Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-04-07
NEWS FROM
OVER TEXAS

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Work has begun on the new $500
school building in Aquilla.
The annual convention of the Young
Mems Christian Associations of Texas
will be held at Waco on April 7, 8, 9
and 10.
Tag day Saturday, conducted by the
Mothers Club of the Tyler public
schools, was great success. 5000 be
ing contributed.
At an early hour Wednesday morn.
ing four brick buildings were destroy
ed by fire in Grand Saline. The loss
is $12,5O0.
The Texas Oil Company filed leases
to the Waggoner oil land in Wichita
Wilbarger and Archer Counties. This
lease covers 279,00O acres and the Tex.
as Company paid Tom Waggoner $500,
900 for same.
The Paris compress has closed for
the season, the last run having been
made to press 1000 bales still on hand
ready to be shipped when sold. Dur.
ing the season $1,000 bales were
pressed.
The compress at Italy, which was
burned some time ago. is to be rebuilt
Plans have already been approved for
the building and the work of cleaning
up the ruins has begun. 1t is to be
completed in time for the fall run.
Secretary Clyde D. Smith of the
Texas State Board Of Health, issued
call for board meeting. At this
meeting the board intends to adopt
the advisory code and to consider the
proposition of DR.. Wickliffe Rose OF
the Rockefeller hookworm commits.
sion.
Citizens of GAINESVILLE. with $780,.
900 paid-up capital, have organized the
Gainesville, Oklahoma and Western
Railroad. The charter will provide
for a line to be built from Gainesville
to Coalgate, Ok, southwest to a Fort
Worth and Denver Railroad connec,
ton. Va.
Commissioner of Labor Statistics
Joseph Myers Of Austin, says that he
will at the labor convention in Gal
weston, which begins April ~, call at
tention to the fact that great deal
Of convict-made goods is sold in this
state, and recommend the passage of q
law requiring that all convict-made
goods be marked Convict Made"
The onion crop, which should now
be moving from Laredo, will be delay.
ed for a fortnight or longer. 1t is
estimated that there Will be a short
age of from 20 to So per cent in this
seasons output. Early planting, late
freezes and ravages of "Trip or lice are
primarily responsible for the crop
shortage. The average crop amounts
to approximately 1900 cars.
Rubber Robinson's motion from Dali
las for rehearing which was filed
with the Court of Criminal Appeals,
was refused by the Appellate Court.
and unless the case Is taken to the
United tates Supreme Court, Of which
at present there seems no probability,
Robinson must hang. Robinson is
convicted of killing Frank Wolford. a
white man. in Dallas. in 1908.
To perpetuate the cowboy sports of
the cattleman's day, a joint stock COM
pany composed exclusively Of cow
boys and cattlemen has been formed
at 81 Paso to purchase the property in
Juarez known as Cowboy Park"
where quarterly will be held roping,
broncho riding contests and other cow
boy sports. Papers now are being pre-
pared for the transfer of the property.
Leatherworkers on horse goods in
100 cities in the United States, mem
bers of the International United
Brotherhood of Leather Workers,
are out on strike for shorter
hours and an increase in wages. Dallas
is one of the chief cities affected, that
point probably employing more leath-
er workers than any other city In the
country.
Adjt. Gen. Newton has received q
telegram from Col. E. M. Weaver, U.
s. A., chief of the Division of Militia
Affairs In the War Department at
Washington, stating that the date for
the regular army maneuvers at Leon
Springs has been fixed for Aug. to
IS. IH
In outlining the future policies for
Ihe ralheiS Ouloh VI AeAdS' tue eA-
ecutiye committee, now in session, in
Fort Worth. has decided to recommend
an extension of the warehouse sys-
TEN, the building of more gins and a
more systematic handling of cotton
seed.
The Railroad Commission has order
ed union depot constructed at Hills
boro and the three roads entering
that place are given sixty days within
which to submit plans and until Jan,
l, 1911, to complete the structure.
When the Texas State Board of Ed