NOTES AND FRAGMENTS

August Santleben, author of A Texas Pioneer (reviewed in The Quarterly, XV, 91), died at his home in San Antonio, September 18, 1911.

Mrs. M. Wheeler, Treasurer of the Texas Division, U. D. C., died at Victoria, December 15, 1911.

Thomas Scurry, former Adjutant General of Texas, died at Dallas, December 17, 1911.

Andrew B. Briscoe died at San Antonio, January 28, 1912.

Captain Sam B. Barron died at Palestine, February 2, 1912. Captain Barron's home was Rusk, where he had lived since 1854. He was the author of The Lone Star Defenders: A Chronicle of the Third Texas Cavalry, Ross' Brigade.

Judge James H. Robertson died at Austin, March 2, 1912.

A sketch of the life of the late Senator Walter Tips, written by his friend, Dr. H. L. Hilgartner, was printed in the Austin Statesman, January 21, 1912.

A description of the Southern soldiers' monument to be erected at Victoria, and unveiled June 3, 1912, was printed in the Houston Post, December 9, 1911, page 8.