El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-29
Neighbour.
hood Notes
TEXAS.
THE LOCO WEED.

The range was never in better con-
dition at this time of year in our ex-
perience of the past fourteen years.
The winter has been exceedingly mild
in the Panhandle and so far we have
had only one severe cold snap, and
that only lasted three or four days.
The only cloud on the sky is loco and
that is very green and alluring to
horses and cattle and is nearly always
fatal if they even take a bite. 1t acts
on horses and cattle the same as
very strong broth or tea made from
NORWOOD does on man. 1t braces
horses and cattle up for time and
lands them in Mohammed's seventh
heaven only to let them drop down to
a state of detection. Then they eat
more loco and have more heaven and
more hell until they finally pass away
like a morphine f1end.-Amarillo
Champion.
STANDARD BREAKS IN.
The Standard Oil company has Sc
cured a good foothold in the Beau
mont oil field despite the efforts of the
Independent oil producers to keep Them
out. The Southern Pacific company
owns nearly 100000 acres of land in
the new oil region and the railroad
company has leased the entire tract
to the oil corporation. A large num-
Der of prospect wells will be imInedi-
ately put down on the lands leased by
the corporation. The gaining of this
foothold by the Standard is a severe
blow to the movement that was re-
Gently inaugurated by the Independent
oil producers to form combination for
the purpose of keeping the Standard
Oil company out of Texas
HAM WHITE DEAD.
Ham White the notorious train and
stage robber, is dead. He died at the
Wynne convict farm of consumption.
Twenty years ago he was the most
notorious outlaw in the southwest. He
was the lone" highwayman who held
up and robbed many stages between
San Antonio and Ell Paso and on 9TH
er stage lines of Texas and New Mex
leo. He was finally captured and sent
enced to a long term in the peniten-
tiary. After serving about eighteen
years he was released and went to Aus
tin A few weeks later he held up
and robbed a travelling man near Llano.
He was captured and again returned
to the penitentiary and was serving
his term for the latter crime when he
died.
ENJOYED THE TRIP.
writer in the Snyder Coming West
says that party of citizens from that
city attended the carnival and they
enjoyed the trip. He says the enter
tainment features were highly salts
factory and the bull fights seem to
have left quite a deep impression on
the writer. DR.. Person, of that city,
was one of the party and enjoyed the
meeting of doctors during the carni-
val. The party visited the old church
at Juarez and were impressed with it.
"A number of Ell Paso citizens extend
ed our party many courtesies,' says the
writer, for which we are truly CRATE
full and all in all it was one of the most
enjoyable trips of our lives"
TO COLOMBO IN LIBERIA.
Wade Smith. prominent negro of
near TeXarkana, accompanied by eight
other negroes, left Texarkana for Biz
mingham, Ala, where they will join a
party of negroes which is to set sail
from New York for Liberia on the Goth
inst 1t is the intention of the negroes
to found a colony in Liberia and about
thirty more will leave Texarkana early
in February to join the first party. This
is the first instance in which any ne
groes left that vicinity for Liberia