Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-08-09
ALL OVER TEXAS.

The Independent packing company
has been chartered at Sherman with
100000 capital stock.
The Baptists of Howe have Just
commenced the erection of church
building to cost about $4,000
lobe Gunnels, living seven miles
north of Tenaha, shot and killed HIM
self Friday morning vita a rifle.
The Cisco board of trade is planning
for great celebration September l in
honor of the opening UP of the coal
mines in that place.
Col. r. M. Wynne of Fort Worth has
accepted an invitation to speak at the
big picnic and reunion in Mckinney
August 16, II and Is.
A subscription is also being raised
in Parker county to induce the Rock
Island Railway to extend Its line from
Bridgeport to Weatherford.
In trying to break into back door
at Houston. negro awakened three
householders, the heads of which all
turned loose batteries on the intruder.
He was riddled.
Around Denison great many
peaches are rotting on trees in conse-
quence Of prolonged wet weather.
Young orchards will lose so per cent
of the crop.
The quantity o, oats being marketed
in Temple this year is wonderful and
far in excess of any previous year.
Endless strings of wagons line the
roads leading to town.
The Scott & Hassell lumber mill at
Palestine was burned, entailing loss
of $1,000 to $4,000, entirely uninsured.
An inefficient fire department failed
to conrtlo the fire in its lncipency
The firth arbual encanpmont cf
the Waxahachie Chautauqua came to
close Friday night In spite Of the
few days of unfavorable weather, the
encampment was a marked success in
every respect
Aroused by the barking Of dogs and
the cries of the baby Jack Jorman OF
Hutchins got up Thursday night and
found baby tucked in a basket in
the middle Of the street near his home
the child being a girl, five or six days
old.
At Caro-, a small town north OF
Nacogdoches, William Chauncey was
shot and killed at the residence Of
H. A. Poulan, his son -in-law. Poulan
went to Nacogdoches and surrendered
and his bond was fixed at $500. which
he gave.
The jury in the case Of Bob John
son at stephenville, returned verdict
assessing the death penalty the sec
ond time. The first time the Court Of
Criminal Appeals reversed the case.
He Is charged with the murder Of AL
fred Berry at Dublin last year.
Manager Henry Fabian of the Waco
base ball team seems inclined to be-
lieve there will not be further moles-
tation as to Sunday games and that it
will be possible to play out the season
without interruption again.
There is talk Of an oil refinery for
the South Bosque oil, and 1t will prob
a5ly be erected within the next five or
six months. Oil is being pumped reg
ularly from two or three wells, while
another is going down and two others
have just been contracted for.
An enterprising cotton man at Aus
tin is solving the cotton storage prob
lem by arranging to build storehouse
with capacity of 100000 bales, in
which all farmers may store cotton
free of charge, SO long as they may de.
sire to hold 1t.
A company has been organized in
Dallas to be known as the New Cen
fury Gate company, with capital
stock of $4,000 The purpose OF the
company is to manufacture patent
iron gate and wire fencing.
At an election held in Crowell hide
pendent School District to determine
whether or not bonds shall be Issued
to the amount of $1,000 TO enlarge the
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