El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-20
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hood Notes.
Texas.

Texas.
w. E. Lowe was elected city record
er at Dublin.
Free mail delivery has been inaug-
urated at Cleburne.
BY vote of 100 to Jacksonville
decided to incorporate.
Nine chattel mortgages we're filed at
Fort Worth one day recently.
The Lloyd Rifles are to be reorgan-
lied, with former Lieut.. Phil Hunt as
captain.
On the 9th Wichita Falls will be 10
years old and hsr citizens intend cele-
brating the event.
B. T. Jones has been elected Judge OF
the Sherman city court and r. M
Kearney clerk.-Ex.
James @. Gilmore, q Dallas boot
black, found 5000. which he promptly
returned to owner.
Wilson county's assessed valuation
for 1899 is "a, $50 $50, an increase over
1898 of 1882, 531.-Cleburne Herald.
Judge E. D. Gavin today qualified as
Judge for the new court of civil appeals
at Galveston.-Fort Worth Telegram.
The special school tax proposition
was defeated at Lougview, not receiv-
ing the necessary two-thirds majority
by forty-nine votee.-Ex.
The Yoakum compress has hsndled
more than 80, 600 bales of cotton this
season This record is unusually good
for this time in the season.-Ex.
An "unloaded" pistol, in the hands
of one boy in Washington county, was
discharged and Aaron Davis, years
old, at once became corpse.-Ex.
The sale at Marshall of the Texas
Southern railway has been postponed
until the first Tuesday in October. The
property will be re-advertised.-Ex.
A number of department clerks at
Austin who intended visiting the
Paris exposition have resolved not to
go owing to the verdict in the Dreyfus
csse.-Ex.
News reached Cameron yesterday
| from Maysfield that Hubert Atkinson,
an extensive planter of the Brazos
river bottom, had his right arm badly
cut in a gin.
| The quarantine station at Texarka-
ma contains eleven captives; most of
them are from points in Mississippi
and the others from New Orleans
San Antonio Express.
| The parties recently arrested by the
rangers at Orange had an examining
trial there. Two were discharged and
one held under 800 bond for further
| Investigation by the grand jury.-Cle-
burne Herald.
The oil we'll west of Mexia has gone
to spouting out gas that will burn for
| several feet above the ground, but the
~ hA ha Cd
| until the broken machinery ia removed
from the well.-Dallss News.
A full investigation of the charges
farm Is being had. Sensational evil
dence is being brought out, and the in
vestigation will be conducted in secret,
beginning this afternoon.-Ex.
Bennie Gooden, 6-year-old boy, fell
in a we'll and was drowned. The boy
was playing on top of the we'll when he
slipped and fell in. The accident was
not discovered until several hours after
it occurred.-Fort Worth Register.
| A pump with q lifting capacity of
It's, 900 gallons daily is being set and
placed in readiness to begin the test of
deep we'll No. 3 at the city water works.
| The we'll Is believed to be equal In
every way to any of the other wells
now In use.-D8llas News.
! An ornamental iron fence fifty-two
inches high has been placed around
the cemetery at Mckinney. The money
to do the work was furnished by the
ladies of the cemetery association, VIII @
Is bored for over year for the means
lwherewith to do the work.-Bonham
| News.
| On account of the present quarantine
the Texas and Pacific railway will on
tomorrow pull off passenger trains No.
81 aud SO on the New Orleans Pacific
division. These are known as the day
(! trains, No 81 arriving here ut :39 a.
M. and No. 50 departing at 4:25 p. m
| Nos. SO aud 81 will continue to run a.
heretofore.-Dallas News.
| The hardest hail storm ever known
| in that section passed near Moody
| Farmers report that 1t literally strip
ped the cotton of fruit, leaves and
limbs in its path, and left only the
stalks standing. A very small shower
of rain accompanied this storm just
CROUCH rain to barely lay the dust
nuisance Denison Herald.
The Burger gin plant, valued at
$1,000, with upwards of 100 bales of cot
ton and seed house, containing 200 tons
of seed, were burned at Mckinney,
early this morning. Total loss above
$4,000, insurance $1,000. Most of the
cotton destroyed belonged to farmers.
The fire originated in the press and Ia
supposed to have ignited from a match.
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Rav g Havden editor of the