Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-09-13
ALL OVER TEXAS.


entire city.
The Texas Seed and Floral Co. of
Dallas has let a contract for a 5Ox11O
building to be four stories high to ac-
commodate their business.
wh9 T-lst Company Of Dallas VIII
conduct Of banking business under the
Texas banking law, conducting this
class Of business as a department OF
the regular business.
Governor Jefferson Davis Of Arkan.
sas was threatened with violence in
Higginson, Ark. by Attorney General
Rogers. Bitter relations exist between
the two State officials.
Onions raised in the Rio Grande
Valley ten miles east of Ell Paso by
]. s. Porcher have won first prize
at the Lewis and Clark exposition.
E. S. Hughes, for four years State
expert printer, has resigned to become
general superintendent of the State
Printing company. His successor will
be selected soon.
The Dallas Commercial Club is seek.
ing to locate the headquarters of the
Farmers Cooperative Union in that
city and has made very flattering Of
fer to that end.
The little 5-year-old daughter of ]. q.
Moore, residing four miles east OF
Weatherford was smothered to death
in a wagon loaded with seed cotton
late Friday afternoon.
Arthur Heeger an indianapolis lad,
went to circus, saw the locp-the-
loop; tried to gap-thegap on a 15-foot
creek lost control of his bicycle and
brope his spine, ending in death.
The attorneys for the oil companies
report failure to reach an agreement
with the attorney genera: regarding
the Kennedy tax bill and the consti-
nationality Of the bill will be tested in
the courts.
Charles r. Graham OF Hills boro has
made arrangements for placing on ex.
hibition at the Dallas Fair this fall
27-year-old hen, owned by J. F. Bratch-
er, farmer of that county, The hen
was raised in Dallas county.
A three days reunion was held at
Wolfe City last week, closing Satur-
day All of the speakers were candi-
dates for office and their remarks were
largely of political nature, but were
free from personalities or acrimony.
The extra force employed in the San
Francisco mint for the past two years
has been dismissed for lack of work.
The extra force consisted of sixty
men and thirty women, who were en-
gagged in assisting in the coinage of
Filipino silver.
Owing to the existence of yellow fe-
yer in some of the Southern States,
President Roosevelt may not take the
contemplated trip into that section. He
is being importuned to change his
schedule and take an autumn outing in
Texas.
A movement is now on foot in John
son county to purchase a lot of land.
somewhere in the county, to be used
as permanent place Of meeting for
the johnson County old settlers re-
union. The reunion has been meeting
at Alyarado every year.
The Ellis county fair association has
decided to give night entertainments
during the fair season, September 10
to 30, and the grounds are being light
ed for that purpose. The association
has also let contracts for building
thirty race stables and 100 stalls for
horses and cattle.
An old gentleman named McNeal,
who ran swamill near Klondlke.
HOPKINS County. was found dead in
bed at his home. He lived alone and
had apparently been dead several days
when found.
A meeting Of the business men and
Board OF Trade members Of Paris and
Denison will be held Paris early in
October to consider proposition from
a steamboat company to put couple
Of freight steamboats, into service be-
tween Shreveport and Denison.
On account Of the quarantine regula-
lions which have caused many railroad
trains to be discontinued on the Texas