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Cattle, Cotton, OH
THE HEBBRONVILLE NEWS
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Volume IV, Nmber 12.
HEZERONVILLE, (JIM HOOO COUNTY, TEXAS Wednesday, February 23, 1927.
SUBSCRIBE MOW.
News From Oil Fields
IN JIM HOOO COUNTY
Only four wildcats are active
in Jim Hogg County at this time,
say.* Monday's San Antonio Ex-
press. Roxana Petroleum Corpora
tion’s No. 1 Vela in Survey 579,
Share 3, is the one that is being
watched the most closely and is
now at 2,501 feet total depth.
Holden et ul No. 3 Jones in Block
136 Share 27 ha* spudded in and
is drilling at 500 feet. The Texas
Company hus not announced
location of the No 1 Vela which
will he made in either Survey
582 or 589. Hamilton et al No. 1
Holhien in Block 44. Hamilton
subdivision spudded in the first
of last week and is drilling at
150 feet.
Magnolia Petroleum Companys
No. 17 Merchants State Bank in
Survey 236 just north of the dis-
THE MISSOURI PACIFIC
LINES.
There is nothing wrong with
basic economic conditions in the
Middle West and Southwest.
There seems to persist a feeling
of uneasiness with regard to the
immediate future prosperity of
the Middle West and the Great
Southwest. There is no funda-
tion for such fear. The facts are
that barring some unforeseen
nationwide or world wide cala-
mity, there is every reason to ex-
pect a continuation of the gen-
erally satisfactory conditions
which have prevailed. Numerous
facts and factors contribute to
this belief. Among them may be
listed:
The normal in increase in po-
pulation.
The yearly increase in total
and per capita wealth.
The daily increase of about a
million dollars a day in savings
accounts.
The remarkably fine physical
Condition of the railroads.
The tremendous extension of
highway systems.
The increasing domestic de-
mand for the products of farms
and factories.
The comparative little unem-
ployment.'
The spread of enlightenment—
■education.
And a factor that must not
be overlooked is the intention of
the railroad to again this year
spend nearly a billion dollars of
new capital for extensions and
improvements to the existing
Tnilrond plant. Not only will the
improved service which will re-
sult be helpful in the general si-
tuation. but also the actual spend
ing of the new capital will be a
most valable contribution to the
jUVtal! volume of business the
•country.
The Great Southwest will con-
tinue for the next few years the
greatest agricultural develop-
ment and expansion in the his-
tory of the country. The develop
ment is proceeding along sane
and sound line—not in any sense
a “boom”.
The railroads have inaugurat-
ed new and additional service as
needed, and today the entire
country is enjoying the best and
most reliable railroad transpor-
tation in all history. To continue
necessary improvements and ex-
pansion to meet the growing re-
quirements of this cver-develop-
jng country, owners of railroad
ajecurittes must he permitted to
ram a fair return on their invest
tnont. On this is dependent the
continuation of record-breaking
efficient sendee and good wages
for the nearly two million em-
ployes, and million men and wo-
men in allied industries.
Tn the last five year* public
sympathy has swung n tieeably
to the side of the railr ad. What
is needed now. additi >.*» to sym-
pathy is serious intelligent study
ot* the railroad situation on the
part of the public to the end that
the railroads be fairly treated so
they .may continue to lead the
way to further development of
the entire country and a continua
tion of prosperity.
I solicit your co-operation and
suggestions.
L. M. BALDWIN.
Pres M. P. Lines.
The estimated population of
TV*a< is 5.312,661. Tia is exeaed-
ud by only Hunt atataa.
covery well of the Alworth Bros,
pool, is testing sand encounter-
ed at 1,039-1,041 feet Dauehy
Maddox & Harvey’s No. 1 M
Garcia, northwest of the Alworth
well in Survey 281, Block 5, to-
tal depth 1,393 feet, will test
weel at one of the upper sunds,
and test.
I Randado pool in Jim Hogg
County the past week brought in
three oil wells, two of which
made 100 barrels. Two new lo
cations were made for in proven
territory and several more were
spuded in.
Grayburg Oil Compnn's No. 13
Weil, in Survey 81. Block 9, at
1,306 feet, came in, making 100
barrels, and a location was made
for the No. 15 Weil in the same
block and survey. Magnolia Pe
troleum Company’s No. 14 Mer
chants State Bank in Survey 415
at a total depth of 1,260 feet,
made 50 barrels, and .T. L. Col-
lins & Co. No. 9 Palaeious in
Survey 291, 291 Block 21, ot
the same field at 1,246 feet, made
100 barrels. Total production
added for the week to the field
250 barrels.
Trssell-Cezeau-Putman’s No. 1
Palaeious in Survey 232. Block
2, which has been standing for
some months at 1.467 feet has
been abandoned at that depth.
Magnolia Petroleum Company’s
No. 24 Martinez in the southern
extention of the Henne Winch &
Farris field, in Survey 276, at
1.997 feet, came in making 10.-
000,000 cubic feet of gas. This
is the second gasser in the last
two weeks that the Magnolia has
gotten in its southern extension
to the field.
Livignston-Baker’s No. 1 Pala-
cios in the Randado field. Sur-
vey 278, Block 18, spuded in on
last Wednesday and is drilling
at 75 feet in the same field, Sur-
vey 415 Magnolia’s No. 16 Mer-
chants .State Bank at 1.240 feet,
has set casing, and in Survey
291. Block 7, their No. 19 De la
Garza, is testing at 1.296 feet.
Magnolia Petroleum Companys
No. 21 Martinez in Survey 276
of the Henne Winch & Farias
field is standing at 2.04B feet,
waiting on Star machine and the
No. 25 Martinez in the same sur-
vey is drilling at 1,100 feet. K.
& S. Corporation’s No. 52 Hol-
hien in Survey 11 Block 22, of
the Kitselmun & St. Albans pool
has a saud at 2,146 feet and has
sect casing, and in Survey 17,
Block 40 has derrick up for the
No. 57 Holhien. Killam Long’s
No. 1. I>opez is drilling at 1.400
feet in Survey 69, Block 5 Ed-
ward St. Albans No. 5 Lopez in
Share 1, Block 17. is drilling at
1,375 feet, and derick is up for
the No. 6 in the same block and
share. No. 1 Holhien of Edward
St. Albans in Block 38 of Hogg
Ridge Subdivision is rigging up.
and will be a test that will be
a test that will he watched
closely, because of its distance
from the production of the field.
THE MEXICAN SITUATION
ADVERTISING HEBBONVILLE
Many Hebbronville people
evidently about 300, were in La-
redo on Washington’s Birthday
and many of them wore Hebbron
ville Chamber of Commerce bad-
ges. These badges were the work
of Mr. Paul W. Lisle, the live
Secretary of the Hebbronville
Chamber of Commerce, and they
gave Hebbronville and adver-
tisement the town has never be-
fore received or sirailiar or
other occasions. After taking in
Laredo’s celebration. Mr. Lisle
went to San Antonio in the in-
terest of a movement or two that
will mean a great deal for Heb-
bronville if he succeeds in put-
ting them through.
Following the announcement
that Harry Sinclair was in Mex-
ico City, comes the report that
a special agent, sent by Calles and
Morones to New York City, had
also arrived in Mexi.o City. This
agent, according to what The
News regards as a well-authenti-
cated report, was sent to New
York with a secret message to
the big oil companies and which
wus in effect that they could
make their own terms regarding
the settlement of the oil question,
if they would resume opera-
tions, and thus the hurried visit
of Mr. Sinclair to the Mexican
Capital. With their war on the
oil men, the American land-own-
ers, and the Catholic Church at
the same time, Calles and Moro-
nes have decided that they had
too many irons in the fire, and
that under the strain their g^v-
ermnment was fast breaking
down. And so they have wisely
decided, according to private in-
formation received from Mexico
City to let the oil men come back
on their own terms and again
give employment to the thou-
sands of employees who were
thrown ont of work when they
shut down Hiid ceased operating
and developing their properties.
The same information says that
the agrarian laws are to be great-
ly modified and those Americans
who have been deprived of their
property under the Bolshevistic
decrees of Calles and Morones
are to have it restored to them,
at least for the time being.
With these two troublesome
items disposed of temporarily,
anyway, comes the announcement
that the fight on the Catholic
Church is to be prosecuted with
renewed vigor by Calles and Mo-
rones, who have been told that
in this they will have Ihe sanc-
tion and approval of a certain
American element, who could
not endorse the other fights they-
were making. The first move in
this renewed fight, which was
permitted to quiet down a little
because of the other perplexing
questions, all Catholic priests
have been ordered to Mexico City
but for what specific reason is
not known, unless it is to deprive
their flocks of leadership and
leave them at the mercy of the
Russian propagandists, who are
now traveling about over Mexico
as peddlers and disseminating
Bolshevik propaganda among the
illiterate masses who have al-
ways looked to their priests for
guidance in matters of this kind.
Those priests who refuse to obey
the order are to be arrested and
tried for conspiracy and either
shot or deported. It is the general
belief that once in Mexico City,
the priests will be placed in a
detention camp, already establish
cd in an isolated section of
country and on the order of those
established in Cuba by the
Spnnish General Weyler, which
was one of the causes of our war
with Spain.
AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY
First year students of the Uni-
versity of Texas will be required
to take psychological tests for
one more year, according to E. J.
Asher, instructor in psychology.
The results which Univenrty of-
ficials hoped to obtain when it
was decided to give the intel-
ligence test for a period of five
rears have more than been real-
ized, he said, in determining the
abilities of students entering
ths University for the first time.
Fearful that recognition of
Mexico would be withdrawn, Cal
lo^ and Morones, hoping to lessen
the danger in that direction, huve
made terms with the American
oil men and land-owners for the
prc.ent at least, and arc * nfin
ing their activities to persecution
rf the Catholics, feeling assured
-hat this latter move would re-
ceive the support of a certain ag-
gressive and vindictive element
ir the United Statjs. When the
oi! nnd other industries control-
h 1 by Americans .-eased opera-
tions, it threw thousands upon
thousands of Mexicans out of
employment, and the complaint
of these laboring people, fast
turning into a deep growl, was
becoming a menace, for they
blamed Calles and Morones for
the calamity that had befallen
them and unrest was becoming
more and more apparent in prac-
tically every section of the coun-
try. And with such conditions
confronting tl|ni, they realis-
ed that, even if the United Htates
did not withdraw recognition,
their government, was fast break-
ing down and, must inevitably
fall if something were not done
to Ktav the onrolling tide, and
thus their peaee with the oil and
land men, hoping that by auch
peace they will be able to restore
out of work by their drastic
measures and quiet the growing
unrest.
People in the united States
who have been misled by the
false propaganda circulated by
paid Amerieau propagandists,
have no idea of the awful condi-
tions that really exist in Mexico.
No crops have been raised in
Mexico the past two years, with
the exception of small patches of
corn and beans grown here and
there, and millious of Mexicans
see starvation staring them in
the face. The land- owners, the
producers, have had their farms
and plantations taken from them
and turned over to the peons
and this has resulted iu Mexico,
which should be one of the
world’s most productive coun-
tries, becoming instead a non-
productive country, for the peons
have no initiative and and will
not work without a directing
head.
But this is not the saddest
part of the situation. The peo-
ple of Mexico, more than 90 per
cent of whom are Cotholies arc
now denied the right of their
religion and can no longer have
religious exercises at cither their
weddings or funerals. If they
marry it must be by a civil of-
ficial and not by a priest or
preacher. Even a daughter of
President Calles was denied the
right to be married by a priest in
Mexico, but she and her mother
hare announced, through the
newspapers, that while a civil
marriage would be performed in
Mexico City, the daugther would
go to San Antonio, Texas, to
be married, or remarried by a
priest, she and her mother being
devout Catholics, as is also the
groom. When a funeral takes
place in Mexico it must be
without any kind ceremony that
evon borders on religion, and
it is often the case, even among
the better classes, that the dead
are buried as unceremoniously
as though they were animals.
And this is invariably the case
with the peoners, who are too
often placed in the grave with-
out either shroud or coffin. And
theae conditions have been for-
ced upon the millions by the few
who hold the place of power and
•re tolerated by the United
States, that calles itself a Chris-
tian Nation.
which conies from his chief and
in the obedience of which he
denies God and the Christian
religion. And this is in Mexico
under the Bolshevik government
of Guiles and Moronsg. and which
is recognized by the United
States! Well may one panic
and ask “Whither are wc drift-
ing!”
Since the above was typed,
it has been learned that Calles
permitted a priest, Father Mayer
of the State of Veracruz, to per
form the marriage ceremony
but after the wedding the bride
and groom discovered that the
priest Calles had brought to per-
form the ceremony had b'-en
suspended some weeks before by
Bishop Guizar Valeneio, Bishop
of Veracruz, and was not a qua-
lified priest. Following the dis-
covery of the hoax of which they
were made the innocent vi?1ms
the bride and groom announced
that they would come to Laredo
or Skn Antonio and have the
ceremony performed by a regulur
priest. Calles permitted the wed-
ding of his daugther to occur
in Chapultepec Castle but de-
clined to honor it with hi* pre-
sence.
Four Catholic priests arrived
in Laredo the eorly part of the
week from Tampico, having been
deported and sent across the river
stripped of what little money
they possessed. On Mondav, it
was known in Laredo that 100
priests had been placed in jail in
Qoeretaro. The only charge
against these priests is that
they refused to register under
the harsh decree issued by Calles
Reports have also been received
jo i a«most j dun pun pmjjw oqi jo
many priests in other sections
charged with the same offense.
And in all of this is seen the
directing hand of Red Russia,
administered through Russia’s
Red Ambassadress to Mexico
CRv, and who. so the Mexicans
claim; gives Calles his orders as
regal ary as the day comes. And,
being the head of the Third In-
ternationale in America, it is
absolutely compulsory on Calles
to obey theae orders, for a Bol-
'employment to thoae they threw| ^gvigt knows no law except thatj (Continued oa Fife Two.)
In Washington City, on Feb-
ruary 16, Jose Miguel Bejarano
of the Mexican Chamber of Com-
merce, was permitted to go be-
fore a subcommittee of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee where he made this state-
ment, according to the Interna-
tional News Service:
“American bankers are refus-
ing to renew loans in Mexico,
and, in many cases, have recall-
ed loans. It is the general belief
iu Mexico that this financial boy-
cott is being conducted at the
direction of the State Depart-
ment.”
Admitting that the banker* are
controlled by State Department,
which is doubtful, the Bejara-
no statement shows the arro-
gance of the representative of a
Bolshevik government when given
the least opportunity. But while
Benor Jose Miguel Bejarana,
under the dome of our National
Capital, is criticising our State
Department for doing its duty,
provided it did advise American
hankers as to true conditions in
M' <ico, down in Mexico City
• i w Manuel Montes de Oca, the
new Secretary of the Treasury,
on February 17 was telling the
Associated Press how “Mexioo
would fulfill her obligations
under the Lamont-Pani agrement
on Mexico’s foreign debts." He
also assured the Associated Frees
that- “Mexico’s financial prob
1 eins are clearing up" and that
“only some serious, unforeseen
happening could disturb the
prevent equilibrium. I shall de-
vote my attention to an Investi-
gation into the origin of the
slump in silver, from which the
country suffered, and will deter-
mine the total of the intern*!
debt, which is not known." And
then he concluded his statement
to the A. P. by saying that “the
irigation programmes would be
developed in accordance with
budget appropriations."
Here are two_viewa of repre-
sentatives of the Calles Govern-
ment—one delivered in Washing
ton City and berating our Gov-
ernment because American bank-
ers refuse to make any more
loans tn Calles, and the other
delivered in Mexico City, a day
later by a Member of the Calles
Cabinet and in which he tells
how he is going to pay off Mex-
ico’s foreign debt under the
Lamont-Pani agreement and car-
ry out the “irrigation program-
mes" that have been so freely
“advertised" in American newt-
papers the past year and which
have proven to be nothing more
or less than propaganda, intend-
ed to deceive tl\e American peo-
ple by making them believe that
the Calles Government was doing
wonders in the way of building
up Mexico when in truth it was
driving Mexico on the rooks and
wrecking the country.
One of these great irrigating
schemes, to cost $6,500000,00 was
launched (on paper) in Laredo
last fall, and from what two or
thrt>e live American newspapers
said about it, you would have
through! that the great irigation
plant would have been ready to
render service by the coming
spring. The man in charge of this
proposed enterprise smiled at
these newspaper reports, of how
mnterlal for building a great
•him tors a certain Mexican
river was already on the ground,
etc., and said if all the money
($6,500,000.00 was available that
it would take at least three and
a half years to complete the
plant, and that before any ma-
terial could he hauled to th%
proposed damsite, a 40-mile road
wonld first have to he cut thro’
the brush and made passable for
heavy trucks, which ia tha way
that the material will hav* to ba
placed on the ground. The*#
newspaper report# wer# pretty
Sam Bass
The “Free News Merviee’’ of
the University of texas compiled
and edited by Miss Kstheryn
Maddrey, a University student
contains, among other things, the
following, which will be of con-
siderable interest to mauy of
the older Texans, nearly all of
whom will recall Ham Bass and
his daring train robberies back
in the "70s. The news item says:
“In an effort to preserve as
many historical relics as possible
of noted figures of Texas early
history, considerable material
uoacerning Sam Bass, the famed
Texas bandit, has been gathered
by the University of Texas Li-
brary. The cartridge belt Bass
is said to have worn is his last
stand against the Texas Rangers
at Round Rock in 1878 was pre-
sented to the Library some years
ago by Sam Arnet of Lubbock,
Texas. There are exactly thirteen
cartridges of 44 caliber remain-
ing in the belt which gives mute
evidence of hard wear. Two of
the loops of leather holding the
cartridges are broken, and it is
said they were cut by flying bul-
lets during Bass’s last fight. In
addition to the belt, the Univer-
sity possesses considerable print-
ed material about the Texas
deaperado. Original material se-
lected by W. P. Webb Associate
Professor of History in the Uni-
versity, from the office of the
Adjuntant General is also in the
collection Webb has spent much
time following the history of the
Texas Rangers.”
Col. Ike T. Pryor of San Anto-
nio, retired cattleman and capi-
talist, knew Sam Bass personally
and can relate some interesting
stories of him if he only will It
was Capt Dick Ware of the Ran-
gers whose bullet is supposed to
have given Bass his mortal wound
although the Captain never
wkiuld admit it, always saying
that several were shooting about
the same time. Just before Sam
died, however under that tree
near Round Rock, he told the
officers that the man who shot
him just as he was getting on
his horse, was the one who gave
him the fatal wound, and it was
known and conceded at the time
thatthat man was Captain Ware,
Bam Bass carried a 44 Colt’s ac-
cording to Basil, a Fort Worth
gun dealer at the time, as they
used the Winchester cartridge
and these cartridges were obtain-
able almost anywhere out West
ia those days while the Colts 45
shot an exclusive cartridge and
which were much more difficult
to obtain than the 44m. Basil said
he sold Baas and his gang $400.00
worth of six shooters at one time
in the early part of 78, and that
he worked all day filing the
notches off of the hammers of
the two Colt’s 44 caliber guns
that Sum selected for himself.
NINE I* ONE 0LU8TER.
Mr. C. F. Luque has growing in
his yard in this city perhaps the
finest grapefruit tree in all of
this section. This tree had its
first hearing season la*t year
and yielded more than 200 grape-
fruit of a splerflid :f«e and as
delicious as they were large. This
season the yield has been much
heavier and the size of the fruit
very large and strikingly uni-
form. From this tree Mr. Luque
exhibited one hunch or cluster of
nine fully developed grapefruit
and it seemed amazing that one
small branch eould maintain
such weight without breaking
off. There were several clusters
with from three to five in a
cluster. And fine or more de-
licious grapefruit no one ever
tasted. In addition to this beauti-
grapefruit tree, Mr. Luque ha*
other grapefruit trees growing in
hla yard and which will be bear-
ing will next season. He also has
orange and lemon trees that are
beignning to bear and from which
ha expects to have a good yield
season. Tn addiction, he has a
grapevine that is one of tho
finest in the country and which
supplies his table with an ahttn-
danoe of this delicious fruit i»
next season. In adition. he has a
way of cultivating his frnit trees
and grapevine*, and it ia evident-
ly the right way, judging from
the aueeaaa with which ha hat
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