The Caucasian., 1910-04-14
TEXAS AND TEXANS.
Happenings of Interest Related
In Brief Way.

VIC county
Some cotton is still being marketed
In the state.
DR.. NJ. II. Ward of Fort Worth
| died suddenly.
Katie Hill, negress, was found at
Fort Worth dead in bed.
Boys corn clubs are being organ
lied in kaufman county.
In one Dallas family the mother and
five children have the measles.
Hog raising is attracting much at
tention in the Jacksonville section.
Military court of inquiry holds ne
gro troops ''shot up'' Brownsville.
Santa Anna Gas and Oil company is
to bore near that place for oil or gas.
Pat Coleman, a section hand, was
slugged near Fort Worth and robbed
of S35.
Jack Wright, Fort Worth degro,
was shot in an arm. His wife was az
rested.
w. A. Roberts of Travers City,
| Mich, drowned in the Leon river near
Hamilton.
1t will require s256, $40 to run the
city government of Austin the comiu g
fiscal year.
El Paso's eighth bank, with paid-ru
capital stock of 100000, has COM
menced business.
W. Fl. Kelly. an aged resident cf
Cooley, Johnson county, fell dead as
he was crossing street.
J. F. Hennessey succeeds NC. Har-
less in charge of the livestock depart
ment of the Katy railway.
Walter Rutledge Printing and Car
toon company of Dallas, capital stock
Sl2, 900, has been organized.
Rev. Sid Williams, the evangelist,
is holding revival services in the Nc
Kinney Avenue Baptistchurch, Dallas.
J. T. Parsons, delirious patient in
Texarkana sanitarium, killed him.
self with pocketknife by severing an
artery.
George Werner, Smith county farm
er, sold forty three bales of cotton at
Tyler for So, 600 Price paid was IA
cents a pound.
Three concrete bridges will be erect
ed on the Richardson road in Dallas
county. They will be substantial in
every respect.
Bread and ginger snaps made from
cottonseed meal were exhibited at city
of Whitesboro by the Hillsboro Cot
ton Oil company,
Mfu uran & Russell. st. Louis archi-
teets, have been awarded the contract
for designing the $500, 900 proposed
Beach hotel at Galveston.
The North Texas Beekeepers' asso-
citation held its annual convention at
Blossom, Lamar county. Consider
able business was transacted.
Representative Dies appeared before
the house ways and means committee
in favor of the bill to make Orange
and Beaumont supports of entry.
Several San Antonio citizens are to
take a horseback trip from thatcity to
New York Chuck wagon is to GO
along. Party is to start in a short
time
George Mayfield of Clarksville died
at his breakfast table. He was about
to read newspaper when death hit
him. His wife and two children were
with him.
G. f. Perkins, a young man of Bas-
trop comfy, lost his life in a peculiar
manner. He accidentally inflicted on
one of his legs knife wound, bleeding
to death.
Captain A. j. Shelton and wife Il
High, Lamar county, have been mar
ried sixty-four years. Cagtain Shell
ton when a young man was enc of tx
most expert bear hunters in that sec
ton.
At the ratio of 81 to taxpayers 81.
Austin voted to issue bondsto rebuiif
the dam In honor of the election r
suit citizens jubilated t.the site of the
dam. They will do likewise at the sigh!
of it.
Sam p. Cochran of Dallas was e 9
ed right eminent grand commander
the meeting of the grand commander
of Knights. Ternplars, held in Houston
Next annual meeting will be held a
Fort Worth.
Forney commereia club has offered
the trustees of the Texas Christian
university if they will locate the instl-
tuition in that kaufman county cit,
S100, 600 and fifty acres of land
A. Z. Williams, forty-four years of
age, presid IT of the Gulf National
bank of B .umont, is dead after
long illness. He was actively identi-
fed with tn development of that city. /
State supreme court holds the West
ern Union Telegraph company oper-
ates under Federal charter and does
not have to pay the s1e0, 900 franchise
tax demanded by Texas.
For 81, 300 Z. V Meyer secured the
pop corn, peanuts and soft drink priv
ileges at tn, fair grounds, Dallas, the
coming SUNNI er. This also includes
the fair per d in the fall.
Mothers ivic Improvement club of
San Saba inaugurated cleanup cru