Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-03-30
ALL OVER THE COAST,
NEWSY ITEMS FROM VARIOUS
SECTIONS OF THE STATE,
General Summary of Crops Produced
Immigration and improvement Notes of
Our Sister Cities-Plckups That Arc Of
General Interest.

j. Il. Southwcll & Son shipped two
car loads of hogs from Yoakum to
Houston last Thursday night.
Strawberries and vegetables are
quantities to northerwmarkets.
Vernon, Wllbarger county, has been
blessed with abundant rains the past
week and the outlook was never better
for prosperous year.
AT Devine, Medina county, the dry
spell still continues and rain Is badly
needed both for crops and to give
grass and water for stock
Mr.. w. X. Middlesworth Of High
Island has a cabbage on exhibition 1T
the depot weighing % p1ounds. This
is only one of many more.
The engineers surveying Mr.. Lofts
railroad from Victoria to Alvin are
crossing Brazorla county now about
six on eight miles above Columbia.
They are encamped on the Brazos river
near Osceola, having gotten through
the brush ON the Bernard.
There has been much scare at Frels-
burg anent the recent quarantine of
Columbus, the county seat, on account
Of the smallpox prevalent in that city.
Quarantine has been raised, yet there
seems to be much confusion, which is
attendant upon such scare.
Through II gentleman from Brazoria
it is learned that movement is pref
ty well advanced there to erect $780,
600 sugar refinery at that point. The
money has already been arranged for
and the project is SO far advanced that
they are counting upon starting work
on the foundation about the Goth proX-
limo. There is "A good deal of local
capital in it,
G. r. Lucas of Beeville sold two
steers ON the Chicago market las week
at > Ii cents, netting $3.50 eac1i. This
and other sales recently have greatly
encouraged Beeville cattlemen to re-
solve upon Improvement of their herds.
with view of furnishing good quail
ity of export cattle. One thousand dol
lars was paid recently by Ed G. Las
safer for a thoroughbred Hereford
bull
There Is general activity among the
Beevllle cattlemen in rounding up
herds and separating beef from stock
cattle, preparatory to delivery on con
tracts that will mature within the next
few weeks. II. r. Clan. love stock
agent of the Arkansas Pass, informs our
correspondent that his road is prepal-
ing for the heaviest spring traffic it has
yet had Three hundred cattle cars
have been booked for Beeville cattle
men, to be used ut different dates, be-
ginning April 1. At Alice the number
of cars spoken for exceed 1000
G. Herring, a ranchman of Live Oak
county, was in Beeville last week and
reports that large number of emf
grants who left central and northern
Texas for Mexico in the early part of
the year are returning to their homes.
A train of fifteen wagons passed
through Oakville one day last week.
When the immigrant had reached Rio
Grande. they found the duty on their
wagons. teams and household goods
SO high that they could not pay it, and
nothing was left for them but to re-
luIll 10 llelT MONIES Ill lHe Central part
of the State.
Mr.. Charles II. Stevenson of the
United States fish commission was in
Galveston last week. He stated to a
reporter that he had come to Texas
for the purpose of looking into the
condition of Texas fisheries. and to as
certain what the government might do
in the way of improving and protecting
them by stocking and other measures
He has already vlsltedthe lower coast
of Texas. He held conference with
Judge George Il. Mann and Major H
NJ. Stringfellow, who have given the
subject of stocking the waters around
Galveston considerable thought. Mr..
Stevenson, however. had made no in
vestigations here and was not prepared
to make any statement concerning the
Galveston fisheries.
An express car is set OH the switch
at the express office each morning ut
Alvin. and is loaded with strawberria as
and vegetables. and is pulled out by
the north-bound main line train ut s
p. m. This loading has been going on
| for n week n pur daily and tha in