Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12


the report OF President Neill and a
discussion of the sensational recon-
mendations contained therein, all Of
which we're adopted without dissent
ing voice. The president submitted
verbal report recommending the gen
eral adoption of plan by which cot
ton and the products OF the field may
be pooled for disposition at fixed
minimum price, as the farmers Of Ken
lucky did with their tobacco.
Charles II. Meyer was Wednesday
! unanimously elected president of the
Western Federation of Miners at a
meeting in Denver.
BY the will of Mrs, F. Snow of Hart
ford, Conn, Miss Phila c. Miller,
spinster living at Orange, Mass, will
receive the income from $4,000 for
taking care of Mrs. SHOWS two small
imported dogs. The deceased left her
husband but $1,000.
The people OF Texas on Tuesday
redeemed the credit of the state, val
idating large amount Of bonds held
by the courts to have been issued
Illegally. In marked contract with the
result of the election of 1907, when
| FIVE proposed constitutional amend
ments went down in heap, the three
amendments submitted to the people
Of Texas Tuesday we're adopted by
large majorities.
The breakwater which was under
construction in front of the Sylvan
Beach park at La Porte, Texas, and al
most totally destroyed by the storm.
is now being rebuilt as rapidly as pos.
sible, so as to have everything in read
mess for the regatta. This will be La
Ports first year to have the regatta.
VIM. d. Craig, lawyer, was shot
as he was entering an elevator at the
Waldorf-Asto-ia hotel Tuesday by Mrs.
Mary A. Castle. sc years old. Graigs
life was saved by a fountain pen, the
bullet from 22-caliber revolver used
by Mrs Castle being detected into his
coat pocket. He was only slightly
bruised.
The cigarette is an outlaw in Min
nesota. The new state law prohibit
ing the sale went into effect Sunday
and it is now Illegal to market them.
The Cotton Carnival at Galveston
has opened in full blast and many
thousand people are in attendance. 1t
will last throughout the week.
The National civ RAM, of New York
engaged 81 900 600 in gold for shipment
to Bnenos Ayres
Ten million dollars is the amount
which the leaders OF the bull move
ment in the local cotton market are
A reported to have cleaned nm on the re-
cent rise in the fieecy staple in New
orleans. Those who are said to have
each gained a fortune are c. p. Ellis.
| w p brown who has pained many
another fortune N the last ten wears.
4 and r n .Havne
4 Apparentlv theShalf million dollar
road and bridge bond issue election
was carried Tuesday in Harris county
strongly in favor of the bonds. Com
plete returns from all of the city boxes
and several of the largest boxes out
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49, =. 'ne Doas u.soueN o-' .
The salaries OF the assistant post
masters at Amarillo BRENNAN Brown
wood, Childress Corpus Christi, ENNIS
San Marcos, Victoria and Wichita
Falls, and at Alva' Bartiesyiile, NOT
man and Oklahoma CITY OK, nave
been raised 100 per annum each.
Charged with the murder of their Q
year-old son, Mart Miller and his wife
we're arrested Monday at Plainvlew
Texas. A brother-in-law was also TAX
en- info oustodv ON the same charge
m, ~. 49, IL nory,,,sions alto,