El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-17
Neighbour
hood Notes.

Texas.
Charles Sing, Chinaman. and Miss
Frazer, white, were married at Rock
wall, Tex.-Baird Star.
A shooting scrape occurred at Smith
vile Nov, 10. J. @. Holloway receiv-
ed flesh wound in the arm and chest.
Constable Joe Sims surrendered and
waived examination, His bond was
placed at $500, which he readily gave.
Three car loads of beer from St.
Louis were received at Paris over the
Frisco en- route for Manila. The con-
signment was transferred to the Texas
and Pacific and will go to San Fran
cisco for shipment to its destination,
Hong Kong.-Houston Post.
r. G. Lanham was painfully hurt
last night. His horse walked off of q
bank ten or twelve feet high and the
cart was broken to pieces. Mr.. Lau-
BAN was hurt on the shoulder and
side. Probably one rib is broken. He
was starting home from Loving school
house after polls were closed. It was
dark and the horse leaving the main
roadway missed the bridge.-Shermau
Register.
Roscoe McCarty, Joe Ramby and
Jefferson Squires are dead at Hubbard
voting box, twelve miles west of
Breckenridge, the result of battle
between Joe Squires and Riley Squires
on one side and J. F. McCarty, Roscoe
McCarty and Joe Randy on the other.
j. F. McCarty and Riley Squires are
also wounded but not seriously. No
particulars are Obtainable at this time.
Sherman Register.
The usually peaceful berg of Fort
DAVIS, we understand, is considerably
stirred up now over the election. Last
| week a battle royal occurred at q Mex.
| lean dance and one or two Mexicaps
got "shot all to pieces" but nobody was
killed. The particulars of the fight
| are rather meager, and nobody on this
| side of the divide knows exactly how
the thing came up.-Marfa New Era.
been in Houston for the past
week in the interest of an ocean steam
ship line that is anxious to make it's
headquarters at Sabine Pass, and to es-
tablish a regular schedule of sailings
from that point, left the city last night
for New Orleans. Prior to his depart
ure he stated that he was favorably
impressed with the scheme referred to,
and that 1t was very probable the COM
pany he represented would put it into
operation within the next few weeks
FIT. Worth Register.
Uncle Ben Highsmith, the old San
JacintO veteran, and among the few
survivors of the famous Jack Hays
rangers, was in Utopia yesterday and
on the day before walked from his
home on Blanket creek over into Sa.
binsl canyon, q distance Of eight miles.
In doing this he had to cross q range
of high, rocky mountains. He is in his
SD year, and from September to April
older than Big Foot Wallace, with
whom he served under Hays as q rang
er and also in the Mexican war of 1916
Exchange.
The startling discovery of q leak in
the big dam at Austin was made this
afternoon by Chief Engineer johnson
OF the city water and light power house.
1t has been supposed for the past two
years that there was leak in the dam,
but Its whereabouts could not be
found. About year ago divers were
brought here from New Orleans to
| look for the leak. They made
thorough investigation, but failed to
discover it. Since then Chief johnson
has worked diligently to discover it.
and his efforts were rewarded this af-