The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-11-19
BREVITIES PUNCHED.

Rain flooded the San Marcos sec
ton
Cooke county. Texas. went wet by
over 100 majority.
Clinton. Okla. is to have twenty
street electric lights
Stamford. Tex. is to have a city
hall and fire apparatus.
A carload of turkeys was shipped
on the 18th from Terrell, Tex. to
GreenvilIe
AS soon as Oklahoma became a
state the sheriff ordered every saloon
at Enid closed
Three inches of rain fell at San An
tonic on the 10th. and fair events call.
ed off for the day.
A negro leper escaped from the
home for lepers near New Orleans
but was recaptured
Nearly every Oklahoma city and
town celebrated on the 10th inst. the
creation of statehood,
Ellis Couny bank. capital stock So.
600, has been authorized to transact
business at Gage, Okla
w. V. Smith, for several years man.
ager of the advertising department
of the Houston Post. is dead
After protracted typhoid fever i'll.
ness Eli H. Smith. managing editor
of the Birmingham (Ala.) News, died.
break in the pipe of the Gulf Pipe
Line company near Big Sandy, Tex,
caused leakage OF GOO barrels of oil
In attempting, near Sealy, Tex. to
kill gopher, Gus Amthor a young
man. fatally shot himself in the head.
w. F. Lynch, n well known travel
ing salesman, with headquarters at
Waco. died at Mexia, Tex, of heart
failure.
An agreement was reached between
the manager of the Georgia railroat
and the engineers and strike was
averted.
A man at Chickasha Okla, attempt.
ed to steal mail sacks from a wagon.
but the driver scared him away by fir.
ing a pistol,
Although prohibition Is In effect in
Oklahoma several Guthrie saloon men
say they will continue business until
their licenses expire.
Ivan Merchson has resigned as
Texas ranger. He will have his voice
cultivated at New York with the view
Of becoming an operate singer
Mayor r. S. Rather of Huntsville,
Tex, suicided by shooting himself
through the heart. The bullet enter.
ed the back of the chair in which he
sat
took the oath a, Muskogee he filed
suit against foity-seven coal compa-
MES In that district, alleging a comb
nation.
General Superintendent Brooks of
the Western Union Telegraph com
ny denies the report from Mobile that
operators wages are to be reduced 10
per cent.
While temporarily insane Lucian
Underwood. professor of botany in
Columbia university New York, Sc.
riously slashed his wife's throat and
fatally cut his own.
A timber on Kansas City South
ern freight car fell on Henry Hogan.
killing him. and fatally iniuring Oil
yer Hayes. rhe accident happened
near Lake Charles, La.
Just before her husbands burial
Alice Gillian. Il regress. was arrested
at Houston bullet had shattered
Gillam's right elbow. and there was
another wound IN the breast.
Printing office Of Footprints of the
Flock at Eureka Springs, Ark, burn
ed. The paper circulates all over the
United States and in Europe, and is
the organ of the Primitive Baptists.
No advertisements are accepted.
Roger G. Su'lisan, national Demo
cratic committeeman for Illinois, says
Bryan is the only man mentioned for
the presidential nomination of the
party, and that he viii support the
nominee.
E. w. Patton, who was knocked out
of fourth story window at Ruston, |
his neck being broken. and conclusion
OF the brain sustained. died twenty
five hours afterward at Shreveport.
where he was taken for treatment.