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BROWNSVILLE DAILY HERALD.
VOL. XV. NO 35.
BROWNSVILLE TEXAS MONDAY AUGUST 13 1906.
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ATTORNEYAT LAW
HIDALGO TEXAS
F. W. Seabury
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Rio G-ande City Texas
Will practice in the District Courts of
Starr Hidalgo Zapata and
Webb Counties.
DR. C. H. THORN
Dentist
JF"Office opposite The Herald.
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Brownsville
Texas.
WHITE ELEPHANT
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First-class Liquors Wines
D"gars. Polite Attention.
Market Square
Brownsville. Texas
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(vce and skill into the prescription he writes. It is an order
for a combination of remedies which your case requires. He
.linot rely on the result unless the ingredients are properly
crpounded.
Be fair to your doctor and to yourself by bringing your
; rescrsptions here. They'll be compounded only by registered
p harmacists who are aided by the largest stock of drugs in this
I art of the state. Everything of the finest quality that money-can
i :?.y or experience can select.
J. L Putenat & Bro.
Hy B.Verhelle
SADDLE & HAR- fi
NESS MAKER . . .
Repairing a Specially.
BROWNSVILLE TEXAS.
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....MANAGERS....
Cameron County
Abstract Company
Choice Lands and City Property.-
Union Bakery
John Thielen Manager
Bread Biscuit Cakes Etc. Made
From Choicest Brands of Flour
Elizabeth Street Brownsville Tex
Laulom&Simo.
DEALERS IN
Fine Wines Liquors and Cigars.
The Best in the Land.
Always Ready to Accomodate Visitors.
Information as to Boats Etc.
Cheerfully Furnished.
Point Isabel. : : : : Texas.
INFAMOUS OUTRAGE.
Negro Soldier Invaded Private Premises
Last Night and Attempted to Seize
a White Lady.
FOR SALE
High Grade Durham and Here-
ford Bulls Cows and Heifers.
Reasonable Terms Delivered.
ADDRESS
P. S. Waterwall Rockport Tex.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
TCN'ED AND REPAIRED
Piano Action Work a Specialty.
Keeps on hand piano
Strings und felts.
GEORGE KRAUSSE
Residence on Levee St.
J AMIES B. WELLS
o4ttorney
at Law.....
Successor to Powers & Maxan
Towers & Wells Wells & Rentfro
Wells Rentfro & Hicks Wells &
Hicks Wells. Staytoii & Kleberg
I buy and sell Reai Estate and
investigate land titles. A complete
abstract c. all titles of record in
Cameron County Texas.
Practice in all state and federal
courts when especially employed.
Land Litigation and corporation
practice.
. Last night about half past uine
o'clock Mr. and Mrs. Lon Evans
having just returned from a day's
outing on the Mexican side of the
river. Mrs. Evans preceded her
husband home from the ferry on
horseback leaving him to confe
afoot with a friend. -Arriving at
Her home which is at the Leahy
pottage on 14th-street Mrs. Evans
entered by the side gate and went
to the back steps leading the horse
with the intention of loosening the
saddle girths. She leaned forward
to lay her hat on the top step and
just as she turned a man rose sud-
denly from behind the steps and
grabbed her by the hair jerking
her from the steps and throwing
her to her knees on the ground.
Fortunately she still held the
bridle reins and the horse startled
so suddenly stepped away quickly
jerking her to her feet.
Mrs. Evans meanwhile screamed
leudly and Mr. McLean whose
family resides in the same house
came running to the scene but not
in time to see Mrs. Evan's as-
sailant who fled over the back
fence while Mrs. Evans over-
come by fright fell fainting to the
ground.
The light was shining brightly
through the back doors of the
house and Mrs. Evans saw pjainly
that the man was a negro dressed
in a soldier's uniform. By the time
she was carried into the house and
recovered sufficiently to tell what
had happened the negro had dis-
appeared entirely and though Mr.
Evans made a thorough search
there was no clue to his where-
abouts. Mrs. Evans is feeling quite
shaken up today though suffering
no bodily injury beyond a very
sore place where her hair was
grabbed and also in her neck
which was twisted by the brute in
j jerking her from the steps.
Success.
A Kansas woman Mrs- A. J.
Stanley of Lincoln has been award
ed a prize of $250 by a Boston firm
for the best answer to the question.
"What Constitutes Success?" She
wrote: "He has achieved success
who has lived well laughed often
and loved much; who gained the
respect of intelligent men and the
love of little children; who has
filled his niche and accomplished
his task; who has left the world
better than he found it whether by
improved poppy a perfect poem or
a rescued soul; who has never lack
ed appreciation of earth's beauty
or failed to express it; who has al
ways looked for the best in others
and given the best he had; whose
life was an . inspiration; whose
memory a benediction. Kansas
City Independent.
RAYMONDVJLLE
EXCURSIONISTS.
Another Party of Prospectors from
the North Visit the Brownsville
Country.
Special Notice!
J. B. MURDOOK
Architect and Builder
Plans and Specifications Furnished FREE
If Work is Awarded to Ale
CALL AT THE HERALD OFFICE
Another party of Northern ex-
cursionists brought down by the
Raymondville Land and Improve-
ment Company arrived here Satur-
day eveningin the company's special
tourist car "Raymondville" which
was attached to the regular passen-
ger train on the St L. B. & M.
The party was in charge of W. S.
Ayers of Iowa and was accom
panied from Raymondville to
Brownsville by B. H. Frazier the
well known land agent. Sunday was
spent by the visitors in sight
seeing about Brownsville and the
surrounding country not omitting
the ever-interesting visit to the
historic old Mexican city of Mata-
moros.
Those comprising this instal-
ment of tourists are as follows:
Rev. Dr. Linn of Iowa Dr. J.
H. Barnabee E. E. Bennett and
L. R. Frost of Michigan Thos. E.
Spafford of Marion- Ind. E. S.
Huggins of Indianapolis J. O.
Stayton I. Lenz and Ed. Hood of
Missouri J. A. Kinnear wife and
daughter of Kansas T. B. Dean of
Kentucky E. S. Sharpe of Mi-
chigan representing the Coloniza
tion Bureau of the Michigan Rail
road Company Dr. Schoengert of
Washington Iowa T. C. Barnes
of Indiana J. D. Barnes of Chicago
general excursion agent of the
Rock Island system and M. B.
Hutchins of San Antonio Texas.
The entire party left on the
Raymondville this morning and
will stop at Raymondville to take
a look at that section. A Hkrald
man met a number of the excur
sionists at the train this morning.
All of them seemed most favorably
impressed with what they had seen
here and several expressed the in
tention of returning here from
Raymondville.
TO HANDLE DIS
ORDERLY SOLDIERS.
P. H. Yasey
PAINTER
All Kinds and Classes of Wrrt. .
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Masonic Notice.
There will be a called communi
cation of Rio Grande Lodge No
81 A. F. & A. M. this evening
at 8 p. m. Work in the 1st. degree
Visiting brethren cordially invited
to attend.
C. H. Thorn W. M.
J. J. Cocke Sec'y.
Koville Farm For Sale!
y 303 acres or the Rio Grande river
near Brownsville; also cottage at
Point Isabel. For particulars write
or apply to
Bhnj. Kowalski
Brownsville.JTexas.
Eleven lady teachers of Ridgway
resigned because the principal
hugged one of the teachers. It
was awfully inconsiderate of the
principal to show her ncb wanton
partialitj. Alto Herald.
Czar Nicholas of Russia is child-
ishly afraid of bombs. The ex-
plosion of one in his vicinity makes
him excessively nervous.
THE WATERWORKS AND
ELECTRIC LIGHT FRANCHISE
Commanding Officer at Mcintosh Sends
Provost Guard to Police Station to
Assist Police.
The Laredo Times of last Thurs
day reports as follows:
Today was pay-day at Fort Mc
Intosh and Capt. O'Neill Jhe com-
manding officer of the Post sent a
provost guard consisting of ten
men to police station to assist the
police in handling any of the sol
diers who might imbibe too freely
and become disorderly. This is
something new in Laredo but will
doubtless prove a valuable precau
tion.
The Times is probably correct
as to the action of Capt. O'Neill
being a timety precaution. It would
seem however that the city au
thorittes should be able to cope
with any disorderliness which
might arise from such source.
Business Men and Newspapers
We think him a mean business
man who will allow the papers of
his town to work year in and year
out to build up his business and
that of his neighbors by bringing
trade to town speaking well of its
institutions and encouraging peo
pie to come and live there or to
do their trading there and yet re
fuses or fails to do anything for
the same newspapers. They simply
take advantage of the advertising
they thus get and give nothing in
return. We presume they call them
selves public-minded citizens; they
are anything but that. They are
always ready to take advantage of
the trade the papers and more en
terprising business men bring to
town by advertising but they do
nothing of the kind themselves.
They may possibly get to heaven
finally but if so it will be because
salvation is free. Seneca Dispatch'. !
While the root is in water there
is hope for fruit.
Editor Herald: Have the tax
payers of this city reflected that
if the franchise now pending before
the city council is granted a most
valuable piece of property will be
absolutely given away and in ad-
dition to this the city bound to pay
to the gentlemen receiving this
property $4356 a year for 10 years
to accept it. Iu 10 years the city
is given the option of buying these
plants under certain conditions
these conditions being altogether
in favor of the company seeking
the franchise.
In these ten years the city will
have paid by way ot rental $43-
560 and yet have nothing to show
for this vast sum; and then in or-
der to become the owner of these
plants it will have to pay from
$75000 to $100000 more making
a total of from $120000 to $150-
000 and this for what the city
could have built for $60000!
Again- if this franchise is given
away where is the city to get funds
for grading the streets sewers etc.?
Let the city own these utilities and
it will soon be proven that from
the revenue ft gets from these
plants it can build sewers grade
the streets and in other ways
beautify the city. Let the franchise
be given away and it will soon be
seen how taxes will have to be
levied to meet the debt sure to be
incurred in order to carry out the
contract sought to be forced on the
city.
Under municipal ownership the
tax rate is fixed by law and can-
not exceed 25c on the one hundred
dollars. As a matter of fact this
tax is already levied and cannot
be used for other purpose not evm
to pay the rental demanded by the
gentlemen seeking the franchise in
question.
In the proposition asking for the
franchise we find where it says a
pumping station shall be establish
ed but no mention is made as to
where this is to be located. In an-
other place in the same proposition
it says that when the city is ready
to buy these plants "due consider-
ation shall be given to their earn-
ing capacity and also to the value
of all property cr assets of whatever
description.''
Suppose and the supposition is
not unreasonable when we reflect
who it is asking for this franchise
suppose this pumping station is lo-
cated at the rice mill or at the
pumping station at Villa Nueva
then that property becomes an as-
set of the corporation owning the
light and water plants so that the
city in order to get these plants
ten years old would have to take
over a rice mill for which it can
have no earthly use.
There are many other clauses in
this proposal equally hurtful to the
interests of the city and to some
of them I will refer another day
but for the present-1 will content
myself with saying: In other cities
the country over these plants give
a handsome revenue a revenue JX
certain ana increasing wnn eacn
year.
Certain powerful influences here
have onlv to withdraw their op-
position to this city owning these
plants and then we will see it
prosper beyond our fondest antici-
pations. T. B. Russell
Alderman Ward No. 2.
Brownsville. Texas. Aug. 13 1906-
Black-Eyed Peas.
A Cooke comity farmer has 35
acres already planted to black-
eyed pease. If the season con
tinues he will make more per acre
than he could on cotton and whena
this crop is harvested the la
will be better than when the pea4
were sown. It is not too late to
plant black-eyed peas yet. Sow a
datch. Gainesville Messenger.
A fool speaks and a wise roan
thinks.
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