El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-24
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Texas
Jacksboro has voted to incorporate
as q city.-Ex.
Oil has beer found at q depth of SO
feet at Marble falls.-Ex.
The Texas Baptist convention will
be held at Dallas in November next
Elk.
Considerable work is being done or
the dirt roads of Jack county.-Bonham
News.
Tom Nelson and wife were killed by
lightning near Kountze, Tex, this
week.-Ex.
Each lawyer of the firm must pay his
occupation tax, and not the whole firm
one tax.-Ex.
The attorney general has approved
an issue of $4,000 of Burleson county
bridge bonds.
All obstacles are now removed from
the way of the Katy into San Antonio.
San Antonio Light.
A negro ba by in Dallas chewed the
head off of lot of matches. There
was q funeral next day.-Ex.
1t is said that Wise county has about
10000 people, and less than one-third
of her land in cultivation.-Ex.
Denison has made arrangements for
a county fair this fall. The dates will
be September 20, Fl, % and 23.-Ex.
Austin is talking of buying ten lots
fronting Lake Mcdonald now owned
by Colonel Brackenridge.-Ex-
change.
Texas is sending few of the MUIR
derers where they ought to be and do
ing it lawfully. May the good work
increase. Elk.
The case of John Carlisle for the
murder of Professor William Lipscomb
on July 10, has been set for trial on
August %, next.-Ex.
The postoffice at Pocket, Wharton
county, Tex, will be discontinued af-
ter July 81. The mail will then 60 to
Lost Springs Antonio Light.
By an agreement lately entered into
many of the business houses at Hunts
Vile are now closing at O'Clock in the
afternoon instead of I, as formerly
Dallas News.
Walter Rice, charged with divulg-
ing secrets of the grand jury at Creep
Vile, was convicted by the jury and
had fine of 800 assessed against him.
Houston Post.
There is to be three days. reunion
of the Bob Stone Camp, q. c. v. at
Nacona August %, "a and 25. It is
looked forward to by the ex-Confede-
rates as being q most enjoyable occas-
sion.-Fort Worth Register.
Sam Ford, . negro, has been convict
ed of an unmentionable crime under
the charge of attempted criminal as
sault upon a woman and given twenty
years in the penitentiary in the crimi-
nal district court at Galveston.
The supervising architect has sent
Special Agent L. 81. Blanton of his Of
fee to Beaumont to Investigate and re-
port upon the several sites submitted
oy the citizens of that place for new
postoffice building.-San Antonio
Exp.
A white woman was arrested in Mar
shall for begging who had S95 in her
pocket. No reference is made what
ever to the expert who found the
pocket and so We are rather inclined
to regard the item as q canard.-Colo-
RADIO Citizen.
The jury in the case of Wash Gar
rett, the negro wife murderer at Dallas,
assessed the death penalty. The trial
did not consume more than ten hours
and is said to be one of the shortest on
record for so severe verdict.-Fort
Worth Telegram.
The Waco Gas company has asked
the city council to grant certain fran
chises and the company then proposes
to bore for oil and natural gas. It Is
believed the council will make all
reasonable concessions.-Fort Worth
Mail Telegram.
The governor has appointed Thos.
Carson as extradition agent at Browns
vile for the state of Texas. These
agents are appointed under the recent
treaty between the United States and
Mexico, and such agents have super
vision over extradition matters con-
nected with the Republic of Mexico or
any Of the states thereof.-San Antonio
Express.
The charter of the Fort Worth Union
Passenger Station company of Fort
Worth, Tex, has been filed in the
secretary of states Office. Capital
stock, $4,000. The purpose of the
company Is to build and operate union
passenger depot and tracks leading
thereto in Fort Worth. The incorpor-
ators are: George A. Quinlan of
Houston, l.. J. Polk of Galveston, M.
B. Lloyd, G. S. WINES and s. w.
Noble of Fort Worth.
Arizona.
The exodus of Bisbeeites to the Hua-
chuca mountains continues.-Ex.