Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-04-05
ALL OVER TEXAS.

supervision.
]. B. Petty, aged sixty-hve years was
shot and killed by Frank Proud at the
Petty farm six miles north of Palestine
at II o'clock Friday, One shot was
fred.
The contents Of the warehouse OF.
Pedro Trevino,a grocery merchant, at
Laredo. were burned Thursday night
Valuation $4,000; insurance $1,000 on
stock, none on building.
The Red River Navigation Company,
with headquarters at Denison, Texas,
is negotiating with parties at shreve-
port for the purchase of steamboat
to be used on Red River.
The firm OF Fox 6 Lucas one day
last week shipped Ave thousand dozen
eggs from Palestine to New York City
This is the largest single egg shipment
ever made by Palestine people.
Farmers and truck growers report
that the fruit crop was but little dam
aged by the freezes during the winter
Peach trees are now full of blooms and
the peaches are beginning to form.
Fhe harvest of the first crop of alfalfa
began Friday generally in the sher-
man section. This is two weeks ear
lier than any previous record. The
condition of the crop is quoted as
prime.
W. q. Blackson has filed suit In the
District Court at Sherman for $4,000
damages alleged to have been sustain
ed on a Houston and Texas Central
train between Dallas and Denison last
winter.
Ed Potts, a negro. was placed In Jail
ut Sherman on the charge of assault to
murder, The informationa alleges
that Potts fired rife into crowd of
men and when demonstrated with con-
tinued to do so.
At meeting OF the citizens OF De
port the sum Of $4,000 was raised for
the proposed railroad between Paris
and Bogota. Committees were put to
work to secure options on right Of way
over the proposed line.
Parties in Greenville and in Dallas
are making arrangements to lease a
tract of land at Dixon, eight miles
south of Greenville, where oil has been
discovered. The formation Of cor.
poration is IN progress.
Complaints continue to come from
The country around Waco to the effect
that enclosed lands are being tres
passed upon by hunters, and many
complaints have been fled before Of
fcers in the past three months
The contract has been let and work
commenced on the union stock yards
at Amarillo; $4,000 will be expended
on this work by the 18th of April. the
time Of the meeting of the Panhandle
Cattlemen's Association there The
yards will cover more than 100 acres
of land.
While R. M. Akin, fisherman at
Hunts Ferry on Red River, was pre-
pairing to enter his sltiff and was put.
ting his shotgun aboard, pulApg 1t in
the boat by the muzzle. It was dis
charged. The contents took effect in
his wrist, tearing the flesh from his
forearm from the wrist to the elbow.
Trafic on the Temple-Bslton Inter
urban line has been. SO heavy that the
company has found It necessary to or.
der more equltment. Three new cars
have been ordered, which are much
larger than those now in use, being
of the double truck paatern
The Katy has placed an order for
eighty-five-pound steel raids for the
Fort Worth division. The rails will
be laid from Denison to Whitesboro
FIRST and then from Fort Worth to
Waco.
The jury in the case OF George H.
Turner. on trial for murder OF Mrs.
Elizabeth Lynch. at San Antonio, by
cutting her throat with a razor March
., returned a verdict Of guilty, and as
sessed Die punishment at death. In
sanity plea WAS entered by defense.
The new brick block replacing that
destroyed BY Hre at Wills Point last
EAll, has been completed and all the
buildings are occupied The Van