The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-08
ME RELY MENTIONED.


 Dallas has 13,71S children of schol. astic age.
 The government of Brazil will fight tuberculosis.
 Dallas county, Texas, has a cash balance of $1S4,946.11.
 T. L. Wren has been appointed post master at Austin, Tex.
 After terrible spasms Nina Brewster nine years old, died at Sherman, Tex.
 Mrs F. B. Yater, an aged and promi nent resident of Cleburne, Tex. is dead.
 Houston and Shreveport Railway company has declared a 20 per cent dividend
 Commission form of government was defeated by forty-six votes at Jack son, Miss.
 Six business houses at Norfolk, Va. were gutted by fire, involving a loss of about $250,000.
 Episcopal Bishop Brent of the Phil. ippines has declined to be bishop of Washington, D. c.
 The 1909 convention of International Association of Police Chiefs will be held at Los Angeles.
 While blowing near Forest Hill. Tar rant county. Texas. John Query, an aged negro. fell dead.
 A. F. Crowley for $26,4OO has Dur. chased the Sterling P. Clark ranch of 1000 acres near Fort Worth.
 Near sherman, Tex. Frank Tom. mins was bitten on leg by a copper. head snake. His son sucked the poi. son out.
 Miss Rillie Glenn, fifteen years old. died near Broadway, Lamar county. Texas, from the effects of an ounce of carbolic acid.
 A strong oil flow was struck at Lewis Station. twenty-five miles north of Shreveport, on the Kansas City Southern railway.
 J. K. Echols. private secretary to General Manager Fay of the Sunset Central system, died suddenly at Hous- ton in MT. Pays private car.
 An unknown person fired through window at Thurber Junction, Tex, se- riously wounding Will Oxford in the head. boy later confessed.
 In the examining trial at Mineral Wells, Tex, of T. J. Pearson, charged with killing w. E. Mcconnell defend. ant was admitted to bail in s15, ,00O.
 Alderman Hambleton of San An tonic, former Mississippi river steamboat captain and pilot. working with Mark Twain, is dead after long illness.
 Uncle" Bob Stiles, an old-time darky, bachelor, and worth about $15,OO0, died suddenly near English, Red River county. Texas Nearly all his money he buried
 Oklahoma Hotel Mems association was organized at Oklahoma City with sixty members. Jerry ORourke was elected president and Guy Ferguson of Oklahoma City secretary.
 Checks to the amount of s1.0OO were stolen from the postoffice box of the Oklahoma National bank at Shawnee. The checks were found on the street. Others boxes were also rifled.
 The body of Ole Nelson, a Swede, was found in well five miles north. east Of Dallas. A bullet hole in the head leads to the murder theory. He had been missing three weeks.
 Stacey Matlock, Pawnee Indian banker, resident of Pawnee, Okla, and head of the tribe, is to wed Miss Blanche Hill, a member of his tribe, for three years student at the Car lisle Indian school
 The Texas railroad commission has Instructed the attorney general to sue the Galveston, Harrisburg and San An. tonic railway for refusing to operate daily train service between San An tonio and Fl Paso.
 A steel wagon bridge over the Ar kansas river at Rafston, Okla, was swept away. Henry Conklin was talk en with it and drowned Pawnee county has lost five bridges the past thirty days. involving over $100.OOO loss.