The Caucasian., 1909-12-16
TEXAS AND TEXANS.
Happenings of Interest Related
In Brief Way.

weekly.
Palestine has eighty-six additteaal
street lights.
Jan. Marion county holds q leasi
option election.
Granbury will soon have sixteea
more street lights.
Two carloads of orange trees from
Japan were received at Algoa.
A %. 600 Methodist district paYson-
age has been erected at Marshall.
Business part of Floydeda in Floyd
county is to have cement sidewalks.
New courthouse of Jones county, to
be built at Anson, is to cost sl0o, ,000.
Electric lights have been installed en-
the leading streets of Clifton, Bosque
county.
A steel cufEert and road machinery
factory is to be in operation at Abilene
shortly.
While cutting wood near Blossom,
Lamar county, Shelton Stone cut on
big toe,
Body of Sam Proctor, killed at Lit
tie Lake, Cal, was buried at his old
home, Burnet.
In a runaway W. Fl. Askew. q lead
ing Milan county farmer, was seri-
ously hurt.
j. E. Clonch has bought the water
works at Hubbard City and is making
improvements.
Unwritten law acquitted at Del Rio
Amado Guitteraz, charged with hlling
Jose Villereal.
The State bank of Marshall sold tc
W. E. Ross of that city Loco bales Of
cotton for s75, COO.
A Port Arthur autoist was fined g.
and costs for exc Ell ng the speed ligni
of eight miles an l4our.
Over Il, 900 bales of cotton have 80
far this season been marketed at B owte
and as high as Is cents paid.
Hillsboro real estate dealers report
there never before was such demand
for Hill county farms by tenants.
Residence of g. M. Russo at Dallas
was practically destroyed by fire, due
to the explosion of a gasoline stove.
Charles S. Taylor. bookkeeper N
the state treasury, died at Austin. He
was fifty years old and an expert ac-
countant.
Rochelle, McCulioch county, by vote
OF seyenty-fge for aud none against
decided TO issue $40, 600 bonds for .
schoolhouse.
During November 66, 900 cars we're
handled in the Katy railway yards at
Denison. an increase of9, ,045 over No
vember, 1893.
Farmers Guaranteed State bank of
Kemp, Kaufman county, begins busi-
ness with the new year. It's capitalize
tion is $40, 900.
@. Tcer, charged at Abilene with
killing his son-in-laW, Jess Johnscn,
on preliminary trial was remanAsd 10
jail without bail.
Seven young men left Denison in
gasoline launch via Red river bound
for Shreveport They intend to hRat
during the voyage.
A Georgetown commission firm paid
D. D. Thompson of Williamson county
Sl20 for eighty turkeys, an average oi
l3 l-2 ceuts q pound.
Mayor Fisher of Galveston and also
Hon. Ike Standifer of Houston were
admitted to practice before the United
States supreme court.
Navarro Refining company brought
In q new gas well in the Pstrolia, Clay
county, field, Estimated fow is 4e,-
900, 900 cubic feet per day.
Infant OF {. f. Laster of the vicin-=
ity of Broadway, Lamar county, ives
choked to death. A pecan kernel be-
eame lodged in Its wihdpipe.
At the rate the trolley ear fever Is
raging at Marshall it may be neees-
sary within o year to build lines from
the courthouse in various directiSaa.
Just as an aged negress got OF .
train at Tyler her purse, containing
s53, was snatched from her. A couple
OF negro men were arrested and were
identified
Auction sale of Aransas Pass lets
and truck farms attracted numbsr OF
visitors, many of them from Okiaho-
ma. There were several excursions on
the bay and fish dinner.
L. j. Monk of Abner, in Kaufman
county, shipped a carload OF turkeys
to New York city. This il the fourth
carload sent to New York city fPeA
Kaufman county this season.
Five year-old son of negro named
Columbus Harold of near Howlana,
Lamar county, was fatally burned. EIs
clothing caught from a stove and two
thirds of the flesh cooked to crisp.
Proposition has been made TO Abi-
lens business men for estab blishmsnt Of
q packery with o daily killing capae-.
isy Of $50 cattle. loo bogs and the same
number Of sheep. A bonus of S75, Gee
and 200 acres is asked.
Uncle Jack Leonard, over eighty
years old, was frozen to death In the
Amarillo section. He was with Gen.
Custer in several Indian fights and
noted for his courage. The old man
was bachelor.
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