The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-05-31

reyS. pheatOns, carts, elc" l"
arrive. Save your orders
TeNarkana Carriage Co.
Our city has a deserted look to-
day. most Of our meu folks having
gone to Pittsburg, Texas, to attend
court.
Mr. Barefeld of Nashville, Ark
arrived here today to meet the
Baker Springs property owners to
close some contract with them.
Col. S. Tom Slay Of Doddridge,
Sulphur township, is a visitor in the
CITY. He tells US that crop pros
poets are fine in his ueighbor-
hood.
Mrs. T. L. Jones, of Columbus,
Ark, who has been visiting the
family of her brother, DR.. S. A.
Simmons, Of this city, has returned
home.
Hon. W. F. Kirby has recruited
sufficiently of strength to come out
again and we are glad to see his
good natural smiling face on the
streets agaiu.
Mr.. Hunt, who has been sick for
some time at the Bickham house,
and whose life has been in the bal
ance for two weeks, has rallied and
is now considerably better,
Mrs. Flye has returned from her
visit to San Antonio, and is now
doing the agreeable at Belle Maison
during the absence of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Paul Jones, who is in Lit
tie Rock visiting Mrs. Stats.
Cervera is IN a position now to
say damn 1t, of course meaning
the mouth of the bay, to keep
Schley from getting to him. We
also say damn" it-meaning to
keep the Spanish feet from making
their escape.
The Texas Yellow Jackets, a col
ored base ball team is here to play
the dark town club a series of two
games of ball. It is SAID the Tex
arkana club are fair players and
stand chance of doing up the
| Texas coons in great shape.
| John c. Gram is now engaged in
making an abstract of Miller county
Hands and lots. He is engaged by
| Mr.. NJ. D. Tilson on this work and it
will take him quite a time to COM
plete the same. When it is finished
| Mr.. Tilson will furnish you an alb
stract of title to your land at a
! reasonable consideration.
We have no news from the front
today in regard to the war move
ment, our friend jim Robinson
having discontinued the bulletin
service for the present. We know
that everything is all right, how
| ever, and shall ask our readers to
so believe with us until the contrary
lis established.
We have got them in hole, we
dare not go in after them. The
question now is how are we to get
them out? There is always a way
to overcome obstacles of this kind
and we shall look for some genius
to devise a means to dislodge the
spanish fleet from the pickle we
have them in.
Ben Foreman closed with the
Baker Springs company yesterday
to put up a 12-room hotel at the
noted Springs bearing the above
name. The house is to be completed
right away and is to be a dollar
day one. Many of our people will
90 to these Springs this summer for
health and pleasure.
We saw a lady place a nickel in
the "fairest thing in town this
morning and made five-time win
ner on soda water. When we take
into consideration the fact that
only one appears on the wheel,
which contains fifty numbers, she
won with forty-nince chances
against her. 1t is better to be born
lucky than rich.
Mr.. A. Ockander was here yester-
day and he tells us he has ordered
his grading outfit and roller shipped
to this place. He is satisfied he will
get the contract to grade three
blocks on Broad street, and when
this is once done the property own
ers all over the city will see that
the road he makes is solid and his
services will be called to lay many
r,ilae of etreet in the citv