The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-01-06
TEXAS AND lEXANS.
Happenings Of Interest Related
In Brief Way.

Acton Telephone company will seon
build to Granbury.
Work on the $40, 600 Touring mill 81
Coleman soon begins.
City college of Gilmer, at cost OF
$1,000, is 20 be enlarged.
Jack Legnosk.e, an aged negro Of
Dallas, suddenly expired.
Saloon at Dallas of Charles Garon=
xix was robbed of 800 cigars.
Five brick business houses are UNI
der course of construction at Henri
eta.
Beaumont Land and Building COM
pany, capitalized at $500, 200, has been
chartered.
Contract for the twenty-five room
annex to the Stamford at Stamford
has been let.
First State bank of Hilisboro has
changed its name to the Southland In
vestment company,
Earl Beck, two years old, met death
by limb falling on him whileunder a
tree at San Antonio.
Magnolia Cotton Oil company OF
Houston has increased itscapital stock
from 300, 900 to $500, 900.
Houston Lighting and Power COM
pany has increased its capital stock
from 81, 900, 600 to 81, 500, 600.
Attorney generals department has
approved an issue of Sl8, 500 Olney in.
dependent school district bonds.
Ciloc Dni,,,o. x,,0e ho7ly hknA
in Dallas that his death followed. An
other negro, named Will Reed, was
jailed.
Fifth annual poultry exhibit of the
| Abilene and Great Western Poultry
show, held at Abilene. was . grand
success.
A Dallas negro boy and girl, each
about ten years old, charged with high
way robbery, were sentenced to the
reformatory
Fire on pier Is at Galveston burned
over 2, 100 bales of cotton. Losses are
about $50, 600. Pier was damaged con-
siderably.
Barn of W. F. Schultz of San An
tonic was destroyed by fire. Three
horses, valued at 5000 each, persisted
| in the flames.
E. L. Green of Chandler, Henderson
comfy, sold to II. F. Underwood OF
Dallas 100 bales of cotton; considera-
ton, $50, $685. 10.
/ Adele Turner, fourteen years old,
fell against CRATE at Memphis, Hall
county. She was horribly burned and
died in few hours.
BY the breaking of trolley wire
he was stretching J. A. Sheeklee fell
from a thirty-foot tower at El Paso
and was fatally hurt
Secretary Nagel of the departments
of commerce and labor wants the inn
migrant station at Galveston erected
as speedily as possible.
Russell Realty company of Dallas
will build $4,000 square feet of four
foot sidewalk and 1900 feet of COM
bined CURLING. and gutter
Harry Baker, elevator boy in the
st. James hotel, San Antonio, fell
four stories down the elevator shaft.
He was dead when picked up.
Rose Yarbro, six years old, burned
70 death four miles from Sherman by
her clothing becoming ignited from
blaze undera kettle in the yard.
r. Hopkins of Brunswick, Tex,
New Orleans visitor, took a walk and
failed to lock his room door. Return
ing, he found he had been robbed of
SEQ.
Over 200 chickens we're exhibited at
thefourth annual exhibit OF the Fruit
Belt Pet Stock and Poultry show, held
at Tyler. Six counties were repre-
sented.
Joe Dawson, Dallas darby, clairas
10 be 103 years old. He says he W 8
born at St Augustine, Fla, in 1890
and that he often heard of fights with
British soldiers.
AS he was being placed in an ambu
lance to be taken to a hospital for an
internal growth Conrad A. Dykes, the
chief clerk in the El Paso custom
house, expired. He was thirty.nine
years old.
w. c. Proctersof Smith county has
been appointed by the national depart
ment of agriculture special demon
strator in the farmers cooperative
work in Arkansas, Jonesboro being
his headquarters.
During the burning OF house in
the Oak Cliff section of Dallas Ed
ward McGinn, fireman, was badly
hurt by ceiling falling on him. He
was rescued by comrades in the nick
of time from cremation.
DR.. w. II, Murray, a Mexican war
veteran and long a resident of Texas,
coming from Tennessee in the forties,
died at Colbert, Okla, his home some
years, aged ninety-one vars. Five
IONS and a daughter survive,
Katherine Ballard, three years old,
overturned pot of boiling hominy in
her home at Fort Worth Some en-
tered her mouth. Lingering sever 81
hours death ended the agony Burns
we're inflicted on her body.
Captain T, B. Smith. father of late
former 4ttorney General T. e. Smith,
died at his home, three miles from
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