El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-23
NeighbOr-
hood Notes.

G. A. Adams of Bryan was appoint
ed state purchasing agent.
Forfeited school lands ARE to be put
on the market Septembe l.
Some damage was done to small
houses In kaufman by heavy wind.
The furniture for the new school
house at Wharton has been purchased.
The annual fiesta at San Diego is In
progress and the town is full of gamb-
| lers.
The Pee Gee road is reported in the
hands of Philadelphia parties by pur-
chase.
No farther trouble at Orange
among the mill hands, but rangers are
there.
At Ven Alstyne Tilda Ragland,
colored, died at the age of 1O2 years
Thursday.
Young Graves, who disappeared from
| Galveston, has been heard from at San
Francisco.
Negro editors are in session at Dallas
for the purpose of organizing 8 press
association.
Mesquite, Dallas county, is sRitsted
ever the death of fve-year-old boy,
murder suspected.
Jim Grant has been jailed at Calves
ton charged with criminally assaulting
Annie Robertson.
Cut worms are reported as doing
Prea damage to replanted crops in
Washington county.
Dick Barton of Gilmer was struck
over the head with shotgun and 1t is
said he will die rs . result.
A woman was instantly killed by
| lightning at Luna, ten miles west of
Buffalo in an electrical storm Wednes-
day.
Two attempts we're made to burn the
Protestant orphanage at San Antonio;
fifty children were sleeping in the
building.
A recruiting Office for the Thirty
third regiment has been open at Me-
xis, for some days; so far only five en-
listments have been secured.
Sheriff Clark of Tarrant county has
brought m andamus proceedings against
Comptroller Finley to test the constitu-
tionality of the fee law of 1897.
Pension applications are still being
sent to County Judge Lancaster.
Over 100 were sent in at the last meet
ing of the commissioners court.
Some wild animal, believed to be q
Mexican lion, has caused much excite
ment in the suburbs of Calvert. No or
Ranized effort to kill or capture it has |
yet been made.
The pest house near Little Elm used |
for smallpox patients has been burned |
by order of the county commissioners, |
who decided that to be wise proven |
tive against any infection.-Ex.
Plans for the new public high school |
at Austin were awarded to Burt Nc
Donald, of Austin, and J. r. Gordon,
of San Antonio. The building will be |
built at once, costing $50, O00.-Ex.
News reaches Fort Worth of q MUIR
der committed on Couts ranch in
Parker county. Jack Stiles was shot
and killed. Both men were working
on the ranch at the time of the
tragedy.
The Southern Oil com pany has struck
oil on the Dewitt farm one mile south
of Corsicaus. Several dry holes have
been bored this week from four to
seven miles of towp.-Fort Worth Te-
legram.
Governor Savers has granted the ap-
Mexico. for the extradition
of Matiss Chavarri, in Jail at San An
tonic, and wanted in Mexico for rhur-
aer.-Fort Worth Mail-Telegram.
New oil territory has been discover
I'd south of Corsicana by several
wild eating" frms, but it is not {
thought that the main vein or lake has
yet been struck. When it is found
here will be fortune in hand for the
inder.-Ex.
The Cleburne Rifles have been reor- /
yanized. Captain G. M. Duncan; fret |
lieutenant, Harry McFsrland: second
lieutenant. Tom Gray. They will q
make an effort to 'be assigned to the
Texas regiment that will help welcome l
Dewey in October.-Houston Post.
Two prisoners in the city Jail at San
Antonio on long terms nearly succeeded
n breaking jail yesterday afternoon
" breaking down a brick partition d
sed as prison. They we're discover c
d in time to prevent their escape. {
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dopted an ordinance prohibiting peo- {
lie from hitching to telegraph and @
telephone poles. Also an ordinance e
gainst turning on water from the =
Mains. The council will meet on
be 10Th to discuss the question of q
ity recorder.-Ex.
The state board of education has |,
aade an apportionment of 1926 per f
apita for public school purposes for
be coming scholastic year. It is e. .
mated by the board that the number o
pupils will be 705, 1874, and the total z
fund for distribution during :
ne coming scholastic year is SO ,O3O,- IL
)0.-Ex.
The people of San Antonio and sur Z
1unding country are taking much in F