El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22
TEXAS.
CLOSED THE SALOONS.

uay closing at DdiidS- II
first real hard attempt was made last
Sunday and there was only one saloon
did business that day. The own
er OF it was arrested and made the
very weak excuse that he sold lunch
and gave the beer away but this dodge
would not work and he had to pay
stiff1y for his Sunday sales. Many men
who had been in the habit OF laying
around the aloon on unday went
10 church last Sunday and it vas a
great day for the churches. The CHIEF
of police says the Law will be enforced
to the letter from now on and the sa-
loon men will find it will cost them
more to open on Sunday than to keep
closed.
CARELESS HUSBAND KILLS WIFE.
Walter l.. Wilson. a lawyer of Gal
weston. killed his wife. There were no
witnesses to the deed and ne claims
it was an accident. He says h a he
and his wife were on the best of terms
and were playing at their home with
a revolver which he had u~nloaded.
They stopped playing and he went to
his: Office which adjoins their living
apartments and took the pistol with
him and loaded it. His wife followed
in a short time and commenced play
ing witt. him. He forgot about loading
his re volver and pointing it at her
pulled the trigger. The pistol was dis
charged and the wife was killed in
stantly. The husband was placed in
Jail. They had been married four years.
The dead wife was 81 years old.
AN AWFUL ACCIDENT.
Kincaid. the three-year-old son of
MIR. and Mrs. Chas. NJ. Hornbeak. was
4 - 49, 1D,,4 Of hic uncle Row
i. w. Hornbeak. one mile north of
Corsicana. The little fellow accompan-
led his narents to his uncle's home and
i'm the manner usual to children of his
age. at once began to investigate ev-
erything on the place. He discovered
an open closet door. and entered 1t.
Inside the closet was a loaded shot gun,
which had bee left there by Sam
Hornbeak. a cousin of the little fel-
low. upon his his return from a hunt
Saturday. The child in some way
managed to fire the gun and the
charge of shot entered the left breast
Just above the heart. killing him al
most instantly. Members of the fami-
1y heard the explosion. and ran to the
spot. only to find the child. terribly
wounded. just gasping out his life.
SURPRISED THE NATIVES.
Judge Hurt. of Dallas. went to Ter
reII to see a man n after getting
there he found that he would have to
wait until night to get 20 see him. DE
took a notion he would like to go fish,
ing and told a lawyer friend of his de-
sire. The lawyer told him there were
no fish in the neighborhOod. u the
Judge insisted and the lawyer fitted
him up with a rig. He drove rapidly
away in a northeasterly. direction and
about four o'clock returned with more
thai a dozen fine bass. 1t was a great
surprise to the citizens for no one in
the town knew of the existence of fish
anywhere in that community. The
Judge would not tell where he found
the fish.
REMARKABLE RECOVERY.
There comes from Terrell the story
of the remarkable recover of a moth
er and infant who were afflicted with
smallpox. The mother was in the
worst stage of the disease when con-
fined. Nine days afterwards the baby
broke out. 1t was the worst type OF
continent smallpox. The baby's finger
and toe nails dropped off and the en-
tire surface of it's body was n run
ming sore. Notwithstanding these I'M
toward circumstances mother and
thlld bONi
from detention
CHANGED IT'S NAME.
The West Texas Stockman. a newsy
little daily published at Colorado City
has had it's name changed to Clipper.
The form of the paper and the charac-
ter of it's news has not been changed
and the same names appear at the
head of the editorial column. 1t is still
a paper for stockmen. but at the same
time the name Clipper is a fitting one.
as most of it's stock notes are clipped
and the other sense of the word. first
rate" hits it all right. too.
ROBBED AT A FUNERAL:
A dispatch from Hillsboro says that
it develops that during the funeral of
Attorney General Smith Sunday. I. T..
Stephens was robbed of $4,000. which
he had in his inside coat pocket. He
discovered the loss when he got home
that night. He recently sold a farm
and would lot put the money in a bank
because he was afraid to trust them.
Four other parties were relieved of
watches and diamonds. The officers
are unable to get any clews.
KILLED WHILE HUNTING.
A dispatch from Osceola reports the
accidental killing Saturday evening o.
Bob Spencer. IN old and valuable CIT
izen. Mr.. Spencer was hunting with
two neighbor boys and carried a target
gum. He cooked it TO fire at a bird.
but it flew and he lie not fire. Then
without lowering the hammer. but with
his finger on the trigger. he began
twirling the gun on h finger. 1t was