El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21
Neighbour
hood Notes
TEXAS.
PARDONS ARE WANTED.
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PARDONS ARE WANTED.
Governor Sayers is being beseiged
with friends in the interest of issuing
pardons. Before 10 o'clock the other
morning he had a half dozen visitors
who wanted pardons. He is very
. busy just at present, though he finds
time to talk for few minutes with
each visitor. He is somewhat wor-
ried with his message and other af-
fairs of state. and the Christmas pres
ent pardon doubles his worry.
- BABY DROWNED IN A WELL.
sad drowning occuerred at the
home of Mr.. Frank Despair, nine miles
southeast of Sherman. Guy, the q
year-old boy, was noticed to be tod
ding off after his father. After a
while the mother became alarmed at
the little ones stay and went out to
look for him She was horror strick-
Zen to find the body floating on top of
the water in an uncovered we'll The
clothing had prevented the little fell
low from sinking. He had, in his in
tent pursuit of his father. not seen the
well.
KILLED HIS COUSIN.
At Austin because Eph Mayfield
would not let his consin, Will Sneed.
was conducting. Sneed drew a revol-
yer and shot him dead. The dead
.-sman's brother runs the ferry. but was
temporarily absent and left it in charge
Of Eph. Sneed came up to the ferry
drunk and wanted to cross for moth
ing. Mayfield hadn't the authority to
grant the request and refused it.
Sneed became angry and shot his
cousin in the neck, producing instant
death. The parties in the tragedy be-
long to one of tn best families in that
section. Sneed was arrested and jail
ed.
RAN AMUCK NUDE.
Clothed in the garb of Adam before
the fall, man ran amuck in Sher-
man. He was stopped by a T. & P
engineer in the yards of the company
and induced to put on an old coat and
pair of overalls. Later he was cap
tured and placed in Jail where he was
held awaiting transfer to the hospital.
He is young man about % years of
age and says he lives in Denison. His
story is full of romance, disconnected
and not fully explanatory. He says he
is the victim of conspirators and he
got rid of his clothes that he might
better run away from them He wore
belt around his waist and had a hand
kerchief in his hand. In the handker-
chief was a dime.
THEY SHOULD MOVE.
The citizens of San Antonio. who
reside on San Pedro avenue are raising
big kick because the crossings are
not clean They complain of too |
much mud and say they have to wade
through a sea of mud to cross the
street or to get on a street car. They
are like men who continue to drink
booze and then kick because they have
headache next morning. They should
get out of a town where they have to
wade in mud to cross the streets and
move to town where the street
sprinklers run the year round in order
to make little mud for the accom-
mediation of visitors who would get
homesick without it. There is such a
town and the San Antonio kickers can
reach it without changing cars if they
will pack their grips and get on the
G. III. & S. A. railroad. The name of
the town is Ell Paso. Come in out of
the wet
AN OLD DOCUMENT.
Governor Savers has received from
New York an old Texas document 1t
is a certificate for 1T acres of land
issued to George Curtis by the Gal
weston Bay and Texas Land company,
bearing the date of October 16, 1880.
being seventy years old. The certifi-
cate was issued under land grants
babe by the United States of Mexico
and the State of Coahuila and Texas"
The grants were for the purpose of
colonization and were made under
contract to Lorenzo de Zavalla, Joseph
Vehlein and David G.. Burnet. accord
ing to act of Dec, %. 1926. The GER
tificate bears splendid Autograph
map Of Austin's colony. Lorenzo de ,
Zavalla, at the head of the COLOMBIA
ton movement, was of one of the most
i1lustrious families of Mexico being
at one time governor of the state of
Mexico. He made trips east. in the
interest of the colony movement and
later settled at San Antonio where |
his direct descendants now reside.