Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-01-20
NEWS FROM
OVER TEXAS


wrecked four miles south of Amarillo.
The 10-year-old daughter of j. H.
Schroeder, residing near Taylor, was
horribly burned Monday morning, and
will not recover.
Oil has been struck in the corpora.
tion limits of Rising Star The well,
according to the report of the driller,
will produce fifty barrels of oil daily.
1t was announced by Col. r. M.
Wynne, superintendent of the Confed-
crate Home at Austin, that the home is
now filled and not another veteran can
be admitted to the home until va
cancy occurs.
Citizens Of Rising Star have sub
scribed bonus of $4,000 for the pro-
posed line from Waco to Abilene, to
be Blu lit by Col. Morgan Jones. The
contract has been signed up by all
parties concerned.
The contract for the construction of
the American National Bank building,
an eight-story structure with roof gar
den and basement, in Austin, was let
Friday, the consideration being $780,.
900.
Victor Harris, a 6-year-old negro
boy, was instantly killed Monday in
San Antonio when the contents of
gun took effect in his head almost
blowing it OFF.
For the third time the supervising
architect Is advertising for bids for
the erection of the Eagle Pass Federal
Building, all previous bids having ex-
ceeded the money available. Con-
gress appropriated $4,000
After battling all efforts for a month,
the big gas we'll on the Miller tract at
Petrolia was capped and placed under
control Tuesday. Millions of cubic
feet of gas have been wasted, causing
loss estimated at several thousand
dollars.
At a meeting of the Fort Worth
Board of Trade Tuesday a committee
was appointed of which Paul NAPLES
is chairman, to solicit the subscription
of $125,000 worth of stock to the pro-
posed Fort Worth and Mineral Wells
The United States launch Dallas, re-
Gently purchased for use of Capt. A. E.
Waldron in making inspection Of navi-
CATION work on the Trinity River,
cought fire Thursday at Dallas and
burned to the waters edge. Loss, $5,-
900.
The surveyor for the proposed Waco
Belton-Georgetown cutoff of the Inter
national and Great Northern has ar
rived in Bolton. Work will be COM
menced at once on the preliminary
survey, the funds for which have been
subscribed.
An unusual sight was witnessed in
Childress Tuesday by hundreds of
citizens when snow fell ten minutes
from clear sky and the sun shining.
Flakes extremely large and covered
walks quarter inch deep.
While seated at the table eating his
supper Frank Newman, city detective,
was shot and desperately wounded
Monday night in San Antonio. A dou-
ble,barreled shotgun loaded with buck
shot was used. The contents of both
barrels took effect. He will not re-
cover.
The Department Of Agriculture in
Austin, Monday issued its giners' re-
part, showing 1874 bales of cotton
reported ginned during the month of
December. By estimating the ginnigs
of the private ginners who are not
required to report to the Department
OF Agriculture at $4,000 bales, and
counting the round bales as half bales
and the square bales at 500 pounds
each, the department figures the total
ginnings to Jan. at 2.403,732 bales.
The bulletin of the State Board of
Health for December, received Mon
day at Austin, shows the following
vital statistics for November: Male
births 2,140, female 2,022; whites $500.
blacks, 262; alive 4,014, dead 1896.
The Palmer Oil Company brought
In an oil we'll Thursday at Henrietta
at less than 800 feet. which flows about
1870 barrels. This we'll is near the
center of the original field.
The 5-month-old babe of Henry
Brent, living eight miles east of Bon
ham, was burned to death Thursday
morning.
The State Board of Education Friday
authorized the local board OF the
Southwest Texas Normal at San Mar
cos to purchase three acres of ground
to be used In teaching agriculture in
the normal.
Fire Thursday did damage In San
Antonio and for time threatened the
destruction of an entire block of build.
ings valued with their contents at more
than 81 600. 600.