The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-21
TEXAS AND TEXANS.
Happenings of Interest Related
In Brief Way.
Jacksboro creamery is a success.

Marin IS TO nave dnOJ6ef QGep Weir
of the mineral variety.
New Baptist church at Kosse cost
$5I, 600 to construct.
A human skeleton intact was found
in Dallas county gravel pit.
Corn crop of Bowie county is a rec
ord-breaking one this year.
Waterworks company at Palestine
has brought in it's fourth well.
Fire destroyed at Reagan the elegant
residence of DR.. SD. Davidson.
Taxable values of Gaines county are
the gratifying figures of S2,873, 156.
Sixty-two eighty candle power lights
will replace the present freely ones.
Quite number of residences are be-
ing erected at Bronte; more to follow.
Crane company will erect at Dallas
at cost of $50, 900 six-story warehouse.
Jacksonville public school enroll
ment is largest this year in its history.
L. Newsom, several years a leading
business man of Jacksonville, is dead.
Ed Young, a prominent young bust
ness man. of Brentwood, passed away
at that city.
Members of the First Baptist church
of Quanah will erect a $29, 1000 house
of worship.
A proposed S109, 900 sewer and also
street improvement bond issue is to
be voted on by Amarillo taxpayers.
Oct l several Texas fourth-c1ass
postoffices will become presidential ap-
pOintment ones.
G. F. Farris was badly burned by an
explosion a Hillsboro of mixture of
varnish and gasoline.
Lubbock Light, Power and Ice COM
pany, capital stock $26, 900, has been
authorized to transact business.
Bud Wise, a negro well digger, was
shot and killed at Marlin. T. P. Nc
Gif1n was placed under arrest.
First Orient railway train arrived at
San Angelo from Sweetwater Satur-
day. It was warmly welcomed.
S. E. Kitchen was acquitted atBren-
ham of the charge of taking the life at
Chapel Hill of John Carlisle.
At Jacksonville S. II. Moses while
driving came in contact with an cleo
trio light wire and lost his life.
Fifty years was theverdict of thejury
OF Linden in the case of Henry Pace,
charged with murder of Felix Grundy
Contract for the Fisher county court
house at Roby has been awarded for
S65, 600 to w. G. Whitney, Beaumont.
General Manager Simmons of the Ell
Paso railway denies the report that
bis road will extend to Pacific coast.
N 5. Nat G. Turney,a noted literary
v f. r and wife of a well known Dallas
attorney, died suddnly at that city.
Potter county grand jury, in session
at Amarillo, returned forty-two bill
of Indictment. About 300 witnesses
were before the body.
Robert Bautch W BIS badly bitten a
Galveston by a water moccasin. 1t is
said the serpent latter biting the man
followed him 200 yards.
Katy railway is putting in reser-
voir, pump and large tank at Emory
in Rains county. That place is sur
rounded by inexhaustible springs.
a twelve-stor5 bu lding, to cost hall
a million dollars, IS to be put up at
Dallas at southwest corner of Poydras
and Main streets at an early date.
District Judge Seay admitted Mrs.
Fanny Flanary, charged at Dallas
with killing her husband, to bail in
$4,000, which was promptly given.
When the steamer Cassell arrived
at Galveston after her last ocean trip
she had on board 40S immigrants and
returning European tourists. All but
eleven were permitted to diselnbark.
A company with $40, 900 capital will
construct at Balmorhea, in the Toyah
valley irrigated district, th1rty-five
miles southwest of Pecos, an alfalfa
mil at an early date.
It was not Peary but Lieutenant A.
W. Greedy, who made an unsuccessful
attempt to reach the North Pole, who
had charge of the weather station al
Denison from 1874-to 1871.
San Saba county commissioners al
meeting last week elected Mrs. N. S.
Oliver county treasurer to fill out the
unexpired term of her late husband.
who recently departed this life.
Tom Wilson, a negro, was convicted
at Newton on charge of killing Coun-
ty Attorney Nicks and Oct. % fixed as
the date for his execution. Jury was
out only quarter of an hour
A, E. Hal, many years head of one
department in the Sanger store at Dal-
las, expired at New York while on a
visit. A widow and eight children are
left. He was leading Episcopalian.
Paul Bean Grain eleva4ok at Howe.
Grayson county, was consumed by fire.
Ten thousand bushels of corn and over
four and a half times much oats were
burned, entoiling $50, 099 loss, with in.
surance of about $40, 900.
W. II. Lacy, Dallas printer, put
on his fence sign that intruders had
better beware of a bad dog. About
forty flows were taken that night. The
next night the dog was stolen.
John Murphy, eleven years old, OF