El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-28

at San Antonio and was formally &C
cepted Monday from the contractors
by the committee appointed by the
city council. h hall in the oullc-
ing will seat over 1000 people and is
the largest auditorium of its kind in
Texas. The building was erected at
a cost of $780, 900.
MURDERED BY ROBBERS.
AT Gober. a few miles south OF Bon
ham. ]. Johnson. a prominent farmer.
was foully murdered by robbers at mis-
home. His body was found in his yard
badly bruised and as clothing burned
off the body. One theory is that the
robbers inflicted the bruises and burns
in t~orturing him to get him to reveal
to them the hiding place of his money.
The Iced was committed some time IN
the night and the body was found the
next morning. Two arrests have been
made but the arrested men will make
no statement regarding the affair.
Considerable excitement prevails in
the community but the people say they
will not faint their n~eighborhood with
a ~lynching.
CRIPPLE KILLED BY TRAIN.
An unknown man was run over
and killed by a train at Grand Sa-
line. He was a cripple and had crutch-
es. In his pocket was found a card,
bearing the following inscription:
Good luck to the purchaser of his
card. Kind friends, as you journey
through the hidden dangers of LIES
uncertain future. / sincerely hope a
kind providence has smiled upon you.
Accidents are likely to happen. Who
can tell when and where? If fortune
has been more kind to you than to
me. please help to cast a ray of SUN
shine on my sad and gloomy pathway
and assist me to start a small but
honorable business. Yours truly.
Frank Kern"
TEXAS GOING DRY.
Is it possible that the great state of
Texas. that bad. bad state that is The
by-word of fasteners. is going dry
The temperance movement is having a
wonderfully steady growth in the
state. OF the 243 counties in the state
1O7 contain no local option districts.
Thirty-six are now entirely prohibit
ton; in one hundred local option pre-
walls in part; in thirty-seven of the
one hundred no liquor is permitted to
be sold only in one-half of the coun-
ty. leaving sixty-three with one or
more local option precincts. In many
counties the sale of liquor is prohibit
ed except at the county seat. Local
option now prevails over fully ne
third of the area of the state.
SHOOTING AT YOAKUM.
Asa Maudlin. a young man about
eighteen years of age, was shot at
Yoakum by a negro. The cause of the
shooting or exactly who did it is Tot
known, but it occurred in a Mexican
at about s o'clock at night.
There were several negroes in the res
taurant and at last report it was not
decided which one did the shooting.
though two or three of them were AZ
rested The young man was shot in
the abdomen Inc it was feared that
the ball had passed through his intes-
tines and produced probably a fatal
wound. h young man is popular and
the officers have a to use every pre-
caution to keep the negroes arrested
out of the hands of a determined mob.
COYOTES GETTING BAD.
A dispatch from San Antonio says
that the people of McMullen and i'd
joining counties on the south are be-
ing terroriZed by coyotes. 1t says that
the animals are not only killing calves
but have been the cause of a large
number of grown cattle dying from
hydrophobia. Also one man has died
with h~ydrophobia after being bitten
by a coyote. They bite grown cattle
in the heel n the animals die of the
awful disease hydrophobia in a short
time. Ways and means for Kidding
the country of The pests are being con-
sidered and wire netting is being
placed around several places to keen
them out 1t a that if the depre-
dations continue to increase as they
lave in the past two or three years
the state will be called upon to assist
in discriminating h ravenou ami
mails.
TRAGEDY IN FIT. WORTH.
a street duel occurred in Mansfield.
Fit. Worth, on Christmas eve and
as a result Dick House is lead and his
father, o. p. House, is badly wounded.
They are prominent farmers of the
Mansfield neighborhood. 1t is said
that the tragedy is the outgrowth of
a feud of long standing. The two
Houses went into Mansfield and be-
came boisterous in a saloon. City
Marshal Morrison of Mansfield was
also in the saloon and tried to arrest
them and they resisted, but no one was
nurt. Half an hour later the three
men met on the street II the shoot
ing commenced from both sides. When
the smoke of the battle cleared away
the younger House lay dead with a
bullet in his head and the eldSr had
W bad wounds in his left leg. Nor
rison was unhurt. Morrison was held
in $500 bond. He has been an officer
in the town for fifteen years.
MEXICO.
TO EXPLORE BURIED CITY.