Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-26
NEWS FROM
OVER TEXAS

Farmers OF Mineral Wells commun-
ity are planting cane and June corn,
and with the present outlook with the
season in the ground, expect to make
a good fall crop. The cotton crop is
reported to be greatly benefited by
the recent rains.
Adult. Gen. Rumbold, National
Guard of Missouri, MONDAY issued an
order directing the organization of an
aeroplane detachment. which will be
part of the signal corps located at st.
Louis. Fifteen aeronauts viii be en-.
listed.
Good, heavy rains of great benefit
to crops fell Thursday in several parts
of the State
Patrick Brady, aged so years, was
buried by caye-in of the basement
walls Of the foundation of new
bank building in Ell Paso. Friday.
William Gelsen, Representative OF
the Ninth Legislative District of Texas
died suddenly about noon Friday at
his home in San Marcos, of acute in.
digestion.
Monday night the former Constable
of the Uvalde precinct, Hulett Bowles.
was hit on the head with brick and
Bowles died Wednesday from the
wounds.
gigantic steel plant will be estab-
lished in the City of Mexico within
the coming year by French and Amer
lean capital The initial outlay will
be $4,000
The first car load of apples was re-
ceived in Dallas Thursday, from Colo
RADIO. There will be few Arkansas
apples on the market, but these will
not affect the price materially.
Dallas is the first county in Texas 10
have taxable values in excess of $780,
100000. This years total the largest
yet on record, exceeds the hundred
million mark and the increase is the
largest thus far.
Secretary Of the United States
Treasury Macvagh sent a check Tues
day for $7,450 to the city OF Marlin
and w. A. Altorf. to pay for the site
OF the public building to be erected at
Marlin.
e. A. Bell, lineman with the Pan
handle Telegraph and Telephone COM
pany, married and aged 80, was fatally
injured Tuesday in Amarillo, when he
fell head first from lofty pole to the
sidewalk beneath.
The Treasury Department at Wash
ington intends to undertake number
of reforms in the paper currency of
the country. Not the least of the re-
forms is the proposition to wash Ma
tional bank notes, and thus wage a
Governmental war on germs
Nine persons are dead and others
are expected to die, between forty and
fifty are injured three engines are in
the ditch, two baggage cars. including
the contents, are smashed to kndling
wood, as the result of collision near
Colorado Springs, Colo, Saturday.
Miss Bridget Nolan, an elderly
woman who lived in Scranton, Pa,
Wednesday by John f. Dean, a neigh
Dor. Dean is under arrest and admits
the killing. He declares that the
woman met death while playing ghost.
At the request of Arthur Stiles of
the Drainage and Levee Board OF Tex
as, and toDographer of the United
States Geological Survey, Director
Smith of the survey win send TO Texas
Sledge Tatum, the noted drainage ex-
pert of the Government, to assist Mr.
Stiles in an advisory way as to the
drainage possibilities OF tho various
drainage projects in Texas.
The contrac, for the construction
of the international and Great North
ern Railways shops and roundhouse
was let Wednesday in Palestine. and
that work will begin as soon as con-
tract for the water supply is signed
AS a result of cloudburst and small
cyclone, which struck Rotan Saturday
afternoon, one man is dead and three
others more or less seriously injured,
500 feet OF track on the Texas Central
Railroad is washed away and the en-
tire town is three feet under water,
all travel being of necessity by means
of canoes.
The plans for the new twelve-story
home of the Automobile Club of Amer
lea in New York call for a landing
for airships on the roof This will be
the first landing place for air crafts
to be built on the roof of sky
scraper
For the past two weeks horses have
been dying at an alarming rate in and
around Marshall. and so far the dis
ease that carries them has not been
determined by any one In position
to know. The veterinary surgeons
hero are all at sea as to the cause OF