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Today in Texas History

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August 03, 1898
the Colorado County Feud began.
This murderous quarrel between rival local factions was ignited
when Larkin Hope, a candidate for county sheriff, was shot and killed
by an unknown assailant. Jim Coleman, a family friend of Sheriff Sam Reese,
was immediately suspected. He was never charged.

August 03, 1915
Aniceto Pizaña escaped a gunfight with Texas Rangers
at his ranch north of Brownsville and
became a full-fledged revolutionary.
Pizaña was born in Cameron County about 1870.
He met Ricardo Flores Magón in 1904 and with
Luis De la Rosa helped formed the Floresmagonista movement to redress
the injustices done to Mexicans on both sides of the Rio Grande.
In Brownsville Pizaña helped to form a branch of the
Mexican Liberal party

August 04, 1941
W. Lee O'Daniel resigns his governor's post to become a senator;
Coke Stevenson replaces him.

August 04, 1970
Hurricane Celia batters the Texas coast near Corpus Christi,
bringing wind gusts up to 180 mph. The storm kills 11 in Texas and injures 466.

August 04,1836
At her home in Alabama, Mary Ann Adams married Samuel Augustus Maverick.
The couple divided their time between Alabama and Texas until 1838,
when they moved to San Antonio.
In Texas Samuel had already been involved in the Texas Revolution
and served as a delegate to the Convention of 1836.

He became a leading land baron--the term "maverick,"
denoting an unbranded calf, derives from a herd of his cattle--and legislator.

August 04, 1942
The United States government signed the
Mexican Farm Labor Program Agreement with Mexico
as a temporary, war-related measure to supply much-needed workers during the early years
of World War II, the bracero (Spanish for "arm-man," or manual laborer)
program continued uninterrupted until 1964.
During the first five years of the program, Texas farmers chose not to participate
in the restrictive accord, opting to hire farmworkers
directly from Mexico who entered the United State illegally.

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Today's Texian Headline News

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COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT PROMOTES
FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN HIS COUNTRY

The fate of a Tyler police officer accused of using excessive force
against two illegal immigrants is now in the hands of the
Smith County district attorney, who will present the case to a grand jury.

Shadow box on display at island library

Ex-GISD police chief sues district

Heat, low oxygen cause fish kills on coast

Deputy fired in police interference case

Gag order lifted in resisting-arrest case

Court rules against city in beach lawsuit

Lake Austin almost clear of hydrilla

Barton Springs Pool closed

Statewide property tax proposed to break school funding stalemate

Water plant could become new library

Man indicted for child porn

A former church leader was sentenced to 30 years in prison
after he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting three boys
he met through the church.

Senators announce bare-bones school funding plan

40th anniversary of Voting Rights Act

Jury Reaches Verdict In Teacher's Sex Trial

Officer's Widow Berates Husband's Killer

TXU May Seek Another Rate Increase
Energy Company Posts $375 Million Profit In Second Quarter

Illegal Dumping Causing Health Problems

Therapy dog lost in Hillsboro

Fatal Tire Accident Follow Up

A Local High School Tries to Get Rid of Violence

Police Warn East Texans To Watch Out For Man
Impersonating An Officer

Community Excited About Largest Freezer In Texas

Convicted Killer Scheduled To Die

Charges Dropped Against Animal Cruelty Defendant

Judge had alcohol, drug in his system
(And they want another pay raise? To pay for the drugs- I presume!)

Deliveryman finds 2 bodies bound with duct tape

A different approach to fishy test scores

New CPS policy protects mothers' identity
Agency says it won't try to find women who give up infants
under Baby Moses law

Crime lab inquiry at a standstill

Plan would bring endangered minnows to Texas

Water: Researchers Seek Ways to
Make the Most of a Limited Resource

Researchers Find Ways to Turn Manure into Power
(Would this include Comptroller Strayhorn's Speeches?)

Record Keeping Goes High Tech At Beef Short Course

Enjoy the Tastes of Summer
Without Worries of Foodborne Illness

Texas singles spammer was wrong, court rules

Odessa, Texas, Hospital Gets Unexpected $9.6 Million

Back To The Drawing Board For Texas School Finance

A $70 Million Gift To Halliburton?

Former Ambassador Urges U.S. Officials
To Leak More Memos

How to Avoid a Transit Strike in Austin, Texas

Texas Man Stabbed on Chapline Street

Bad Lands Now Hot Property

University of Texas had right to block spam, 5th Circuit rules

Forum, exhibit explore the many flags of Texas

Numbers don't add up to go insurance route

Pecans replace cotton as top cash crop

Man to stand trial for 1979 rape

Child molester sentenced to needlework
Man says he didn't do it

Cables to replace some I-20 concrete barriers

"Dr. Phil" show renewed for five years

Longlea (1932-1966):
The Alice Glass and Charles Marsh years