Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-06-19
LONE STAR LINES.

A 100000 sanitarlum will be built
at once near Ell Paso.
The Y. NJ. G. A. at Cleburne num-
bers 1000 young men.
TIE semi-annual holiness meeting Is
in session at Greenville.
Rev. Abe Mulkey is holding pro-
tracted meeting at Brady.
Farmers in Parker county are
searching for harvest hands.
One of the largest cotton congresses
in the south will be built In Gaines
Vile, work to begin the latter part
Of this month.
Revs. Scoonover and Hamlin are
holding a very interesting protracted
meeting in the First Christian church
at Greenvllle.
Free rural mail delivery will be es-
tablished July 1 in Bell county. There
will be two carries and they will go
out from Temple.
A severe wind and hail storm pre-
vailed in many places in North, Cen
trail and East Texas, very badly dam
aging the fruit crop.
At Paris two bales of cotton from
Delta county sold on the square for
41ac, and the farmers are paying s125
to have cotton chopped.
In difficulty with a young negro
who worked in his restaurant at Paris,
Elmer Myers was stabbed four times
in the arm, side and back.
1t is reported that parties at Gle
burne have secured patent papers on
mode Of killing Johnson grass and are
operating very successfully.
AT the annual picnic at Walnut
Springs George Farabee was shot and
mortally wounded by Ed Herd. Both
parties reside in Meridian.
While Charley Hultz was playing
with an old rusty pistol at Llano it
went off and shot Gray Mansell
through the head, killing MIN Instant
ly.
Heavy rains continue to fall around
Benjamin, greatly interfering with the
wheat harvest which had begun in
earnest The rains have made the
range very fine.
w. D. Hardigree, an old soldier and
prominent fruit grower of Van zandt
county, died on the Frisco train near
Paris, while returning from the Mem
phis reunion.
At Mount Calm the recent election
to issue $4,000 in schoolhouse bonds
has been countermanded and an cleo
ton on an $4,000 proposition has been
ordered for July 6.
A report from Merkel states that
100000 worth Of crop insurance has
been written in that section and the
losses have exceeded the premium on
the policies written.
Reports have been received from
1874 counties which show positively
that the grain crop Of Texas for this
year will not be more than one-fourth
of that of other years.
Farmers who have been busy har-
vesting the wheat crop in Wise
county during the past few days esti-
mate that the crop in that county will
average IS bushels to the acre.
Near Gordon grasshoppers continue
to make inroads on cotton and in GER
tain localities they are eating the crop
clean. Farmers are using poison with
fair success in most instances.
Capt. M. r. Strlngfellow of Lock-
hart, Tex, who has been experiment.
ing with tobacco on a sandy farm near
Dale, states that he can produce 700
pounds of good tobacco to the acre.
From Ell Paso one day recently j..
X. Burr sent 10000 pounds of wool
to Boston, two trainloads of cattle to
St. Louis, two carloads of sheep to
Kansas City, and two carloads of
horses to the City of Mexico.
Pleas Wall was shot and instantly
killed while driving some cattle to
San Augustine. He was shot from am
bush and his assassin is unknown. 1t
is supposed to be the renewal of an
old feud in which his brothers were
killed some months ago.
Miss Leonora HALEY of Forney was
burned to death May 30, by the explo-
sion of lamp by which she was sit
ting writing. She was very popular
and had been public school teacher