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BAY CITY BREEZE.
TEXAS.
BAY CITY,
TEXAS NEWS ITEMS.
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General Summary of Crops Produced—
Immigration and Improvement Notes of
Our Sister Cities—Pickups That are oj
General Interest.
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Hope is believing that some stranger
will saw your wood while you sit in
the shade.
Mexico sends coal
States.
W. N. U.—HOUSTON —No. 5-189 7.
When Answering Advertisements Kind's
Mention This Paper.
streets,
home-
Salzer Seed Co. Ahead ?
So enormous has been the demand
for Salzer’s seeds in Texas that the
John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse,
Wis., sent out a special train on Janu-
ary 11th, loaded with seed potatoes,
grasses and clover, seed corn, oats, etc.,
to be distributed among its southern
customers.
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Tho Best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
Hrsfvrl’c Pills cure nausea, indigestion,
Hu'Ju S rlu3 biliousness. S5 cents.
The weather for the past week in
Colorado county has been very wet,
and will stop plowing for a few days.
IN THE LEGISLATURE
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SUMMARY OF THE DOINGS OF
OUR LAWMAKERS. •'
Trains do not stop where no time is given.
All Bay Shore Line trains use Grand Cen-
tral Station at Houston, and the Union Depot
at Galveston.
Through tickets on sale at Galveston for all
points north, east and west.
Close connections at Houston with all trunk
lines.
W. F. SIM MONS, M. F. SMITH,
Union Ticket Agent, General Agent
Houston. 219 Tremont St. Galveston.
C. W. NELSON, G. P. A. Houston.
ALL OVER THE COAST.
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L’EWSY ITEMS FROM VARIOUS
SECTIONS OF THE STATE.
Baltimoreans want negro
exclusively in negro schools.
The Assignment Law.
Austin, Texas, January 28.—Today
lias been designated by the judiciary
committees of each house as the time
for consideration of the proposed
amendments to the assignment law.
The merchants of Texas, as well as
those of other states doing business ii
Texas, are manifesting a great inter-
est in this matter and while, natura ly,
opinion is somewhat divided, the large
majority seem to favor the repeal, or
modification, of the present law. A
meeting of the merchants and business
men interested has been called.
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And true—is the verdict of the people regarding
Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Catarrh, scrofula, rheu-
matism, dyspepsia, nervous troubles yield to
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Hoods
Peter the Great, carpenter, ship
wright and what more no one knows,
took to amateur dentistry to amuse
himself.
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Weimar, Texas,—The Southwestern
Telephone company, notwithstanding
the severe cold weather now prevailing,
does not stop work, but their long dist-
ance line is now being erected through
this little city,
When billions or costive, eat a Cascaret, ‘
candy cathartic, cure guaranteed 10c, 25c.
A Chicago street band makes its tours
about the city on bicycles.
The directors of the Texas State Fair '
and Dallas Exposition met Saturday af-
ternoon and elected the following offi-
cers to serve for the ensuing year:
President, L. M. Kneyfly; vice presi-
dent, W. H. Gaston; secretary and gen-
eral manager, Sydney Smith; treasurer,
J. B. Adoue.
Last Saturday night Wiggins Moore
was seriously cut at a country party in
the Jim Dickson neighborhood, near
Kilgore. Henry Warlick was arrested
and and brought to this place, charged
with the offense, and is held to await
the wounds of Moore, who, it is re-
ported will die. Both are white men.
Mr. Tobe Baker, a merchant at Ly-
ton Springs, was accidentally shot with
a target gun Sunday, and died at 5
o'clock Monday morning. Mrs. Carter,
mother-in-law of Mr. Baker, was hand-
ing him the gun, muzzle foremost, when
it was discharged, the ball entering his
body. He leaves a wife and two chil-
dren.
There is a very decided revival in
Houston real estate circles. There are
a great many citizens of.North Texas,
Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa and
Illinois now in the city and out looking
over South Texas lands. During the
last three or four days several hundred
new comers have visited the Houston
Business League to examine and inves-
tigate the exhibit of South Texas pro-
ducts. It is a fact that the real estate
men are more active than they have
been at any time during the last twelve
months.
There is to be an important meeting
of the Texas Poultry association at
their headquarters in Houston next
Friday evening.- The feature. thatAYill-
the jetties at SiuJLgire4tdBest will be the out-
lining of their work for the year, to
embrace a big poultry show. The
president is Mr. Alee Journeay, the sec-
retary Mr. T. E. Millington and the di-
rectors Messrs. A. Hamelin of Galves-
ton, Ed Hill of Willis, Mrs. T. G. Gom-
bert and II. M. Ramsey of this city.
At a farm on Chocolate bay, two
miles below Port Lavaca, J. II. Em-
mons, a farmer who moved there from
Bell county, has grown the yellow
Egyptian cotton with pronounced suc-
cess this year. The crop was planted
late, but the stalks attained a heifht
of five feet and were well fruited. The
staple is about the same length as that
of the common white cotton, but has
a gloss and seems to be stronger. This
is the first effort made to cultivate th?
cotton of the ancient Nile valley on th?
immediate coast, and the success of
Farmer Emmons will doubtless lead to
tiie regular culture of that variety of
the plant. The field has been inspected
by many.
A small boy threw a lighted cigarette
stump into a. closet where kindling is
kept in the Bryan street public school
building at Dallas and a fire gained
considerable headway before it was dis-
covered. An alarm was sent in, but
the flames were extinguished with
slight loss and without the use of the
tire apparatus. The teachers prevented
a stampede of the pupils, but it was a
narrow escape from a terrible disaster.
Several carloads of iron cylinders, to
be used as piers at the Kansas City,
Pittsburg and Gulf bridge across the
Sabine river, have arrived at Orange.
It is being transferred to barges and
wiil be towed to the crossing as soon
as it can be gotten on board.
I. N. Merrifield, general manager of
the South American Colonization com-
pany of Arkansas City and the Co-
operative Commonwealth of Kansas
City, whose combined capital is $2,-
650,000, is rapidly getting in shape his
colonization town site near El Vista, on
Sabine lake, six miles southwest of
Port Arthur. His first shipment of lum-
ber left Beaumont a day or two since
and these cars will be rapidly followed
by others as they can be taken care of.
He has under contract 113 houses and
will have families for them as fast as
they can be built. There are several
carpenters at Port Arthur now prepar-
ing for the work. Mr. E. Fulton Smith
is handling this end of the business,
with headquarters at Port Arthur.
The plans are being prepared for the
large new addition to the Bayview ho-
tel at Port Lavaca. It wiil be more
properly speaking an extra building
and not a mere addition. The new
structure will be three stories high and
will have twenty-four large bedrooms
for guests, a bath room, a parlor and
spacious dining hall for the use of both
the old and new hotel. This hall w.ll
also lie used for the weekly dances,
which wiil be given during the summer
for the diversion of guests and their
friends. A wide balcony will surround
each story. The new and old divisions
together will make one of the largest
anl most complete resort hotels on the
Texas coast. The improvement has
been made necessary oy the rapidly
increasing travel to Port Lavaca.
At a meeting of the directors of the
San Marcos Poultry association it was
decided to hold the next annual exhi-
bition at San Marcos on the 22d, 23d
and 24th days of December next.'
Mr. Lafy Ward, the largest land and
livestock owner in Jackson county, is
invited to the railroad meeting at Bay
City. This gentleman, appreciating the
value and importance of the Gulf
Shore, says he will give 1000 acres
when the road reaches the east line of
Jackson county, and more when it is
completed through the county. Others
express a willingness to aid in further-
,ng the enterprise.
Friday evening as Justice of the
Peace W. W. Cranford of Alba, Wood
county, was going home he was shot at
and wounded in the elbow with a ball
from a shotgun. Clayton Jones was ar»
rested and jailed.
The proprietors of the electric light
plant of Beeville have purchased an-
other dynamo of considerably more ca-
pacity than the present one, which has
proved its inefficiency to furnish the
number of lights wanted. The present
plant has been i mining two months,
but on account of the increased demand
for lights a larger dynamo has become
necessary. The plant now in use has ■-------- , . -----
been paying a good per cent. ’ when the entire committee will be
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Anti-Sunday Baseball Bill Killed In the
House by a Majority of Two Votes—
Reports of Committees—Harris County
District Court Bill.
Do You Scratch?
Is Your Skin Diseased?
Do you want that tantalizing itching skin
disease cured? X tried every known remedy
and many doctors without relief. In experi-
menting while treating myself I made the dis-
covery that permanently cured me of that
t<rrible Eczema I have cured hundreds who
suffered from various skin diseases. My cure
sun ass'S doctors or patent- medicines. Trial
S.-mpleand testimonials by mail 10 cents.
W. A. BULLARD,
343 Thaodoro Street, Detroit, Mich.
There is one Daughter of tho Revo- •
lution living whom the government
has not remembered with a pension.
She is Bethana Bostwick, now in the
Home for the Friendless in Buffalo, N.
Y. She is 93 years old and the daugh-
ter of “the late John Bostwick,” as a
bill introduced in the senate yesterday
to pension her describes him. He died
in October, 1848, at Pike, Wyoming
county, N. Y. He served in the revo-
lution in Capt. Wales’ company and in
the Massachusetts regiment of Col.
Marshall. The bill proposes -to grant
her a pension of §12 a month.
Greatest PLOW^on Earth. B
Texas Disc Plow Co., Dallas ■
In the Committees.
Austin, Texas.—Semite committee on
internal improvements decided Tues-
lay evening to report favorably on the
hree following bills by Colquitt: To
require express companies to keep gen-
•ral offices in this State and to furnish
information to the railroad commis-
sion as to their physical condition, bug'.-
less and indebtedness. To give tho
•ailroad commission jurisdiction over
lie compressage of cotton; to author-
ize the railroad commission to promul-
gate emergency freight rates to meet
uts in interstate rates.
county, R. H.
Longes’ residence, occupied by A. B.
Ewing, burned the other night, with
everything that was in it. The origin
of the fire was not known, as no one
was at home. The house was insured
in the Phoenix of Hartford for §500.
The furniture was insured for about
§1000, company not known.
Near Chillicothe, Hardeman county,
the Texas cement works are running
day and night filling back orders. Wil-
liam Och, president of the works, says
that the supply of “gyp,” from which
plaster of paris and cement is made,
is almost inexhaustible in the vicinity
of th-eir plant and the products find
ready sale, in the large cities.
At Galveston the dry goods stock of
Fellman & Grumbach, who assigned
a few weeks ago, was sold at auction
by I. H. Kempner, trustee, to Louis H.
Fellman for 55 cents on the dollar of
New York cost. The stock as estimat-
ed value is §75,000.
ventory is taken and the transfer made
business will be resumed at the old
stand.
At 1 o’clock the other morning the
business portion of Lindale, Smith
county, was destroyed by fire. The fire
originated in the store of J. A. Thed-
ford & Co. Seven houses were burned.
A portion of the contents were saved in
all except Thedford & Co.’s store. It is
intimated that the loss is between
$12,000 and $15,000, partly covered by
insurance.
Old man Murray, who came to Paris
last December and who has since been
stepping at the I. X. L. wagon yard,
died about 3:30 the other afternoon
unattended by a physician. Some time
the city physician was called, but
with in-
A physician was sent for
again but Murray died before the doc-
tor arrived.
At San Antonio- a suit for §40,000
damages was instituted in the forty-
fifth district court recently, by Mrs.
Clara M. Cody in behalf of herself and
minor children against the Galveston,
Harrisburg and San Antonto railway I
for the killing of her bus- | d5tion for
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Contested Election Case.
Austin, Texas.—The house committee
on elections Tuesday refused to hear
the case of Asberry vs. Blackburn,
from Robertson county. The contest-
ant having failed to make the proper
showing through the house, the com-
mltee therefore had no jurisdiction.
The committee took a vote on the
Brigance vs. Bennett case, from
Grimes. The vote was in executive
session, but it is learned that Contest-
ant Brigance had the majority. Th<
matter was deferred until Wedneeday,
rccomn.end any other person.
At Sealy the other night at 7:30 a
hand car was struck by the Santa Fe
yard engine and two- men were mor-
tally injured and one killed outright.
The new air puimips were put on at
the waterworks at Waxahachie recent-
ly. After the air had been properly ad-
justed the pumps threw the water out
lively.
Mary Dubose, a ne-gres-s, was acci-
dentally shot and killed at Grimes’
Prairie the other day, by another ne-
gro woman who was handling a rifle
thought to be empty.
At Tehuacana, Limestone county, at
a recent meeting of the board of trus-
tees Dr. L. A. Johnson was elect'd
president of Trinity University. As
yet he has not signified his acceptance.
Frank Sarzedas, doing a saddlery
and harness business, filed a deed of
trust at Galveston recently, conveying
all his stock and fixtures to John Ha-
germann, trustee, for the benefit of his
creditors to the amount of §1457.
The reports from all sections of
North Texas and the river belt coun-
try indicate that the prospects of the
growing wheat crop has been greatly
improved by the snow s
prevailed a few days ago.
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Trains marked * stop on signal only.
' ' ' ? last week,
close, but the Sunday
____ advocates refused to accept any
amendment, refused any compromise
and the result was the “wicked” mem-
bers rallied their forces, and by two
votes succeeded in killing the measure.
The Harris county court bill came up
for debate on regular order for pas-
sage to engrossment, but was made
special order for next Saturday, it be-
ing a measure of local significance.
The house committee on state affairs
failed to take any action upon the as-
sortment of so-called fee bills which
have been referred to it for considera-
tion. A quorum of the committee did
not show up and the matter went over
until Wednesday. A number of coun-
ty and "precinct officials from different
portions of the state reached the city
Tuesday prepared to go before the
committee and show cause and give
the committee and show cause
reasons for the smothering of any rad-
ical change iu the present mode of
comp'ensatirig Yil&iu. '~Tliey'do not op-
pose any reasonable reduction in such
fees as they now collect where such
fees as are in any sense exorbiant but
they are not enamored of any of the
measures so far proposed. And it may
be stated in truth that many disinter-
ested persons are of one mind with
them on the subject, and it is being
urged that not one of the fee bills so
far introduced works the least reform,
as thy all contemplate a continuation
of present fee collections, the only pro-
posed change in the situation being a
diversion of a portion of the aggregate
to certain county funds. The people
get no benefit from this, as they are
expected by such reformers in this
line as have to date showed their hand
to keep on paying the same official
fees as now.
There are a number of railroad attor-
neys and express company representa-
tives here now, all of whom are at-
tracted by the fellow servant bill, the
2-cent a mile passenger fare and the
bill to compel express companies to
maintain general offices in the state.
The express men may expect other
bills that will interest them as well as
the railroads. For instance, a bill to
compel railroad companies to accept
express freight from any express com-
pany. This bill is intended to prohibit
a railroad company from agreeing to
allow but one express company to do
business on its line. Another bill of
similar import, but applying to sleep-
ing cars, may be looked ofr.
The so-called school book trust is in
for it this time also and its accredited
agents are on the ground, rustling hr]
but quietly. The demand for Hie pas-
sage of a text book bill is well nigli
universal, though judging from the
amount of mail received by the mem-
bers on the subject a law bearing
thereon is alomst a certainty.
Cured. D R. J.L. S T E P H E N S .
FITS stopped free and permanently cured. No fits
after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve
Restorer. Free $2 trial bottle and treatise.
Send to Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St., Philadelphia.. Pa.
Says Sherman Recommended Hanna.
Columbus, Ohio, January 28.—Govt r-
nor Bushnell stated last night that he
had received a letter from Senator
Sherman, but that it was personal anl
declined to make public any part of it
or discuss its contents. He denied,
however, that Mr. Sherman had sug-
gested ex-Congressman Cooper of
Mount Vernon for appointment as
United States senatot. Governor Bush-
nell stated that Senator Sherman bad
already recommended Mr. Hanua and
it was improbable the senator would
Sheriffs Address the Cmomittee.
Austin, Texas, January 28.—The
house committee on state affairs, Car-
penter chairman, met yesterday after-
noon. On motion, next Tuesday was
fixed as the time when the committee
will hear clerks of the supreme court
and court of criminal appeals regard-
ing the fee bill.
Sheriff Wash Shely of Starr county
appeared before the committee. He
spoke regarding the conveyance of at-
tached witnesses. When the manner
of conveying attached witnesses is
(lone away with it will turn loose crim-
inals on the people. He stated that
tiie Federal courts resort to attachment
to procure witnesses.
Sheriff Tom Bell of Hill county said
he Loped justice would be done; that
eruptions were different in C).’till
'i exas 'r. m those in fee vicinity of Hie
Rio Grat’i'e border.
Sheriff Shely stated that in Starr
county there are not over 45 or 50 qual-
ified jurors out of 11,000 inhabitants.
In Zapata county they can not get an
American-speaking jury.
Sheriff White of Travis county was
next heard. He submitted a state-
ment from the comptroller’s office
showing the fees paid by all the coun-
ties in Texas for the year ending Aug-
ust 31, 1896. While the speaker was
willing to abandon the attached wit-
ness system, he did not think it ought
to be abandoned to work a detriment
to Sheriff Shely and others in sur,h
counties.
In answer to questions, Sheriff White
statedAhat if 'sheriffs are placed on a
salary they will not be able to offer re-
wards for criminals. He said he knew
a case where Ben Cabell spent §1500
catching two men. The speaker re-
marked: “This fellow Burt, litre iu
jail now, cost me $500. I paid $100 for
him and I can never make over $100
out of him. Now, some folks siy
’What do you do this for?’ You don’t
have to do it.’ Well, you have got to
do it if you ever expect to run for of-
fice again.” Sheriff White asked that
the legislature exempt sheriffs from,
damages in levying an attachment or
writ of sequestration.
County Attorney Jordan of Hill coun-
ty spoke of the discrimination against
county and district attorneys, who re-
ceive no fees unless a conviction is se-
cured. Sheriffs and other officers get
fees whether the defendant is convict-
ed or acquitted.
Tax Collector W. B. Thrasher of
Travis county next came before the
committee. He gives a bond of $140.-
000; his commissions amount to $4200
annually and clerk hire costs him $200)
per year. His net amount from ihe
office is about $2100 annually.
Epps G. Knight of Dallas county
gives a bond of $310,000. He applied
to a security company to give his bond
and the charge was $1800 per year,
lie then had his friends make his bond.
He submitted figures showing that as
collector of Dallas county he does mere
work than collectors in six smaller
counties combined and the cost to the
State and county was one-third as
much for Dallas county as for the six
counties considered.
Mr. Knight said further that if the
salary was fixed at $1800, as some say,
it would cost that much to make his
bond if he did so through a security
company. He employs five clerks, who
cost him $300 per month. Mr. Knight
said since he has been in office he has
eaten but three warm meals and that
his deputies were confined the same
way. They are very much rushed with
work. If the collector is on a salary
it will destroy the incentive to push col-
lections.
Tax Assessor Turner of Dallas coun-
ty made a statement. According to his
figures $2200 is about his net income.
Tax Assessor J. W. Frost of McLen-
nan county said he was glad to get be-
fore the committee and talk business.
The committee adjourned to meet
again Friday,
SEED OATS
P. T. ANDREWS & CO.. Fort Wot th, Texas..
High Class SeedsBS
Spraying Outfits, Etc. F. G. LAEVERENZ,
2O1S Market Street, Galveston, Texas,
WRITE FOR CATALOGUE.
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The Santa Fe pay roll at Temple for
December was $41,623.34. This WuS
about an average roll and was less
than the preceding months, when the
grain and efttton were moving. For
October there was $66,000 paid out
here.
The recent rains in Jackson county
have put the land in fine condition for
plowing, and farm work is rapidly
progressing. Indications point to the
largest crop of cotton ever before
planted in Jackson county. Ripe straw-
berries have been reported in that com-
munity.
The strawberry shipments from Al-
vin are increasing, and the continued
mild weather is forcing the plants and
fruit as though spring was here. If
there is no extreme cold the berry crop
will be at least one month in advance of
its regular time,
Maggie Barrier, 4 years old, had her
clothes ignited while standing near a
stove at her home, 212 Cole avenue, Dal-
las. She was frightfully burned about
the right arm and back and is in a criti-
cal condition. Her mother had both
her hands terrible burned in extin-
guishing the flames.
Mrs. Donaldson, the mother of Mr.
John Donaldson of Victoria, broke her
leg in three places Monday morning.
The accident, which is a serious one,
owing to her advanced age, was caused
by slipping on the ice which covers
everything. No other accidents have
as yet resulted.
The last boat to arrive in Orange in
As soon as an in- from (be upper river reports quite a
' fall iu the lower Sabine, but she ran
away from a rise that will restore the
water between this place and Belgrade
to as good a stage as prevailed last
week. Quite a sprinkle of Calcasieu
logs were noticed drifting down.
The little 4-year-old son of F. I. Fish-
er of Taylor, met with a painful acci-
dent Friday morning. While playing
near the fire his clothing became igni -
ed from the flames and the little fel-
low was painfully burned before as-
sistance reached him. His wounds are
not considered serious, however.
While hunting near Chatfield, twelve
miles east of Corsicana Saturday, Con-
stable M. S. Clayton was accidentally
shot. The party shooting was station-
ed at a point some distance away and
a covey of quails was fired at. The
shot scattered over the constable’s body
the greater portion lodging in the breast
and penetrating through the skin.
One of the Aransas Pass bridge gang
working on a bridge in Beeville fell
from the structure Wednesday, receiv-
ing some severe injuries.
A deal has just been consummated
by which W. S. Johnson of Houston
will control the half mile track east of
the city lately conducted by B. W.
Shaw. It. is to be put in tip-top con-
use. r. Johnson purchased
the stables of Mr. Shaw and will have
on the track some of the best horses
in this section of the country. It is th?
nearest race track to Houston, being
only a short distance from the city
limits of the Fifth ward.
The Ladies’ Floral association of Al-
vin has organized a woman's exchange
and opened up in the building on the
corner of Hardie and Sealy
where they will offer for
made bread, cakes, etc.
The farmers locating in the country
around Port Lavaca have so far de-
voted themselves to the staple crops
primarily. A good many vegetable-;
were forwarded last season, but tlr. re
i car
firm PfiSM Send for now Ulustratad Cata-
Xirll logue of Beads, Plants and Trees.
U *«*“**Druinrn’Seed & Floral Co.,Ft.Worth.Tex.
He said, hovzever, that he was hurt on
the head and in the side. Justice Dow-
lin called the case for preliminary farmers will be invited to go into
hearing, but it vzas postponed until trucking on a more extensive scale.
r1’ I""’ i ijbe lawyers of Beaumont a few eveu-
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
Druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. 25c
The house committee on internal im-
provements decided to report favorably
Logan’s bill with regard to expre s
companies, which is similar to Col-
quitt's bill, which will be favorably re-
cocted in the senate. Also favorably
rhe bill extending for two years the
■hue in which railroads chartered since
1S87 can comply with the terms of said
charters in the matter of construction.
Action on bill reducing passenger fare
to 2 cents per mile and reducing price
of sleeping car fare, etc., was post-
poned until nevt Thursday.
The house committee on constitu-
tional amendments this evening killed
the resolution providing for constllu
tional convention; the bill making the
payment of poll tax a prerequisite to
the exercise of the right of suffrage,
and the bill making a street improve-
ment tax a lien upon abutting home-
stead property.
company
band. The accident in question was the
■ freight wreck near Weimar in which
five men were killed on Dec. 6
Cody was the engineers of the
bound train which was run into.
At Bcaulmont, Jefferson county,
Robert Lofton, colored, was shot and
instantly killed the other night and
Phil DeParis, a Frenchman, is in jail.
There was no evidence as to the origin
of the trouble. A reporter called at the
jail to see DeParis. On arriving the
prisoner was found washing a blood-
stained garment and also had on an
overall shirt that was almost complete- j
ly besmeared with blood. He refused
to make any statement for publication, i wag nQ or„-.inizej effort to ship in
X ... -- - u, t- J)ut cornmisgiou Ulell are nOw
. offering strong inducements and the
farmers will be invited to go into
storm which
. The ground
- has been left in much better condition
than if it had rained.
Mr. N. F. Norris return e^ to .Uaris',
recently Jrcgp a -hunting trip in the
-^-■^^^^-fffdiaDLTerritory, and reported having
found a corpse in a log. He and his
party of hunters started to camp to no-
tify the authorities, and when they re-
turned the corpse was gone. The dead
man was supposed to have been a gov-
ernment surveyor.
The Cotton Belt railway will com-
mence the erection of a large concrete
dam across Spring fSSeek, one mile west
of Plano, and establish a water station
at that place as soon as the work is
completed. The water will be piped up
to the depot where a large tank will
be built. The material for the work is
now on the grounds.
The other afternoon a criminal as-
sault was made upon Nellie Douglass,
the 9-year-old daughter of Mrs. Doug-
lass, who resides at the corner of Ave-
nue A and Forth street, Galveston. The
matter was not formally complained
of to the police until the •other morn-
ing, when Mrs. Douglass preferred a
charge against Charles Carlson, a
—^p<ird'er in house-
At Ladonia, Fannin
Senate judiciary committee No. 1
heard argument this evening from
Messrs. A. W. Houston, J. W. Terry. T
M. Camybell and John Duncan against
Lewis’ fellow-servant bill, and conclud-
ed to report said bill, favorably.
Treaty Under Discussion.
Washington, January 28.—The seaat?
committee on foreign relations had the
arbitration treaty under consideration
for an hour and a half again yesterday,
but failed to reach a conclusion. The
committee adjourned to meet again Sat-
urday when it is hoped the senate will
not be in session and the committee
can give the entire time to the treaty.
There is a growing feeling in the sen-
ate that the treaty should be reported
either favorably or otherwise as a
whole.
Runge, Karnes county, has improved
considerably in the last few months.
Quite a number of northern prospec-
tors have been looking over the Bra-
zoria country this week.
At the request of District Judge B.
M. Baker, the adjutant general has or-
dered rangers to Canadian, Texas.
Heavy rains have fallen in Polk
county. Farmers are ready to com-
mence crops as soon as the ground is
dry enough.
The city council of Caldwell has
passed the curfew law, requiring all
boys between the ages of 5 and 17 to be
off the streets by 9 o’clock p. m., to take
effect February 1.
The governor has offered a reward of
$100 for the arrest of Charles Carlson,
charged with an assault on Nellie Doug-
las in Galveston county a few days
ago.
The Orange committee and Beaumont
committee met at the latter place Sun-
day and agreed to act jointly in enter-
taining the congressional rivers and
harbors committee.
The party of excursionists at Tort
Arthur look a trip to 1 J ?
bine Pass Saturday. amjLals,q oucmi the
gulf. Tli_ey left Monday night for Kan-
"'sas City, by way of Beaumont and
Houston.
The merchants of Alvin have laid in
a large stock of garden seeds, and are
selling quantities of them to gardeners.
Several hundred bushels of wax beans
nave arrived and will be planted dur-
ing the next month, as this is one of the
leading spring crops at that place.
The weather in Bastrop county is re
markable for its many changes these
days, but the farmers are getting their
ground plowed all right. Meanwhile
a. general desire is expressed for more
rain. Saturday evening it rained slow-
ly and gently
Austin, Texas.—The house Tuesday
morning killed the Sunday law bill,
which was up for debate
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Bay City Breeze. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 18, 1897, newspaper, February 18, 1897; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1329928/m1/2/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.