El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-05
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Texas.
With an excellent season in the
ground all over Texas, the prospects
for abundant crops next year are very
bright.-GalvestOn Opera Glass.
WAS burned Thursday night, Dec.
22nd. The loss includes all Office
fixtures, furniture, etc., and is es-
timated at $4,000.
If some patriot will introduce Tex
as bill in the next Legislature provid-
ing for reduction in the legal rate of
interest, he will receive the thanks of
grateful people.-Brenham Daily
Banner.
Rosenbaum Bros. & Co., recently
purchased car load of ITO pound
Texas steers from the. Ardmore Oil
Co. that realized $40, the highest
price paid the season for Texas cattle.
San Antonio Light.
A canning factory to work up our
surplus land and water products is an
enterprise that must not be allowed to
sleep, Port Lavaca,needs it in her Dusi-
ness. This is the best location in the
state for such an enterprise.-Port La
vacsen.
The police have succeeded in finding
the supposed headq of a gang
of safe crackers now in the city and
surrounded the place twice yesterday,
but before they could make any arrests
the birds had fown.-Ssn Antonio
Light.
1t is reported that Judge John b.
Reagan's condition from pneumonia is
very serious. While the aged states
man is not considered to be fatally i'll,
his extreme age aud feeble condition
make his old friends uneasy about the
outcome of his sickness.-Austin
Tribune.
Hon. J. W. Robbins became treasur-
err of the state of Texas Saturday af-
ternoon at 4 O'Clock, at " hich hour he
was sworn into office by Judge r. E.
Brooks, of the district court here.
His bond of S75. 900 was approved by
the governor earlier in the day.
San Antonio has an ordinance which
ing suspicious characters shall be fined
not less than IS nor more than $780,"
Upon reflection, that ordinance does
smack little OF the French commune
of 1871. Laredo Daily Times.
Jackson & Harmon, of Alpine, re-
Gently sold in St. Louis market 931-
pound bulls and 788-pound "tailings"
at so. To the novice in the cattle
market 1t should be mentioned that
the "tsilings' of cattle are the clear
ing out of herd or ranch and these
naturally are by no means the best
cattle San Antonio Light.
The Commerce (Tex) Journal very
truthfully says: Farmers so often
overlook the fact that whatever ben-
efits and builds up the town benefits
them. The better the town, the bet
ter market for their product. There
should be nothing but the kindest feel
ing existing between the town and sur
rounding country. fisherman Daily
Democrat.
Up to today the Santa Fe company
at Fort Worth, has failed to comply
with the provisions of an ordinance
ceding certain parcels of ground upon
which the Santa Fe was to erect pas
senger depot. The time in which the
acceptance should have been made has
expired. Whether the Santa Fe has
decided to drop negotiations for q new
depot or not, is the question that was
BEING discussed here today among citi-
zens and railroad people. No repres-
entative of the company here could
Last Sunday night man,apparently
tramp, at ROsenburg undertook to
board freight train just starting out
on the Southern Pacific track at this
place, when he fell between the care
and was instantly crushed to de. tn,
HE body almost from his neck to his
hips being fairly ground to a pulp. No
papers or anything by which to iden-
tify him was found except q sort of
memorandum with the name VIM.
Grady thereon, and q we'll worn silver
pocketpiece about the size OF half dol
lar, said to be of Austrian coinage of
date of 1895 He was about 80 or IS
years of age. dark hair and mustache
and wore dark coat, dark blue wooden
shirt and gray pants. He had been
around the place q day or two and
seemed half demented.
Sunday was lively day in and
around Commerce, says an exchange
All day long men on horse back, with
Winchesters tied to the horns of their
saddles, could be seen coming in or 90
ing out OF town in q gallop. Crowds of
cltizens congregated in groups, talk
ing over latest reports about the man
hunt, and the proba BILE outcome ,of it.
Late in the evening Saturday some of
the officers had met the negro north Of
town and exchanged few shots with
him at long range, but the negro who
assaulted Mr.. Pose stood them off with