lavaca
and surrounding country are making
the mist substantial and continuous
progress. The several yards here all
winter have done a thriving business,