El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-12
Neighbour
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Water is very scarce at Mount YER
non and no prospects OF rain.
Nine chattel mortgages were filed at
FIT. Worth one day recently.
News.
Granbury college has opened with
flattering prospects for a SUCCESSFUL
session.-Ex.
A new knights of Pythias lodge has
been established at Joshua; 1t has six
teen charter members.
Wilson county's assessed valuation
for 1899 1884 ,639, $50, an increase over
1898 of 1882, 41.-Denison Herald.
The sale of the water works system
of Greenville has been postponed until
the FIRST Tuesday in October.-Ex.
The comptroller has received 4435
Confederate pension applications to
date from 1877 counties. Houston Post.
The new Presbyterian church at
Mckinney has been completed and fur
nished and will be occupied next Sun
day.
The public schools of Corsicana will
open on the 18th instant and the as
signment of teachers has been an
nounced.
A petition is being circulated in
Delta county asking for an election
with the view to repeating local OPP
| tiOn.-EX.
nho1 IL
from John burst lie, 900 acres of pine
land in Houston county; terms are pri-
| vate.-EX.
An agent is at Hampstead from Lake
Charles, La, to secure negroes for
levee work: fifteen have so far been
given transportation.-Ex
Every effort will be made by citizens
of Ennis to secure the Cum berlsnd
Presbyterian Chautsuqua, which has
| heretofore been held at Glen Rose
Elk.
| The special school tax proposition
was defeated at Longview, not receiv-
ing the necessary two-tbirds majority
by forty-nine votes.-Denison Her
aid.
| State Superintendent of Education
Kendall is preparing digest of the
school la We, which will be ready for
distribution in about ten days.-Hous-
ton Post.
| The enrolment of students on the
| first day of this years session of the
Southwestern university umbered
1855 in excess of any previous years
enrolment for that time.
There are now 407 oil wells, 9 gas
wells. 95 dry holes and 80 abandoned
wells in the field at Corsicsns. During
August % wells were completed, only
9 of which were ore producers. Elk.
Todsy's wagon cotton receipts have
been the largest of this season. the
number of bales weighed up to the
close of the day being 712. The total
receipts since Aug. ! are 5751 bales
Elk.
The adjutant general today received
1000 uniforms for the Texas volunteer
guard. The uniforms we're shipped
from the government arsenals at
Dallas News.
There is great deal of complaint
among the farmers Of cotton thieves
small amounts, usually about 200 to 300
pounds. and are very sly about it
Houston Post.
| nc VhCO. COTSCTdGIOu WINS
esta blished last night by the city coun-
ell and Robert 81. Rogers elected
Judge. 1t is expected that the police
| force will be enlarged to correspond
with the increased jurisdiction of the
court.
A mail service between Sonora and
Rock Springs is now in effect. The
San Angelo public schools opened
Tuesday with an enrolment of 500 pu-
pills. Prairie fires are doing consider
able damage to the range around San
Angelo.-Ex.
The attorney general this afternoon
gave it as his opinion that fraternal
and beneficiary associations
organized under chapter lis of
the acts of the Twenty-sixth legisla-
ture, must pay an annual franchise tax
of S10.-Houston Post.
The commissioners court at Cooper
let the contract to build the Few court
house to Taylor & Sanguinett of Fort
Worth for 334, 600; and also selected
the public square, where the old court
house stood, for the location of the
new courthouse.-Dallas News.
Rev. VIM. Kelley OF Missouri, q
graduate of Trinity university at
Tehuscana, left yesterday for China,
Cumberland Presbyterian church. He
goes via Kansas City and thence to San
Francisco to sail on the Goth instant
| Elk.
| Pedro Gomoz, a prominent Mexican
resident of Eagle Pass, who was stab.
bed during a fight 81 that city, died of
his wounds after lingering several
days. His assailant succeeded in max
ing good his escape into Mexico, leav-