The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-10-06

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OTHER Fordyee Oil associa-
TEXAS ton of 8, 600 acres of
MATTERS. land in Brewstercoun-
ty is reported on the
authority of NJ Z. Swinehart of Pc
cos, spresident of the Texas Irrigation
congress- It is believed tn. land is
rich IN oil possibilities, and it Is said
that oil has been discovered near the
9. Oe0 acres bought by this association.
As the result of q fire at Houston
three dwellings were destroyed and the
same number badly damaged. A. G.
Stewart, who occupied a room on the
third floor of the Thorton House,
when escape was cut off, hung to the
window sit trltiii the HE q va
the ledge. He was dashed to 9he earth
and fatally injured. Ladders we're too
short to reach tlc window. Loss is
SIS. 600 Fire originatedfn the Thorn
! ton building. Nearly all the boarders
in it at the time are employees of rail-
| way companies.
H. G. Sheppard. aged sixty years.
/ ND1lCs tOO GU L hEks oil
Austin suburb was seriously gored
BY bull. He Attempted to scare the
animal, which gored him in hip and
in the stomach. Sheppard was taken
to Seton infrnary. Dr. Z. M. Keas-
hey Of the University of Texas owns
the bull.
W. r. Eobison of Abbott, six years
a commissioner of Hill county, shot
himself through the heart and died at
once in the sheriff 5 Office in the court
honse at Hillsboro. Frank Glasgow
had just placed his revolver on the
sheriff's desk when Robson picked ii
up and suicided
In Kennedy, Bexar county, j. M
Smith was shot and seriously wound
ed by ]. C. Hill, who mistook him for
a burglar. 1t was Smiths residence
and he was painting the roof an an
early hour to escape the heat of the
sun. Hill fired three times, one bullet
penetrating a lung of Smith.
Lee McAfee OF. Denison, ex sheriff
of Grayson county, charged at Dallas
with assault to murder in connection
with the shooting of DIR. D. L. Bridge
farmer of Pleasant Grove, was adj
melted to bail IN $500. He was accon1-
panied to Dallas by some twenty five
friends.
Returning to El Paso after months
of railroad work in Colorado with |
$780, representing his savings and the
amount paid him blythe railroad com
pany on account OF the loss by an ac-
cident of his son, Lorenzo Racela was
robbed of every cent by three of his
countrymen
Governor Campbell has appointed |
John T Bonner of Tyler q member of /
regents of the University of Texas to
fill the vacancy occasioned by resig-
nation OF Hampson Gary, who became
by becoming a referee in
bankruptcy Bonner is the mayor of
Tyler.
Having been elected chairman of the
Texas. Georgia club, which holds its
initial meeting on the fair grounds at
Dallas Oct. q, Hon. o. B. Colquitt
invited Hon. Hoke Smith of Georgia
and Senator Bailey to address the or
ganization.
After chasing q wolf several miles
in the Trinity river bottoms below
Dallas the animal was killed For
some time he fought four large dogs,
badly biting two Of them.
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Robert w. Eaton of Dallas was ap-
pointed by County Judge Young to
I'll out the unexpfred term of his late
father, County Commissioner Robert
w Eaton, Sr
In an address at the Timpson fair
Senator Bailey said that two gears
from now he would ask the people to
re-elect him.
J. r Mathis, twenty -four years old
) Santa Re railway switchman, was HIT
by train at Cleburne and killed
Lanier Bros. cattlelnen, purchased
300 acres of laad near Clint, in the FL
2aso section, for So, 600
During September the county clerk
# Dallas county issued lgl marriage
licenses.
Farmers gin al Allen, Collin COM.
u burned; loss. Sl6 900 /