El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-02
TEXAS.
FALL CAUSED HIS DEATH.

FALL CAUSED HIS DEATH.
Bud Edwards. aged Is. of Mt. Joy,
Delta county, met with an odd acct
dent on Tuesday of last week which
caused his death. He and his younger
brother had baited a trap and placed
il in the stable to catch some rats
Monday night. The next morning they
rose early and made rush for the
stable to see if they had caught any
rate. Each tried to get in the stable
first The younger brother reached
the door first and was climbing IN
when Bud grabbed him and pulled him
back out The younger brother fell TO
the ground and the older one fell
across him. his head being jerked back
ward, but did not strike anything hard
enough to leave a mark. The younger
brother crawled from under Bud and
found him unconscious. He never re-
gained consciousness and died Thurs
day The younger brother was not
hurt.
NO LEGAL DISTRICT ATTORNEY
The fact has recently been discov-
cred that there is no such office as
that of district attorney in the fifty
first district. 1t all comes about In
this way. The Office of district attor-
ney is not a constitutional Office. but
has to be provided for by the legis-
lature of the state. So far. the legis-
lature has made no provision for the
Office in the fifty-first district. and OF
course until the Office is created. no
person can fill the position. While the
functions of the Office have heretofore
and are today. being exercised. still
there is no such Office. The fact was
not known until few days ago ana
the credit for discovering 1t belongs 10
a San Angelo lawyer. bill has been
introduced in the legislature to create
the Office in this district. =
GOING AT 1T RIGHT.
The grand jury of McClennan coun-
" which had been in session four
weeks. adjourned Friday. 1t found 164
true bills. SO of which are for felonies
and 12S for misdemeanors. twenty
six of the misdemeanor indictments
are against owners, lessees ana occu-
pants of houses in which 1t is alleged
there has been gambling. Some or the
indictments are against prominent bus
mess men of Waco and the action of
the grand jury has knocked the wind
eut of them. The McLennan county
grand jurymen are level headed. They
know that to kill a wart it must De
attacked at the roots.
WILL, GET BACK PAY.
In 1898 more than a hundred young
men went out from Terrell to fight
in the Spanish-American war A large
number of them were afterwards re-
iected at Houston Those VINO were
retained commenced to draw pay from
the time they were accepted at Hous-
ton and those who were rejected got
none. Now the adjutant general OF the
United States has rendered decision
oil ,f
titled to pay from the time they offered
themselves to the government. wheth-
or they were rejected at Houston or
not. The boys will take the necessary
steps to secure the pay
GIVES FREE TRANSPORTATION.
The International & Great Northern
.nd the San Antonio & Arkansas Pass
railroad companies have advised May
or Hicks of San Antonio that they Will
give free transportation to all mayors
who desire to attend the convention
of mayors to be held in the Alamo
City on the 18th and 18th OF this
month. Experts on sanitation, street
building. sewerage. ETC.. and some OF
the best legal talent in the state are
expected to be present and advise the
convention in their respective special
ties
cow ADOPTED PIG.
This story come from Waco Colonel
Davis r. Gurley observed that a hne
COW was being MIXED mysteriously
every day and ascertained by keeping
watch that she had adopted a young
sow and repaired every day TO the
hog lot, where the sow sucked her dry
Several persons saw the hog sucking
the cow. Colonel Gurley's farm, where
the incident occurred. is partly inside
the city. on South Third street.
FIRST ORE FROM LLANO.
A dispatch from Austin says that
the Dallas Mining company. which has
been working the Babyhead mines in
Llano county has taken out car load
of copper ore and will ship it to the
FL Paso smelter to get at its real vaise.
This will be the first big shipment OF
ore to leave Llano county.
A MODERN CHICAGO.
Marriage must be a failure to more
than an average extent at Paris The
divorce suits in the district court
which convened there yesterday out
number all the other cases on the civil
docket put together There are two
hundred of them.
NEW MEXICO.