The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-12-02
TEXAS AND TEX Ms.
Happenings of Interest Related
In Brief Way.

molaSseS factory.
Miles, Runnels county will construct
$40, 00J waterworks.
Five miles of concrete sidewalks are
being put down at Marlin.
Brady has banded this season over
S25, 600 worth of pecans.
Nine steel bridges are to span Kauf-
man county streams soon.
A $50 horsepower boiler has been
put in at the Cleburne waterworks.
A steel wagon bridge has been put
across Deep creek, Scurry county.
While on hunting trip Mayor Kirk
of Ballinger secured white quail.
While chopping wood five miles from
Tyler Wheeler Ponder severed foot.
Nearly 100 members have been add
ed to the Plainview commercial club
Two Texarkanas' clerks have or
ganized union of about 100 members.
Texas Red Cross society hopes to
sell 1000, 600 stamps before Christmas.
During October there we're reporte |
in Texas 1924 births and |, 1853 deaths.
A. S. Blackburn, real esta te man
of Amarillo, fell dead Burial was at
Bolton.
Congressman Morris Sheppard and
Miss Lucille Sanderson will be united
in marriage at Texarkana Dec. l.
Paint and Powder club, for promo
tiou of amateur theatrical entertain
ments, has been formed in Dallas.
Mrs. Mollis Davis, widow, was
thrown from wagon on her farm in
| Angelina county, run over and killed.
A hundred-barrel oil well has been
brought in on the Wagg' ,r holdings
Of the Electra, Wichita county, field.
Joseph Treuer, q longtime Texas
travelling man, departed this life in
Dallas. He was sixty-seven years of
age.
State peaitentiary board has given
orders to have 10, 600, 600 feet of state
standing timber in Cherokee county
sold.
At Niger island in Galveston bay
two negro fishermen caught couple
of octopuses. One had tentacles eighty
feet long.
Strike of Cotton railway boilers and
helpers in the shops at Tyler has been
settled, demands of the employees be-
ing aceeded.
Motley county road Improvement
| bonds to the value of $25fJ00 have met
the approval of the attorney generals
| department.
A company to build an interurban
railway line between Dallas and Ter
rell, via Mesquite and Forney, has
been organized.
Walter Dyer, ten years old, was bit
ten badly by a bulldog at Brady. An
ear was mangled, leg lacerated and
an arm injured.
w. r.. Hinckley, II pioneer citizen
of Dallas. is dead, aged cighty-two
years. At he funeral six grandsons
were pallbearers.
| w. Bodenbeen purchased at Long
view three bales OF long staple cotton
and he disposed of it to New Orleans
firm at 30 cents pound.
King Lumber company, Charlottes-
Va, has been awarded, for $I12, 256,
the contract for the erection of FEEDER
al building at San Antgelo.
J. r. Murphy af Portsmouth, Va,
Confederate veteran, was struck by a
train on u e outskirts OF Houston and
within an hour was a corpse.
/ George Venable, boy, as the result
of baseball bat flying fromhands of
q comrade was badly bruised in the
| face and three teeth knocked out.
An election will be held at Sherman
Dec. 20 TIC determine whether or not
| S12, coo water betterment and So, 600
street bettermeut bonds shall be is
| sued.
BY skiff capsizing near Port Ar
thur John Marshall, Abner Burnius
member of the party, George Galebru,
| was saved.
The Colorado and Stamford railroad
has absorbed Stamford and North
| western line, recently completed, and
| which runs from Stamford to Dickens
in the Panhandle.
At the advanced age of 100 years a
negress named Ellen w. Harrison, ma
| tive of Texas and long resident OF
i Galveston, passed away in the Labon
| home for the aged at New Orleans.
| Court of criminal appeals affirmed
the death penalty in the case of John
| Wynne, q negro, frcm Walker county.
| Wynne was convicted on the charge OF
numbering his wife while she was fast
asleep.
Dog of Charles Livingston of Mar
shall, who bit off the usually noisy
portion of CANNES tongue, is still
| able, according to his master, to bark
as ever, and never before was in bet
ter health.
| San Saba merchants have bought
shipped this falltwenty three carloads
of pecans 1885, 900 pounds), bringing
1872, $50. They are being received in
that city at fine rate of 5000 to $4,000
pounds daily.
Through the death OF an uncle in