The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-09-02
SHORT TEXAS SPECIALS.

ITALY.-The detention camp has been
broken up and the smallpox scare is OF
the past.
TERRELL.-State Purchasing Agent C.
A. Adams is here investigating the needs
of the insane asylum.
SKlDMORE.-There have been 900 bales
OF cotton ginned here this season, against
sSY same date last year.
DENTON.-The smallpox camps of de-
tention have been discontinued There Is
now not n case in this county
DENToN.-Tho grand jury has ad-
journed. after returning nineteen true
bills thirteen OF them for felonles
DENTON. One hundred and thirty bales
OF cotton have been received here up to
date and the tleecy staple is still coming
in slowly.
WHARToN.--There are quite a number
of cases OF malarlal fever throughout the
county, but no case of either typhoid or
scarlet fever has developed.
WAXAHACHIE.- The new corporation
court has been organized. with Mayor
Pickett as recorder and Pckens Anderson,
clerk. TWO policemen were appointed.
BELToN.-The jury in the Jim Will
son murder case. after being out two days,
failed TO agree and were discharged They
stood nine for acquittal and three for CON
viction.
TERRELL.The statement OF County
Tax Assessor h. d. Wilfong gives the
valuation of the property in this county
at Ss,o6S,l %. an increase over the roll OF
1895 of s1Sl,s57.
FORT WoRTH.-Rey. 7. z. 7. Morris
has undertaken the work of finding homes
Tor helpless women with infant children.
The women must agree to work as domcs-
ties in such homes
RockPoRT,--T examining trial of
Jim upshaw, charged with numbering Julio
Alamla last Tuesday. was concluded and
the defendant was remanded TO Jail without
bond by Judge Court.
Monday next contracts will
be let for making improvements at the
North Texas insane asylum to cost APP
proxima,ely $4,000. The last legislature
provided for them
GREENVTLLE.--The commissioners
court has examined the pension applica.
lions taken by the county Judge and
passed all but one. There are ninety seven
OF these applications,
MIDLAND. -Tommie Quebedeaux, aged
IA years, messenger boy. was badly hurt
while riding his bicycle, but how it oc-
CURED Is all mystery. He will likely re-
cover.
NHN SL"'T-NeW Yin mas Snipped from
September /. 1898. to September /, 1872.
tho amount of 1884 bales OF cotton. New
ulm is the largest receiving point for cot
ton In Austin county. ~
HEARNE.-on Saturday evening and
night tickets will be on sale here Via the
central TO Houston and Galveston at a
round trip rate of 81 and S2.25. respectively.
very good sized crowd viii 20 from
Hearne.
SHERMAN number OF applications
for pensions under the Confederate pen |
Mon law from Grayson county has reached |
eighty i've TO date. or this number the 1
county commissioners have audited and
passed favorahly upon seventy.
NACoGDoCHEs.-o s. Parker Eso a,
Houston, assistant attorney for tae Hons
Ton East and West Texas railroad. IL in
town today. shaping up his business far
tue district court. which convenes on tina
II proximo.
AbiLENE.-The grass on the govern
mept experimental grass station was
burned on this week by a prairie ARE snn
acres being burned over. The norton n, {
.ne station devoted to cultivation of spe-
siaI varieties introduced from other conn .
tries escaped o'"e' 'ouh-
Notwithstanding TO statements maaa
~ several strawberry growers OF tb,s ,
car, .aat otop VIII be at least so per /
ssnt shorter next year than IL was XII, s
year, The extreme hot and ~ weathsr 0
=. ms month has killed in some localities
5 1sp nan OF the plants and has done great
amsSe 70 ,nem all over the county
!, n,,o,hsicANA.-rhe filing Of OIL lease. u
srns goes on here. One company, The
Z 4 nna ~ company, filed for record
! "ue eiatter twenty seven leases eova- B
ns . iarse area OF territory In his cn,r | n
y large per cent OF Navarro county :. ;,