El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-04
Little Items From Live Papers.
TEXAS.

day requesting the city council to ord
er an election for msyor.-Sherman
Register.
The question of the state chairman
ship of The Texas democracy has sud
denly taken an expansive turn-Gal-
weston News.
The Rio Grsnde & Ell Paso Railway
company today paid the comptroller
S2.95 tax on 1926. 10 passenger earnings
for the quarter ending June 30.-Spe-
cial to the Post.
Eugene Stancaupiano, a we'll known
of the Sunset shops, is missing from
his home. No 408 Burleson street
since Sundsy.-Ssn Antonio Light.
Large numbers of people went to
Scottsville today to attend the holiness
meeting there. The attendance so far
has been large and considerable in =
terest in the services is manifested
Post.
Two hundred and fifteen thousand
bushels of wheat have been received at
Denton this season. 1t is thought the
receipts at this point alone will this
year amount to between 800, 900 and
900, 900 bushels.-Houston Post.
The wind last night got tangled up
with the gospel tent on North East
street and ripped the canvas pretty
badly and pulled one or two poles out
of place. The damage, however, WAS
soon ectified.-Sherman Register.
Everything is moving along smooth
~ for our carnival in December. We
expect to show the world that Midland
Is town composed Of live citizens,
who are not afraid to work for the in
tere st OF their town.-Midland Gazette.
Adolph Toepperwein, San Antonio's
crack rifle shot, leaves Monday August
lst, for New York, where he will give
exhibitions. He will fill an engage
ment at Coney Island and also at the
various theatres of New York.-Sau
Antonio Light.
In an interview recently published
in The Express, Hon. George 81. Noon
an (Rep) is quoted as saying that he
was mot a candidate, but would &C
cept the nomination for congress-
from the Twelfth district, aud express
ed belief that he would be elected.
Jim Hogg and John FL. Reagan will
be conspicuous by their absence from
the state democratic convention. AS
both Of these leaders are in favor of
CAPoboAoh bhCy Will leave Lue DOY5 10
fight 1T out, If the question should be
sprung in the convention.-Waco Tele-
phone.
Several copies of the Honolulu Ad-
vertiser have been received in this
city. They are all printed in red,
white and blue in honor of the arrival
OF the American transports and receipt
of word that Hawaii had been made q
part Of the United States of America.
Sherman Register.
Cattle vaccination is growing in fa-
vor yearly, as witness the increase in
Texas: In 1895 there were 254O ami
mails vaccinRted In this state, in 1896
1850, in 1898 1880 and for the six
months of 1898 ending June 80 $3.50.
with fair prospect that by Dec. 81
the number will amount to over 75, 900
head.-Exchange.
The ladies of the Baptist church in
Texarkana leased the street car sys-
tenn today and took charge of the en-
tire concern. They gave big picnic
at Whitley's park, where an immense
crowd gathered. The collection from
car fares and gate receipts wen toward
the construction of the new Baptist
church in Texarkana.-Exchan
AT the state populist convention held
at Austin the delegates from the coun-
ties constituting the fifth congressional
district were instructed to repair to
some convenient place and proceed to
the nomination of q candidate for con-
gress to oppose Hon. ]. w. Bailey, the
democratic nominee. The sub conven-
ton did so and the choice fell on w. S.
IBID Holt.-Sherman Register.
John b. Reagan, sheriff of Rusk
County, yesterday received q tele-
phone message to proceed at once to
Wells, station on the Cotton Belt
railway, in the extreme southern part
Of the tCherokeel county. The mes
sage stated that trouble was imminent
between the white people and the col
ored. There have been no race trou-
oles in this county heretofore, but big
saw mills located in that section have
brought a new population, both white
aud black.--Post.
The roping contest at Haskell re-
suited in the first prize being won by
VIII Gardner, second prize by j. T. |
Ward and third prize by Perry Pears |
". The cutting-out' contest resulted |
n first prize being awarded S. l.. |
Graves, the second Billy Brown and |
The third TO s. S. Cummings. The |
famous cutting horse, branded Hub, |
won the applause, when, without any |
bride, he cut out and ran to the stand |
: herd OF three or four wild steers.-l
Houston Post.
At the Agricultural and Mechanical |!
College farm, corn harvesting is under
way and it would pay many of our farm
ers to stop of here and see the fne crop
hat burdens the ground cut with a
close to the ground and the
bundles dropped at nearly regular in
.ervsls, loaded into low-bodied wagons.
hauled to the ensilaRe cutter. cut into
nch lengths and elevated into the huge
'llos without the waste of any part of
he plant except the roots This ia |