Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1902-06-18
TExANETTEs.
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dren.
Stephenville oil mill declared %
per cent dividend.
Sol Wesley, colored, was shot and
killed at Wallisville.
All Sherman saloons must close on
Sunday, says the chief of police
During the Baptist revival at Nc
Kinney there were ninety conversions.
Oil prospectors in Liberty county
struck a stratum of salt 400 feet thick.
George T. McKelvey was so badly
stabbed at Dallas that he died the next
day.
The Baldwin Gin company of Ste
phenville has adopted the use of oil as
fuel.
Ex-Confederates at Cleburne cele-
brated Jefferhon Davis birthday
June 8.
A we'll on the premises OF T. E. Conn
at Dallas has been found to be rich in
mineral salts.
The Southern Pacific railway pas
Benger depot at LAGRANGE was burglar
ized and 1915 taken.
The annual commencement exercises
OF Prairie View Normal and Industrial
college were held last week
A party Of Dallasites leave that city
on the 21st for Washington with an
invitation to President Roosevelt to
visit Dallas
Final settlement papers of the tax
collectors Of Hunt, Karnes, Wilson and
Bandera counties have been received
by the controller
The scholastic census of Sherman
has been completed. 1t shows total
of 2712, an increase of 203 over the
enumeration of last year
Receipts of the secretary OF states
Office for May were $45, 1885, as com
pared with s92, 134.45 for the CORE
spending month of the preceding year.
Summers, section ftNelna.l On
the Santa Fe railway. was struck by
train at Garland. Both legs were
broken and internal injuries sustained
Albert Derrick, head brakeman on a
Bisby construction train, fell fifty feet
from trestle with a gravel car near
Ell Paso. His body was crushed into
a pulp.
Grand jury OF Brown county was in
session two weeks. 1t returned thirty
eight indictments, seven being felony
cases and thirty-one misdemeanors.
The Austin Dam and Suburban rail-
way was bid in at receivers sale by
the First National bank of that city for
$4,000. The bank had a lien on the
road for SAL, 800, including interest.
The National Lumber company OF
Fort Worth has purchased fifteen acres
Texarkana and will erect thereon
wha tit is claimed will be the most
extensive creosoting plant in the south.
Employment will be given to It's men.
The railroad commission reversed a
former decision and authorized cross
Ing at grade with interlockng near Ell
Paso, where the Eel Paso Terminal rail-
way is to cross the track of the South.
ern Pacific company.
w. ]. Hammond was shot and in
stantly killed in his residence at Dali
las The weapon used was 38-caliber
pistol and the bullet took effect just
above the heart. Soon after B. j. Bats
den gave himself up to the authorities.
The banquet of the alumni OF the
Sam Houston normal school was a
brilliant affair. Fully 200 guests were
present Prof r. H. Holley acted as
POSTMASTER, and programme OF more
than usual interest gone through with.
The Texas Woman's Press associa-
ton held an interesting session at
Waco. 1t was the ninth convention.
A number of instructive papers we're
read. Over twenty new members were
elected
At depth OF 1875 feet on the Ortiz
ranch in Atascosa county oil with a
parafne basis has been struck. The
we'll in which it has been found is not
gusher, but it rises to top of the der
rick and flows steadily.
Commodore G w. S. Duncan, who
has been at Washington for months
in behalf Of an appropriation for the
Trinity river. ON which mission he was