The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-05-22
Health Officer Lands
was detailed by the
board of health ot
Cincinnati to proceed
TEXAS
AND
TEXANS.
As SOOn as eNNCC iemi

as soon as expeCient
to Paris and other Texas cities to IL,
vestigate the municipal slaughter cs-
Establishments maintal1ad wish . view
Of making Recommendations that VIII
make the erection q sGcA 3utlding
in the Onio metropolis possible.
The election TT Z! Paso upon ques-
ton Of granting increase il .'s water
rates.; Recommended ny 1852 i
CHANGER Saycrs. in orGert1a ,aa cit
may purchase tie plant OF tue inter-
national Water company. resulted - q
vote Of l4S for the increased rates /"
657 in favor of the purchase OF tn
plant. An election will nov be held
upon bond issue to provide for the
purchase of the plant. About one
fifth of the qualified vote of Ell PasO
| was cast.
Carefully compiled statistics upon
Texas investment values, showing the
rate Of increase in the outside capital
coming into the state, are reported to
the Texas Commercial Secretaries as
ISOLATION as showing the remarka lie
fact that over S70O, 600 a day outside
money is seeking investment in Texas
| industries and commercial enterprises.
Texas Christian Missionary ass2ci-
alton. which held its 1910 convention
in Dallas. meets next year at Fort
Worth. Officers elected are W. A.
Wilson, Houston, president; j. T..
Miller, Bolton, vice president; J. G..
Mason, Dallas, corresponding secre-
| tary. Recording secretary is to be APP
pointed by the corresponding secre-
tary.
State Medical Association of Texas,
in annual convention this year at Dat
las. selected Amarillo for the 1911
| place of meeting. DR.. John I. Moore.
Houston, was elected president: DR.,
A. B. McReynolds, Stamford, first
vice president; DR.. W. A. Harper
Austin, second vice president; DR.
Holman Taylor, Fort Worth, secr8
tary; Dr. A. Smith, Texarkana, treas
! urer.
! Three white men at Dallas held up
in succession H. A. Mcmillan, getting
his keys, fine watch and some cash;
| D. c.. Gleason, who rushed from a
house to McMillan's aid, diamond
| stud, a valuable watch and about ;620
| in cash aiken, and G. c. Smith, who
went to the assistance of the other
| two, who was relieved of hts weapon
and some money Smith attempted to
escape He was shot at and hit over
the head, scalp wound resulting.
State department of agriculture an
nounces farmers institutes are TO he
held in each precinct in the county CT
regular intervals. successfully tried ii
Hill county, where each precinct has an
institute of thirty to forty members. Il
is also planned to organize all OF the
institutes into a sort of state institute
Twenty years in the penitentiary is
the verdict returned by the jury in the
case at Sherman of Allie Mingo. al
Indian. charged with the killing al
Denison of Wesley Higdon.
Gulf, Texas and Western railway IS
completed from Jacksboro to Sey-
mour. This gives Seymour direct
connection via the Rock Island railway
with Dallas.
John Oswald, sixty years of age.
! fastened the end of cord to wall
hook in a Fort Worth rooming house
and the other end around his neck. He
fell backward and strangled to death.
Proprietor found his body.
According to the Texas secretary of
state 1000 corporations have forfeited
their charters by failure to pay their
franchise tax, due May l. They have
until Jnly | to pay the penalty of %
per bent and S. for reinstatement.
A brilliant meteor, seeming half as
large as the moon, requiring eight sec
onds to pass across the sky east to
northwest, was reported to the wealth
er bureau at Galveston, Three dis
tinct explosions were heard.
The First State bank of Tyler, cap
ital stock s25, 600, has been organized
and is to begin operations in the next
thirty days.
Thirty fine Leghorn chickens were
stolen by thieves at Dallas. Detective
department got possession of the birds
and Efforts set on foot to locate the
owners.
J. NJ. Price, a Katy railway fireman,
fell from his engine into the bed of the
Blanco river, near San Marcos. He
died on the train before Smithville
was reached.
Sam Maxon and his son, Joe, were
seriously injured in runaway near
Rio Vista.
James B. Scruggs, resident of
Dallas since 1873, is dead in thatcity,
aged seventy-five years. He was a
gallant Confederate soldier and was
wounded in the battle of Wilson Creek,
near Springfield, Mo.
The Nortern Texas Traction COM
pany has received seven new cars and
they are in operation between Dallas
and Fort Worth.
Losing his footing while attempting
to pour bucket of water into bar
rel used for watering stock, Charles
Brieger, aged eighty years. fell into