El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-10
Beer Meets Beer In Austin.

DSSI meets beer i'll huSIIn.
Beer is having q tug Of war with beer
IN Austin with the result that prices
have gone down from S2.75 a keR to
81 so but the brewers are not so merry
over 1t ss The buyers of the kegs and
sellers Of the sctooners are.
A Rice Mill For Beaumont.
Beaumont keeps up the good work OF
progress by establishing rice mill
This mill will not only hull rice and
prepare it for the market, but will
mRnufst ire breakfast foods and the
differt Mt rice food.
Bridegroom Sues For a Writ of Ha-
beas Corpus.
Mr.. Msssie and Miss Lucille LsvipRs-
ten DANG rfeld we're scarcely welded
by the priest when the brides father
took possession of her and refused to
let the bridegroom have or see her.
Mr. Ma-sie went to the courts, secured
a writ of habeas corpus and the courts
gave him poe session of bis lady.
An Enormous Real Estate Deal.
S. B. Burnett, of Fort Worth, has
clCsea a deal with the Louisville Land
and Cattle company, by which he Pur-
chased 200, 600 acres of land and 1900
head of cattle in King county, Texas.
Mr.. Burnett pays $3.50, 900 for the big
tract. put down q $25, 900 guarantee of
good faith and agreed to pay eighty
per cent of the whole amount in
cash.
Windy Gays In Texas.
% one cav last week the gccd peo-
MI Of n Nn3r oil rntr
their storm cellars to escape the
dangers of q big windstor m that blew
up In the afternoon. Barns were flat
tened out ADD corn beaten down as
though steam roller had gone over
it. Laredo also was victimiZed by q
windstorm than was of almost tornsdo
proper tions and the electric light
power house lost smoke sack.
Denlson's Knitting Mill.
Ire Gate City Hosiery Mill will
employ a hundred operators or more
And will have capacity of something
IKE 300 dozen pairs of stockings day.
The mill will use the yarns from the
South Denison Cotton Spinning COM
pany. The work on the buildings
has been begun and will be completed
in about ninety days. Allan ts, Georgia,
people will put up the ests blisbAepts.
Satisfactory Southern plan.
The states of Texas, Mississippi and
Georgia have recently abandoned the
the system of bring cut convicts. but
have employed them to advantage on
farms. especially In raising cotton.
This form of employment has been
found to work the least injury to free
labor and to assure the best returns.
Both Mississippi and Texas have made
q profit out of their convict farms and
have been free from the hard
snIps ard cruelties to copvicts in
separsble from the lease system
Kansas City Journal.
That Hheat Crop of Texas's
Texas works Sundays and moonlit
nights trying to harvest her big crops.
Lightning has struck wheat fields and
they have been burned by the dry
grain heads catching fire from the
sparh rouslocomotive but still there
is q bigger crop then the elevators
can hold or the railways carry. Wheat
is being shipped to ST Louis, Memphis,
the Atlantic seaboard and the Pacific
coast. Steamers loaded to the prows,
carrying millions OF bushels of wheat
will leave the Galveston ports tbis
month and there are seven or eight
thousands of carloads on the tracks
about Galveston. 1t is estimated that
there will be 20, 600. 900 bushels and
that the railroads will be carving the
1900 crop for the next twelve months.
Sale Of Texas Public Lands.
A statement issued by State Land
Commissioner Charles Rogan shows
that during the past twelve months
there were 2,739, 71S acres of state
public free school lands sold, the total
number of purchaser being 5527. The
number of applications to purchase
during the year was II, 500. The re-
ceipts from the fret pay m en is made on
these purchases aggregated 500, 927 In
addition to the public free school lands
sold, there were sold ~, POI acres of
state timber lands, the proceeds from
which Gales aggregated 1907, 2O6. The
state leased during that period $751;
SIS acres of public free school lands,
the revenue derived from that source
being 1896 S54. The total receipts
from sales and leases for the wear
were 5000, 9s9. of which SI9G, 1854 was
paid into the available school fund and
s407, 154 was placed TO the credit of
the permanent school fund.
The Farmers Congress at College
The congress of farmers is develop
ing some Interesting facts concerning
Texas and her agricultural possibili.
ties. Governor Sayers opened the con.
gress and talked about his difficulties
and successes in raising short horns
and then spoke of banks, taxes and
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