El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-16

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ID l. Baker a farmer. living seven
miles south of Bellevue. died of small
pox and there are several more people
in a dangerous condition with the dis-
ease. The authorities are doing all
they can to prevent the disease from
spreading.
STUDY FOR AN ARTIST.
Near Paris man found the bodies
of two immense bucks with their horns
locked together. In their fierce strug-
gle they had fallen into n deep gulch-
The neck of one of them was broken
and the other. being unable to free
himself. starved to death. He had just
died when found
BURNED TO DEATH.
AT CulIeoka. eleven miles southeast
of Mckinney. Mrs. Robert Haynes was
burned to death. She was washing in
the ward when her clothing caught hre
and she was so badly burned that she
died within three hours. She was
young married woman. only twenty
wears old. and the mother OF a young
baby.
WANT HOMES IN TEXAS.
The movers coming into Texas this
fall are more plentiful than for the
mast few years Hundreds of wagons
pass through the towns on the north
ern border every day. They are CHIEF
Nv from Arkansas. Missouri. Kansas. IL
linois and Iowa. but some of them have
travelled fro mas far as Kentucky over
land in wagons TO get to Texas.
NEGRO ON JURY.
Monday for the first time in the his
tory of Galveston county a colored man
occupied a seat in the jury box. The
individual thus honored is named
Thornton Thomas. He was regularly
drawn by the jury commissioners. and
as neither of the counsel in the case
in which he was juror objected he was
sworn in. The trial was that OF Will
lam Richey. a colored boy charged
with forgery.
TEXARKANA ROBBERS.
Monday morning between four and
five O'Clock three white men entered
the saloon of Scott & Evans in Texar-
kama and at the point OF their revol-
vers compelled the bartender to hand
over all the cash from the till.
amounting to a little over $40 The
robbers then backed out of the door
and disappeared. The bartender did
not know them and they did not leave
their cards. They are being hunted
for.
PIED HE SHOP.
While the proprietor was out of the
city some debased individual entered
the Office of the Hartshorne Sun and
pied all of the type. II is estimated
that 1t will require three weeks hard
work to get the shop in shape to issue
the paper. In It's last issue the Sun
contained some severe criticisms in re-
but whether that is the cause of the
desire to wreck the Office is not known.
The perpetrator of the deed will prob
ably be found and will receive the full
extent of the law. for the citizens of
Hartshorne are worked up over the
act.
AN AUTOMOBILE LINE.
citizen of Palestine writes to one
of Colorado City saying that he has
designed and will perhaps have con-
structed in the near future an electric
carriage for the purpose of transport
ing passengers from Colorado City
north to Clairemont via Snyder and
wants to know il the Colorado citizen
thinks it would be a paying venture.
He proposes to make the run from Col
orado to Snyder in two hours and a
half. The carriage will cost $1,000 and
it will cost 81 to make two round trips
from Colorado to Snyder. which he in
tends to make daily. Colorado citizens
are inclined to encourage the Pales-
tine man to try the scheme.
CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW.
The annual chrysanthemum show of
Texas was opened at Waco on Tuesday
and will continue until tomorrow. The
first thing on the program was the in
augurating address of Governor Say
ers. 1t is the grandest floral exhibit
ton ever held in Texas. There are at
least two acres of floor room on which
art has exhausted itself in efforts at
surprising beauty In the mazes of
blooms. flowers and Towering shrubs.
where odors ravishing to the senses
are exhaled. many song birds carol and
lend the charm of their music to the
enhancing exhibits of highly cultured
plants more wonderful in their devel-
opment than words can describe. There
Will be changes of scenery every day
and throughout the entire exposition
there will be music by a select orches-
ira. The management expects fully H.
900 people to visit the show during the
five days.
FOR OVER FIFTY yEAPC