El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-22
Neighbour
hood Notes.

Texas.
The tax rolls of Gray son county have
been completed.-Ex.
A recruiting Office has been opened
at Belton.-Pecos Times.
Counterfeit money 1s being circulat-
ed at Waco.-Bonham News.
Three persons escaped from Jail at
Sherman on Sunday night.-Ex.
A stranger was robbed of $500 at
Eagle Pass the other day while asleep.
Elk.
Rev. Sid Williams has raised $4,000
for q new Baptist church at Hillsboro.
I-Ex.
The chief of police of Galveston is
enforcing the Sunday lsw.-Carbsbsd
Current.
Agapito Cautu. q Mexican war vet
eran, died at Floresville, aged LOG
years.-Ex.
The oil mill at Farmersville has be-
gun sinking 1500-foot artesisn WE'LL
Dallas News.
Improvements are being made or
the Denton county fair grounds
| Houston Post.
Texas oil fields are now attracting
ate ntion on Wall street New York
Eagle Pass Guide.
| One negro killed and two seriously
wounded in a gam bling house i q range
I-Denison Herald.
| The Jack county fair will be held at
Jeckboro on Oct. il and continue four
dsys.-Dallas News.
The city hall Schulenberg aud two
adjoining buildings were destroyed by
hre.-Sherman Register.
| The new annex to the North Texas
insane asylum at Terrell, has been &C.
copied by the board.-Ex.
| A telephone line from Gstesville to
Hamilton via Evant and Ohio, has
been completed.-Pecos Times.
Marshal returns SO large an increase
of scholastic population that new
census is observation-disclosures Sun.
The Northwest Texas Weekly Press
association will hold its next annual
m Getting at Bridgeport.-De Her
aid.
The relief committee at Houston
working in behalf of the flood suffer
ers has closed its labors. --Houston
Post.
Paris has almost water famine but
she is relieving it by the pumping
works at the new lske.-Cleburne
Herald.
Gov. Sayers will not be able to at
tend the celebration in New York on
the arrival of Admiral Dewey.-Hous-
ton Post.
The new Masonic Widows and Or
phane' home at Fort Worth, will be
completed by Sept. Fort Worth
Register.
Members of the Broadway Presbyte-
rian church 1T Fort Worth have de-
cided to erect q new building. |
lene Times.
The city council of San Antonio has
let the contract for the erection of Q
market house and convention hall with
5000 seating capacity, to cost $4s, O0O.-
Ex.
ton to make the first Monday in each |
month q special day for the horse trad
ers, who collect here in large numbers. |
The Star.
The Weatherford, Mineral Wells g. |
North western Railway company paid |
the comptroller $50 43 tax on IS, O42. 80 |
of passenger earnings for the quarter |
ending June Box.
The good roads organic alton at
Gatesville is putting the roads in fine
shape. Most of the works being putin |
on the bad places in the different roads |
leading to town.-Abilene Times.
Cass county voted on two proposition,
o1eoto remove the court house from |
Linden to Atlanta and to detach q part
of the county 'and attach it to Morris |
county. Both were lost.-Exchsnge.
L. Graves, who was returning from |
Alvsrado to his home six miles south |
Of Mansfield, was held up by two men |
and relieved of $40. The robbery oc-
CURED near Mountain Creek bridge
Elk.
At Tyler, while playing with an old
pistol, Amos Hill, colored, was shot in
the face. The ball entering the tip
of the nose and ranging along the ma
sal cavity, struck the roof of the
mouth. The wound is painful ONE
Elk.
In response to request from State
Land Commissioner Regan the at
MON that the Tahoka Cattle company
is entitled to have patents issued to
it's eighteen sections of land.-San An
tonic Light.
The young boys who carry papers
around in Texarkana struck for high
er pay. They had been getting 1 ]
cents per paper for their sales, but
they demand cents. No papers cir
culated, and the public compelled to
resort to the news stands.-Ex.
The water company at Abilene has
offered the federation of women's
clubs 800 for the public library if they
will raise S400 from the town. The
federation has charge of the library,
a a w on n tn |
the money. In addition to the start