El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-07
NeighbOr-
hood Notes
TEXAS.

TEXAS.
Cotton Crop Report.
IL is estimated that the cotton crop
OF Texas this year will fall 2. DOC. 600
bales below the crop OF last year.
For Municipal Ownership.
Mejis, Limestone county, Texas,
has voted To buy, own, and operate the
weterworks. The experiment is be-
iee ~atched with Interest throughout
the state.
Shirt Waist Club.
"A shirs valet club has been orqariz-
eo 1t Colorado, Texas. ALI of the young
bloods of she town have Joined IL, and
the young ladies are going to give
tnem reception when the shirt waists
have arrived from the tailors.
Southern Pacific Wharves.
Work ON tine South ern Pacific whar-
res at Galveston. is being pushed as
rapidly rs possible. One pier will be
-aady to receive ships in a few weeks.
Inree piers have been 10 course Of
chased 2O3 acres of land for wharfage
purposes.
Little Girl. The Plaintiff.
Charles Fortuep, q negro ut Dallas,
was 6ned two hundred dollars last
seek for giving away, circulating and
cistrfbutiDR obscene, vulgar and
cefsmatory state ments about q little |
white girl. The case is peculiar one |
in the criminal courts Of Dallas.
Factory For VeIasco.
The Gulf Timber company, through |
Its presid ent W. G. LiRRett, has made |
arrangements with the Velasco box |
factory TO put n an ash oar factory. |
Forty thousand feet of logs have al |
ready arrived. Small concerns through |
Texa, are proving wonderful invest |
ments
Another Cotton Mill.
The contract has been let at Hills
boro for new cotton mill to an ex-
per.enced firm OF mill builders. This
makes one more rev mill for Texse,
which is rapidly forging to the front
as manufacturing as we'll as cotton
state.
Killed by His Own Gun.
Paul Prohssks, q farmer who has
lived near Merle, Texas, for several
years returned TO his home few nights
ago from Lyons. he threw his gun
The entire discharge entered his sto.
mach, killing him instantly.
Cotton Very Poor.
The cotton report from Elliott, 1
Robertson county, shows that the cot s
on there Is In poor condition. The q
,oll worms are not doing much dam b
.se no. hu. are still a. work. Very q
title cotton has opened. Last year q
evenly bales had been ginned at Ell
lott, by the fret of September. This
Iear no cotton has been ginned.
-evied on Monument. S
a case without a counterpart in the a
history ofTexas was recently settled in Y
3repham before Judge Ewing. The Il
sse was law suit brought by Messrs u
aeRgl and Martin, against . monu- Il
nent which they erected there In ii
some years ago The case
vas won by the plaintiffs aud the n
monument ordered sold and the pro-
eeds applied to the payment of the P
u sintiffs. Ii
Many Patents Issued. "
The records OF the general land Of
n1oe At Austin show that 1851 patents st
oVerlnR IOO, 424 acres of land, were III
ssuec by that department. for the two FIR
care ending August 81, 1900. or this
um Der 1l2O we're patents covering M
here we're 5O7 patents to pre-emn. In
ons covering 81. AL acres, and I.l22 81
atents to go, 45S acres covered bv m
abroad scrip. g.
released On Bond. ~
Charles d. Lane of Trscy, Texas, who hi
,veraI days ago shot and killed Will re
am Mason, Who assaulted his twelve ic,
ear old daughter, has been released nj
j $1,000 bond. The assaults on the wi
tile girl was committed in her bed ty
'om 81 night. Mason vas little known M
Tracy. He is said TO have had a wife th
I'D family In Ala bsma. He had cnIy s.
lie arm. CO.
Re Jail Again. tn
ioT. Espee. who escaped a short fiv
stage from the jail st Waco where
- connned on charge Of forgery,
y 60 his escape few dsys ago from
CT Junsy Jail at Galveston and Ia still +
"-ge He fled one bar and bent Lo
her until be was able 10 vork hjs EN-
dy through the opening. He iumped to
om second story window on TO a hard the
vement lined with, broken glass bur s
10 evidently Tot injured. Ss
AXE Causes Death. res
J. A. L. BlsssinRame, Q rsncbm.n de-.
In z eighteen miles south of Sweet. viii
ter, Texas, was bitten In the calf of Ra
lsoninR she Eext afternoon, He Sal
70 returning from church when the tai
ptile was discovered In the road are
, Left bis wife In the buggy AID cor ais,