Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, October 25, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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Volume IV
Aransas Pass, Texas, Friday, October 25, 1912.
Number 30
BBS CUE TEN MEMBERS
OF NICARAGUA GREW.
Nicaragua. It is the hope of
Capt. Escheverria and the men
rescued that the Windom has
succeeded in locating the four-
teen men drifting about in the
two small life boats. (
All of the crew were Mexicans,
negroes and Italians.
—$- i Capt. Escheverria stated that
Capt. E. Eschevarria and ten the'steamer was beached on Pa-
Iiife Savers Picked Up Men at
Port Aransas Who Had Been
Adrift in Two Small Boats in
Gulf Since October 16th. Four-
teen Men Are Missing.
EMERGENCY RATE TO BE
members of the crew of the
steamer Nicaragua, were rescued
Tuesday afternoon before 2 p.
m. by members of the United
dre Island, at a point, which he
estimates to be about 82 miles
from here, and that the boat is
a total loss to the owners, as it
Railroad Commission Disposes of
Port Aransas Case. Decision
Meets With Approval. Galves-
ton Differential Applies Here.
Spates life saving station at Port j can not be floated again and
Aransas. The men rescued were j placed in commission,
in a small life boat and bad • The steamer is well
been battling with the waves of
the Gulf of Mexico since Octo-
ber 16th.
file story of the going down
known
along Texas ports and at one
time was owned by parties in
Beaumont. /
IIu to a late hour Thursday
Austin, Tex., Oct. 22 — The
proposition to apply Galveston
differential rates between Texas
points and Port .Aransas came
up this morning before the rail-
Beautiful Oak Dining Suite to
be Presented to Some Lady by
tile Progress. Contest Closes
December 24th.
WILL GIVE HANDSOME J Text Books All Chosen. HISTORICAL S S HORNET
MADE PERMANENT CHRISTMAS PRESENT; Austin, Texas, Oct. 22.—With
the adoption made this after-
practically completed its work
noon, the State Text Book Board
of selecting a course of text
books for the public schools of
Texas for the six years begin-
ning Sept. 1, lift 5, the estimate
Lady, do you want the bset
dining suite in Aransas Pass
markets? On December 24, 1912,
the Progress will present to some
fortunate lady a beautiful Golden
road commission and .was quickly Quartered Oak Dining Suite,con-
disposed of when, by agreement! sisting of a table, six chairs, chi-
of all parties, the commission in- j na closet, buffet and rug, the best*
AGAIN IN LIMELIGHT
Frequenter of This Port May be
Carrying Munitions for Mex-
ican Rebels. Government Offi-
cials Watching Her.
The Hornet, .mentioned in the
cost of the hooks being $12,000,- j press report below, often runs
dicated it would issue an order
making the present emergency
rates now applying to Port Aran-
sas permanent. There was no op-
position to this proposition.
c~ L’ne Nicaragua and of the night the eight men of the crew! Judge M. J. Bell of San An-
subsequent saving of ten mem-'of the steamer Nicaragua, who
bers of a crew of twenty-four is j are somewhere out in the Gulf
one of the most thrilling in the! of Mexico in two small life boats
history of marine accidents along had not been rescued. The men
the gulf coast. Three are now
fourteen other members of the
crew somewhere along the south
water of Texas, drifting about
in two small boats, and advices
from Point Isabel were to the ef-
fect that the gulf is so stormy
that the small life boats of the
life saving station eould not ven-
ture far from shore.
The Nicaragua is a steamer 192
feet length and has a net ton-
nage of 379 tons. The boat is
owned by the Cia-Consolidita de
Maderas of Tampico, Mex., and
plys regularly in the lumber
trade between Port Arthur, Tex-
as, and ports of Mexico along
have now been adrift since Oc-
tober 16, when the entire crew
of the Nicaragua, numbering 24
men, left the steamer after the
value's and latest designs in
town. Call at the H.M . T. Hard
ware Co. and see it on display.
Our plan is this: With every
dollar^/worth of job printing, ad-
vertising and subscription paid
for in this office, we will ,, issue
Arsanas Harbor Terminal Rail- a coupon good for 500 votes. The
way requested the commission to j lady who gathers up from the
make the temporary emergency 1 business man or purchaser the
rates permanent. greatest iiumber of these votes
“We have carefully threshed j by December 24th, gets the din-
out this matter,” said JudgeBell,'; ing suite. Any white lady over
tonio, general attorney for the
000. The board has adopted 46
books. The total amount of bonds
that will be required of the1 dif-
ferent publishing houses for the
faithful execution of contracts
has been figured out to be$920,-
000.
in and drops anchor in Aransas
Harbor. Somettimes she has a
barge or so,j but often she ap-
pears to have no particular bU-
siness or cargo and her mysteri-
ous actions have excited the sus-
picions of United States and
When the last adoption had ; Mexican authorities. The fol-
heen made Gov. Colquitt address- lowing article gives further de-
ed the board; stating that he de-
sired it distinctly understood no
book is to be considered really
adopted until the publisher had
tails
Federal agents and men of the
secret service are said to be
watching several persons
and find that it is better for
“Why not just let the present
emergency rates stand as at pres-
t ic gulf and is valued at $20,000. j ter Windom, with Lieut. Cairnes
The steamer left Tampico on! in command, arrived Tuesday
rudder had been broken and the I the shippers and all others' con-
steamer beached. cerned to make permanent the
Information received at a late~ -temporary emergency rates now
hour Tuesday was that the Nic- in effect
aragua is beached, high and dry
on Padre Island, and at a point
31 miles south of Port Aransas.
A boat left Port Aransas Tues-
day morning to look for the
steamer, and returned shortly
afternoon and advised that the
steamer was on the beach at the
point mentioned.
Tire United States revenue cut-
14 years old can enter the con-
test.
This plan will be further dis-
met the requirements of- the San Antonio alleged to be agent;
board. The Governor insisted for Felix Diaz, the newest pre
that the work of revising the
books be carefully conducted and
that the publishers be forced to
make satisfactory revisions.
ent? ” asked Chairman Mayfield, j mentioned above. See the page
“Because,” answered Judge advertisement in this paper for
Bell, “it would be more satisfac-1 details. You will also find a
tory to shippers to know that picture of the furniture, taken
these differential rates are- per- i last week- by Mr. Fullerton,
manent. It would also be bet- If you wish to enter the con-
fer for the commercial interests test, call at the Progress office
and because, we would not want and get instructions and blanks.
to be called here in the future1 ___
from time to time to consider this ' The Blanco Association
Storm Damage Exaggerated
Reports of the recent storm
cussed and any details explain- j on the coast and the damage
ed if you will call at our office, done at Aransas Pass and Port ) on certain gulf ports and that i
Aransas has been exaggerated, would not at all be unlikely for
according to M. F. Smith, gen-
tender to the presidency ofMex-
ico. Thus far it is admitted that
there have been no attempts to
smuggle arms or ammunition out
of San Antonio to the interior of
Mexico.
Government officials say; how-
ever, a close watch is being ke
but there are no catch-conditions
or red tape—just the require-
eral manager of the Aransas
Harbor Terminal Railway, who
was here on a brief visit Tues-
day.
The slight damage done by
the storm will in no wise inter-
fere with the shipping fromPort
Aransas. Two large vessels are
due to arrive at the port in No-
I vember. Both will load cotton
The Blanco Association met at .cargoes for shipment abroad-
Business Change.
W. A. Straton has purchased
the interest oif his former part-
ner, J. F. Muense, in the
Straton Sheet Metal Works. Mr.
Straton is visiting in West Vir-
giniji this week.
Friday, Oct. 11, for Port Arthur,! morning at Port Aransas from | question ”
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TV fn°U L ”? 81 Sea' t, i“e“- Th.e W,ndom left Halves- in Texas shall be made by adding’Good reports were heard from
flly °* 1the hurncane then, ton Monday morning for the ex-; 6 cents per one hundred pounds all the churches in the associa-
raging along the Texas and Mex- j press purpose of conducting a; to the rates applying between Ition.
man coast swept upon the unf or-, search for the Nicaragua which; Aransas Pass and the same points.; The Blanco Association covers
T't mC? ° , *ere iCt boat | was a number of days overdue) T he emergency rates on all oth- six counties: Bee, Live Oak Go-
and they beached her. at Port Arthur. ! er oommoditip« wpw ™,+ i t? -p • o t> * • • ’
t . , . T • , ,, . tei eommocnties were put m et- had, Refugio. San Patricio and
Lapt. Escheverria and nine j Lieut. Cairnes stated before ;feet September 18, as follows: Aransas
members of the crew loaded in [leaving the port that the Win-; ‘.Rates between Port Aransas A distinct honor was paid three
dom would spend several days j and all points in Texas (except, of our townsmen by electing them
a ong the Texas coast looking j Aransas Pass), shall be made by to office. Rev. Thos. W. White,
tor the seamen adrift in the boats) adding to the rates applying be- j pastor of the Baptist church of
u necessary j tween Aransas Pass and such jthis city, was elected moderator;
Capt. Wallace Reed of the life ; other points in Texas, the same HI G. Fields, treasurer, and Chas.
saving station at Brazos Island, i differentials, if any, on classes H. Gile a member of the exeeu-
east of Brownsville, was wired! and commodities, as are now ad-|tive board.
to have Ins men on the lookout | ded to the Houston rates in mak-! Rev. Mr. Byrd was employed
at that station for the missing ing rates to or from Galves- as evangelist.
followers of the Diaz regime to
attempt to load schooners at pos-
sibly one or two Texas ports and
then put to sea with possibility
of transferring the contraband
to a steam vessle.
There is now in Texas waters
a notable vessel, the Hornet,with
a long record of filibustering ex-
peditions. The Hornet, once a
gunboat in the United States na-
vy, was sold some years agp at
auction and was bid in for some
South American filibustering ex-
peditions. Her value has al-
ways been in the ability to cut
through the waters at 20 or 22
knots, and she gave many a rev-
enue cutter a merry chase and
then ran away when -good and
ready. The Hornet was some
months ago sold to an oil com-
r'
one of the boats and began head-
ing-northward. The other two
boats containing fourteen mem-
bers of the crew were headed
southward. It was the hope of
the men that they could reach
-some Texas port. *
Capt. Escheverria and the men
in his boat were tossed about
on the turbulent waters of the
When the Ducks Begin to Fly.- pany, and of Hate has been tow-
men, and replied that a stormiton.”
Local sportsmen are jubilant
over the fine prospects of a
banner hunting season. The re-
cent rains filled all the fresh wa-
ter lakes north of town and a
great, number of ducks, brants
and geese are coming in. Some
good bags have already been
reported and within a short time
shooting will be at its best.
ing barges.
Thursday, the first day of the
John Bull Takes Notice X
The following 'from the Man
Chester (Eng.) Guardian, go
to show that our new seaport
being taken notice of outside
Uncle Sam’s territory:
“Two hundred miles soutl
west of Galveston a new cottd
port has been made. A shallo
£?'Ztvent-1 Be.,. M. F.Smith7j session' w»V given over io bnei- Steel ,for Bailroads LTl
■"fr;TaJdirectrof th"dock “ *?•* a:*,25,000wot,,ils.:The new i
. , ‘ 'n< " ,niwere **e,e- in the forenoon .and Rev. (J.. including 12,000 tons of Maybi ; t.lie United States territory to
members of the crew rescued at: - A. Howard at night. iBcssemer railsv from Southern !tU* pZm. M and it fs hlo
Port Aransas I uesday afternoon; Important Notice. Friday and Saturday able set- Engineering Co. for 1913 deliv- „d that it will get’a share of the
he same day for Galveston.; L. M. Hewit of Bryan, Texas, mons were delivered by Revs. G. m\v, 9100 tons from the San Ah-!traffic through the canal from
—- f candidate for lieutenant govern- Bartlett of Goliad; R. E. Bell,! tonio & Uvalde railway and 4000; the far east&and the Pacific
Bayview Is Down. j or, will address the citizens of of Ban Antonio, and Z. T. Taylor, tons from the San Antonio"-& ! coast. In the meantime cotton
Workmen have completed thej A™“®as pHSS ft the corner of the a missionary, who spent twenty | Aransas Pass railway. is to be the mainstay, and there
and was spied by raem-
the life saving crew at
t, and life saving boats
wered and started out
men in the small crafts
the ten men were safely
it ashore at the port and
jd with warm clothing and
Later they were taken to
as Pass and and left Tues-
—x.
ediatel V ' a r -i vin *»■ h task of wrecking the old Bay view |old Bfyvi,‘vv UoU'1 on Saturday, odd years hi Brazil. Rev. J. M.j During the past ten days many have been already” despatch-
Eseheverria wire 1 ^f hote^ property. ‘For twenty years! Nov’ 2’ at 10 m- Everybody Sallee-of Beevilie, preached Sal-jof the I irge railroad systems have1 ed from there the = steamer Drink-
" nf J -r. ° this once magnificent old struc-j invit(‘d- especially the ladies of urday night. placed contracts for rails, and j burn for Liverpool with .10,000
p i i ' » n'’ * To turo has towered over the com- lh<’ ( ' rT' 1 ' !>' F; I>AIGE’ Th<“ ^Lignolia Street Baptist Others are pending. The other bales, the Swanley for Havre,
m boats containing0'four ing -seaport of the sout hwest/and (‘hafma" Tex;,s |,|‘ohibiti<ihCom- church was dedicated during the compares that have given out | and the Aphrodite for Liver
m were somewhere in
along the Texas coast,
has harbored men of even walk
of life, but today it, is scattered
nut-tee
session. their >, lers include the Pennsyl- j pool.?'
There, was preaching, each day v;,|m «ke New York Central, j
at 11 a. m. and t :30 \p. m. the* Atlantic Coast Line and the jcxere From Panama
ng that heh) be sent in ^le ^our w^nds, so to speak,| ^ne Reason for Tiuck. — -- ........ -......^ v i _ ' ------- u“v'i from ranama.
rt to rescue the men A and the' sit,‘ wil1 b‘‘ made ready! f 1,0 n!cent rams put lH. locyl The Association adjourned Sat-j Louisville & Nashville railroads. ! Samuel A. Dugan, -n boilermak-
l ' ‘ fora modern hokelrv tni('l< farms 1,1 Prnn‘* condition urday, to meet at Skidmore a’
.s received stating that ______'' ; for late fall and early spring year from now. V
a ong me ower part of T crops. A few farmers have nice There are 31 churches in the
was raging, but assur- Laundry Crowded.
fi|ll gardens coming on for home six counties comprising} this as-
a]> .tin iat e would Manager Dean of the Aransas consumption and local trade,while soci'ation.
thing in his P°wu to Pass Steam Laundry says that the majority of truckers plant __
■ work has poured in on them so only spring gardens for ship- Notice to Hunters.
te the men.
lited States revenue cut- rapidly that it is almost itnpossi-; ping,
om, which is well known ble to take care of it. He has'I
The Aransas Pass Gun Club
, will meet Oct, 26th at 3 p. m., at
school the office of Young & Emery.
t Galveston on Monday added more machinery to better' Goliad — $20,000 _
to ciuise the Texas coast enable him to accommodate the bonds have been issued here and All members and those desiring
iopi s of finding some trade and it is probable he will , work will commence on the new i to become members are requested
the steamei Nicaragua, fm,e to install still more labor; schoAl building a.s soon as pbssi- to be present.
ha,s long been overdue at- saving devices to that end. ble. W. II EMERY Seov
I he i ails for the 1 exas roads, er, recently employed by the gov-
will be turned out at the earliset eminent on the Panama Railway,
possible moment, as .they are has arrived here and is now work
needed at once. They will be ing pn the tank being built at
shipped when finished by steam-i this place by the Magnolia Pe-
er to Galveston and* -distributed troleum Co. Mr. Dugan will
irom that point. soon become associated ^rith the
-- Aransas Foundry Machine & Boi-
Ilouston — Plans are being per- ler Works. Mr, Dugan’s family
fected for the erection df a new will move here from Los Angeles..
8 story office building in this'Cal,, in the near futnre.
city. The foundation will be | -—--—
constructed with a view of go-! Calicoes 5c per line, just-ar-”
ing higher later on.
rived at Mrs. O{'fields.
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Price, E. L. Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, October 25, 1912, newspaper, October 25, 1912; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth975140/m1/1/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.