The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-02-10
TEXAS AND TEXANS.
Happenings OF Interest Related
In Brief WAY.

Ben Obey died suddenly in o DallaS
boarding house.
Farming operations are progressing
in southern Texas.
Many Texans attended Mardi Gras
at New Orleans this week.
Young Mems Business league has
been organized at Vernon.
During January seventeen new busi-
ness concerns opened in Dallas.
A milkman found John Duggan OF
Marlin dean il the latter's room;heart
trouble.
Mrs. Jane Lancaster, eighty-seven
years old, was found dead in bed at
Dalhart; old age.
Southwestern Texas Land company
of San Antonio, capital stock $4,000,
has been chartered.
Explosion in gin at Quauah did
considerable damage. Engineer Jesse
Crisp had narrow escape.
For $75, 900 Rasbury & Bruce of
Ballinger sold to Mayfeld, Zeigler u
Co. of Dallas !, 800 bales of cotton.
Louis Miller was tried at Groesbeck
on charge of killing Sam Jackson, an
other negro. He was given half a
century.
At a Mexican fandango over twelve
miles from Seguin Sylvester Cabello
was shot to death and Joe Fernandez
jailed.
Volume - of the abstracts of Texas
| titles has been sent by the controllers
department to the various assessors
of the state.
-Four miles from P1ainview, Tex, q
Mr. Harberson, at the New Mexico
town Of HENDERSON: was shot and in
stantly killed.
Body of an unknown one armed
white man, supposed to have expired
from heart trouble, was found in vicin-
ity of Brownsville.
Work of clearing the Trinity river
in the vicinity of Huntsville Is salts
factorily progressing, Channel is also
being deepened.
Mrs B. Friedman of Texarkana
was seriously injured while burning
trash on her premises. Her wearing
apparel became ignited.
Vehicle establishment at Houston of
L. H. Burls a. Son was destroyed by
fire. Nearby buildings were damaged.
Total loss is about $40, 900.
Texas Central Railway company
has purchased So 900 creosoted cross
tics to be used on the De Leon, Rising
Star and Cross Plains branch.
Eighteen draft mares from Illinois
and Iowa we're purchased for the Tex
as agricultural and MISUNDERSTANDING
and forwarded to that institution.
General assembly of South Carolina
invited Senator Bailey to address that
body at Columbia, the state capital, on
the proposed Federal income tax.
B. Nj. anthony was convicted at
Stephenville on charge of killing last
December Rev. r. L. Snyder. Penalty
was five years in the penitentiary.
w. f. Cottman, a prominent Grand
Army of the Republic man and citizen
of Dallas since 1871, passed away in
city. lie was born in Kentucky in
1885.
Steamer Eldorado of the Southern
Pacific Steamship company arrived at
Galveston with fire in her hold. 1t
damaged the cargo $4,000 Vessel
sustained little injury.
J. G. Stevens, an International and
Great Northern railway conductor,
caught between cars at Mineola ana
had aa arm and shoulder broken.
The George G. Wright company of
Kansas City, Mo, sold 800, 900 acres
in Palmer, Castro, Deaf Smith and
Lamb counties, Texas, for over $685.
500, 900,
Nine contractors submitted bids for
constructing the Santa Fe railway line
from Lometa through San Saba and
Brady to near Eden, RanneIs county,
/ 100 miles.
Returning home from school the
horse which Will Strauss, boy, was
riding near Elgin became frightened
and ran away. The lad was thrown
off and his neck broken.
Several days overdue, the steamer
Jacob Luckenbeck, en- route from
Philadelphia and lsden with coal, ar
rived at Galveston. Rough weather
on the Atlantic interfered with the ves-
sells progress.
A Williamson county farmer mar
keted at Georgetown three turkeys, the
combined weight OF which was seven
/ ty-two pounds. He realized S9-suffi-
cient to pay state and county taxes on
a thirty acre farm.
Contract to build the west Texas nor
NAL school at Canyon City was let to
the Martin, Holderness Il Green Con-
struction company of Stamford for
$50, COO This does not include wiring,
plumbing and steam heating fixtures.
Gunter rvnch of u, 900 acres in Du-
vail, McMullen aud LaSalle counties
has been purchased by T. L. Clark and
E. G. Sturgis from a Denison syndi-
cate, consideration being in excess OF
81, 600, 600.
T. p. Davis Of Whitesboro, who ae-
cidentally shot himself while cleaning
a double-barreled shotgun, succunbed