The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-09-19
TEXAS
AND
TEXANS.

AND b Brooks at Green
TEXANS. vile started fire
which destroyed sew
en- houses and two barns " f.
Faulkner and family lived next door
to the Brooks residence and barely
escaped in their nightclothes Loss
is about SO, 1000
| J. B. Smith, an aged resident of
Dallas, while on his way home was
confronted by two negroes, one giving
him terrific blow in the face knock
ing him down. As he lay upon the
ground the black brutes went through
his clothing, securing 60 cents.
E. 2. Turner, many years general
passenger and ticket agent of the Tex
as and Pacific railway and connected
with that road since 1876, has rendered
his resignation. George d. Hunter
succeeds him.
Public schools of Fort Worth COM
menced the scholastic term 9Th 10, 600
pupils.
Wichita Falls precinct of Wichita
county will vote on a $3.50 90 good
roads hond proposition Oct Is.
Farmers of Hunt county want 2, 600
cotton pickers. 1t is claimed 80 per
cent of the cotton is open.
William Sherley Gardner, promi-
Dent telegraph operator. died at Fort
Worth. He leaves widow and three
children.
Burglars broke into the Edlotf cigar
store at Dallas and carried off $50 ST
bills used in decorating show win
dow and which had been sewn upon
flag.
By gifts of Sherman citizens about
200 volumes have been added to the
Sherman public library.
At dance at his home, near Sunset
Ben Motley was stabbed to death by
an unknown person,
By overturning a bench on which a
tub of water was sitting when her APP
parel caught fire following explosion
of a gasoline stove, Mrs. j. NJ. Nc.
Nicely of Fort Worth saved her life
She had carried her baby from the
house aud had gone back to fight the
flames when her clothing became ig-
nited. Water from the tub drenched
her clothing. She was badly burned
and the house DESTROYED.
Colonel F. NJ. Henry, a pioneer OF
the Texarkana section and father of
Congressman r. L. Henry of Waco.
died al his residence in Texarkana at
the age of seventy nine years
Orders have been received at Fort
Worth by Postmaster Barkley for the
opening at that city Oct IA of a pos
tai savings bank.
An attempt was made to chloroform
Fl. l. Mitchell and wife of Gainesville
while they were asleep at their home
From some cause they awoke just as
the drug was thrown through win
dow The party was frightened away
by the movements of his intended vic !
Tins. No motive is known for the at
tempt.
The first bale of long staple cotton
marketed at Clarksville this season to
bring 20 cents pound was sold by I
j. K. P Jamison to w r Moore
One a farm seven miles northwest of
Lockhart there are $50 acres in cotton
and it is yielding bale to the acre
Louie Melton, cripple. who runs a
popcorn stand at Gainesville. became
and was put in the city
prison. He set fire to the hedclothes,
but attendants extinguished the blaze.
Melton then tried to hang himself with
his suspenders from the cell door,
With headquarters at Dallas. J. F.
Garvin has been appointed assistant
general freight agent for Missouri,
Kansas and Texos Railway Con pany
of Texas,
A fifth case OF Malta fever has been
near Del Rio. the patient
being a young man. who had worked
as goat herder for three months The
diagnosis of this disease has been
frmed by pathologists of the United
States army and navy medical school
at Washington
Dan McCronan, stockman. living
thirty miles south of San Angelo, was
pinned under a horse Ia the fall his
heal struck rock, cutting deep cash
and rendering him unconscious. Two
ribs we're broken and some others are
]. ". Hight, . Dallas county pic
neer, died at Lisbon, that county.