El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-16
Neighbour
hood Notes.
Texas.

There is a clew, and it is hoped that
the guilty parties will be arrested and
punished Houston Post.
Little Joe Barham, who has been
suffering from injury caused by a toy
pistol, as reported yesterday, died this
morning at o'clock and will be buried
In the city cemetery tomorrow after
noon at 3 O'Clock, says q Nacogdoches
dispatch.
Mr.. Gilbert, the present incumbent,
will be candidate for reappointment
to the office of state expert printer. w.
j. Bule, OF Waxahschie, and w. D.
Cox, OF Temple, and Messrs. Paddle
ford and Hutchins, of Austin, will also
apply for the place, it is understood.
Exchange.
The powder and dynamite magazine
OF the Elmendorf Hardware com pany,
located about three miles out of the
city on the Somerset road, was broken
into ono day last week and about one
hundred pounds of powder and dy-
Mantle were stolen. The thiever car
ried their booty of in a wagon.-San
Antonio Light.
General Cabell, commander of the
department of Texae, United Confe-
derate Veterans, has appointed Miss
Mary Stella Shepard, of Bryan, col
onel of his staff. Col. Stella is a cous n
of Judge Seth Shepard of Washington
and Mrs. Lewis r. Bryan Of
Angleton. She spent one summer in
Velasco.-Velasco World.
County Poor House Superintendent
Jacob Weber had q queer case in his
charge at the poor house recently. The
fellow was q miserabl clad object with
q dirty contraption around his neck
like hoodoo bag. The fellow died not
long ago and ap examination of the
supposed hoodoo revealed that IL was
composed of sixteen IS bills.-Ssn An
tonic Express.
The city attorneys of Texas are in
session today considering the best plan
to secure q remedy for the present i'm
potence OF police court authority in
Texas. City Attorney G. P. Webb of
this city who has been one of the most
active of all the city attorneys in get
ting interest worked up along this line
left for FIT. Worth yesterday.-Sher-
man Register.
It is rather curious that in single
NAL the Record had letter from a
man who wanted to lease the paper,
one who wanted to lease q hotel In Del
Rio and another who wanted to buy o
goat ranch. The latter is physician
in Massachusetts,, who argues that the
infusion of goat blood into human veins
will cure consumption. He wants to
test his theory.-Del Rio Record.
State Treasurer w B. Workman
will turn over his department to Hon.
J. w. Robbins, his successor, on
T%
heretofore to make the transfers of
the different state offices on the date of
the governors inauguration but in the
present instance it is deemed advisable
to start in the coming year with the
new administration in charge of the
treasury department.-Austin Tribune.
The state legislature convenss on
Jan. 10 next. Gov. Sayers will be
inaueursted on Jan. II, and on Jan. "a
Gov. Culberson will be elected United
States senator. Then go ahead for
libel law reform, settlement of land
titles, an educational qualification for
only official tickets in an election and
the relief from taxation of capital
seeking investment in cotton factories
in proportion to the amount invested. |
After that let us fervently pray for q
speedy adjournment.-Seguin Enter
prise.
In conversation with the newly ap-
pointed superintendent of public build
ings and grounds, Sam Harlan, he in
formed Tribune reporter that he pro-
posed to make every effort to have the
capitol grounds fixed up. He said: 81
shall follow out as near as possible the
plans mapped out by Mr.. Mobley as he
believes he has started in the right
way to get an appropriation from the
next legislature. I intend to give a
good deal of attention to the capitol
grounds IS I believe they should be
kept in the very neatest order. Aus
tin Tribune.
A Denton dispatch says: Constable
Griffin on the Lewisville precinct was
cut with an ak in the hands of an un-
known man near that place, eighteen
miles from here, late yesterday even
ing, and it is thought will not live.
Griffin was after the man and two
others for boisterous conduct. He had
his back turned searching one of the |
others when the cowardly blow was
struck. The wound is just above the
kidneys and penetrated the hollow of
the back. A posse is in pursuit of the
man, who is known in the neigh bor-
hood, and officers from here left this