El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-05
Neighbour
hood Notes.
Texas.

Ennis is talking of boring an oil we'll
or twO.-EX.
oThe Vernon Guard has put on new
uniform.-EX.
Stockdale will have q tournament
June 2l.-Ex.
Sharpshooters are troubling the cot
ton crop of Wilson county.-Ex.
Harry Sheehan, musician. shot dead
on fremont street, Gslveston.-Ex.
The bill for the payment of the Tex
as troops Is signed by the governor
Elk.
Commencement exercises State Uni
versity at Austin June 10Th and 11th.-
Elk.
Houston is getting anxious over the
posi- bility OF . yellow fever visitation
Elk.
Delinquents on school land interest
will be given another month to pay up.
Elk.
School lands that are timbered in
Jasyer and Newton counties are about
to be sold.-Ex.
Weatherford will celebrate the Glor-
ious Fourth with barbecue and q
trades parade.-Ex.
Annual meeting Wcmen's Foreign
Missionary Society at Ennis, Texas,
June 16tn to 21st.-Ex.
Fort Worth and Rio Graude ask per-
mission to extend their lines to Kerr
ville.-San Antonio Light.
Hewitt is rejoicing over an artesian
we'll of 100, 600 gallons diurnal capscity
struck at a depth of S1646 feet
Elk.
parations for the Brazos River Navi-
CATION convention on July g.
Elk.
Blunt says that Texas will receive no
freight from any infected quarter.
Health before trade.-San Antonio
Light.
The Abilene Times wan ts the hat pass
ed to raise fund to buy a leather me-
DIAL for the members of the Texas legis-
lature.-Ex.
The popular subscription plan of
raising money to build q cotton mill
looks successful as practiced at Cor
sicana.-EX.
A party of twenty-five Italian i'm
migrants arrived here last night at
Bryan to settle in the large colony in
this cOunty.-EX.
The receipts at the Sherman post
Office for the month of May, $3.50, ex-
ceeded the receipts for the month of
May, 1898, s5lS.79.-Ex.
During the smallpox epidemic in
Cleburne In the early spring the city
and county expended S2139 90 in car
ing for the smallpox patients.
While Walter Hawkins was .diepinp
a we'll for Charles George, he struck a
how of natural gas and before As
sistance could be rendered he suffocat-
to death.-Ex.
The Independent Telephone comma
ry OF Waco has a force of men
strfnging wires towards Dublin. The
company proposes to reach ali import
ant towns in Central Texas.-Ex.
Comptroller Finley has appointed
Colonel w. }. Swain pension clerk in
the comptroller's department under
the recent Confederate pension law.
The appointee has made good Con-
federate record.-Forth Worth Tele-
gram.
Adlutant General Scurry has issued
an order to the captains of the four
ranger companies to recruit their re-
spective' companies to the extent of 9
men each. This will bring the num-
Der Of men up to 10 to each company
Fit. Worth Telegram.
Constable II. V. Baggwell of Trans
Cedar justice precinct arrested and
brought to Athens John F. Gadis and
Bob stephens, charged by affidavit as
being implicated in the triple lynching
OF the Humphreys on the 23rd instant,
making ten arrested and lodged in jail.
Elk.
Governor Savers rendered the ap-
of Judge of the Third Judi
cial district to succeed Judge Gill.
promoted to the court of civil appeals
bench, to Judge A. B. Watkins of
Athens, Henderson county but Judge
Watkins declined the honor.-Ex-
change.
Mayor Traylor has received a letter
from Governor Pingree Of Michigan
strongly favoring .the use }of asphalt
instead of brick for street paving ma
terial. The governors opinion was
sought on the subject in lieu of the
great amount of paying contemplated
by Dallas.-Ex.
The department of education has
sent out notices to treasurers OF coun-
ties, cities and towns, that they can
draw upon coupon No 10 of their re.
gular annual superintendent. Is cents
per capita of their scholastic popula-
ton. The amount will aggregate
about $40, OOO.-Ex.
The Chambers County Irrigation
company of Wallisville has recently
acquired 12,3l7 acres of land in this
These are rich lands and lie