El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-23
Little Items From Live Papers.
TEXAS.

TEXAS.
Both Bouham's oil mills are running
on full time, and as usual, are paying
| better prices for seed than anybody
else.-Bonham News.
The extensive wheat growers of Tar
rant county are organizing to build q
grain elevator with a capacity OF LOCO,
900 bushels at Forth Worth.-Houston
Post.
A farmer in Bastrop county has 1000
bushels of corn that measures forty
four ears of shucked corn to the bushel,
weighing seventy pounds. - Oenison
Herald.
Cotton and cotton seeG are coming in
at q lively rate now. Seven dollars
and 6fty cents q ton for seed helps GU
the scent cotton wonderfully Bon
ham News.
Reports from all over the state
bring Information of the destruction of
the cotton crop by the boil weevil and
other pests, but it does not seem to
have any effect on the price of cotton
Eagle Lake Advertiser.
Thursday the south Inbound Denver
passenger had two extra baggage care
containing thirty-two horses for the
Dallas fair. They were in charge OF
sixteen men and were said to be very
fine racing stock. They were shipped
from Anaconda, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
chic Ledger.
Cotton farming in the old states is
giving way 10 wheat raising and both
of them to corn and provender for the
feeding of cattle and hogs. The pro-
cess has begun in Texas and IL IL hop
ed will be continued until the best OF
our land is devoted TO the most profit
able uses before being exhausted in
the vain effort to make money out OF
Observation-Disclosures.
Early nortbers, it is said, betoken q
severe winter; aud you may commence
right now to make the woodpile grow.
Besides, as an agricultural people we
should hail with the utmost satisfac-
ton q rigorous winter; as q long, strong
freeze will do more to extermlnste
bugs, worms and other pests than all
the Paris green, London purple and in-
sect powder inveuted.-Hays County
Times.
Gov. Culberson in his speech at the
Omaha exposition spoke of the ad-
vantages to the entire west of deep
water on the Texas coast and referred
TO the efforts TO secure harbors at
Arkansas Pass and other points A
great many people in positions to form
Intelligent opinions on the subject,
think the government will take charge
OF this work during the winter, and it
will be a lucky day for this section II
this is done -Sinton Signal.
Executive Office, Austin. Texas.
Sept. 19.-Mrs. Jefferson Davis.
Rockingham hotel, Narrsgsnsett Pier,
II. l.: / beg to assure you OF the pro-
found sympathy of the people OF Texas
in the death of your gifted and noble
daughter. Inheritiug great name
and born to the glories of the civil war,
she was greatly beloved by the south
ern people and her memory will be
tenderly cherished by them.
CHARLES A. CULBERSON,
Governor of Texas.
''Dr. W. K. Lewis, inspector for Tex
ss ssnita-y board, and DR.. Herman,
United States veterinarian, arrived
here Wednesday in charge of the ITO
h cad of yearlinPs which were recently
run through the dipping vstat Fort
Worth. DIR. Lewis informed a Re
porter man that every tick on the cat
lie dipped was as dead as picked
herring, and that the cattle could now
be turned on any range in the country
wi b absolutely no danger whatever OF
injecting other stock. 1t seems that
he fever problem has been solved in
Texas at last, and that the quarantine
inc is doomed Midland Reporter.