Eagle Pass Guide. (Eagle Pass, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 31, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 31, 1894 Page: 4 of 8
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SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1894.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
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of the Twin Cities and tributary country,
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vituperative or unchaste communications.—
THE EDITORS.
Aftei two years of approxi-
mate trial, the people of New
Zealand have abolished all taxes
on improvements.
The unemploved army pass
over millions of fertile untilled
acres that should be a demand
for their labor, but are not, be-
cause speculators hold them out
of the market “ for a rise.”
The foolish fight over the in-
significant seignorage bill is an-
other nail in the coffin of dead
Democratic pledges for tariff re-
form. Every true Democrat
•should seek to galvanize these
pledges into life.
President Cleveland has vetoed
the Bland coinage bill, both be-
cause it is so badly worded that
no one seems to understand its
meaning, and also because, in
the president’s opinion, its pro-
visions are not in line with pro-
per financial policy. He thinks
that it is the duty of the United
States to keep its paper dollar
worth 100 cents gold, and that
the increase in the quantity of
gold notes (printed on silver or
paper) which this bill provided
for, would endanger the ability
of the treasury to maintain the
various notes outstanding on a
parity with gold. Such being
his views, his only honorable and
manly course was to veto the
bill, and, as all who know him
expected, veto he did. It is very
unfortunate that this bill should
have been offered just now—un-
fortunate alike for the Demo-
cratic party and for the country
at large. It cannot but still fur-
ther delay the enactment of
needed tariff legislation on which
the safety of party and country
alike so much depend. The pres-
ident labors under the curious
error that the panic and suc-
ceeding hard times were due to
the silver dollars and certificates
issued under John Sherman’s
stupid law of 1890, and would
restore prosperity by eliminating
the distrusted coins; just as the
manager of a railroad, passing
through a rainless region, whose
predecessor had ballasted the
track in places with cubes of
cannon powder, might, after a
section had been blown to atoms
fired by a cigarette stump
dropped from a passing train,
seek to rebuild the demolished
section by prohibiting the smok-
ing of cigarettes on all trains!
The president’s opponents com-
mit the equally silly blunder of
attributing the “hard times” to
a lack of silver dollars; so that
there is really no choice between
their policies—except that the
president does not wish to put
a premium on counterfeiting.
But while the battle of kites and
crows proceeds the real needs of
the country are neglected; the
pledges of the party are violat-
ed ; and the hard times are in-
tensified by the unsettled condi-
tion of the tariff.
The Guide is pleased to note
that the real danger lurking in
the coinage of forty-six-cent dol-
lars is beginning to force its true
meaning upon the financial lead-
ers in congress. Observant peo-
ple outside have long noted with
regret the premium on counter-
feiting that these Bland-Sher-
mad dollars offered. Now even
Mr. Sherman himself sees this.
It appears that a private mint
in Omaha has been openly coin-
ing such dollars, paying46 cents
for the material, and at a nomi-
nal cost, turning out genuine
Bland-Sherman dollars. Some
of the senators claim that the
statutes provide no penalty for
this lucrative but demoralizing
business, and want it prohibited
by the immediate enactment of
a penalty ! Yet no mere penalty
can prevent the illegal minting
of Bland-Sherman dollars so
long as silver remains as cheap
as at present. The law must
also provide for the detection of
the coiner, and this would be
almost impossible. The sena-
tors’ cure for the trouble is trivial;
but it is gratifying to note that
the existence of the trouble has
at last made itself known to
them.
It is a lamentable but true
that the business world finds no
expression of its interest in
really honest money on the floors
of congress.
Mexican News.
A letter from Peto, Yucatan,
says that on the 15th. instant
the arched roof of the parish-
church fell in. Fortunately, there
were no accidents to life and
limb but the incident is espec-
ially regrettable since the church
was a sort of fortress on the
outskirts of civilization and has
often been used as a place of
refuge and defense on the ap-
proach ot the Chan Santa Cruz
Indians.—Ex.
During the month of Febru-
ary 34,680 bales of he-
nequen weighing 12,382,746
pounds were exported from Pro-
greso, Yucatan. The average
price obtained was 51/2 cents per
pound or a total of $681,051.03.
The distribution of the fibre was
as follows:
To New York..........19,776 bales
4 t
Boston...........
... 9,262
4 4
4 4
Mobile............
... 2,003
“
4 4
Liverpool.......
... 1,600
4 4
4 4
Havana..........
... 611
4 4
44
London..........
... 514
4 4
4 4
Hamburg........
314
4 4
4 4
New Orleans...
... 900
4 4
Total...........
...34,680
4 4
The Tiempo says that Sunday
afternoon a young man in uni-
form entered, in company with
two women, a Peralvillo street
car, bound for the races. The
man in the uniform began to
beat one of his female compan-
ions, and she as vigorously re-
plied. The conductor interfered;
but the young fellow, who was
disgracing his uniform, answer-
ed the peacemaker with blows.
Then some indignant Americans
in the car rose up in their wrath
and put a quietus to matters by
knocking the young bruiser silly,
so to speak. All the actors in
the drama were consigned to
the police station.—Two Repub-
lics.
The column commanded by
General Luis E. Torres has thor-
oughly scoured the mountain of
Bacatete, which has long been
the place of refuge of the rebell-
ious Yaquis. Notwithstanding,
that all the Yaqui fastnesses
were visited, no Indians, nor
traces of them were seen. It is
believed that the rebels have dis-
persed and mingled with the
pacific members of the tribe in
the surrounding country. This
is the first time on record that
the Yaqui rebels have been driv-
en from their fastnesses, and
while it is not known what pre-
cautions have been taken to pre-
vent their return, it is to be sup-
posed that the Yaqui trouble is
at an end. The rebels have at
no time within recent years been
very numerous, but, owing to
the protection afforded them by
the Bacatete mountain, they
have been able to make raids
into the surrounding country,
thereby rendering both life and
property insecure. Hence one
of the most fertile and attrac-
tive sections of the whole repub-
lic has till now remained thinly
settled and almost wholly un-
productive. The campaign of
General Torres will probably
inaugurate a new and prosper-
ous era, not merely for the Ya-
qui country, but for the whole
state of Sonora.—Two Republics.
The inhabitants of the pic-
turesque and quiet little town of
Coyoacan are greatly exercised
over the arrest of three of its
leading citizens, one of them
being the venerable and learned
priest Father Violante, whose
recognized piety and profound
wisdom have created for himself
a large circle of influential friends
in Mexico City, and whom, it
would not be amiss to say, en-
joys the distinction of being the
religious adviser ot prominent
society ladies. The motives
which led to the arrest of the
civil judge, Father Violante, and
a member of the board of aider-
men of Coyoacan, was the sup-
planting of the matrimonial re-
cords in the books of the civil
registry of that town. The
ostensible object of the offense
was with a view of fraudulently
recording the marriage of Mrs.
Lorenza Flores with Mr. Manuel
Violante who died on the 3rd
day of May last year. The
dates of two other minutes were
also falsified in order to make
the dates correspond with that
of the document which has
caused the trouble. Just what
connection the parties arrested
are suspected of having with the
torged entries, is not yet made
public.—Two Republics.
The stock ranch of Pedro San-
chez, about fifty miles west of
Durango was the scene of a des-
perate affair between a band of
brigands recently and a force of
employees of the ranch, led by
Mr. Sanchez, who made a telling
resistance. The outlaws were
expected, as they were known
to be in the neighborhood, and
when they rode up to the main
residences on the ranch and de-
manded money the strong guard
of laborers opened fire on them.
The robbers were taken com-
pletely by surprise and two of
them killed, but the remainder
rallied very quickly and returned
the fire, killing one of the rench
hands and wounding three. The
fight was kept up for three hours,
and finally the bandits were
driven from their position, and
sought refuge in the mountains,
leaving four killed and five
wounded. Mr. Sanchez was
slightly wounded.—Ex.
—West Texas was the scene of an ex-
traordinary demonstration this week.
An army of unemployed men, mostly
from California, under charge of one
“General” Frye, boarded the Southern
Pacific freight trains at El Paso, and at-
tempted to compel the train crews to
carry them to San Antonio. When the
trains reached a desert place, Findlay,
where the unemployed could get nothing
to eat, the trains were tied up by order
of the general manager. Rangers were
then called upon to keep the trains clear
of the illegal riders, and it seemed as if
the fellows would be starved to death.
Governor Hogg, hearing of this, ordered
the rangers not to interfere, and wrote
the railroad manager a sharp letter,
taking the position that as the com-
pany had brought this burden of unem-
ployed men into the state, it was clearly
its duty to take them out again. Yet
as the fellows rode on the cars without
the company’s permission, there is no
law by which the company could be
forced to continue the free ride. But it
might be interesting to enquire just why
the company chose Texas for the scene
of starvation. Why were these men
carried across California, across Arizona
and New Mexico to be “dumped” on
Texas ? As to the abstract question, of
course these unemployed, being landless
proletarians, have no legal right to live
in the country except on suffrance of the
owners of the soil; yet when it comes
to the practical wholesale starvation of
those who can or will make no terms
with the proprietors, it may be difficult
to induce broad-minded men like Gover-
nor Hogg, who still cherish the ultra-
democratic ideals of the earlier day, to
take an active or even a passive part in
the execution of the inexorable laws,
when the concrete result is apparent
wholesale legal death.
West Texas Items.
The country in the vicinity of Turkey
creek, where Mr. D. M. Edward’s apiary
is located, is in such bad condition that
he is obliged to move his bees, and is
bringing them nearer town, locating
them east of here. Without good rains
apiarists will make but a poor crop
owing to the freezing on Sunday and
Monday nights. Had it not been for
this there would have been a very good
bloom in some places, as the bushes were
putting forth buds. It looked for a time
as if the beemen had a sure thing on
making a crop, but it now appears
otherwise.—Uvalde News.
On last Saturday night fears of a frost
in this vicinity were entertained, but
were dispelled on Sunday morning.
However, on Sunday night it was made
up for with a severe frost, followed by
another one still worse on Monday
night. What damage has been done it
is impossible to say at this writing, but
it will probably prove a severe blow to
bee-keepers, and early gardens will suf-
fer. Trees were rapidly putting forth
their leaves, and stock could have sub-
sisted well on the shrubs for a few weeks,
but probably this is put to an end by the
frost.—Uvalde News.
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Mining Machinery and Supplies.
Pipe, Fittings, Valves, Packing, Shovels,
Picks, Sledges, Ore Sacks, Crucibles, Etc.
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The Morgan Crucible Co., London.
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Neat Fits Guaranteed. Monterey, Mex.
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Cars pass within 60 feet of it. Fresh
OYSTERS AND FISH
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EAGLE PASS, TEXAS.
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Mining and Topographical Surveys fot
Mexico.
Estimate 3 and Plans for Buildings
Bridges, Waterworks, etc.
Correspondence solicited in English,
Spanish, German and French,
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Teran Street,
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