Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1897-08-04

Port Lavaca and Will erect summer cot
tages for their families.
Mr.. Sam Dotson of Copperas Cove,
while out SEEMING for fish few nights
ago, fell in the river and was drowned.
Mr.. Dotson was about so yaers of age
and was one df the first settlers of Cory
ell county The parties with whom he
had gone were on the opposite side of
the river when he fell in and could not
reach him in time to save hm.
At Creedmoor, Travis county, dry
weather continues and and cotton Is
suffering badly. Unless rain comes
soon the crop will be short of last rea-
son. The doll worm is doing lots of
damage to the late plant, causing all
the fruit to fall as fast as it puts on.
The general prospect Is exceedingly
discouraging.
The surveyors appointed by William
son and Bell counties to make n special
survey to determine the county line be-
tween Williamson and Bell counties
have returned, having finished the
work The old Williamson county line
established in 1913 was found and run
out with very little difficulty. Neither
county has lost or gained any territory
by the new survey, but having the mat
ter definitely settled will be of great
advantage to both,
1t is estimated that there are over
1000 tons of hay now stored at Alvin
for the fall and winter market, and the
several firms engaged in the business
are still cutting. Some who could not
hold their hay have been forced to sell
and number of carloads are sent out
weekly at SD per ton f. o. b. here. The
drouth has been the very thing for the
hay business and the quality of the
cured hay Is much better than usual,
as there is less moisture to evaporate
from the grass.
Mr.. a. Il. Lucas who has the contract
for building the new court house at
Halletsyille, has notified tie officials of
Lavaca county that same will be built
by Stadtler Bros. of Houston The con.
tract for the building calls for Mineral
Wells stone for the body, and it has
been charged that this stone fades and
will streak when water gets on it. The
commissioners are investigating, and
if considered advisable, will use other
stone.
The management of the Texas and
Pacific railway is equlpplng its passen
ger locomotives with electric headlights.
So far Nos 224 and 800 have been thus
turned out. Engineers speak in high
terms Of the new equipment, giving
strong testimony to the fact that with
this equipment a better view into the
darkness is had, thereby greatly lessen.
ing the danger of running into obstruc-
lions. This road il also putting an aver.
age of $50 carloads of gravel per day
into Its roaGbed betwee.- FORT Worth
and Weathertord.
]. r. Giles, f. " Gentry Felix Jack.
son, w. L. Moore, o. r. Croft and S. d.
Sheets started new residences at Port
, Lavaca this week and contracts have
already been let for several to start next
week. The city is enjoying a substan-
, tial growth Most of the building is
being done in the north end and many
= new citizens are being added to the To-
, cal population. AS in the past, the new
residents are nearly all from North and
Central Texas. There is also much
: building being done in the farming dis
: trlcts surrounding the city.
l At n meeting of the mill men OF
1 Orange last evening it was decided to
make an effort to clear the hyacinths
e from in front of the mills at least, and
e crew of men will go to work on Mon
n day, but this will, at best, furnish only
: temporary relief, and the secretary o.
y the board of trade has written and tele
t graphed to Congressman S. b. Cooper
at Washington asking If something car
e not be done by the government. The
e schooner Ellen arrived at the foot OF
e the drift last Wednesday and was froc
r. ed to wait there until today, before SHE
q could be towed through The schooner
4 Silas reached there yesterday ant
is there yet. A large tow of swan tim
e Der that started in last night got on
d this morning. but not until two TOW
1t boats had pushed and pulled at it lively,
IL hours. II. f. Catron, who resides oil
n Cow bayou, says he noticed a few deaf
e splotches among the hyacinths nea
e his rice farm and on closer eXamlna
e ton found great many red spiders
also a small worm at work on them
n but they We're making poor Roadway
e He thinks the hyacinths were gainin
N on the enemy very rapidly. Partle
W who have vessels loading at Sabin
N Pass can not get cargo from the mills
If where they have had 1t cut and stack