The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-04-06

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OTHER Cleburne of the Farm
TEXAS ers' Union burned,
EVENTS. causing u loss foot
ing up $1,000. l.. T.,
| Wilson, lost stallion that was worth
| 81 900. Considerable cotton, twenty
! five wagons and thresher were also
| consumed.
Quick work on the part of two mo-
torcyGle officers at Dallas caused al
hotel lodger at ijallas to recover
1922. so that had been stolen, Upon
arrival at the hotel the man was found
bewailing his fate and searching the
room for his roll One officer spied a
| linen room near 1t was locked. He
gained access and found the purse OF
the man on the floor. 1t is believed
the party who took the money became
frightened and dropped it before get
ting away,
! Lawyers and business men Of Sc.
| gum united in q banquet to Justice
Joseph B. Dibrsll previous to his de-
parture for Austin to take his place
upon the supreme court bench,
Fred King, charged with highway
robbery, was arrested at Dallas. He
Is accused of holding pistol to the
head of Robert Thomas, while third
man took SO from Thomas pockets
and a ring from finger. All parties
are negroes. " Me and Fred was raised
| together" Thomas said. when |
was held up | seen Fred with the pistol
and said: What you want to hold me
up for, Fred2' He said, you don't
know me, but | knew him all right. "
With his skull crushed as the result
Of an assault made upon him by AT
unknown person, Robert 7. Tallia-
ferro, sixty-tive years old, engineer of
| the government ice factory at Fort
Sam Houston, was found unconscious
| at the factory. He died without max.
ing statement.
| Discovery of gas at Blossom, La
mar county, has caused excitement. A
company has capped what is declared
TO be an excellent gas we'll, with indi-
cations Of oil.
James Rendale, q negro accused OF
criminal assault at Dallas on Alline
Jones, girl of his race, was remand
ed to jail without bail Plaintiff il
alleged to be but twelve years old.
| Curtis Mckinney, negro was con
victed at Waco on charge of holding
a railroad man with u sixshooter and
robbing him, was given fifty years.
On tormer trial verdctwas for forty
years, but on technical error in the
Indictment a new trial was granted.
Roy H. Johnston died thirteen miles
east of San Angelo as the result OF
being slashed across the abdomen with
o pocketknife. Johnston was olsen.
boweled, and while holding his intes-
tines in place walked "a mile to house
of neighbour, losing much blood. An
arrest was made.
Governor Colquitt has signed the
proclamation for the election upon the
prohibition constitutional amendment,
July %. Resolution providing forths
| election calls for elf-enactment of the
constitutional amendment If 1t isl
adopted, while the constitution ex-
pressly states that the governor shall
declare the result of the election This
is noted by the governor.
Former Policeman Henry Lee, who
shot and killed James S. Simpson, a
brother officer, March 4. 1908, at Hous.
ton, was given fiye-year sentence.
This was the third conviction He will
again appeal
W. NJ Cobb was acquitted in dis
| trict court at Mount Pleasant He was
| charged with killing his father in. law.
Burrell Tigert, near Cookville, last
fall
| A representative of the mail order
house of Montgomery Ward 81 Co.
of Chicago announced at Fort Worth
| that the southwestern branch house
would be located at the latter city. A
| building five stories high will at once
be erected, the contract having been
| signed. One million dollars will be
spent on the new enterprise.
Found with hole in his head. made
| by fortyefve ealiber pistol bullet,
Eugene Yglesias, several years spe
cial officer for the Wells Fargo Ex-I
press company, was taken to San
Antonio hospital where he expired.
Yglesias bad been suffering from can
Ger, that had practically eaten away q
Jaw. As . peace officer he was widely
known In Texas and Mexico
A $50, 090 issue of bonds for good
roads has been voted in the Lockhart
precinct OF Caldwell county. Vote was
27e to es. Improvement begins whet
| hands are sold