The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1906-12-22
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

Z, GOrd0nYtlle, Grayson Sounl!, WIG
W. L. Wakefield, resigned.
Alonzo Nash, a negro. was killed in
Paris Tuesday. A complaint charging
murder was sworn out against Mon
roe Walker, another negro. The lat
ter has not been arrested.
DR.. Tabor made tour Of the prin-
cipal cities of Mexico. and says the
sanitary Conditions showed a great I'M
and better than ever be-
fore.
The Standard Oil Company has an
nounced that it would advance the
wages of all is- employees now receiV-
ing less than $500 a month by ten per
cent, beginning January 1.
"A. McIntire, aged about fifty, was
found dead near Mllburn, ]. T. On
his person was found letter from
T. A. Mcintyre, of West, Texas, who
has been notified.
The Navarro County poultry show
opened Friday with large number OF
exhibits and the attendance good.
Judge Greer of Indiana, did the scor-
ing.
A shipment was recently made from
Nasca OF 1900 turkeys to St Louis in
one lot. It required an entire eight
deck poultry car to make the ship
ment.
Dick Turner, bartender for the Katy
saloon at jefferson, was accidentally
shot Friday afternoon, and died in
few minutes later. Turner leaves
wife and two children. %
From Kingfisher is announced the
death of William Wallace, aged six
ty-five, as a result Of an overdose OF
morphine. Wallace was suffering
with rheumatism and took the NOR
phine to relieve his suffering.
New Mexico is destined to be one OF
the greatest coal producing sections
of the United States. In many old
mining districts there has been much
increased activity and many new dis
tricts have been opened up.
Hon. Loeb Mcdaniel of Houston has
been appointed as United States dis
trict attorney for the southern dis
trict of Texas to succeed Hon. Mark
McLemore of Galveston, who retires
to make his home in California
The ousting of the Roman Catholics
from buildings owned by the French
government all over France, which is
the final act of separating church and
state, is taking place with very little
friction.
Huse Durnell, well known in Tenn
pie, Rosebud, Heidenheimer, and 9TH
err places, as a saloon man, dropped
dead while making purchase In one
of the drug stores in Temple few
days since.
In the Prohibition election, held to
determine whether or not whiskey
should be sold at Kirven. the new
town on the T. & B. V. R. R., the
pros won by q big majority.
A passenger train en- route to Ell
Paso parted just as it was reaching
the crest of a hill at Grayton, 1O2
miles east of there, and William H.
Fairclaugh of Ridgeway, n. j., who
was passing from the chair car to
the tourist, fell beneath the wheels
and was ground to pieces.
The New York Herald of the Is
sue of December 5, has an article re-
garding the plans for the location In
Texas of large colony of Dutch and
Italian farmers. According to the ar
ticle the head of this movement is II.
H. Rogers, of the Standard Oil.
A bill requesting an appropriation
of SOS, 900 for identifying and preserv-
ing the San Jacinto battlefield will be
presented by the Harris county del
egation in the State legislature at
the next session.
Adjournment was taken by the con-
stitutional convention of Oklahoma
Friday morning to permit the COM
mittees to work, until 2 p. m, when
Hon. o. r. Colquitt of the Texas rail-
road commission, addressed the con-
vention.
A State Good Roads association
meeting will be held in Waco prob
ably January and 3, under the aus
pieces of the National Good Roads as
ISOLATION, of which Colonel W. H..
Moore is president
Attorney General Moody has ap.
proved all the deeds to the right of
way of the Port Arthur canal which
John w. Gates gave to the govern
ment and only short time is expect
ed to elapse before Port Arthur be
comes a full Pledged port of entry.
The Indian appropriation bill for
1908 carrying about sS,000,000 has
been agreed upon by the House Com.
mittee on Indian affairs. The appro-
priation for the Indians in 1907 was
s9,4O5,OO
Former United States Senator
Brown of Utah, who was shot in his
apartment in Washington Saturday
afternoon by Mrs. Anna Bradley. OF
Salt Lake City. died at midnight
Thursday night at the Emergency nos
pital. Mrs. Bradley will be arraigned.
Francisco Blancas. aged eighteen,
was found outraged and murdered, dy-
ing, in her home in Juarez by the pc.
lice and her grandmother. Theodore
Lucera, aged seventy-one years. The
police suspect a lover Of the girl.
In one OF the saddest court room
scenes on record in the State of Miss.
issippi, Mrs. Angie Birdsong was
found guilty Of manslaughter Of kill.
ing DR.. Thomas Butler and was rec
commended by her jurors to the mercy