El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-20
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Relatives of the Austin soldier boys
at Savannah, Ca, are preparing
time to reach the boys Christmas Day.
Austin Tribune.
Captain A. S. Reed is in from long
stay 1t his ranch in Burnett county.
Captain Reed has handled several
season with profit, but says that they
are held so high as to be hardly de-
sirable investment.-Ft. Worth Regis
ter.
A Fort Worth dispatch says: Cracks
men blew open two safes here at
O'Clock this morning, using large guam
titles of giant powder: one In Burton
Lingo's wholesale lumber office, the
other in P. I. Andrews grain and cot
ton office. In the latter $50 " as secur-
ed. The buildings were eighty dam
aged.
Miss Mary De Zavalla OF San, An
tonic has announced as Q candidate
for postmistress of the Senate of the
Twenty-sixth legislature. Miss De
Zavalls is the granddaughter of the
great Lorenzo Zavalla, the famous
patriot who figures SO extensively in
Texas history.-Fort Worth Mail
Telegram.
dispatch from Granger, Texas, says:
Yesterday Edgar Foster. q 14-year-old
lad, who, with his brother Warren,
runs q small store in the Allison neigh
borbo God, WIS in the store handling
38-calibre pistol, which he thought was
not loaded. The pistol was accidental
IL discharged and the ball entered near
the knee, coming out above the ankle.
At present he is doing well.-Houston
Post.
E. E See of Walker. Mo, who was
here this week with John Person, has
bought the club building of Jud ee Il.
n. Looney for s., 1000. He expects to
put in about 1925, 900 stock of dry
goods early in January. John Person
will be his chief clerk. This with the
new buildings that are going up and
additional Wholesale store will put
Colorado on . considerable boom
Colorado Spokesman.
Mr.. Mack Schmit of this city, til q
sculptor, who recently achieved some
distinction by making several busts of
plaster bust of the late Charles
Stewart to be placed in the Fifty-fifth
district court room. 1t is a fine piece
of work and a good likeness. Mr..
Schmit is an artist Of more than mere
local reputation. He has made sew
eral busts for the congressional library
at Washington. Among them one
of the lamented Garfield. Houston
Post.
A Sherman dispatch says: Yester-
day shortly before noon while playing
with pistol Gussie Dickerman, aged
ID, accidentally discharged 44-csliber
pistol and the ball took effect in the
neck of Dennie, 4-year-brother, and
passed clear through, but fortunately
at such An angle that the principal
veins and arteries were missed. The
physician who attended the little fellow
thinks he will recover. The children
are the sons of John Dickermap, a
farmer of the Glenwood neigh borho God.
four miles east OF the city.-Denisoa
Herald.
Judge John M. King, third assistant
in the attorney Generals Department,
rendered an opinion upon application
of Prof. j. M. Carlisle superintendent
Of public instruction, that Prof. J. p.
Rose,. who was recently elected
schools, is not eligible for the office
for the reason that he is not teacher
by profession and does not possess
either first class of permanent teach
ers' certificate. 1t Is understood that
Prof. Roto will make an effort to
qualify to the Office and will test the
matter in the Ourts.-San Antonio
Express.
There are about fifteen men irving
to be sergeantat-arms, among the
number being Sheriff Purl of George
town aud Representative Bill
Fields of Hillsboro. There are appli-
cants for committee c'erkships by the
dozens, and whoever gets to be speaker
will have his hands full selecting from
among the number and will also have
some hundred small boys from whom
he can select the pages. Over in the
senate a similar condition of affairs
confronts the senators. Every Office
has applicants by the score and it Is
believed that IL will take several days
to organize the two houses so great
will be the contest for the various po-
sitlons.-Austin Statesman.
Mexico.
The authorities have permitted the