El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-11

The Denison rifles will participate
in the Dewey celebration at New York.
Herald.
The government surveying force Is
thoroughly examining the Trinity riv-
er.-Cleburne Herald.
Wilson %county's assessed valuation
for 1899 is 81, 639, $50, an increase over
1898 of 1872, 541.-Houston Post.
B.. T. Jones has been elected Judge
of the Sherman city court and F. M.
Kearney clerk.-Yorktown Herald.
Work has commenced on the new
hall to the erected at the colored deaf,
dumb and blind asylum at Houston. It
is TO cost SO, OOO.-Houston Post.
The special school tax proposition
was defeated at Longview, not ~receiv-
ing the necessary two-thirds majority
by forty-niue votes Dallas News.
The Gulf and International Railway
company OF Texas paid the comptroller
$57.9 90 on S5791.67 of passenger earn
ines for the quarter ending June 30.
The Rudd Rifles at Marshall will be
one of the ten companies of Texas that
will assist in welcoming at New York
the return of Dewey.-Bonham News.
The sale at Marshal of the Texas
Southern railway has ceen postponed
until the first Tuesday in October. The
property will be re-advertised.-Sher
man Reporter.
The commissioners at Waxahschie
have appointed a superintendent of
dirt road gang. Several %overseers may
also been appointed in the interest of
good rosds.-Bonhsm News.
At the opening of the Southwestern
University yesterday there were about
1925 students enrolled, which number Is
about thirty-ive in xces of any pre-
vious opening.-Ex.
A few days q the grand jury q.
Bolton returned an Indictment against
the negro who was arrested q few days
ago for criminal assault near Rogers.
Fort Worth Telegram.
Improvements are being made in
Fort Worth by the Southwestern
Telephone company, which will cost,
in all, about $50, 600. The work is Of a
permanent character.-San Antonio
Exp.
The Southwestern Telegraph and
Telephone company has just complet-
ed the telephone service TO Telico and
now that place has telephone connec-
ton with the outside world.-Ssn An
tonic Light.
The mayor and the street committee
of Waco have decided to sprinkle q
large number of streets using both oil
and water. The city will pay for it.
The dust had become u~nbearable.-
Houston Post.
A very poor quality of counterfeit
coin has appeared in Sherman. 1t
purposes to be q silver quarter of q
d011or nj fho rirfa~o ~ 1000 @-
with a hammer breaks them half in two
-Denison Herald.
While attempting to board q NOV
ing freight train recently at Park
Springs, Andrew eagle lost his footing
and fell. The train passed over his
body, completely severing his head
and left arm.-Ex.
A movement has been started in
Gleburne to secure a big cotton mill.
The proposition meets with favor
among b leading business men of
Cleburne, who say the conditions are
ripe.-Corsicana Sun.
The federal grand jury has rendered
an Indictment against w. L. benson,
postmaster at Lufkin, Tex, charging
him with embezzlement of funds of the
p%ostofice. His bond was fixed at 3d.
COO, which he readily gave.-Ex.
Miss Mary Rial, for tw~euty-four
years principal of the public schools of
Brenhsm, having held the position
since the graded system was adopted,
has rendered her resignation to the
board of trustees, to become at once
effective.-Dallas News.
Three special revenue agents have
been AT Galveston ten days quietly
looking Into the matter of war stamps
on negotiable paper. It is said they
have found several cases of notes hav-
ing been executed without affXing the
stamps.-Dallss News.
The Fannin guards Of Bonham re-
ceived q few days ago the gun and
bayonets for the company. A large
amount of ammunition also came with
the guns The boys are endeavoring
to SECURE a suitable armory, and will
commence drilling at once.-Ex.
Bob Haircrow died suddenly at Bris-
tol while digging q we'll. He was being
assisted by a negro aud they took the
digging by turns. Haircrow had just
been lowered to the bottom when he
died very suddenly.-Denison Herald.
An ornamental iron fence ffty-two
inches high has been placed around
the cemetery at Mckinney. This money
to do the work was furnished by the
ladies Of the cemetery association, who
labored for over a year for the means
wherewish TO do the work.-Bonbam
News.
D. w. Rouse, who lives seven miles
northwest of Paris, got a whitecap
notice from the %postoffice the other
morning, warming him to leave before
the evening of August Is. It WAS sign