The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1906-12-22
ALL OVER TEXAS.

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There are five cases Of smallpox at
Ennis, all the patients being negroes.
Six other negroes have been exposed
to the disease, but they have been
placed under quarantine.
A negro man names Levi Dwell.
living near Pine, was fatally hurt by
his clothing coming in contact with
some shafting. He died few hours
later.
Hon. L. T. Dashiell will soon resign
as county attorney Of Leon county to
become Secretary of State. There
are four candidates for the attorney
ship.
Seven men were killed and six In
jured as the result of dynamite ex'
plosion in a tunnel being constructed
on the Southern and Western Railway
near Alta Pass, N. C. Saturday.
Henry Paul, a negro employed as
a trucker at the cotton compress at
Paris, dropped dead at the compress
Monday afternoon. He had been
working all the forenoon and ate a
hearty dinner.
Two carloads of turkeys. containing
nearly five hundred to the car, were
shipped from Italy Saturday. They go
to the Northern markets. They were
bought from the farmers of the sur.
rounding country.
Amarillo is to have modern street
railway system, according to the pro
visions of charter filed in the De-
partment of State. The name is the
Amarillo Street Railway company;
capital stock s250,000.
Announcement was made by W. s.
Keenan,, general passenger agent OF
the Santa Fe. that beginning January
], 1907, the Santa Fe Railway will
pay for all advertising in newspapers
in cash rather than in transportation.
B. L. Dalton, a tailor Of Temple,
while attempting to cross in front OF
q moving Missouri, Kansas and Texas
train made a misstep and fell close
to the cars, the ends Of three fingers
being cut off clean.
The Hopkins County Rural Tele-
phone Association will meet in Sui.
phur Springs on January II to discuss
and provide a way for telephone con-
nection from all over the country with
the county seat.
Damages of s22,500 were awarded
to Mrs. Sarah B. Covpony, against the
Texas and Pacific Railway company
by a jury in the United States circuit
and district court in Fort Worth for
the death of her husband in wreck.
A shipment of 1900 turkeys was re-
Gently made from Itasca to ST. Louis
in one lot. The shipment required
an entire poultry car of eight decks.
Ector county voted in favor of pro-
hibttion by an overwhelming majority
Thursday.
After a trial of four days before
Judge NJ. Kennon at Seguin, William
Bruno, charged with the murder of
August Schwartzlose, was acquitted.
The little child of Mr.. and Mrs. Jas.
Taylor, living five miles west Of Lex
ington, was kicked and instantly killed
by a mule Tuesday.
1t is geneally understood that the
incoming administration will have
friends for all the minor positions in
the various departments and institu-
tons. In other words, complete and
sweeping change is expected from top
to bottom.
In an ARRAY recently between stu.
dents of Paul Quinn College, an in.
stitution at Waco for the education of
negro youths, J. T. Robinson was IA
tally cut in the neck, the knife blade
severing his jugular Vein.
Tyler steam users have resorted to
the courts to. COMPEL railways to de-
liver coal and Ignite for the furnaces.
Strawn is the only place is the only
place on the Texas and Pacific Rail.
way between Fort Worth and El Paso
where liquor is sold.
DR.. G. Malcolm, living near Malakoff
died last week. He had resided in that
section for more than twenty-five years
and was 80 years Of age and a
veteran of the Mexican and also of the
Civil War.
The headquarters of the Texas rail-
way will be established at Victoria,
and a great quantity Of building ma
terial has arrived. Construction Of the
line from there to Port O'Connor, fif-
ty-one miles, is soon to be accom-
plished.
R. K. Wylie has sold 10000 acres of
Runnels county land to Cicero Smith
of Mineral Wells and George and Girls
Hagelstein for total consideration
of 100000. The land will be sold
in small tracts.
1t is reported that the Standard Oil
company has secured a lease Of sew
eral thousand acres of oil and as
phaltum land near Waters Park, ten
miles from Austin. Experts have
found oil and asphaltum in the field
there in great abundance.
Representative Henry has introduc-
ed bill appropriating s225,0Oo for
the completion Of lock No. l on the
Brazos and also 100000 for the con.
struction of three additional locks on
the river.
Three million dollars worth Of cot
ton is in Galveston and more is TO
follow. The shippers have peutioned
the Galveston city commissioners not
to allow fireworks to be used there
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