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SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1922 TWO A ME AUSTIN STATESMAN KILLING OF BALLEW REMOVES PICTURESQUE CHARACTER (Continued from Page 1.) action .45 pistol. He "fanned" the trig ger as he drew and discharged each shot. Ballew is: said to have carried a commission from the governor of Oklahoma authorizing him to bear arms as officer of an anti-motor car theft association formed by Garrett after his ouster several months ago as sheriff. Final funeral arrangements had not been made early this morning, but it was expected would be buried in a little cemetery near here beside his father and son. Bellow, was 1877 born and in Fannin to the county old Indian Territory as a youth in 1890.

-BALLEW RIDILED; HIS GUN NEVER LEFT ITS SCABBARD WICHITA FALLS, Texas, May Chief of Police J. W. McCormick was the cynosure of all eyes here today. For yesterday matched speed with the famous master of guncraft, D. M.

(Bud) Ballew, and won. As a result, Ballew, survivor and hero of many perilous situations. is mourned by admiring friends who thought him virtually invincible; and for the first time in his McCormick police service is entitled to a long his gun for having killed notch oIl a Yesterday's affair, with some occurred varia- in tions, might well have Chief of Police McCorearly days. had word that was bemick disorderly fashion in an having Ohio Avenue. soft drink parior.

He investigate, He walked up went and charged him with drunkto Ballew demanding that he hand over enness, This was a demand with his pistol. which Ballew was apparently not acto comply. With the concustomed Ballew, according to eye wittemptuous remark "Hell, you're out o'luck," reached for his gun but Menesses, sensing that it was the gun's rather than the gun that BalCormick contents him, flashed his lew intended to give into view and fired, continown gun fusillade until five shots uping the It was a had entered Ballew's body. .38 against a .45 and the former won. fact, never left its holThe latter, in ster.

McCormick was immediately arrestunder bond of $10,000 ed and Ballew's body was placed aboard and taken to his late home while a nairplane Ardmore, the scene of many at of his daring exploits. of Ballew removes from The passing southwest one of the few remainthe ing figures typical unique and fearless of the pioneer the law and sheriff whose methods of enforcing, ap- the made him hero of many fiction stories prehending to Wichita Falls to Ballew had in come the annual Southwestact as judge ern cCormick's record as an officer round- up. contrast to that of 1s something of a a Ballew. this was his first has small reputation as 'gunman' and When 8 member of the ing." ranger force, McCormick fields was assigned their to "clean the days here He arrested oil during most gamblers and alleged "bad men" lawless many reputation for being cool and also served with the had a and fearless. He when war threatened between rangers claimants to oil Texas in and the Ped Oklahoma River bed two years of his work in this lands ago.

As a result chief of posection he was selected as Wichita Falls less than a lice for month ago. BALLEW'S SLAYER DENIES HAVING RECORD AS 'KILLER' By Associated Press. WICHITA FALLS, Texas, May E. M. "Bud" Ballew, former deputy at Ardmore, who was sheriff here yesterday by Police Chief killed W.

McCormick. was the first man J. to die at McCormick's hands. Reports that aBllew's slayer had perviously killed a number of men are denied by the chief and by those who know his personal history. About two years while serving on the ranger force ago, in this county, McCormick shot a man during raid in the oil fields, but did inflict a serious wound, and that, he says, is the cnly shooting previous to that of yesterday, he ever participated in.

All four of the bullets that struck Ballew's body entered from the front. The hole in the back of Ballew's head was caused by a bullet emerging from the skull after it had entered the left eye. Witnesses agree that Ballew faced his slayer throughout the shooting. "I fired twice at his body," said Chief McCormick this morning, "and when he did not fall, the theught flashed through by mind that he might have a breast plate, so I fired at his hedd." Chief McCormick is not related to Mary McCormick, the Texas girl who has achieved some fame in operatic circles. He came to Texas several ago from Fort Smith, Ark.

He years appointed chief of police here on was April 1 18, resigning as sergeant of the local company of state rangers. J. W. McCormick, chief of police at Wichita Falls and former sergeant in the State Ranger force, had a perfect record during his service as a ranger, nearly two years, according to Ranger Captain Aldredge in charge of the headquarters company at the capitol. The office records show that he did not kill a person while a ranger and shot only one, that being in selftense.

The man, a bootlegger, later recovered, Captain Aldredg- said that McCormick is a "fearless, upright man and in every word a gentleman." Other members of the ranger force in the office also praised him both as a man and an officer of the law. He had never killed a man up to the time he enlisted as a ranger, according to Captain Aldredge's information. MeCormick enlisted as a ranger first on March 27, 1920. He was later discharged and re-enlisted again. The last time he -enlisted he was made a sergeant and discharged on April 22 of this year to become chief of police at Wichita Falls.

THE TRAIL OF DEATH AS DESCRIBED BY ONE BY E. C. GAINES, "The report that this cyclone passed by Camp Mabry, Deep Eddy and then drifted east through Travis Heights and from there by St. Edward's and Penn Field, is a mistake. There were two distinct cyclones.

I was in a position to positively know this: and see both at the same time. I can not tell you where either one originated, but I can clearly describe that part of the actions of each in and about Austin, "My wife had phoned ma noout a rather angry looking cloud that WA9 forming in the northeast, but I had assured here that hard winds never came from that direction in the spring, although there might be some hail. "I had gone down in front of T. H. Williams Co.

to close up my car, and noting the boiling of the cloud, which was then nearly overhead and a little to the east, I decided that it was an unusual cloud and would probably be a hail. I went into Griffith'3 and again phoned my wife that I believed there would be hail and to close all blinds. When I came back near iny car a small bunch of people on the corner of Fifth and Congress were looking west, and when I joined them immediately discovered a cyclone due west from Fifth street. It was then in the air, but appeared lowering and drifting rather O1 south" southeast. "My home is the place known as Elmhurst, about 800 yards due east of end of the car line in Travis Heights.

I jumped into my car and raced for liome. Hail was beginning to fall. As I crossed the Congress avenue bridge the cyclone in the west was plainy visible, and was at that moment apparently just south ef Deep Eldy, alternately rising and dipping, but 40- ing rather southward as it appeared. Just at this moment I happened to look down the river and saw the other cyclone crossing the river, sapp.se, but it appeared to be to be forming about the center of the stream at a point just below where Bouldin Creek empties into the rive: and about even with the near entrance to Travis Heights- an angry black cud. thin and fringed about the edges, extent from the surface of the water several hundred to.t into the air an at times twirling itself more than at others- -entirely separate from anv other clouds, and being thin, long and stringy looking.

In the river it looked and acted very much like a large whirlwind. At first it came southwest and passed onto the bluff near the entrance of Travis Heights. then stopped my car with the engine going and ran onto the porch of the rock store just across the bridge. There we observed this cyclone enter Travis Heights, go first toward the south or southwest. traveling very slowly, and trees and parts of houses flying in the air.

At times it would become almost transparent and appear about to dissolve, when suddenly it would seem to gather new force. When the twirling movement I would set up it seemed to grow denser, larger and darker, and large pieces of debris, apparently parts of houses, would fly high into the air. "Just at this stage I could see it straight in direction of my hoine, appeared to turn, southeast and head and if it wag going to get my wife and baby I wanted to be in it, 50. I jumped into my car and headed for home down Riverside Drive. "As I passed through the debris on Riverside Drive the cyclone was going the hill near the Nalle home.

As up I approached my front gate the people living near -men, women and children- were running north on Summit street and told was headed straight for my "house. I raced for the house, believing cyclone was the same thing, and the cook doing being out for the evening and no one but my wife and baby there, grabbed them and a couple of blankets, jumped into the car and headed back to a point that could put us behind the track of the cyclone. "As we came back toward town. this had turned southwest just becyclone fore it reached the east side of Travis Heights and was traveling in the direcof Et. Sdward's College, while at tion the same time we could distinctly see the other cyclone then on the horizon, several miles a little west apparently of south from the center of the city.

"I do not know the tracks of these I two have eyelones described, before, or the after physical the period facts will show they took the courses described near Austin and that the one on the west was not on the ground Austin a8 much as the one that near passed through Travis Heights, St Edward's and Penn Field. SYMBOLIC PAGEANT STAGED ON CAMPUS Hundreds of Interscholastic Leaguers were yesterday evening privileged to witness the staging of, perhaps, the most beautiful ceremony ever performed on the University campus--the Bluebonnet Chain ceremony in which the majority of the Varsity coeds participated. This ceremony, symgreat, bolic of the passing if this year's class of Senior Girls into the world beyond the campus, was made more beautful by their passing on to the girls who shall remain this June the heritage of learning, typfied by the Torch of Learning: a heritage which has been carefully guarded by the class of 1922. Between tightly packed ranks of white clad girls of the undergraduate classes, drawn up on either side of the Main South entrance to the University, the Senior on Girls passed to the world beyond. And as they passed they were enveloped in the protecting links of the massive and beautiful Bluebonnet Chain, carried by the girls of the undergraluate class.

In the presentation of the torch of learning to Miss Nelle Collins, presilent of this year's Cap and Gown, the senior organization for girls, to be passed on by her to the Junior class representative of Cap and Gown, President Robert E. Vinson, of the University. said: give to you this charge, pass it on to you that you may kindle afresh- -go that it shall burn more brightly and more beautifully and then you mission to the world has been fulfilled." After receiving the symbolical torch from Dr. Vinson, Miss Colling passed it on to Miss Ardis Dean Keeling, the newly elected president of the Cap and Gown Society for 1922-23. "BOYS WILL BE BOYS!" I KNOW A PLACE: JIM 3 SHERIFF ON pushnell, FREESTONE MOB TAKES VENGEANCE FOR GIRL'S LIFE (Continued From Page One.) they were finally, cremated on the strength of testimony.

After the third negro had been burned a crisp, all three bodies were piled together and a mass of fuel and oil flung over them. This was ignited, the flames soaring twenty-five or thirty feet into the air. At an early ing fiercely with the prospect that the hour today the flames still burn- bodies, would be burned to ashes. The mob rapidly dispersed, and as day dawned there were only a few persons remaining to witness the aftermath of the triple cremation. The three negroes were' employe on I the farm of J.

T. King, prominent farmer in this community and grandfather of the dead girl, with whom lived, both parents being dead. Mr. King was present at the cremation. The lynchings were carried out It There was was reported, no discharge however, that the negroes were mutilated before being tied to the stake.

The incinerations took place on a small open plot directly infront of two small churches. 1 One of tht negroes is said to have died singing a church anthem. Kirvin is a town of about 500 inhabsituated in Freestone county, in itants, East Central Texas, about eighty miles south of Dallas. Miss Awsley wits riding her horse home from the school which she tended, several miles from Kirvin, late Thursday, when she was attacked. Her body was later found near the road with twenty-one knife wounds inflicted in the head, neck and chest.

News of murder spread quickly, and later Thursday 8 band of several hundred men from Freestone and I Limestone counties and a large sheriff's posse was scouring the neighborhood. Curry wag arrested when his wife told officers he had come home with his clothes covered with blood on the night of the murder. Curry was taken to Wortham and imprisoned in a bank for safekeeping. A mob gathered about the bank last night and threatened to storm the building, whereupon officers spirited the prisoner through a rear window and started with him in an automobile toward Mexia, apparently en route to Waco. About thirty automobiles started in pursuit, and the officers' car was overtaken between Wortham and Mexia.

As resistance seemed useless the prisoner was surrendered. Jones and Varney had previously been arrested on suspicion and placed in the county Jail at Fairfield. This is the first lynching in Texas within the recollection of present day residents. I When the funeral pyre finally died down this morning nothing but ashes remained of the three bodies. Curry, the alleged confessed slayer of Miss Awsley, is understood to have told his captors that Jones and Varney and himself had planned the crime since last January.

The original plan was to assault two other women as well as Miss Awsley on the same day and in rapid succession, Curry was quoted as having said. He did not say why the plan failed. Varney and Jones asserted their innocence to the end. According to farmers living near the scene of the murder, Miss Awsley's screams were heard twice on the evening of the attack, some twenty-five to thirty minutes apart. They paid no attention to the cries, believing some child was being chastized.

Officers here said this seemed to init dicate the girl was held captive nearly thirty minutes by the negroes before she was killed. Ringworm. One bottle Imperial Eczema Remedy is guaranteed to be enough for any case. All druggists are authorized to refund your money if it AUSTIN AMONG LEADERS FOR FIRST HONORS IN ALL- STATE TRACK MEET Elimination rounds in all athletic and literary events of the University of Texas Interscholastic League meet were completed Saturday and found Austin High well represented the survivors for the semiamong finals and finals for the closing events the meet be staged this afterof With two men placed in the noon. finals for the track and field events, stands a good chance to win Austin cup, while in the literary Austin third-place in senior mention declamation.

was Other honers appear to be pretty well divided among a large number of the schools represented at the meet. Keeble Is Star. High School's star track and Austin field performer, Captain Mac Keeble, by qualifying for. the finals yesterday 120-yard high hurdles, the 220- in the yard low hurdles and the running high ju has an excellent chance for capturing all-State honors in the "Interscholastic League the will reeled off final this afternoon on Clark Field. Keeble, however, Chas formidable opposition, Wilson of Honey Grove, a brother of the famous "Punt" Wilson, Texas Agcaptain, is an athlete of gie football great form a and fight, and the Capital lad will have to be in great fettle City this afternoon if he piles more points than does the Honey Grove entrant.

In yesterday's preliminary and semi- final track and field events, in which 600 athletes participated, the over pace was the fastest and most strenJudging from the way in nous yet. which the boys were stepping out yesterday in the qualifying events, there should be a number of State Interscho. lastic League records broken this afternoon. Walton of Bronte, competing in class school events, broke the State record for his, class by sprinting fifty yards in 2-5 seconds- one-fifth of a second faster than the old record. Among the class A schools, Forrest Avenue High of Dallas, Austin, Brownsville and Honey Grove appear to the four schools which will fight it out for the handsome silver loving cup te be awarded to the championship school.

Austin only qualified two men for the finals Keeble in the and the high jump, and Seahurdles, the shot put. However, it the other schools split the points just right, Austin may bring home the big cup with only its two-man team. Among ciass schools, Bronte, AlFloresville and Trou pare the four vin, favorites for the State title. In Walton, Bronte has a sprinter of great speed and determination, and this man well be the deciding factor in the may winning of the cup by Bronte. Tennis Matches.

By running off the tennis matches, wtih all possible speed, the officials in charge of the net play have been able to narrow down the Boys' Doubles Competition to the final round; the Girls' Doubles to the semi-final round; the Boys' Singles to the semi-final round and the Girls' Singles play to the semi-finals. In the Boys' Doubles division the prettiest play of the tournament, tus far, was exhibited this morning. The Waco High School combination of Bush and Smith, played great tennis and emerged victors, in straight sets, at 6-2, 6-4 over the Llano team, made up of Wallace and Ammann. The Waco team by its win over the Llano aggregation has won the right to meet the Wichita Falls team of Powers and Haynes in the finals which will be played this afternoon. This morning, the Wichita Falls team defeated the Sulphur Springs' BROTHERHOOD DECLINES TO ADMIT COLORED MEN AS MEMBERS By Associated Press.

DALLAS, Texas, May proposal to strike from the -laws of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks the word "White" thus opening admission to membersnip other color, was defeated at the convention of the Brotherhood today. The question of referendum and recall was debated and tentatively incorporated in the by-laws. When the noon recess was taken the question under consideration was wether Grand grand executive board should be elected at large or from the separate and distinct groups which make up the brotherhood. TEXAS NEWS BRIEFS FORT WORTH, Texas, May bodies of unidentified flood victims recovered last night and this morning. The body found last night in the receding waters of Sycamore Creek was that of a white woman.

Decomposition and the absence of cloting made identification almost impossible. The body found this morning was that of a baby. The known death list is now ten. FORT WORTH, Texas, May Junior Collegiate Athletic Association will abandon district meets and hold annual state meets hereafter, S. E.

Davis of John Tarlton College, president of the association, announced following a meeting of the association in Fort Worth Friday. The move, it was decided, will mean bigger meets. WACO, Texas, May Owen Pool, 18, of Waco, a Baylor student, drowned this morning in the swimming pool at Spring Lake Club, five miles out. Two couples were in swimming and only a few minutes had elapsed when Pool sank and drowned before he could be rescued. WICHITA FALLS, Texas, May More than 400 mothers, with a sprinkling of fathers and visitors, attended the monthly meeting Ward School Home and School Council here.

The Alamo mothers claim this is the largest attendance of members at regular parent-teacher club meeting ever held in the state. pair of Willis and Hurley in 8 great three set match. By greater steadiness the the Wichita Falls ness in the pinches, the Wichita team won at 6-1, 4-6, 6-2. When Wichita and Waco teams take the court, this afternoon, the prettiest, doubles match of the tournament bound to ensue. In the Boys' Singles, John Barr, the outstanding player of the tournament from Oak Cliff High, Dallas, will meet in the upper half of the draw Bartlett of Eustace.

The winner of the Bartlett- Barr match will play the winner of the match between Bush, of Waco, and Willis, of Sulphur Springs for the State Interscholastic League tile. Barr, because of his hard-hitting, wellrounded gme, is the decided favorite to win the singles title. Play in the Girls' division has been equally as brilliant and hard-fought. In the Girls' Doubles, Josie Probst and indois Riggs, of George, West will meet in the semi-finals Jacksboro team, of Elizabeth Garner and Bernice McConnell. The winning combination of this will then meet the finals the victor of the Pecosmatch.

Pecos High will represented by Ellen Coon and Josie Prewit; while Helen Jackson and Lucile Goodwin will represent Plainview. In Girls' Singles, Mildred Ferguson of ('leburne will this afternoon meet Gazelle Williams of Sabinal to determine which of the two girls will play for the title against the winner of the Nocona- Abilene contest. Abilene is represented in the singles by Ida Hoghland; and Dorothy Peterson plays for Nocona. Bellaire School, Eventsuston, broke Literary all existing records when the students of the school won four awards in the rural declamation division of the Interscholastic meet. The final contests were held last night in the University Methodist Church, and a large and enthrsiastic audience applauded the many excellent boy and girl declaimers.

The final contests in the class A declamation contests were held in the University Baptist Church and were as equally fought and interesting as the contests in the rural declamation division. The results of the rural school declamation is as follows: Senior girls' rural declamation: Katherine Roberts, Bellaire School, Houston, first place; Lucile Porter, Naples, second place; Gladys Day, Knox, third place. Junior girls' declamation: Katherine Fewell, Bellaire School, Houston, first place; Eva Townsend, Adamsville, second place; Louise Vick, Violet, third place. Senior boys' rural declamation: Allan Mason, Shallowater, first place; George House, Bellaire 'School, Houston, second place, and J. C.

Briscoe, Luling, third place. The winners in the class A school declamation contests were: Senior boys' class A declamation: Charles Spiner, Edna, first palce; Donald Gray, Ferris, second place; Sidon Harris, Austin, H. B. Crisswell, Bryan High School, Dallas, and Avery Evans, Timpson, for third place. Junior boys' class A division: Fred Couper, Wichita Fails, first place; Asa Campbell, Seguin, second place; Elmer Watson.

San Saba, third place. Senior girls' class A division: Myrtle Williams, Abilene, first place; Vivienne Navasota, second place; Wichita Falls, third. Junior girls' class A division declamation: Ora Mae Taliferro, Denton, first place; Evelyn Stamps, Sterling City, second; Leora Simmons, Leonard, third. ELROY WANTS HIGH WATER BRIDGE OVER TURBULENT ONION CK. Matter Is Discussed From Various Angles At Meeting of County Commissioners.

The citizens of Elroy are eager to have the county commissioners' court evolve some plan whereby a high water bridge of steel or other permanent material may be built across Onion creek, according to discussiong that have occurred at the county courthouse recently. The county commissioners are, however, up against the proposition of digging up necessary funds for such an undertaking and have so explained to the Elroy representatives. Of course, the question of a bond issue hag obtruded itself, as it usually does in discussing such matters, and although there seems be no strong opposition against a bond issue if same is needed, the question of how much of a bond issue should be considered is the vexing problem. Generally speaking, Austin representatives and business men who have been approached relative to the Onion' ereek bridge proposition are inclined to favor a bond issue, recognizing the need of such a structure, but they are not altogether clear as to the amount of said bond issue. There is a sentiment, or rather it has been proposed or suggested, that a $1,000,000 bond issue would not be too much, and it is pointed out by men experienced In bridge building that money spent on inaedquate structures across Onion creek would be money thrown in the ditch and the interest would have to be paid just the same.

Taxes, of course, loom large in the estimation of Elroy folks and adjacent territory as a menacing proposition, but it is also understood that taxes must be paid, matter whether Onion creek is bridged or not, and that if a real bridge, high or water structure is built and Elroy taxpayers are thus given a chance to get in and out, the money spent will be well spent, and something badly needed 1 in the way of a bridge will prove to be a satisfactory return on the investment in the way of service to the entire community. All these matters were discussed, and after the matter had been cussed and discussed from all angles, it was agreed to hold another conference Saturday afternoon, when it is hoped that some concrete proposal will be sub-1 mitted ag a basis to plan definite accomplishment. Obituary: H. D. ALLEN.

H. D. Allen, 77 years old, died at the Confederate Home late Friday. The funeral was held at 9 a. m.

Saturday and burial was in the State Cemetery, Mr. Allen was born in Mississippi in 1845 and came to Texas with his parents the following year, settling at Junction, Texas. Upon the outbreak of the war between the states he enlisted in Lane's Texas Regiment, which belonged to Tom Green's Brigade. He was admitted to the Confederate veterans' home February 19, 1922. Spanish, Mexican or Barber's Itch.

One bottle Imperial Eczema Remedy is guaraneted to be enough for any case, any kind. All druggists are authorized to refund your money it it DEATH LIST IN TORNADO DEFINITELY FIXED AT 12 (Continued from Page One.) ceived for use in supplying the immediate wants of those made homeless by the tornado. Duplicate in Death List. With the dead in Thursday's tornado here definitely set at twelve persons, seven white and five negroes, and the known Injured at forty-six persons, a check of the storm's human toll is complete. Although it had been previously reported that thirteen had been killed, a later check revealed that Ben Roberts and Dan Roberts, negroes, both reported dead, were one and the same.

A check of the property loss incurred in and about Austin as a result of the storm confirms the earlier estimate of $725.000. Of this the largest single contribution is the loss Woodward Manufacturing Company, where it is estimated that proximately $100.000 worth of the $400,000 plant may be salvaged. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon for the five victims of the tornado which struck at Oak Hill. These were John Thompson. Mrs.

Alta Thompson, wife of John Thompson; Thompson, mother of John mother of Mrs. Thompson: and Thompson; Mrs. John, Bargsley Miss Ada Bargsley, daughter of Mrs. John Bargsley. The three Thompsons were buried at Oakwood Cemetery, while the Bargsley women, mother and were buried at Longview Cemetery, near Manchaca.

Arrangedaughter, ments for the burial of Doris Gail Padgett, 18-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Padgett, both injured in the storm at Penn Field, have not been completed.

The body of Anhas to Port Arthur for drew Mediront: St. Edward's College, burial. Minnie L. Harper, 10-year-old negro girl of St. Elmo, will be buried today at Buda, while Daniel L.

Roberts, negro workman of Penn Field, buried at Liberty Fill. S. Scales, negro, and his niece, Laura Russell, both killed at Manchaca, and Maria Kinchion, elderly negro servant of the Bargsley family at Oak Hill, will be buried here Sunday. Summary of Losses. Tabulation of the property damage (estimated) at the various places hit by the tornado follows: Woodward Manufacturing Company, St.

Edward's College, State School for Negro Deaf, Dumb and Blind, Deep Eddy and vicinity, Travis Heights, $9000: East Austin, $7500; Oak Hill, $500; and other scattered places, $5000. Injured undergoing treatment at the various hospitals of city were reported improving steadily Saturday morning, recovery of even the worst injured is considered certain by attending physicians. That a number of the less seriously hurt will released from the hospitals today was the information gained from authorities. The work of salvaging the wreckage left by the storm was being pushed Saturday and work of reconstructing damaged residences in East Austin and Travis Heights and camps in the Deep Eddy neighborhood was being begun. EDITOR CHARGED WITH MURDER By Associated Press.

DURANGO, May charging R. O. Day, editor of the Durango Democrat, with the murder of William L. Wood, city editor of the Durango Herald, was filed in the district court here today. Day shot and killed Wood on Main street here the morning of April 24 last.

AUSTIN WINS FIRST GAME FROM HOUSTON; SECOND IS TIE AFTER 16 INNINGS After winning from Houston by a score of 2 to 1 in the first game of a double-header, Austin High School was held to an 8 to 8 tie in the second game which was called at the end of sixteen innings. Both games were exhibitions of fast baseball. As a result of the morning's play, Austin and Houston have now won one game each, Houston recently taking a game from Austin when the locals made a trip to that city. TEXAN, MISTAKEN FOR BURGLAR, SHOT TO DEATH BY BROTHER-IN-LAW By Associated Press. TERRELL, Texas, May for a burglar, C.

K. Shaw, 39, of Lawrence, was shot and instantly killed last midnight in the home of his brother-in-law, Emmett Seigler, three miles north of Lawrence, according to Seigler. Shaw, who is survived by a widow and four children, was visiting the Seigler home and left the house during the night. Upon his return, Seigler said, he mistook Shaw for a burglar land shot him with a shotgun. Local Cotten Exchange.

NEW YORK COTTON. Previous Open. High. Low. Close.

Close July 18.67 18.73 18.55 18.69 18.78 Oct. 18.80 18.92 18.70 18.83 18.89. Dec. 18.85 18.92 18.73 18.84 18.93 Jan. 18.76 18.80 18.68 18.70 18.80 May 19.39 19.39 19.22 19.30 19.55 NEW ORLEANS COTTON.

Previous Open. July 18.15 Oct. 18.10 Dee. 18.13 Jan. May 18.00 High.

Low Close. Close. 18.25 18.07 18.23 18.25 18.32 18.10 18.29 18.29 18.29 18.12 18.25 18.24 18.25 18.10 18.24 18.17 18.16 18.00 18.16 18.15 SPOTS (MIDDLING). New York 19.55 'New Orleans 18.12 Galveston 18.30 Houston 18.15 Dallas 17.73 Austin 17.22.