The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 198, Ed. 1, Friday, February 19, 1897 Page: 3 of 4
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THI-DAILY -HERALD.
Issued Every Day Except Sunday)
THE OFFlGiAiTeiTY 0568
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FRIDAY FEB. 19 1897.
ABOUT TOWN.
The examination of county school
teachers began yesterday.
The Alice mail stage passed El
S&uz at 9 1 15 a. m. with one pas-
senger. The steamship Clinton sailed from
Galveston lor this port yesterday at
4 p. m.
The soldiers of troop G will give
ja ball at the Artillery huilding on
next Monday night.
The new circus company gave its
first performance last Bight. They
do some pretty fair work.
Bids for the position of county
physician will be opened at the
county clerk's office tomorrow.
- With a circus going in Matamoros
and another in Brownsville the
circus-lovers of the Twin Cities are
-j-strictly "in it."
Found : A small pistol with ti worst-
ed Cover. Owner can have same by call-
er ing at this office and identifying same
and paying for this notice.
Judge Itussel was suffering from
an attack of grip today and court
- ;was adjourned until tomorrow no
business being transacted.
A Interest continues to grow in the
approaching football contest be-
tween the cavalry and infantry
teams. It will be an exciting game.
Invitations for the fancy dress and
masquerade ball were issued yesterday.
They are very neatly gotten up having
'the propram 6i dances on the second
page. Notice is given that none but
those In faacy costume will be allowed
to dance until after midntght.
The pupils ot the public school of
Hidalgo have a treat in store for
them their teacher Miss Alice
Dougherty having made arrange-
ments to give them a lawn party on
the afternoon of Washington Day.
The entertainment will comprise
- recitations songs and instrumental
music with refreshments adlibitumf
Though" a few tender garden plants
perished in the freeze of the latter part
of Tanuajx-jt our cityi gardens present
ippearance. r lowers are
blominsr abundantly ofAnsre trees are
still laden with ripe fruit. The vegetable
vendors in the city market have daily an
abundance of lettuce radi&h s cauliflow-
er collards cabbages turnips eschal-
lols etc. Truly this is the paradise of
gardeners.
Matamoros is expecting shortly to
receive an official visit from Gov-
ernor Guadalupe Mainero the ablo
jexecutiye in Tamaulipas. Consid-
ering the fact that this distinguish-
ed visitor is a son of the Heroic
City one whom Matamorenses have
loved to honor it is to bo expected
that they will give him a most bril-
liant reception. Something splen-
did in the way of public entertain-
ment will doubtless be tendered
him.
PURELY PERSONAL.
B. li.CairUeft on this morning's
M- & M. train to resume his travels
&b a commmercial tourist.
Frank Babb came in yesterday
from his Santa Maria plantation and
went out later to San Tomas.
Mrs. John Glosner and daughter
Miss Mamie left today for their
home at Hidalgo after pendingsev-
eraLdays visiting relatives.
Bev.'Leandro Garza y Mora re-
turned Wednesday to his homo in
Matamoros after an absence of sev-
eral weeks attending the general as-
sembly of mission workers in MeM-
co. which was recently held in Mex-
ico Citv.
rlff-Wash Shely loft on this
morning M. & M-. tram .Tor JJio
" -Grande City having enjoyed several
days in Brownsville where .he is a
universal favorite. Mr.Shely parric-
"jtpated in tlie railroad meeting last
evening and heartily endorsed the
present move promising to do all in
hi
power toaniLrest Starr county In
IEEI1IC
OF LEADING
. CITIZENS.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE
WHICH DRAFTED
PETITION TO LEG-
ISLATURE HEARD AND ADOPTED.
Cameron County Prays For A Con-
stitutional Amendment Whereby
She Can Issue Bonds to Se-
cure a Railway. Other
Counties Invited to Aid
In The Move.
MIXUTES OP THE ilEETHTG.
Biownsville Texas Feb. 18 1S97.
The meeting was callod to order
by the chairman Capt. William
Kelly who suggested the election
of a secretary. Upon motion of G.
M . Raphael Jno. I . Kleiber was
elected secretary.
The chairman then stated the ob
ject of the meeting; namely to re-
ceive the report of the committee
which was appointed at the previous
meeting to draw up a petition to the
state legislature for the passage of a
joint resolution to submit to the
vote of the people of Texas an
amendment to the Constitution of
the Stateauthorizing conn ties which
are without standard guage railway
connection to issue bonds or other
evidence of indebtedness for the
purpose of aiding in securing the
construction of a standard gauge
railway furnishing the desired con-
nection with the general railway
systems of the state ; and to draft
such joint resolution embodying
the proposed constitutional amend-
ment The report was handed to
the chairman who read the petition
and proposed amendment to the con-
stitution and then announced that
the subject was open for discussion.
The report was 0 iscussed at length
Messrs. G. Raphael Win . Kelly J.
B . Wells F. Yturria and others ad-
dressing the meeting upon the sub-
ject. TTpon motion the report was
adopted Upon motion duly se-
conded and carried Messrs. Kelly
Raphael Yturria and Dalzell were
added to the committee.
It was moved and seconded that
Messrs. Jas. J3. Wells and Chas. H.
Maris be empowered to present the
petition to the Legislature and urge
the adoption of the i)roposed con-
stitutional amendment. The motion
was carried.
It was moved and carried that the
county judges of different counties
that which are without railway con-
nection be notified of our action and
invited to meet the committee at
Austinand add theirinfluence in se-
curing the proposed legislation ; also
that copies of the proceedings of this
meeting be forwarded to the said
county judges.
Moved seconded and carried that
a report of the proceedings of this
meeting and the report of the coni-
mitleej togethar with the petition
and proposed constitutional amend
ment be published in the Browns-
ville Daily Herald.
The meeting then adjourned sub-
ject to cail of the chairman.
WlLELOL 3 ELLV
Attest: Chairman.
JhoxI-Kleibeu
Secretary". "-
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To fheXegislature of the" Slate of
Texas through our Senator Hon.
3ih-A. Aflee and our. Rupresenta
lives F. "W. Seabury" and James
IL-Edwaids J- z T "
GkeetuJg : -
Yoni jmtifioner.s "who are!
holut fideinhaldunks of the Jaiale of
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of Cameron therein respectful!?
represent :
1. That the County of Cameron
has a geographical area of 3308
sguare miles is approximately of &
miles in length from north to south
and 50 miles in breadth from east to
west. Its population by the census
of 1S90 is placed at 13424. We be-
lieve its present population to be
15000.
2. It is possessed of the valuable
natural feature of a frontage on the
Rio Grande river of 150 miles nav-
igable the entire distance.
3. It embraces within its confines
an immense area of land suitable
for agriculture notably the produc-
tion of sugar and cotton as has been'
and is demonstrated and which
lands are unrivaled in fertility
yield and susceptibility to irrigation
by any others in this state. A large
section of its are a northward of the
Arroyo Colorado is conceded to be
the finest cattle breeding territory
in the United States.
4. Its vital need is railway con
nection with the transportation sys
tem of the United States through
the trunk lines of Texas that it may
market its products and obtain stable
pricss therefor; transport its cattle
and possess the facilities of bringing
skilled agriculturists to its fertile
lands that are now comparatively
f;n
411 iC7.
5. It is one of the tier of frontier
counties where absence of rail way
lines entails a heavy burden of ex-
pense in the enforcement of the law
through its constabulary and the
important fact exists that tho border
protection given by it is a bulwark
of safety to the whole state.
6. Your petitioners have made
their homes here for tho last ten
and some of them twenty and some
of them for thirty years and they
now feel impelled to ask relief
through the legislature of the State
of Texas by submission to the peo-
ple of Texas of a proposed change
of the organic law of this state
which now forbids counties from ex-
tending aid to railways by lending
their credit or granting public mon-
ey or other thing of value thereto.
7. Your petitioners respectfully
submit herewith and ask its consid-
eration and passage a proposed
change of Articlo 3 Section 52 of
the Constitution of Texas and whicl
in its broadest signification is a per-
mission to tax themselves in aid of
their needed railway connection.
Its adoption cannot affect or add to
tho tax burden of any other part of
the state than the actual localities
or counties that avail themselves of
the privilege by direct vote of the
people.
JOINT RESOLUTION.
To amend section 52 of Article III
of the Constitution of the State of
Texas.
Section-1. Be it resolved by the
Legislature of the State of Texas
that Article 3 Section 52 of the
Constitution of the State of Texas bo
amended so as to hereafter read as
follows:
'.'Section 52. The Legislature shall
have no power to authorize any
county city town or other political
corporation or subdivision of the
state to lend its credit or to grant
public money or thing of value in
aid of or to any individual associa-
tion or corporation whatsoever or to
become a stock-holder in such cor-
poration association" or company
except within the limitations of this
section. It shall be lawful for any
county in this sta.e which is not
now or may hereafter not be con-
nected by a railway of standard
gauge with tho general railway sys-
tems of the state to ivo aid by and
throngh its corinnifesioners court by
the is-ue of bonds of such county
or other evidence of indebtedness
in the construction of a standard
gauge railway or railways into
through or across any such conutf
u hen by a vole of the majority of
the qualified voters of any such
xinunty voting at an election held
for that purpose Such aid is author-
ized. "And the power and authority-is
hereby expressly gi en to tho com-
missioner court of such couutC
where by such vot6 aid is au-
thorized to levy and provide for t ha
collection of an aunu.il tax upon all
nvmiii rV -wri1ii-f 1t lri.i??Art ?v t?r.li
county to pay interest and sinking
fund on said bonds or other indebt
edness provided that the aggregate
of said tax in any such county
shall never in any one year exceed
the value of two per centum upon
the taxable value of such county.
"Full power is hereby given said
commissioners court to at any time
order and in all things provide for
and regulate such election and the
holding return and determination
of the same and prescribe the form
of the ballot to be used.
"All bonds or other evidences -of
indebtedness issued by any such
county under the provisions of this
section shall before being deliver-
ed negotiated or floated be approv-
ed by the attorney general of this
state and thereupon the comptroller
of this state shall register tho same
and ondorso tho fact of such registry
on said bonds or evidences of in-
debtedness." the matamoros
railroad.
Important Meeting Last Night.
A $12000 per Mile
Subsidy..
The meeting called by the Cham-
ber of Commerce and property own-
prs of ilatamoros at tho muni-
cipal building in that city at eight
o'clock last night for tho purpose of
meeting Stato Representative Dastu
gue to conforregardingtho proposed
extension of the railway to connect
Matamoros with Monterey was duly
held.
Mr. Benevendo president of the
Chamber of Commerce called the
mooting to order and stated its ob-
ject. Mr. Dastugue having lived
many years in Matamoros did not
require an introduction. lie ad-
dressed the meeting in an eloquent
yet business-like manner defining
his position as representative and
his appointment by the governor to
obtain data necessary for the exten-
sion of tho M. & M. railway from its
present terminus at San Miguel de
Camargo to Monterey. lie said in
part:
"I hae visited the cities of Cerralvo
Mier Camargo and now Matamoro-
for the purpose jf obtaining some assist-
ance in building a line of railway from
San Miguel to Monterey. The promoters
do not want any bonus but the certainty
ot selling the necessary number of 6har&
to complete the road to Monterey. This
concession is subsidized by the federal
government Avith $5000 for every kilo-
meter of the road built. Tire state gov-
ernment also has subsidized it with
$2500 per kilometer which makes $7500
per kilometer or almost Si2ooo per
mile. While in Monterey I met Gov.
Reyes of Nue o Leon. He assured me of
his assistance and that the state would
take shares in the same line as Tamauli-
pas $2500 for every kilometer built for
the entire distance."
The chair appointed a committee
composed of M. H. Cross Guadalupe
Fernandez LorenzoGaribay and Mar-
celino Eougier Mr. Cross as chairman j
to solicit contributions by selling stock
atSlOO per share and to report as
soon as possible.
A good many shares of stock were
taken by those-present and the mee -ing
adjourned with every prospect of
a successful is3ue.
Up to three o'clock this afternoon a
considerable am mnt of stock had been
aole. There remains no doubt that
Matamoros will he connected with
Monterey within a year or &o
Mr. Distugue returned to Monterey
this morning heing cilled there by
business co-mected with the proposed
road.
Toe chamber of commerce will re-
port to the city council and later to the
o ernor.
ACHING JOINTS
Annonnce the preeuce of rheu-
matism which causes untold suffer-
ing. Rheumatism is. due to lactic
acid in the blood. It cannot be cur-
ed by liniments or other outward ap-
plications. Hood's Saraaparilla pu-rifie-
tho bloodremoves the cause of
rheumatism and permanently cures
this diseases. This is the testimony
of thousands of people who once
suffered the xains- of rhemnatisiir
bat who have actually been cured
by taking Hood's Sirsaparint. Its
irroat power to act upon the blood
and remove evefy imparity is the
secrefof the wonderful cares by
IfoodVoarsapariila.
Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder f
TWENTY-FIVE YEAllS IN "
UNCLE SAM'S EMPLOY.
Tcday marks the twenty-fifth an-
niversary of the day on ff Inch G. W.
Watson entered tho employ of the
United States customhouse in
Brownsville in the capacity of mes-
senger. Twenty-five years is a long time
to serve in any one position and
more especially in the employ of
the government whose great army of
servants is subject to change with
every change of political supremacy .
The fine qualities displayed by tho
subject of this article his laithfnl
discharge of his duties and the gen-
oral favor with which his superiors
have regarded him have been in-
strumental in retaining "Watson" as
he his generally called in hi3 po-
sition . Though a colored man born
of slave parents he is a man of more
than average intelligence and one
of the most gentlemanly officials
ever employed in this customhouse.
Everybody in Brownsville like3 and
respects "Watson." Uncle Sam is
fortunate to have the services of one
so competent and faithful.
We are pleased to add in conclu
sion that he is a most valued sub
scrmer 01 hie herald ana nas Deon
biuco me iounumg 01 me paper over j
four years ago and our bill collec-
tor has never failed to find him at
home on tho first of every monlh.
CELESTINE J A GO
. Commission Merchant
IMP0ETEE OF
Wines - Liquors
-AKD-
1 ab e uixune
DEALER IN THE BEST BRANDS OF
Sporting Goods Shot Guns Pistols Rifles and Ammunition.
A COMPLETE STOCK OF THE FINEST IMPORTED AND DOMESnO
Wines Cognac. Gin Ale Cigars Pure Olive Oil Mineral Watter
and delicacies of every description 8lwa3'8 on hand.
JirTrorapt attention given to all Orders by Mail or otherwise.
FAMILY TRADE SOLICiTED-
ELCZABETH STREET
M.
-DEALER IJSf-
UMBER BLINDS AND DOOR.
STORE: One block from Rio Grande railroad depot.
Lime Cement and Brick Carriage-
Wagon and Building Mater
ials Hardware Paints Oils Tur-
pentine and Varnishes for Oar
riages and Buildings.
Agent for John Finnegan & Co
Will pay the highest cash price for
hides skins and al country pro
duce
BLOGMBEM
WHOLESALE
Dry Good Staple Goods Boots Shoes and (iroceries.
HII Kinds Hats taps Shirts and Drawers lotions and hd htm
All European goods kept in onr Matamoros Bouse
gptfail Orders Pi 01111 tly Attended To.
rownsville
J. S. & M. H. CROSS
irUOIuESJtl.E' HEALERS IJT
Dry Goods Boots & Shoes
Winchester arms and
Ammunition.
Fire nd Marine
Insurance
POLICIES
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Gladness Comesi
With a better understanding cf ths
transient nature of the many phys-
ical ills -which vanish before proper ef-
forts gentle efforts pleasant eif orts
rightly directed. There is comfort in.
the knowledge that so many forms of
sickness are not due to any actual dis-
ease but simply to a constipated condi-
tion of the system which the pleasant
family laxative Symp of Figs prompt-
ly removes. That is why it is the only
remedy with millions of f amUies and ia
everywhere esteemed so highly by all
who value good health. Its beneficial
effects are due to the fact that itis the
one remedy which promotes internal
cleanliness without debilitating th
organs on which it acts. It is therefor
all important in order to get-its bene-
ficial effects to note when you par-
chase that yon have tho genuine arti-
cle which is manufactured bv the Cali-
fornia Fig Syrup Co. only ana aId by
all reputable druggists.
If in the enjoyment of good health
and the system is regular laxatives or
other remedies are then not needed. If
jfflirfjsf$ TtMfh anxr arvfrnal disease ona
i may be commended to the most skiiiiui
pnysicians dui ix in uceu ui a. laAawf
one should have the best and with tha
well-informed everywhere Syrup of
Figs stands highest and is most larjjely
sed and gives most general satisfaction.
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