El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-23
Little Items From Live Papers.
TEXAS.

TEXAS.
d. c. Summers sold to Sedbury 10
stock cattle, grade Durhams, for 81,
5O0.-Midland Reporter.
The range cattle market is unusual
ly quiet. Buyers and sellers, are as
rule, unable to get together.-Midlan'
Reporter.
| The city of Gainesville has beef
ordered to retake it's scholastic censu
as was done in Sherman
| Register.
John Wulff, aged 4s, dropped deat
of heart disease in his yard at 102'
Zavsla street this morning.-San An
tonic Light.
Q All the electric street cars are to be
equipped with heavy gongs which car
be heard as the cars approach.-Sher
man Register.
j. w. Tate, general agent of the
Chicago & Great Western, was in the
city yesterday from his Dallas head
qusrters.-Dsily Express.
Jones Miller, of Crockett county,
through jackson 81 Richardson, sold
Willis Lawton for Cicero Russell, 700
dry sheep at $2.124.-Midland Report
or.
Velasco has on the Brazos river vast
supplies of valuable hard wood and
soft wood timbers which can be fioated
TO the city at small cost.-Velasco
World.
Engineer Hildreth Norton, of the
Southern Pacific, left for California
yesterday, and his friends say that he
is not coming back slone.-San Anto-
MO Light.
The weather during the past week
has cleared up, and the ground once
more is getting dry enough for the
farmers to clean out their crops.-Ve-
lasco World.
The local office of the Postal Tele-
graph Gable company is being fitted
will be opened about Oct. 1.-San An
tonic Express.
Gov. Wells Thompson made big
record for himself the first day he
spent at Surfside. He caught q man.
moth silver king (Tarpon) measuring
i've feet and eight inches in length
Velasco World.
Mr.. Ralph lizard of Laredo, inspector
Tor the United States treasure depart
nent. went out to the post yesterday
~ bcc Ills uuu6EOuB IT16uQS IN DQ6 r6Rl-
Express.
Jailer Terry of the county Jail is in
receipt OF ian anonymous letter from
Oenison stating that an attempt Is 10
De made tonight to liberate the pris-
'ners in the jail.-Sherman Register.
A party OF railroad men consisting
If ID. K. McCarty, j. G. Dyas, j. w.
Ryan and j. E. Kinnerly came to the
lily yesterday from Yoskum and are
It the Elite hotel, San Antonio Light.
An inquest was held yesterday in
Justice Fitze's court with the view of
the cause of the fire that
occurred last Monday evening in the
lothing store of L. NJ. Jones 81 Co.
iouston Post.
The leaf worm is doing considerable
amage to the cotton around Beeville.
While the Mexican boil weevil is also
DING damage it has been far less de-
tructive so far than for three years.
Daily Express.
John w. Stewart. ST., has begun the
remuneration of the number of chill |
rem within the school age in Sherman
q accordance with the method pre-
cribed by the state superintendent
sherman Register.
William Jordan, q popular brakeman
n the Southern Pacific, has returned
rom Uvalde, accompanied by his
ride, an accomplished young lady of |
hat place, and went out on local, his |
ular run west, yesterdsy.-San An
onio Light.
Holders of Texas and New Orleans |
rst mortgage bonds are notified that |
40 900 IL applicable from the sinking i
nnd to buy these bonds at not to ex-I
coed 10 per cent above par at the |
flee of the Atlantic Trust company,
lew York.-Houston Post.
Supt. A. j. Davidson of the Frisco,
anne in last night on his special car.
lie spent the night with Mayor Con-
Iay. He left this morning on the 9:45
rain for st. Louis, accompanied as far
5 Dallas by Supt. Pendell and Master
fechanic Waugh. Enter
rise.
Robert Lyons, chief clerk for Master
De Young, of the Southern
'acific at Ell Paso, is in the city on his
nnual summer vacation trip, visiting
is mother on Sixth street, and from
ere he goes to Houston and Galveston
, spend a few days.-San Antonio
light.
News reached Crockett last night of
lie shooting of q negro near Hsgar-
lille, twenty-four miles east of here.
Ie was shot from ambush while work.
~ in a field with another negro. He
-awled nearly half mile after he
as shot. No clew to the perpetrators.
Daily Express.
Yesterday afternoon j. Stevenson, q
continent citizen of College Hill, near
boarded the passenger train
ride out to the crossing near his
.sidence. The train was going rather
at and when Stevenson stepped off
fnrnAh tho wronn wau and ,ua.