El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-29
TEXAS.
HE WAS TOO FUNNY.


HE WAS TOO FUNNY.
- Tom Whaley, of near Bruceville. Nc
Lehman county. was practical joker
and he carried his fun so far that II re-
suited in his death. He went to the
home of his brother. George Whaley. at
night and thought it would be lots or
fun to call up his brother and then
hide II eknocked heavily on the door
and stepped around the corner OF the
house. making no answer to his broth
er's question. Who's there" .ie-rge
vent back into the house and Tom re-
peated his prank. This time George
brought along his old ''thirty-eight.
and asked again who was there. Tom
crawIed under the house and George
heard him. George asked again who
he was and what he wanted. Tom
didn't have enough fun yet, so he did
not answer. George turned his old
..thirty-eight" loose toward the spot
where the sounds seemed to come from
and then Tom told him who he was,
but it was too late. He crawled out
and died. George was exonerated
from all blame Tom played Whaley
once too often.
GUSHER OUTPUT MEASURED.
The output of the Lucas gusher at
Beaumont has been measured by turn
ing the flow into an oil tank which has
a capacity of 35 900 barrels. This tank
was filled in twelve hours. At this
rate the flow of the well per day OF
twenty-four hours is 10000 barrels.
This far exceeds all estimates placed
upon the flow and it is about 10000
barrels per day more than any other
well in the world, including the great
est producer ever struck in the oil dis
trict of Russia. AT the price of 40
cents per barrel the Lucas gusher will
bring to its owners a revenue OF $685.
900 per day. If the well holds out one
wear at that rate it will bring its OWL
ers in that time $10,220.000. A. dis
patch says eight more gushers in the
vicinity of the Lucas we'll will be
bought in" by the last Of next week.
JUDGE SURRATT'S GOOD DEED.
Judge Surratt, of Waco. is the sort
bench in the nation. If such was the
case there would be fewer grass wild
ows and widowers and fewer children
left without the advantages of having
parents. man and wife appeared be-
fore him Monday, the wife having sued
for separation from the husband and
possession of their only child Judge
Surratt talked Informally with. them
and pointed out to them their duty to
the child, which he said could not be
fulfilled by them and they living sepa- |
rate The result of the judges talk
was that the proceedings in the court |
were withdrawn and the reunited fam /
lily drove home together in the hus-
bands farm wagon. the child sitting |
between papa and mamma and yelling
with Joy
TO PROTECT PASSENGERS.
The Strawn board of trade adopted !
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the Texas & Pacific railway for their |
promptness in acceding to a request Of
quarantine authorities to discontinue
the use of Thurber Junction as an eat |
ing station until the smallpox which Is |
epidemic at that place. is stamped out. |
and instructing conductors to notify |
passengers getting on trains at Thur /,
Der Junction that they could not be |
permitted to get off. n quarantine
points. Advices received indicate that
the city and county authorities of the
lies of the Texas & Pacific railway are
taking measures to protect their COM |
munities from smallpox
SHOT THROUGH ERROR.
1t is an old saying tina. Doctors
bury their mistakes but a flaming
caeticn in the San Antonio Express
reads physician Shot Through En-
ror," hence it is supposed that there is
one doctor who carried his errors with
him. The truth of the matter is that
Dr. James H. Keever, prominent ply ,
sician, of Dallas. was out making a
professional call Monday night in the /
Oak Cliff suburb and stopped at a |
house to inquire his way to the home
OF the patient The man OF the house
was looking for an enemy and thought
the doctor was him. He shot him three
times. one ball passing through his
lungs and producing what was pro- |
nounced fatal wound.
CREATED A STAMPEDE
A case of smallpox was found in the
Cotton Belt depot at Texarkana Mon-
day. When it became known there was
general stampede of people waiting
for trains. There was baby in it's
mothers arms-what time it wasn't in !
it's father's-and the family was hust-
led away to the pest house Texarkana
authorities say that the Cotton Belt ,
will have to bear all expenses of at
teading to the case, as the road Is re-
sponsible for the people being there.
they had come in from some other 10
caIity over the Cotton Belt.
WANTS SUDDEN WEALTH
C. C. Jackson. of Abilene. evidently
believes in the sayicg that What is
worth doing at all is worth doing
we'll" He got hurt last September
while working on a section of the Tex
as & Pacific railroad. by a heavy tim
her falling on him. He has now
brought suit in the United States court
at Abilene against the railroad COM
paay for $42 900. for alleged personal
damages
NEW AEYICO