Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 189, Ed. 1, Friday, February 9, 1906 Page: 1 of 4
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BROWNSVILLE DAILY HERALD.
VOL. XIV .NO 189.
BROWNSVILLE TEX4.S .FRIDAY FEBRUARY 9. 1906.
SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS.
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If You are Free to Buy
Farm Implements and Hardware
When and Where You Want to
Write or See
E. H. CALDWELL
Corpus Christi Texas
His Catalog No. 10 Price $1.00
Tells all About it
C. F. Elkins. I.L. B
A. B. cole. LL. B
fit
PROMPTNESS cAND LIBERALITY
erchants'
OF BROWNSVILLE
Capital Stock $100000.
OFFICERS
E. H. GOODRICH President
JOHN McALLEN Vice President
J. G. FERNANDEZ Cashier
DIRECTORS
John McAUen Jose Celaya L-T. P.yoi
Miguel Fernandez Jr.
E. H. Goodrich O. C. Sauder I. C. Fusandea
E. A. McGARY Assistant-Cashier.
WHY ?
Send off and get factory
saddles when you can
buy cheaper and better
ones made by z
Hy. B. Verhelle
MsitatacJurtr ol SiJdlt? and Harness
REPAIRING A SPECIALTY
TOILET SUPPLIES $
Our stock of toilet necessities was never more complete than
now. The first time you come to our drug- store ask to look
uot'be in tfeed WILLMAN'S PHARMACY SSvffi
moment -Wv.. but it will con
the
ice you mat Phone 40. Mail and Phone Orders we can serve
you better than PrortplI Altended To & anyone else.
We are doing: everythinff in
our power to make this the best and most convenient drug
store for you to trade with. Special messenger service.
EXCURSIONS ffi FOUNT 3SABEL
Every Sunday at. the Following Rates
For Round Trip 1st Class
For Round Trip 3rd Class 1
Regular Fare Week Davs
-Si.OO Mex.
50c Mex.
75c Mex.
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For accommodation of hunters trains will stop and let
passengers oft and pick them up on return trip by
arranging with conductors. This is a pleasant and
inexpensive trip. Everyone should go to Point Isabel
where there is
BOATJNG FISHING HUNTING
Fish Dinners. Unsurpassed Within the Reach of All.
G. T. PORTER.
ELKINS & eOLE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LaW
Will practice in all courts. State and Federal.
Special attention riven to land and ab-
stract business. Will do collecting
Office Ovrr Boticadel Acuila. Combes Drue Store
QUARANTINE BILL.
Texas Members Do Not Approve of Pian
Which Will Take Control of Borders
from States.
DR. C. H. THORN
Dentist
jfT"Office opposite The Herald.
TELEPHONE 51
Brownsville Texas.
F. W. Seabury
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Rio Grande City Texts
Will practice in the District Courts of
Starr Hidalgo Zapata and
Webb Counties.
E. H. GOODRICH SON
....MANAGERS....
Cameron County
Abstract Company
Choice Lands and City Property.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Tl'XEO AND REI'AIKEIl
Piano Action Work a Specialty.
Keeps on hand piano
Strings and felts.
GEORGE KRAUSSE.
Residence on Levee St .
Union Bakery
John Thielen Manager
Bread Biscuit Cakes Etc. Made
From Choicest Brands of Flour
Elizabeth Street Brownsville Tex
Burt E. Hinkley
Notary Public
Brownsville Undertaking Comp'ny
Phone 123
WHITE ELEPHANT
SALOON
V. L. CRIXELL. Proprietor.
First-class Liquors Wines
Cigars. Polite Attention.
Market Square Brownsville. Texas
Wholesale
Groceries
Cheap for Cash
Celaya Building.
D. B. CHAPIN
TIT 1 . t- t ft.
I uaMiiugion reoruary 5. ine
(members of the Texas delegation
j in congress unanimously went on
record today in opposition to any
legislation affecting the existing
status of quarantine matters. A
mec ting was held at which after
the election of Representative
Stephens as permanent chairman
and Representative Garner as sec-
retary the appearance of a decided
sentimtnt against any change in
present conditions was brought
out.
It is realized that there is con-
siderable influence in favor of the
bill framed by the subcommittee of
southern senators and representa-
tives however and it'vas the sense
of the meeting that if nev legisla-
tion seems to be unavoidable the
Texas members shall do everything
in their power to have it so arrang-
ed that the national government
will not have the right to in any
way interfere with the operations
of a state government regarding
quarantine except on the express
invitation of the governor of that
state.
Senator Culberson is a member
ot the subcommittee referred to
but as has already been stated in
these dispatches he refrained from
attending any of its meetings be-
cause of his oppossition to new leg-
islation of any kind.
Am I The Man?
If there is a chance to boom
business boom it. Don't be a knock-
er help abit. Get a smile on you
hold up your head. Get hold with
both hands then pull. Bury your
hatchet drop your tomahawk and
hide your little hammer. When a
stranger drops in tell him this is
the only town in which to live
and it is.
Help yourself along and push
your friend with you. Soon you
will have a procession. Be a good
fellow no man ever helped himself
by knocking other people down.
No man can ever get rich by try-
ing to make other people believe
he is the only man on earth. You
can't climb the ladder of fame by
stepping on other people's corns.
There is no end of fun in minding
your own busisess. And it makes
people like you better. It is bet-
ter to have other people get stuck
on you than to get stuck on -vour-self.
Nobody likes a knocker so
don't be one. Be good for some-
thing. Prosperity.
Rainfall and Temperature.
ATTORNEY-AT LAW
HIDALGO TEXAS
Constantinc Hotel
W. A. FITCH Proprietor
Traveling men's trade solicited.
Free sample rooms are provided
Nothing too good for our guests
if to be found in the market..!
Corpus Ch'H.
Texas
JAMES B.WELLS
cAttorney
at Law
Successor to Powers & Maxan
Towers & Wells Wells & Rentfro
Wells Rentfro & Hicks Wells &
Hicks Wells Stayton & Kltbtrg '
I buy and sell Reai Estate and
investigate land titles. A complete
abstract c. all itles of record in
Cameron County Texas.
Practice in all state and federal
courts when especially employed.
Land Litigation and corporation
practice.
Rafael Gutierrez
... CARPENTER ...
Will work by the clay ux-ek month or b7
Contract.
Orders may be !elt m John W. Hoy '
Following is the maximum and
minimum temperature and the rain
fall for the first nine days of the
month as recorded at Fort Brown:
Date. Mar. Min.
1 r.67 55
2 67 ..54
6
69..
73
70
3S
44.
57
9 60 at 11:45. ...
Total rain 0.92 inches.
44
54
34
34
33
32
37
Weather Report.
New Orleans Feb. 9. Tonight;
fair continued cold. Frost in su-
gar and trucking- district probably
heavy Saturday morning. Satur-
day fair slightly warmer; light
northerly to easterly winds.
Clink.
Pointed Paragaphs.
Sherman Register.
When a man is too busy to be
happy he is to be pitied.
Economy' is the road to wealth
and it's a hard road to travel.
A ton of"5oal now is better than
two tons of granite hereafter.
At the age of 60 a man may not
look to be more than 40 I.ut
what's the u-e?
THEY CAN NOT VOTE
An Opinion On Humble Poll Tax Case.
Law Cited by Attorney General's
Assistant.
The attorney general's depart
ment has handed down an opinion
on the questio:. of whether a tax
collector has the authority to issue
a poll tax reciept upon an affidavit
that was taken by a person who
was not a duly authorized deputy
of the tax colledor on January 31
1906. before the midnight hour
but not turned into the office of the
tax collector until February 2 two
days after the time for paying the
poll has closed mention of the case
being made in Sunday's Post.
The ruling of the State's legal
department is that the tax collect-
or is not authorized under the law
to issue poll tax receipts taken upon
affidavits under the above circum-
tances. It appears that the trouble arose
over the taking of forty-three affi-
davits at Humble of persons who
desired to pay their poll tax by an
agent who was not a duly author-
ized collector. All of the affidavits
were taken by this agent before
midnight of January 31 1906 but
they were not turned into the office
of the tax collector until February
2.
Mr. Claude Pollard the assis-
tant attorney general who handed
down the opinion says: "The
law requires that those persons
paying their poll tax through an
agent shall authorize the agent in
writing to pay same. This agent
with his written authority must
appear before the tax collector of
the county in person and pay the
poll taxes of the parties who au-
thorized him to do so. He must
appear before the first day of Feb-
ruary and his failure to do so will
prevent the parties from receiving
a poll tax receipt such as will en-
titlerthem to vote." Houston Post.
NO LONG NOTICE.
Special Session of Legislature Expected
In April and Governor Will Probably
Give Short Notice.
Austin Tex. Feb. 7. It is-not
expected that Governor Lanham
will issue his call for the proposed
special session of the Legislature
very long in advance of the actual
meeting of that body.
The opinion which was express-
ed some time ago that the session
would be convened some time be-
tween March 15 and April 7 still
holds good. This will give the gov-
ernor ample time in which to pre-
pare any message that he may de-
sire to submit to the lawmakers
and will also be late enough prob-
ably for the higher courts to have
passed finally upon the new tax
laws that are now before them for
determination as to their legality.
It is said that a majority of the
members of the Legislature favor
April as the month for holding the
special session.
Musical insects.
Toward the close of the month
of May and the beginning of June
a very curious sight may be wit-
nessed at Tokio. There one may
see suspended under the verandas
of houses beautiful little cages of
bamboo from which break upon
thenar strange little metallic whist-
lings or light trills wliich fill the
air with delicate music.
These musical sounds are emi;-
ted by certain insects.
Listening to these minute sing
ers has been for many centuries a
j favorite pastime of the Japanese.
The most prized of these hini;
I insects is the suzumushi. Its name
j means "insect bell" and the souua
j which it emits resembles that of a
j tiny silver bell. It is a small black
! beetle with a fiat body and very
' common appearance.
A DISCRIMINATION.
Proposed to Tax all Railway Property in
Arizona and New Mexico.
Washington February 5. A bill
for the taxation of all railway
property in Arizona and New Mex
ico according to the same plan
under which other property in the
Territories was taxed was intro-
duced in. the house today by Rep-
resentative Hamilton of Michigan
chairman of the house committee
on Territories. The bill provides
that railways shall be subjected
fiat rate of $175 a mile in Arizona.
This is estimated to be equivalent
to the changed system of taxation
after January 1. At present the
Santa Fe railroad pays an annual
to what the regular Territorial tax
would be on a valuation of $5000
a mile. In New Mexico the Santa
Fe pays on a valuation of about
$4000. In both Territories the
Southern Pacific on a. valuation of
about $7000 a mile. These same
lines are said by members of the
house committee on Territories to
pay in California and Texas of
valuation twice as -great as those
used as a basis for estimating their
taxes in the two Territories. The
alleged discrimination in favor of
the railways has been one of the
chief arguments advanced in the
support of the joint statehood bill.
Substantial Handshakings.
It was years since in the Ozark
region where I was riding a
circuit that I saw a minister en-
joy a most substantial handshak-
ing says a write in the Globe-
Democrat. Shaking hands was
his peculiarity. He believing the
potency of a cordial grasp to win
men to the church but though
successful in winning souls he
was very unfortunate? in the mat-
ter of getting dollars. In fact
poverty continually stared him iu
the face. He owned a little farm
and mortgaged it as long as it
would yield a dollar. The mort-
gages were falling due and there
was no prospect of paying them
but it did not bother him a bit. He
shook hands more heartily than
ever.
"I have unbounded faith in
handshaking to bring everything
out right" he often said until
his penchant came to be the talk
of the town. At last came the
day when the mortgages must be
foreclosed that would deprive him
of the little home that sheltered his
family.
On the eve of that day a knock
at the door of his house which
was a little way from town called
him. When he opened the door a
whole crowd rushed in and with-
out saying a word commenced
shaking hands. He felt some-
thing cold in thepalm of the first
man and when the hand was with-
drawn it stuck to his own. "That
is the most substantial handshake
I ever experienced." he said as
he held up a $5 gold piece. But
the next man stepped up and a
silver dollar was left in the preach-
er's palm. No one would say
a word in explanation but pressed
in on him as fast as he could stick
the metal and hills into his pock-
ets. The house was not large
(enough for the visitors each of
(whom deposited from $1 to $10 in
! the outstretched hand. Each left
fthe moment his little errand was
! accomplished and not a word
; could be had :n explanatien ex-
cept the last one who as he turn-
:ed to go remarked: "We wanted
to play a little joke on you. and
we have." The several "jokes"
netted just S87S. His home was
: aveil and a neat balance was left
besides
Export manifest blanks for a!e
at this o&ce.
For Piano Players.
Mr. A. Nordman from San An-
tonio is here to tune and repair
pianos and also selling new pianos.
S-n; nrd-rs to Miller hotel it once.
2 9 3t.
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