Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-03-08
ALL OVER TEXAS.

A most important meeting has been
called for March 2, to be held in Pales-
tine, that Of the Fruit and truck Grow.
ers of Texas.
An election is to be held to deter
mine whether or not liquor shall be
sold in Hardeman County on March
IS.
Judge J. w, Baker Of Waco has worn
the official harness in McLennan Coun-
ty for twenty-n!ne years which, per
haps, exceeds in length Of service any
man in the State.
Manager Albert L. Rowan states
that the Dallas Eagles club will be
ready for games soon. and that he will
be glad to hear from amateur teams
In adjacent cities OF towns. Eagles pre-.
ferred
The Commissioners' Court Of Has
kell County has passed an order for
prohibition election to be held March
%. The petition which decided the
court to take this course had over 400
sieners.
The Court of Criminal Appeals in
session at Dallas decided that drum
mers for liquor houses outside Of the
State could lawfully solicit orders for
whisky to be shipped &c. o. D." to To-
cal option towns.
Will knight, a young fellow about
nineteen years old, was arrested at
Crawford on charge of burning the
calaboose at that place The building
had oil poured on 1t, when It was de-
liberately set on fire.
Citizens and Knights of Pythias OF
Palestine are now hard at work trying
to locate the knights Widows and Or
phans' Home at Palestine. most
hattering bid for this home was sent In
to headquarters at Fort Worth.
1t now seems to be certainty that
there will be an interurbnn railroad
built from Mckinney to Dec on. An
interview in the Mckinney Gazette is
to the effect that work of construc-
ton viii begin in the near future.
The heads Of one OF the fraternaI
orders in Dallas says that reports from
over Texas show that the mortality
for the past thirty days has been UNI
usually heavy pneumonia being tho
chief cause Of death.
The Independent oil companies Of
Texas are signing a petition to forward
TO the Texas congressman and to Com
missioner Of Commerce Garfield. ask
Ing an immediate investigation OF the
Standard Oil operations in Texas,
An old lady on the southbound pas
Senger on the Houston East and West
Texas. passeing Tlmpson. Jumped OF
after the train had pulled from the sta.
ton about half mile Thursday. The
lady is not known, and is in an uncon,
scious condition, and the the doctors
gay she will die.
Singleton Murphy and Tom Witten.
the young men arrested on charge
OF assault to murder the Waterman at
the Texas Christian University at Wa.
co. and trying to burglarize the treas.
urer's Office were admitted to bond.
A mass meeting of citizens of waxa
hachIe have arranged program for
the formal dedication CT the Sims Pub
lie Library April 20. in connection
with the installation CT Dr. A. e. Tur
ner as president of Trinity University
Burglars erected an entrance Int
the International and Great NortherH
depot at Venus. taking eight cases con
tanning sixteen quart bottles of whisky
They were tracked to the cemetery.
If man has common sense, he sci
dom makes use Of itqh love affair.
George Hull OF Paris sold 61s bale,
OF cotton wednesday to NJ. H. Wolfe 8
Co through their agent, c. D. Poole
for til 1-2c. This is the largest single
list that has been turned loose by ens
man this season.
Frozen to death within 200 yards OF
his own home is the tragic story Of
aged George D. Rowland, former res
ldent of San Antonio, who at the tims
OF his death lived IN McMulIen County