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Dr. Tobin is having a new and beautiful soda fountain put in at his drug store. Over a decade ago Dr. Tobin furnished the population with a delicious soda, the superior quality of which gave it a state reputation. He was the first to introduce one of the modern, beautiful and costly fountains to the citizens of Austin, and the refreshing beverages drawn from it were so eagerly sought after that for hours during the hot summer afternoons two young men were kept busy serving the heated, panting customers. His drug store was then in the building on the corner of Sixth street and the Avenue, now occupied by Charlie Cortissoz’ famous crystal, and THE STATESMAN reporter often witnessed dozens of people waiting their turn to be served with sparkling soda. You can imagine the business when you know that the doctor found it impossible to make change and was forced to issue soda water checks.

The question of transportation to the drill grounds is the most serious matter that stares the city in the face when she contemplates the thousands upon thousands of people who will crowd Austin to overflowing in May. The Central railroad will run its line to the drill grounds, but will not be able to handle one-half the people. Omnibuses and open vehicles of all kinds will be put into requisition, but with this supplement the railroad cannot accomplish all that is to be done. It is recognized that Dr. Tobin, in recent and long extensions of his street car tracks, his assumed heavy responsibilities and has perhaps, all the carrying traffic he can attend to. But it seems absolutely necessary that the line should be extended to the drill grounds. Negotiations looking to this end have for some time been pending between him and the drill board, from which it is hoped a decision, favorable to the drill project and creditable to our city in her efforts toward guarding the comfort of our visitors, will result. As the line will hardly be a profitable one after the drill, Dr. Tobin hesitates alone to incur the risk of making a great outlay of money, when the possible contingency of a bad week would make such expenditure a loss to him. The location of the base ball park contiguously to the drill grounds lessens such a chance of utter failure of a return from his investment, and a bonus in addition to that guarantee will persuade Dr. Tobin to construct the desired line. There is no question about it, such a means of transportation must be secured, and, if necessary, concessions all around must be made to locate and build this street car line for the convenience and comfort for our guests in May.

Both arrests have been made at the instance of County Attorney Barnhart, who asserts his determination to rid the city of such women and break up their calling. He will prosecute the women mentioned in this article to the full extent of the law, and if they carry out their threats, and there is no doubt but what they will, Rome will fairly howl, so to speak, and there will be much anguish abroad in the land.

Yesterday morning the Statesman gave an account of an attempt to suicide by R.C. Darnette. Yesterday he was much better and had almost entirely recovered from the effects of his terrible dose, which he informed his brother he did not take for the purpose of killing himself, nor did he take any strychnine at all as was reported by his physicians. It seems that on Monday last he had one of his hands badly injured at the capitol, and the intense and constant pain led him to take morphine, and on Tuesday he says he purchased of the drug at Dr. Tobin’s and took a dose, but it not relieving him he concluded to take more and calling Mr. Isbell, they entered a saloon where he purposed to take the morphine in a little whisky, but inadvertently emptied the entire contents of the vial into the glass and drank it off, he being slightly intoxicated at the time and not fully comprehending the danger.