Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 226, Ed. 1, Monday, March 25, 1907 Page: 1 of 4
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AILY HERALD.
VOL. XV. NO. 26.
MONDAY BROWNSVILLE TEXAS MARCH 25 1907.
SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS
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THE RIO GRANDE COUNTRY IS ALL RIGHT
YOUR. RESULTS depend on the RIGHT
IMPLEMENTS and TOOLS in the hands
of the RIGHT MEN. .
WE HAVE THE RIGHT OUTFITS IN OUR LINE
Birdsell and Old Hickory Wagons Stand-
ard AH Steel S. C. Mattocks Avery and
Hancock Disc Plows Planet jr. Seeders
Wheel Hoes and Cultivators Tents Wagon
Covers Axes
E. R. CALD WELL
AERMOTOR AND STANDARD WINDMILL
Our Catalog No. 10 gives neOcash delivered prices
tells all about our goods and .is free for the asking.
Corpus Christ! Texas
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OFFICES OVER EAGLE DRUG STORE
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I Representing Lands From Cof pus g
Christi to the
They Arc
All the Latest Styles of
Men's Spring Wear
We Have Already Received Part of Our Spring
Stock and the Balance Follows
As Fast as Steam Can Bring Them
To be Up to the Mark in Your
Spring Apparel
Be sure and Visit
SPERO'S
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MERCEDES
The Wonder of the Coast'Coimtry
Double Your Money
In Ninety Days
Bay Town Lots in MERCEDES
Buy Five Acfre Tracts in MERCEDES '
Buy Farm near MERCEDES 1.
Buy Large Tracts near MERCEDES
All Under the Largest IrrigatingCanal
In the Southwest
Write for Information to
Geo. S. Freeman
I The Land Man
X 40 MSes West of
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ALASKA IS NOT
A FROZEN LAND
Something About Far Away
American Possession.
Range of Climate Equals that from Maine
To Florida Large Sums Invested Irf
Railways Navigation Mines
Etc Import? and Exports.
Alaska the largest outlying pos-
session of the United States is less
generally understood and appre-
ciated than any other. If spread
out over a part of .the United States
it would cover an area equivalent
to that of every state east of the
Mississippi river with the exception
of four in the -south.
Traditionally regarded as a land
of perpetual ice and snow. Alaska
has a climate wider than that be-
tweenMaine and Florida. At least
half of the territory is as comfort-
able a place of residence tempera-
ture considered as Minnesota or
almost auy state north of the Ohio
river. The winters are milder and
the summers less warm in -several
Alaska towns than in Baltimore or
Washington.
Alaska is not "an unbroken wild-
erness. Common necessities of
fife and inan3' of the luxuries were
shipped from the United States to
the territory last year to the amount
of nearly $15t000000. The total
amount of commerce in both direc-
tions is close to $50000000.
In navigation companies alone
there are investments of capital in
Alaska amounting to at least $12-
000000 and this figure probably
is underestimated. In mines fish-
eries merchandise and other lines
of industry there is vastly greater
total investment. One definitely
projected trunk line ot railroad
now building will cost not less
than $15000000 and there are
several others.
All the vegetables needed to sup-
ply the inhabitants of Alaska can
be raised in the territory and large
quantities are being raised.
Alaska is a- wonderland to travel
in and when its scenic-beauties be-
come more generally known the
territory will be as popular with
tourists sls Scotland orSwitzerland.
The price paid by the United
States for Alaska in 1867 was less
than that of the present annual
value of a single product and less
than half as large as that of one
other productive resource of the
territory.
Owing to the generally false
notions about the region and the
abundance of virgin lands in the
western states Alaska has not been
opened to rapid settlement. The
somewhat recent discovery that
precious metals are distributed al-
most uniformly throughout the
rock and gravels of the entire ter-
ritory has had the effect however
of attracting popular attention to
the country. It is to be expected
that Alaska will increase consider
ably in population and in produc
tive .vealth within the next few
years. I he population at present
probably is about 40000 whites.
Gold still is the most valuable
product of Alaska. Individual
operators have done well many o
them have become wealthy but
the year 1906 marked the advent
of large capital in the interior of
the country. There already were
several mining corporations "capit-
alized high in the hundreds' of
thousands but in Alaska and the
Yukon territory a single large ag-
gregation of capital nas entered the
field this year promising a total
investment ultimately of many
millions of dollars and insuring a
vastly larger output of gold and
copper within the next season or-
two. -
A dog can take more mercury
than would kill a human being.
"Neil How exceedingly polite!
he is. Belle Yes he is even polite j
to- his. own wife. i
Loree's Brownsville
Trip Not Significant.
L. F. Loree chairman of the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Kansas
City Southern has just ended a
trip over the St." Louis Browns-
ville & Mexico. He was accom-
panied by Colonel S. W. Fordyce
and Edwards Whitaker of St.
Louis. ' Colonel Fordyce is a di-
rector in the Kansas City South;.
era and the Brownsville line and
Mr. Whitaker is a director ia the
latter.
Reports were in circulation that
the trip indicated that Mr. 'Loree
who represents Speyer & Co. prob
ably inspected the Brownsville line
for interests which desired to pur
chase it. These statements are of-
ficially denied however.
It is explained that at the annual
meeting of the stockholders of the
Kansas City Southern recently
Colonel Fordyce invited Mr. Loree
to accompany him on a run over
the road and that Mr. Loree ac-
cepted the invitation. The trip had
no special significance. St. Louis
Republic 20th.
HIST OF LETTERS.
The uncalled for letters remain
ing in the postoffice of Brownsville
for the week ending Saturday
March 23 1907 are as follows:
ladies' list.
Alamia Paucha Duenes Petra
Escochea Auastasia Hinojosa Je-
susav Hernandez Josefina Luna
Manuela Martinez Josefa Ramos
Isabel Rodriguez Liandra Ramirez
upe Ramos Anita. Sties Guy
Mrs. Trevino San Juana Torrez
Decideria.
Gentlemen.
- Boston O. N. Castillo Cecun-
dino Engstrono Albino Espinoza
Santiago Gallardo Guillermo To-
mas Gonzales Gonzales Luis Gon-
zales Tomas Gonsales Hilario
Gutierez Pedro Gerra Emilio
Hernandez Santos Keene Ralph.
Longoria Anselmo Moreno Paui-
lino Perales Salome Poore Char
les G. Repass James A. Stilwejj
Edward Valdez Francisco Wotis
D. Mr.
Persons calling for the above
letters please say advertised.
J. B.1 Sharpe.
Postmaster.
Sacrifices of Hindoo Women.
Hindoo women taught that
their religious duty is to destroy
their own lives on death of their
husbands if possible or failing
that .o live through the rest -of
their days after they are widowed
in uttermost misery and degreda-
tion believe it to be a sacred ob
ligation and patiently endured all
that is demanded of them.
The British government long
ago declared the burning of a living
widow on her husband's funeral
pyre to be murder on the part of
all accessory to the act; yet still
many poor women desire as a pi-
ous act to commit suicide in the
torturing flames. A remarkable
case has ftRfeen reported from
Napaul in a Hindoo journal show-
ing that the native women still do
not revolt against the time-honored
sacrifice demanded of them.
An elderly woman announced
her intention to immolate herself
on her husband's funeral pyre and
she was at once honored for it and
visted by all her relatives an i ac
quaintances. The pyre was made
and 15000 people assembled by it;
but at the last moment the gov
ernment officials intervened and
prevented the . burning of the live
woman. She had already -distributed
her large possessions and left
herself penniless. She then went
back sadly to her home lay duwn
and refused all food dying of
sheer starvation nine days after her
previous sacrifice had been pre-
vented! Exchanged
This country iis "said to be in
need of 350000 workmen.
Goethe was 82 years of age when
he completed 'Faust."
MAJ. PENROSE
" IS ACQUITTED
Charges Against Accused Officer
Are Not Proven.
Capf... Hay First lo Congratulate- Han
Who "May Some Day Be Colonel
of His Regiment" Col.
Glenn's Closing Remarks.
Maj. Charles W. Penrose.
Twenty-fifth Infantry is acquit-
ted of the charge of neglect of duty
under the Sixty-second Article of
War in connection with the
Brownsville raid on the midnight
of Aug. 13 last.
'The result was announced Sat-
urday ar7:30 p. m. by Gen. Mc-
Caskey commanding officer at Ft.
Sam Houston. The closing ar-
gument was finished at 3:15 Sat
urday afternoon and the verdict
was reached by 7:30.
According to the San Antonio
press reports Major Penrose re
ceived the news of the verdict from
Judge Advocate Hay.who has begs
conducting the prosecution in .he
case. Captain Hay was the first
one to congratulate hirn. Major
Penrose was warmly congratulated
by his counsel after which other
officers at the post extended him
their congratulations.
His acquittal came on the last
day of the seventh week of the
trial. It was the recording-breaking
courtniartial case in the annals
af the American Army. Never be-
fore has a military court sat in
continuous session at such great
mass of evidence been adduced in
a military procedure of similar
character. The Penrose courtmar-
tial was convened on the morning
of Feb. 4. With the exception of
one day when the accused was ill
the court has been sitting daily
during all week days.
At the .opening of the court Sat-
urday morning the Express re
ports Judge Advocate Hay read a
telegram from Judge Advocate
General Davis which stated that
the important letter referred to by
him in a former telegram contained
the names of a number of Browns
ville persons who are supposed to
have information concerning the
raid on the night of Aug. 13
These people have not- been called
as witnesses. Dr. C. H. Thorn
furnished the names to the Judge
Advocate General. Judge Advo
cate Iiay said that an unofficial re
port of the ordnance experts with
out the seal of the War Depart-
ment had been received by him.
As it would be Tuesday or Wed-
nesday before he could get an of-
hcial copy of this report he
withdrew his application for a
continuance of the case. Judge
Advocate Hay wished a contin-
uance in which to introduce the
report of the experts who made a
microscopic examination of the
empty shells and bullets picked up
in Brownsville. News accounts
from Washington were to the effect
that these shells and bullets had
been fired by some men of Com-
pany B.
Col Glenn in his closing speech
in behalf of the defense said he
did not believe it had been rojn
jtnat .the negro soldiers- did the
shooting that the official reports
of Maj. Blocksom Col. Lovering
and Gen. Garlington contained not
the slightest proof and that the
sole object of the report of Mr.
Purdy was to prove the guilt of
the soldiers. The testimony he
declared had not shown that a
single Brownsville witness had
been.nearer than twenty-five feet
to the t men doing .the shooting.
Speaking of. Jese .Martinez' testi-
mony he said "there never was
an inferior race that could tell all
the truth"and further that Herbert
Elkins was "gifted with second
sight" and no proof had been
given of the assault upon Mrs.
Evans by any negro. Lieut of Pol-
ice Dominguez was ridiculed and'
finally. Col. Glenn said: "if the
citizen of Brownsville had been '
put on the rack six months ago as-
were the men of Companies B C
and D dragged from pillar to Dost
abused and subjected to all sorts of
indignities I doubt if they would
have stood the test as these sol-
diers have"
Capt. Hay chief counsel for the-
defense spoke for an hour his re-
marks being reported to have 'been
to the-effect that the defence had
not proven the innocence of the
accused while he had proven ther
charges against Penrose
.It required only four hours for
the court martial to review the
testimony which required seven.
hang weeks and very heavy ex
pense to present to that body and'
announce its verdict of not guilty-
Death of Mrs. Brito.
The sad news of the death o
their mother Mrs. Inocencia Trejo-
de Brito which occurred at San
Antonio Texas at 6 o'clock this
morning was received by the fam-
ily of the deceased lady in Btawjos-
ville by telegram today.
The deceased wa the widow of
the late James Brito former sheriff
of Cameron county who was mur-
dered near this cit over fourteen
years ago. She had been making-
her home for some time wifefe a
married daughter living in Sari
Antonio. The news of her death
was quite a shock to the familyv -who
had not heard of her being: ill .
and it is supposed to have been a
sudden death. :
The funeral takes place in San :
Antonio tomorrow morning at 8.
o'clock. Besides two married
daughters Mrs. Brito leaves two.
sons John and James Brito both-
of Brownsville who are very well
known here and who have thfc
sympathy of many friends in their
loss.
Sunday's Visitors.
Saturday night's train over the
St. L. B. & M. brought in thir-
teen cars of passengers chiefly ex-
cursionists six of them being tour-
ist coaches and five regular day-
coaches. The passengers on the-
tourist cars were of the Home-
seeker's excursion from Chicago
Kansas City and other northern
points.
Quite a number of the visitors
were from Houston Corpus Christit
and other places along the Gulf
Coast Line who took advantage of"
the cheap excursion rates to ran.
down and see the bull-fight in
Matamoros as well as ta seethes
.Brownsville country.
Compressed Flour.
In England much interest Basr
been shown of late by the army
and navy authorities in a new
method of preserving Lour by
means of compression. .With hg
draulic pressure apparatus the floor
is squeezed into the form of bricks
and experiments are reported ta
have shown that the pressure de-
stroys all forms pf larval life thus:
preserving the flour from the rav-
ages of insects while it is equally-
secure from mold. Tbreeundred
pounds of compressed flour occupy-
the same space as 100 pounds of
flour in the ordinary state.
Long Distance Phone .
for Hidalgo Ranches
From J. B. McAllen of thiscityv
Who is one of the leading ranch:
owuers of Hidalgo tounty Thk
Herald learns that as soon as the
long distance 'phone line is coui.-
pleted to Raymondville it will be
extended to connect a number of
the leading ranches of the upper
country with the. system. 'Wires-
will be run to Delfiria and thence
to the McAJlen Young. Saenz.
LVela and a number of other
ranches adding about thirty miles
of line to the system
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