The Caucasian., 1911-06-06
TEXAS
AND
TEXANS.

TEXAS keeper of Austin, i
AND dead, ana Arthur hei-
TEXANS. ser, city street en-
ploye, was mortally
wounded as the result of a shooting
which occurred in a restaurant ASH
was the victim of shotgun. keiser
received a pistol bullet near his heart
and fingered few hours. He was
bachelor Ash leaves widow and
couple of small children. Both men
were about thirtytwo years of age.
Police made three arrests.
The court of criminal appeals has
granted baltic Mrs. Minnie L. Strelght
in the sum of $40, 900. A writ of ha-
beas was granted, returnable on the
14th instant. Mrs Streight was con-
victed on charge of killing her hus-
band at McGregor ahd life imprison-
ment the verdict. Recently the court
of criminal appeals reversed the case.
The lower court had refused bail.
Jumping through a railway passen-
ger car window, Ed Toogood was bad
ly injured near Vaughan. Toogood
was en- route from Fort Worth, his
home, to Salt Lake City, and is be-
lieved to have become temporarily de-
mented. He was placed in hospital
at Tucumcari, N NJ.
Special Counsel Mead of the attor-
ney generals department rules that
the defeat of the prohibition amend
ment July % would not affect the
present liquor laws, which would con-
tinue operative. However, if amend
ment carries, the license laws will be-
come inoperate, and other regulatory
statutes will necessarily have to be re-
vised.
Har1ingen claims to have shipped
the earliest geapes grown the present
year in the United States, the shipper
being r. B. Clark, They were the
California table grape and the bunch
es aboat ten inches long. Getting to
msrket this early surpasses California
by over two months.
A negro and white man had dis
pute as to who should have the right
of way in driving over bridge near
Reinhardt, Dallas county, and fight
resulted. Another white man drove
and separated the combatants. 1t was
found the white fighter. peddler, J.
Donosky, had been stabbed in the
right shoulder with long pocket
knife. The negro drove to Reinhardt
and was arrested.
/ Collin county grand jury returned
five felony and thirty five misdemean-
or indictments and adjourned until
July 10.
Home of Charles S. Cox in North
Temple was entered by burglars, who
secured suit of clothes, valuable
watch and small sum of money.
The Texas Midland railway gave to
the Frisco railway at Paris a solid
train of potatoes from Houston and
Texas Central railway points and sew
eral cars of tomatoes from Texas and
New Orleans railway towns.
At a mass meeting held in West ii
was decided to have a sewer system, il
not for the entire city, at least bust
ness portion.
Mrs. J. NJ. Wall, wife of merchant
at Wall, twelve miles south of San
j Angelo, was seriously kicked by a
horse, having her skull fractured and
right arm broken.
S. A. Price, president of the Green
vile Street Railway company, has or
dered seven more cars of the open OBJ
servation kind.
In order to increase the water supply
the city of Terrell is having bored to
a depth Of 200 feet another we'll.
Formal opening of the new Hotel
Galvez, at Galveston, which will be in
the nature of celebration, will take
place on the 9th instant.
Denton county wheat crop for this
wear is estimated in round numbers al
2, 0O0,0 900 busels. Yields run from
twelve to twenty bushels per acre.
| OF slightly over half an acre H. w.
Sanders of near Denton has sold this
season s195. 05 worth Of dewberries, OF
an average of 81 per bushel. He es-
Inmates the drouth cut short tbe crop
206 gallons.
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