El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-21
Little Items From Live Papers.
TEXAS.

| TEXAS.
| Cotton choppers are hard to find il
Ellis Co.: at 81. 25 and $3.50 per day.
The street committee has in its mint
q careful remodeling of the North Ira
Wis street paving.-Sherman Register
Some men owe their position in
society to their wives and everything
else they have to their creditors.
Terrell Index.
We call them wsrships, but in real
1ty most OF our vessels are whalers
Even Spain will assent to this classifi
Standardization Express.
Cotton picking was commenced in a
number of fields in Bee county TODAY
and several bales of the fieecy staple
will be put on the market this week.
Houston Post.
Farmers of GOliad county are sitting
London purple on their cotton in the
hopes of checking the ravages of the
leaf worm, which has appeared in great
mum ers.-douston Post.
Hon. ]. S. Bradley, chairman of the
State populist executive committee, was
in Austin II tn inst. comforting with
local party leaders on matters concern
ing the holding Of the State conven-
ton In this city July q to 3O.-San An
tonic Express.
Our corn crop is very fine in Will
Hanson county: an immense yield will
be had. Prospects for a cotton crop
were never better; yet there is a great
deal OF late cotton and on the yield of
which we can not speculate with GER
tainty.-Houston Post.
In 1894 the city at Galveston leased
Pelican island to Robert Shaw for q
period of twenty-five years, the con-
slderation being an annual interest of
S25 per year. Subsequently Mr.. Shaw
ferred the lease to Messrs. Weeks &
Mccarthy, the present holders thereof.
The city has accepted rental from them
regularly.
A warrant of removal was today is
sued in the federal district court for J.
b. Billiard and j. w. Neville and they
were taken to Alabama by Postoffice
Inspector Bass and Deputy Marshal
Lancaster. Bullard, who at one time
was postmaster at Mexia, Ala, is
with the embezzlement of
postal funds while in offic and Neville
is wanted as being an accessory to the
crime. Roth men were arrested in
San Antonio q few days sgo.-Houston
Post.
A fire that for q time threatened to
be the most serious conf1agration Hous-
ton has had in many months was dis
covered by Night Waterman McKane
in the large clothing and furnishing
store of L. M. Jones & Co., at 3O3-3O5
Main street, shortly before o'clock
last night; of the fire T. w. Jones says:
The stock of goods carried by L. M.
Jones and Co. was valued at $4,000.
with SAC, 900 Insurance.: and the build
ing was Insured for $I5, 900. The stock
appears to be greatly damaged. II
10 not think the building has been
hurt to any considerable extent
Houston Post.
Some time ago the city council, by |
directed the city attorney to |
institute suit for the sbrogstion of the |
ease. He did so and the lease is now |
IN trial.
The testimony of real estate men was |
aiken today to show the value of the |
at the time the lease was CIV |
IN. Most of them declared the rental |
vas entirely too low.
The island lies directly north of the |
,ity, just across the bay, and contains |
more than 5000 acres. At one time /
here was a plan on foot to prepare
locks and terminals over there, q
hing that some of the optimists claim
will yet have to be done to accOmmo-
late the city's growing ridiculous
on Post.