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LOOK! LSI A IIKW FIELD
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* There is every likelihood that
a new oil field will soon be
brought in north of Mebbronville
in Duval County. Trussel Ce-
zeraux drilling for H. B. Sehles-
ainger, truste, Nrtihetfirtrt and
O’Byrne on the Hail roach. acme
25 miles north uf Hsbuionvillo
set casing in 7 feet of sand at a
depth of 2,470 feet to top of sand
and got same oil and a shoeing
of gas. While there is about 30Q
feet of oil in the hole, it is net
believed that it is in sufficient
quantities to make a well. It
proves oil to be in that locality,
however and another well is to
sunk a half-mile further west.
The new find U4» wildcat ter-
ritory and the find has caused
some activity in oil leases in that
section.
Open Letter to Mr. Connally
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IN JIM HOGG COUNTY.
Hamilfan et at No. 1 Holbien
in Block 44 of the Hamlton sub-
division, is drilling at 225 feet,
says Monday’s San Antonio Ex-
press. The Texas Company has
not yet announced location for
its No. 1 Vela, which is to be in
Survey 582 or 589, Holden et al
No. 3 Jones, in Block 136 Share
27, was last reported drilling at
600 feet.
Magnolia Petroleum Company
completed the two oil wells in the
Randado field in Jim Hogg
County the past week, which
were the only oil wells brought
in in the Mirando district. The
No 16 Merchants State Bank in
Survey 415, at 1,242, at 1,242
feet, came in making 50 barrels
and the No.. 39 Dc Ja Garza in
Survey 291 at 1,296 feet, made
25 barrels. In the Kitselman A
St. Albans pool, the K. & 8. Cor-
poration No. 52 Holbien in Sur-
vey 11, Block 11, at 2,1444 feet,
came in making 25,000,000 feet
of gas. The No. 52 is located just
north of the No. 54 Holbien in
Block 22, which came in an oil
well and just south of the No. 49
in the same block, which made a
small oil well estimated at 10
barrels.
Magnolia Petroleum Company
made location for the No. 20 Mer
chants State Bank in Survey 415
and in .the same survey the No.
18 is rgging up.Their No. 20 De
la Garza in Block 7, of Survey
291, is- coring at 1,244 feet.
In the Henne, Winch & Fariss
field the No. 21 Martinez of the
Magnolia Petroleum Company
which has been standing at 2,046
feet for some weeks, waiting on
Star rig, had tl"- easing col-
lapsed. The No. 25 Martinez has
seet casing at 2,033 feet, and
derricks are up for the Noe. 26,
34 and 35, the last two located
in Survey 256 Bloock 15, a little
north of the other production in
Survey 276.
To the north in the Kiselman
& St. Albans pool, the K. and
S. Corporation is rigging up the
No. 57 Holbien in Block 22 Sur-
vey 11, a Httle west of the p#a
sent line of production of the
field. Killam Lang’s No. 1. Lopez,
located in Block 5 of Survey 69
across the county , line in Zapata
County has been abandoned at
2,007 feet after 4t tested salt wat-
er. Edward St. Albans no 5 Lopez
in Share 1, Block has a sand
at 2,138 feet and has set casing
at 2,134 feet, and derrick is up
for his No. 6 in the same block
and share. His No. 1 Holbien in
Block 38 of Hogg Bids* tubdivi-
sion, northeast of his last wells
has been spudded in. Associated
OG Camnay has spu M d ’« the
No. 3 Martinez in Block 18 of
8hare 1, surrounded 1 y o 1 wells
and gasses' . CS 1
Msgnotia >Petrolr'’ "o^-rmny
No. 17 Merchants State Bank in
Survey 23#. ja* north of the
Alworth pool at 1,<H1 feet, made
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skided .north 300 feat ftt I1
No. 19 Merchants State Hank.
Laredq, Texas, Feb. 28, 1927
Hon. Tam Connally,
Member of Congress,
Washigton, D. C.
My dlar Toms
Please do not think me ob-
trusive, but as an old friend I
feel at liberty to talk to you and
I want you to aeeept what I* say
in the spirit in which it is given*-
And thus this open letter, addres-
sed to you.
Being a Member of the House
Committee on Foreign Relations,
what statements you may make
regarding a foreign country, espe
cially one with which we are not
sn the must friendly terms, .must
carry with them more than or-
dinary weight.
I know you are honest in your
convictions regarding conditions
in Mexico, but you have evidently
formed you opinions, not from
the facts as they really exist, but
from false propaganda so widely
distributed in the United States
by the paid propagandists of
Calles and Morones.
Included in this army of paid
propagandists are preachers,
churchmen, pabiticians, school
teachers and newspaper writers,
and it is a matter of comment
that the preachers who indulge
in this unholy practice will go
to greater extremes than the
othsrs in their false representa-
tions.
This eternal propaganda 1hat
is paid bor by those in power in
Mexico City, is nothing new. It
started under Obregon in an
endeavor to get recognition from
the United States, and a sum
exeding $8,000,000.00 is known to
have been expended for propa-
ganda work by President Obre-
gon.
You will recall the activity of
several .of our Legislators in get-
ting a resolution through the
Texas Legislature endorsing Obre
gon and demanding that he be
granted recognition by the Ad-
ministration at Washing!on. You
will also recall that after thel
adjournment of that Session of
the Legislature which passed the
resolution, that some ,of those
Legislators most instrumental in
getting resolution through paid a
visit to Obregon at Mexico City
and were shown great courtesies
and honors.
And you will further recall the
great activity that prevailed in
Chamber of Commerce circles
throughout the State, and the
passing of resolutions by certain
different Chambers demanding
that Washington recognize Obre
gon.
And above all, you will recall
how a friend of yours, who had
held high office in Texas, was
granted a certain contract in
Mexico'that paid him $25,000.00;
of how the contract was cancel-
ed after he got his money, and
of interviews he gave .out on hia
return from Mexico City, such
interviews, of course being fa-
vorable to Obregon’a recognition.
These things, I am sure you
will recall, for the newspapers
were full of them at the time, and
to this propaganda I attributed
your sudden and enthusiastic sup-
port of Obregon, feeling that like
many other American citizens,
you had been misled by these
false representations.
The money spent for propa-
ganda to get Obreg6n recognized
by this Government was but lit-
tle in comparison to the money
that has been and is being spent
by Calles and Morones in their
ehdeavor to' prevent recognition
from being withdrawn.
These paid propagandists arc
to be found in practically every
city in Texas, some in high places
” including the State University;
1* high church ebetes end among
the school teachers to say nothing
of certain daily newspapers that
give every outward evidence
of being completely subsidised
was no noney with which to pay
the teachers, and many teachers,
at the time their schools were
closed, had not received their
salaries for six or eight months
and were driven to desperate
ends to obtain a livelihood and
keep from starting.
A few schools, including three,
or four email agricultural school*
are kept going, but theee are lor
the especial benefit of those prp-
now threaten to rob Mexico of
her liberty.
•“The danger hangs over our
head. The Mexican people must
be prepared'to resist the attack
of the American.people, for the
American Government is seeking
at all events and in a brutal man-
ner to dictate our laws.
“The American garrison in
Laredo, Texas is daily practisin'*
at the traget range with, rifles
pagandists who go to Mexico r*pid fire and machine guns and
StV. jJ,
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Newspaper reports have, at
stated intervale, eome out of Me*
4 Jeo totting how CAUes was spend-
ing millions of dollars educating
te brik of this mo-
has been spent in
City in carload lots end at the
expense of the Government.
Mexico, under Calles and Mo-
raines, is as completely Bolshevia
ed as Russia is, and Calle* who
is, and for years has been, the
head of the Third International*
in America, MUST take orders
from Moscow, and which orders
are transmitted to him through
the Russian Embaasadress, who
is so Red that our Government
refused to let her land in New
York.
This woman has an intellect
very superior to that of either
Calles or Morones, and the Mex
icans say that she, with her re-
tinue of 125, all Bolshevists, is
really running Mexico and dic-
tating to Calles what he shall and
must do, her orders coming di-
rect from the Russian Soviet.
One of the first acts of this
Embassadress after arriving in
Mexico City, was to have (fie
Russian Bolshevist Schoolbooks
printed in the Mexican language
and scattered throughout Mexico
and the Central American coun-
tries. Some of these Bolshevist
schoolbooks have found their
way into Texas, evidently smug-
gled in, and two cases of them
from Mexico City, consigned to
Georgetown, Texas, dealers, were
stopped in transit and are now
in the Laredo Customs House.
These books are shrewdly writ-
ten and edited and the subject
matter, like a seductve drug,
gradually fastens itself upon the
youthful mind with deep and last-
ing effect. They teach the Op-
posite of what the American
schoolbooks teach and are a
menace to any civilized govern-
ment.
Another act of Embassadress
has been to send Russian peddlers
throughout the different States
in Mexico ostensibly selling ar
tides of merchandise to the
peons, but in reality spreading
among them the Bolshevist doc-
trine. These so called peddlers
are all men of education and
speak and write the Mexioan
language fluently.
Being the recognized head of
the Mexican Government and
the head of the Third Interna-
tionale at the same time, makes
Calles a very dangerous man and
a menace to the United States.
With the inteligenee and cun-
ning of the Russian Embassa-
dress to aid and abet him, he is
doing his utmost to establish Bol-
shevism in the Central American
countries as he has already estab-
lished it !h Mexico, and make of
these Latin countries an assem-
bling base for the Bolshevists
of the Old World—for the dis-
satfied millions of Russia, China
and Japan.
And right here I am going to
from a recent issue of Verbo Li-
quo te you an editorial taken
lowing is a correct translation,
is given in full. It says:
“The Ghost of Intervention
casts its shadow on the Nation.
Several Tankee regiments
emeu, rapid fire guns a
kinds of artillery are
lized op; the border.
“The relations between Mexico
and the United State* hgve reach
ed inch-* stage that It wit not
be difficult, when feist expected,
for that
Gist manikin that
tune played by the
ail men, to ■end
eaanon that fire explosive shells,
tend ready to Invade rmr country
at s moment’s notice
“Several batalions are concen-
trated at Marfa, Texas, and their
presence haa caused great indigna
tion among the people who are
against war.
“If the attack comes we will
know how to defend ourselves:—
that will not be difficult.
^Possibly the attitude assum-
ed by China and Japan against
the United States and England;
possibly the alliance of the yel-
low races with Russia has made
Coolidge pause in his felonious
attack against Mexico.
“The latest cablegrams an-
nounce the startling news that
the three Nations united will
marshal forth to battle six hun-
dred million men against the
imperialistic action of the United
8tates and England. and it is
possible that Mexico will witness
the first battle fought in defense
of the weaker Nations.”
Tom, I want you to read this
editorial from a recent issue of a
Mexican newspaper published
right at La redoes door and then
read it over again. It expresses
a sentiment that is very popular
among the Calles- Morones fol-
lowing, both in this country and
Mexico, and I am reliably inform-
ed that many extra copies of
that isane were printed and mail-
ed to interior Mexican citiee.
Not a few of these papers found
their way to this side of the Rio
Grande.
Under the guidance of Red
Russia, Mexico has declared war
on all religions. Just at present
the war is being especially di-
rected at the Catholic Church
because more than 90 per cent of
the people of Mexico are Cath-
olics and in this Calles and Mo-
rones realize that they have the
approval of * large anti-Catholie
element in the United State*
But let not theee anti-Catholics
be deluded for war will be declar-
ed against then: churches with ae
much vehemence as it now is
•gainst the Catholic Church, if
dalles and Morones are permit-
ted to pursue their way uncheck
ed.
Bolshevism denies God and is
against all forms of the Chris-
tian religion, and if the govern-
ment of Calles and Morones is
not Bolshevistic, them neither ia
the government of Red Russian
Bolshevistic. All marriages add
funerals in Mexico mast now be
performed without anything that
even resembles a religions cere-
mony, and this alone is the Cause
of muck distress and untold heart
pangs. Another Bolshevistic law
brought from Russia.
A few days ago a good Amer-
ican woman, well known in La-
redo, died in Mexico, where she
and her husband had resided for
ny years on a farm they had
bre, a Mexican paper published bwight t^ty years ago, long
in Nuevo Laredo, just across the tke adontinn of the 1927
Rio Grande from Laredo Texas.
That editorial, of which the fol-
r-s&ir&r
artillery and long
£38 i
before the adoption of the
Oonstitution, and Which they
were trying to hold, as it was
they Had left. This good
woman was a devoted member of
tke Episcopal Church and it was
her dying wish that she be buried
witbjwhh the eeremony of her church.
of 'the Government,
s, this was forbidden, and
•he waa laid in the grave with no
ceremony but the silent tears of
and • a few good
this in a eonntry
nt you are de-
$
But let me tell you something
women, well verted
ere. are tm*
is that
ceremony out tne
Jtott hatband an<
Trfandh7 And tbi
Whose govemmer
Morones subscribe to these Bol-
shevist views ami give the female
lecturers their support.
Many wanton murders 'have
been committed in Mexico by
order of the Government and the
only charge against the murder-
ed ones was thft they had re-
fused to deny the Church in
'thick they were bom and rear-
ij or to desist in their religious
wursnip. Among those thus mur-
dered have been many priests
and, in one intance ten boys, the
oldest not over fifteen were stood
up and shot because they had
paraded against the ‘orders of
some petty Calles ofileial and car-
ried a banner on which was ins-
cribed. Long Live Religion!
These things may he hard for
you to believe, Tom, but you do
not know Mexico under Cal’es
and Morones and the Russian
Embassadress. People who are
running a government on the
theory that there is no God; who
have replaced the Bible with the
Red Book of Bolshevism and who
scoff at and deride all forms of
the Christian religion, are capa-
ble of any crime thgt may be
laid at their door.
Why onr Government shonld
continue to recognize Mexico is
something I cannot understand.
Calles and Horonaa are taking
advantage of the opportunity to
fortify Bolshevism in Mexico,
and every passing day sees them
become more and more insolent
toward the United State* When
Mir. Coolidge recognised Dias in
Nicaragua, Calles showed his
eontempt for the President of
the United States by reeeognising
Saoasa and sending him arms
and ammunition.
As long as the United States
continues to recognize Calle*
just so long will Callss continue
to strengthen his Bolshevistic
Government. If recognition ia
withdrawn, however, the Mex-
icans will settle it among them-
selves and Clalles and his Bol-
shevist erew will soon be driven
from power. And that, in my
opinion, will be the beat and
easiest way to settle the Mex-
ican question.
In my letter I have had but
little to say about the Oatholie
Chnrch and the
tions of Catholics in Mexico by
Calles and Morones. I could say
mueh along (his line, and in a
subsequent letter I may impart
to you the story of some of thoae
persecutions that will cause you
to wonder how you ever brought
yourself to uphold a government
that was capable of such wanton
and cruel atrocities against those
whete only crime was that they
were Catholic men and women.
I am not as you know a Cath-
olic but was born and reared
in the Presbyterian Church and
Mill have a predilection for that
faith. But 1 see good in all
chnrche* and I have great vene-
ration for the oldest Chureh of
alb—a church that haa Mood the
atom* of centuries and which
will eome triumphant from the
storm that has been raised about
it in Mexico by a relentless gang
of Bolshevists who got their or-
ders from Bad Russia.
If you and Senator Borah could
travel over Mexieo in cog and
without the Mexicans knowing of
you coming or going or who you
were you would have no trouble
in verifying all that I have said
in my letter.
Sincerely your fri6ndf
JEFF: McLEMORE
Another
JoKe
The Laredo TVaee has a big
headline across its front page
telling its readers that the “Mon-
terrey Hiway (Is) to Be Finished
At G»ne«.” This information was
furnished the Times by Mexican
Consul I. M. Vazquea, but it is
only a companion piece to that
$6,500.00 irrigation project the
Times told us about last fall, the
information of which was also
furnished the Times by the Con-
sul. Calles and Morones are not
spending any millions in making
public improvements in Mexico,
and newspaper reports of great
irrigation projects and public
highways being built by Messr*
Calles and Morones are no
longer regarded as even respec-
table propaganda. Some money
will no doubt be spent in doing
a little work on the road be-
tween Nuevo Laredo and Monter-
rey, but only for the purpose of
impressing that “Good Will Ca-
ravan” billed to leave San An-
tonio sometime in April for Mon-
terrsy and taking on enough
“Good Willers” at Laredo to
help swell the “Caravan” and
make it stretch out for quite a
little distance. We doubt exceed-
ingly, however that Governor
Moody will be in the “Caravan”,
and there is good reason to doubt
that the “Caravan” itself will
move at the appointed time.
However, it may for Mr. Calles
needs all the good will” he can
just now get from this side of
the Bio Bravo, and those good
Monterrey refreshments are said
to be quite alluring when they
have the Presidential touch. i
THE GOVERNOR'S REASONS
It waa not until Sunday last
that Diatrict Attorney John A.
Valla pnd Sheriff Joe Condren
received official notification that
the death sentences of Herminio
Garsa Williams and Cruz Mar-
tinez had been commuted to life
imprisoBonment and then not
untl after they had written to
the Secretary of State asking for
a certified eopy of the proclama-
tion issued by Governor Ferguson
and which gives her reasons for
untold psrsecu-y commuting tho sentences. Wil-
liams and Garsa, aged 22 and
20 years respectively, were the
confessed murderers of Sterling
Huntley, and after a fair and
impartial trial and in which they
were defended by four lawyers,
they were found guilty and the
jury assessed their punishment
at dsath in the electric chair.
The murder of Huntley occur-
red at a lone place on the road
between Laredo and Zap&ta and
was of the most brutal nature. In
commoting the sentences to life
imprisonment, the Governor give
•a her reason “their youth” and
“the haste with which they were
tried, without any opportunity
for their proper defense.” This,
howeyer, is the reverse of the
facts, for the young men were
given every opportunity and were
ably defended by four lawyer*
Tke ease was appealed, but be-
fore the court had acted the ap-
peal waa withdrawn and the case
was laid before the Governor.
Since the Governor acted, on
January 17, last the two murder-
era have been in jail in San Anto-
nio bnt will now bo transferred
to the State penitentiary at Hunts
viHe.
BORDERING ON HEATHENISM
A lady well known in Laredo,
but for several years past resid-
ed with her husband in Mexieo,
where he made quite a Urge in-
vestment in lands prior to 1917,
died in that country recently and,
under the Bolshevik laV* of Mex-
ieo, waa denied the privflf
a Christian burial, no
itian buri
*y being
home or at
member of j
Church, but her dj
TALE
G. Under good, district manag-
er of the Southwestern Beil Tele-
phono Company and owner of the
long-distance line between La-
redo and San Diagp, was hero
Saturday from Laredo, where ho
makes Ms home, and inspected
tke now line tkat Has been built
HebbronvUle and Lare-
ras well pleased to note
of tho new two-story
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