Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1907-08-02
ON. TEXAS, FRIDAY. AUGUST 2, 1907.
TyLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

| TAD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Elder, /. T., is to have a $1,000 gin.
Brownsville, Tex. has dengue cpl.
demic.
Taxable values of Houston are SAT-.
212.ss7. \.
Bowie, Tex, is to have a large cot.
ton warehouse.
Thermometer at Dallas Sunday reg.
istered 102 degrees.
Claremore, l. T., is to be encircled
by an electric car line.
W. F. Brewer, an Oklahoma pioneer,
passed away at Guthrie.
The apple crop of Bowie county.
Texas, is almost failure.
Cuban election will not be held until
next January or February.
R. F. Sanders, a leading citizen Of
Greenville, Tex, is no more.
Oklahoma Fruit Growers association
may pool and sell its output
Wagonloads of liberia peaches are
rolling into New Boston, Tex.
New civil court of appeals will be
organized at Texarkana Aug. 5.
John Deere Flow company will erect
at Dallas $4,000 warehouse.
H. G. Allison was drowned in the
Arkansas river at jerks, l. r
Nicola Tesla has settled the debt
on his steel tower on Long Island.
Waterworks and sewerage systems
at Claremore, I. T., are completed.
Denton, Tex, claims to have a model
macadam street nearly a mile long.
Louis Wipf. eleven years old, drown.
ed in White Rock creek, near Dallas.
A stock company will bore q So.
900 artesian we'll at Big Springs, Tex.
By Jan. 1 Claremore, l. T., will have
her third modern public school build.
ing.
Four residences and two stores were
burned at Tyler, Tex. entailing $15, 900
loss.
The Santa Fe railway will divide ito
Panhandle section into three divis.
ions.
Fire at Stella, Wash, did 5000 900
damage, and virtually destroyed the
town.
Terrell, Tex, is to have large nea.
nut factory. A steam thresher has been
engaged.
First State bank of Moody, Tex,
capital stock $4,000, has taken out a
charter.
Texas company has erected four
large storage tanks four miles west of
Dallas.
Colonel J. w. Dietrich, the oldest
Elk. died at Carthage, Mo-, aged eighty.
six years.
Texas Savings bank of Houston has
increased its capital stock from $50, 900
to $4,000.
Near Aline, Okla, John Schaefer,
boy, jumped in front Of a mower. A
foot was cut off.
BY the derailment of Southern rail-
way train near Shipman. Va. Engineer
Bullard was killed.
Considerable building is under way
at Frederick, Okla, including a $780,
600 Baptist church.
Under the new state law 270 Texas
bank and trust companies had been
chartered up to July 81.
While bathing in the Comal river
near New Braunfels, Tex, Martin Mack
of San Antonio drowned.
Senator Bailey addressed a large
gathering at the ex-Confederate re-
union at Gatesville, Tex.
During the past six months 252 ma.
rines have been secured at the five re.
cruittng stations in Texas.
James Davidson. a lineman fell
from pole at San Antonio Death
was almost instantaneous.
Grain growers department of the
American Society Of Equity will hold
wheat for $1.25 per bushel
A few miles southeast Of Mckinney,
Tex, J. F. Cashion realized from an
acre and half OF onions $3.50.
Governor Folk of Missouri address.
ed one of the biggest gatherings ever
assembled at Waxahachie. Tex.
After thirty years railroad service
Captain ]. M. Lee, lately general SUI
perintendent Of the Trinity and Brazos
Valley railway, has retired.
Professor c. Byrd, superintendent Of
the Louisiana Industrial institute at
Ruston, has been chosen superintend-
ent of Shreveport's city schools.
Tax rolls of Scurry county, Texas,
show valuations Of $4,344. 900, an In.
crease over last year of about u, $780,.
600.
Unknown wretches turned over
about 100 tombstones in Spragus
Street cemetery, Shreveport, breaking
forty.
Conductor Walter Hanney Of the
Houston and Texas Central railway
was overcome by heat and came near.
dying.
DR.. Minor of Errick, Okla, was shot
twice. A third bullet hit his watch,
which he carried over his heart. His
wounds are not serious.
While being taken to the Muskogee
Federal jail Walter Oprey jumped from
a Katy train near Porter, I. T., and
sustained fatal injuries.
The eleven-story Memphis Cold Stor-
age and Warehouse company was fire
Quilted. Fireman Hiskey met his death
by falling into the cellar.
The remains of an unknown man
with three bullets in his body and
neck and ears severed were found in
a boxcar at Chickasha. I. T.
The two little children of @. ].
Schung of near Darlington. Okla. were
found fast asleep in a coyote lair
They had wandered away from home.
Chairman Garden has appointed Will
A. Morris of San Antonio the successor
of the late Jot Gunter as member ct
the Democratic state executive com.
mittee.
w. E. Welsh, Frisco agent at Tulsa,
who was ground to pieces by loco
motive, left his widow So 900 life In
surance- His body was inferred at
Monmouth, III.
A fast Frisco freight train was
wrecked near Tulsa, l. T. The loss Ii
estimated at $4,000. Waller Morgan
was hurled through caboose window