The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-05-15
TEXAS
And
TEXANS.

and cloudburst. Other property dam
age is reported in the neighborhood.
Vegetables are in fair supply in the
state
Croweli, Foard county, has milf
tary company,
Truscott, Knox county, will have q
S6, 900 sehoclhouse.
A span of fairly good mules sold at
Arlington for 1925
Skeleton of a child was found in a.
vacant house at Dallas.
Fort Worth will soon have three adj
ditional letter carriers.
Ell Paso will spend 81, 600, 900 in i'm
proving her waterworks.
Rosebud State bank of Rosebud has
been organized with a capital stock OF.
S25, 900.
Twenty-three persons were initiated
at one time into one Maccabee tent
at Dallas.
Superintendent T. D. Scott of the
Lampasas public schools was re-elect-
ed last week.
James Wall of Dallas claims that
he was held up by negress. and Sc
taken from him.
A petition calling fo.' the organiza~-
ton of Andrews county is being cir
culated in that county.
Southern Lumber company of Tex
arkana has increased its capital Stock
from $100, 600 to $50, 000.
Authority to begin business has
been given the First National bank of
Putnam, capitalized at 5000.
E. P. SWenscn, the, we'll known New
York business man, is visiting his,
properties in the Stamford section.
For the fifth time Mrs. J. F. Swaynee
has been elected president of the Fort
Worth City Federation of Women q
Clubs.
r. G. McAstor was shot to death in,
Houston hotel House Detective
Scott was arrested. He claims self
defe Sc.
With capital stock of SO, 600 the
Seadrift Fish and Oyster company of
Seadrift, Calhoun county, has been.
chartered.
For the seventeenth successive teru
Professor s. M. N. Mars has been
chosen superintendent of the public
schools of Terrell.
Colonel Tom R. Jennings, aged
sixtyfve years, for years prominent
in the state,s political affairs, expired
suddenly at Laporte.
There are 10,545 fire insurance, risks
on file at Houston, according to the
rating b 'ard, and s, 545 at Dallas. ALI
these are specific rates.
Engineering students of the Univer~
sity of Texas have organized volun-
teer fire, department to protect the
main building. which is not firepreof.,
Twelve nuns took black veil as men,
bers of Order of the Sisters of Char
ity OF the Inearnate Word at Calves
ton. Bishop Gallagher administered
the vows
Fl. T. Collins clerk in the state
| comptrolier's department some time;
has resigned to enter the service of :
the San Antonio and Arkansas Pass
railway
Commercial Secretaries Association
of Texas has inaugurated movement
to bring about Russians expelled from
their country locating in the Lone
Star state
In the national house of representa-
tives an amendment by Congressman
Hardy of Texas empowering the inter-
state commerce, commission to fix rail-
road rates was defeated-63 to S8,
7. w. Delaney, who had both legs
broken when an automobile he was an
occupant of plunged over an embank4
ment near Wichita Falls, died. N. P.
Blakemore, who was also injured, will,
recover.
The Scuddy ranch in Sterling coun--
ty, consisting OFT coo acres of grazing
land, has been sold at Sterling CITY
by Sheriff Ayres- at public auction to
L. E. Willoughby of Brady for about
500, 600.
Governor Campbell committed the
death penalty af Joe Dorsey, negro.
sentenced to hang last Friday AZ,
Groesbeck for participation in the,
murder of Tilden Goode, white. to life.
imprisonment.
Rev. k. +. Polk, a pioneer minister,
and eisiseniof kaufman county. died
at Terrell, aged. seyenty-four wears.
He came to Texas from Alabama. in
1871 and. founded the Primitive Baptist
church at Elmo. He was q Confeder-
ate soldier
While on . visit with his wife to,
Germany James E, House, prominent.
business man OF Ell Paso, departed
this life at Charttenburg. Some time
ago MIR, House was operated upon for
an ear ailment
Cooke county is to have a local op-
ton election on the 18th inst County
commissioners court decided on, this
course after receiving petition with
1000 signatures Gainesville and
Lindsay, both in precinct No. l, are
the only wet towns in tho oo,,v+,,