Eagle Pass Guide. (Eagle Pass, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 13, 1894 Page: 1 of 8
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The Military Post.
The directors of the Board of Trade
met on Saturday night last under the
presidency of Air. Fitch and adopted a
communication to our congressman,
Hon. T. M. Paschal, on the post question,
which we have pleasure in publishing
below:
Eagle Pass, Jan. 7, 1894.—The Hon.
T. M. Paschal, M. C., Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:—At a meeting of the directors
of the Board of Trade held last night, it
was unanimously resolved to follow up
the resolutions of the Mesquite Club on
the military post question by letter, giv-
ing you some data which you may not
be possessed of, and some suggestions
which may perhaps be useful atthisjunc-
ture, in terms following:
You are aware that the appropriation
of $20,000 made by congress in 'March,
1891, has at length been used in the pur-
chase of the old site of Ft. Duncan,
62.94 acres, and 92.35 acres additional
ground. The deeds completing the pur-
chase are now on record here. That ap-
propriation was the outcome of a care-
ful presentation of facts and arguments
by this board, of mature deliberation by
the military committee, of strong recom-
mendations by officers of the army from
the commander-in-chief downwards, and
of persistent efforts of Mr. Crain, your
predecessor, supported by Mr. Sayers
and others. The citizens of Eagle Pass,
with American citizens and corporations
on the opposite bank of the Rio Grande,
have awaited with more or less patience
for nearly three years past the comple-
tion of this purchase. Now that it is
completed, their anxiety is, that the war
department should proceed with all prac-
ticable speed, to order the erection of
buildings somewhat proportioned
to the amount invested in the
site, and to the recognized importance of
this position on the Mexican frontier. At
the risk of “telling you the road you
know” we may point out
1. That Eagle Pass and the site pur-
chased are situated directly opposite the
Alexican city of C. Porfi rio Diaz (old name,
Piedras Negras), which has a population
of about 10,000 people, and with which
it is connected by two steel bridges,
where also the Alexican government
keeps quite a number of troops; that the
machine shops and headquarters of the
American-owned Mexican International
railroad are situated at the Mexican end
of one of those bridges; that the works
named and residences there alone repre-
sent a large amount of capital, and quite
a number of Americans are connected
therewith;
2. That Eagle Pass stands on a great
highway between the two republics, and
is in close touch, by standard gauge rail-
road, with all large centers of commerce
and population in Mexico; that General
Sherman said, July 11, 1882, and Jan.
16, 1882: “It (Fort Duncan) is the true
military point............It is in my judg-
ment, after personal inspection, essential
in the defense of the Rio Grande fron-
tier;” that the strong recommendations
of the late departmental commander,and
the more recent and more urgent one of
his successor, General Wheaton, to
strengthen the garrisons along the Mex-
ican border, and especially to place ad-
ditional troops at Eagle Pass as soon
as possible, point in the same direction—
recommendations certainly emphasized
by the late border troubles and the ex-
perience of the United States troops;
3. That Eagle Pass will be the onlv
permanent post between Laredo and El
Paso, a border line of over 100U miles;
that the Rio Grande is fordable nine
months in the year at several places in
this vicinity, and that the lands abutting
upon it are densely covered with mes-
quite and other growth affording ample
cover for marauding or conspiring par-
ties which imperil the lives and property
of American citizens, and jeopardise the
friendly relations of the two republics;
4. That there is no point upon the en-
tire boundary line between the United
States and Mexico, which has such com-
manding claims to be made a military
post of the first rank as Eagle Pass—
this assertion being in line with the ex-
pressed opinions of military experts and
others, on file with the war department,
to which may be added the fact, borne
out by official reports to the department,
that Eagle Pass is one of the healthiest
locations in the Union;
In view of the foregoing and much
more that might be said, the board of
trade, which in this matter represents
the entire community, suggests that you
should wait upon the Secretary of War,
and urge the importance of the post site
purchase being promptly followed by the
erection of suitable buildings for, say, a
six or eight company post. In case there
should not be sufficient money available
for this purpose from what is known as
the “Barracks Fund”—the department
will be able to say as to this—it may be im-
portant that you should introduce a bill
for securing an adequate appropriation.
May be you could usefully confer with
Mr. Sayers—whose good services in con-
nection with the post site appropriation
are not forgotten here—and with Mr.
Crain. Our idea is, that the government
having sunk $20,000 in a site, ought
consistently, to go ahead and build.
This board, while giving you the above
data and suggestions, would leave you a
large discretion, as you are on the spot,
being persuaded that you will not miss a
chance of insuring the erection of post
buildings commensurate with the im
portance of the position of Eagle Pass
and the interests involved with the least
possible delay. Yours truly,
On behalf of the Eagle Pass Board of
Trade, Joseph Metcalfe,
Secretary.
Military Hospital—The Casino—Banking and
Loan Company—A Textile Factory—Sew
Buildings—Short Stops—Tampico Notes—
Personals.
Heavy hands for railroad watches at
R. Kleinsmiths, 75 cents per pair.
Charles W. Barnard, one of the most
prominent and popular stockmen of
southwest Texas, died last week at noon
at Santa Rosa hospital of typhoid pneu-
monia. He was stricken with the fatal
malady on the Sunday before Christmas
and Dr. Amos Graves, Sr. was called to
his bedside by special train. Dr. Graves
visited him on Monday and brought him
to San Antonio by special train, arriving
here about four o’clock. Mr. Barnard’s
condition gradually grew worse and he
expired within a few hours after reach-
ing that city.
Mr. Barnard was born in Spenccrport,
Alonroe county, N. Y., July 28, 1856,
and came to Texas in 1875. His father,
who survives him, is an honored citizen
on Monroe county and is in command of
a steamer. His brother, Capt. William
Barnard, is a prominent citizen of Roch-
ester, N. Y., and has served several terms
as alderman of that city. His relatives
in this city are Mr. August Santleben
and family and Mr Albert Meyer, the
city auditor, who has been associated in
business with him for a number of years.
He was a prominent member of Uvalde
lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
and Bexar Encampment, No. 11, Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of this
city, under the auspices of which organ-
ization he was buried.
No one who ever met him either in
social or business intercourse was not
impressed with his genial and friendly
disposition and his honest and upright
dealings. He was one of nature’s noble-
men. His demise in the full strength of
vigor and manhood will be felt by his
many friends and associates.
He leaves a sorrowing and devoted
wife and one child. She is a daughter of
Mr. Ross Kennedy, a wealthy and well-
known citizen of Uvalde county.—San
Antonio Express.
— Great bargains in bedsteads, cutlery,
arms, tools, etc. at Sieber & Co.’s, C.
Porfirio Diaz.
—Frank H. Dillon now represents in
this section that old and well-known In-
surance Company, the Manhattan of
New York.
—Lipper Brothers is the name of a new
wholesale notion house in Houston.
The partners are Messrs. Arthur and
Emil Lipper, both not so long since mer-
chants of this city. The former estab-
lished the new house not many months
ago, and the latter added his capital and
experience to it with the advent of the
new year.
—Everything you want at Sieber’s
hardware store, C. Porfirio Diaz, 20 per
cent. better and cheaper than anywhere
else.
—Dr. A. Whitaker has long given
special attention to the treatment of the
diseases, peculiar to females, and sufferers
will find it to their interest to consult
him.
—On Thursday night of last week some
one stole Dr. A.H.Evans’ case of medicines
and instruments from his buggy. The
case is valueless to laymen, but the doc-
tor offers $10 reward for its return in-
tact.
—Mr. "William Fersruson of the cus-
toms service, Capt. Townsend, Inspector
Luke Do we and some others made a
hunting trip to the bluffs some fifty miles
below town this week, and thirty fat
turkeys fell before their guns.
Hard Fact.
Sieber & Co are now selling below cost
their immense stock of hardware. South-
west corner main plaza, C. Porfirio Diaz.
To the Guide.
Monterey, N. L., Alex., Jan. 12,1894.
A few days ago I was invited by Dr. J.
M. Gonzales, the medical director of the
military hospital in this city, to pay
him a visit which I did. I called at 9 a.
m. and was conducted into the office
where I met the doctor who introduced
me to doctor Felix Suarez, physician in
charge, and Capt. Ayudante Sixto Vaz-
quez. Doctor Gonzalez then took me
through the drug store, museum, the
armory, the sickwards, kitchen and din-
ing room, thebowlingalley,gymnasium,
and the operating' room. Here we were
shown several sets of nickel-plated surgi-
cal instruments which cost over $3000 in
gold. They are the latest and best, and
embrace early kind and style that is now
used by the profession. There was one
set of field instruments that cost over
$450 gold.
The patio or court yard is artistically
laid out with walks and shade trees,
lose bushes, oranges, and lemons whose
sweet odors perfumed the atmosphere,
bananas, ferns, and tropical plants;
everything about the place look clean
and cheerful
The Mexican government may not
pay their men much money per month,
but they take good care of their sick.
Doctor Gonzalez is quite a young' man
to have charge of an institution of this
kind, but on account of his superior skill
as a surgeon he was recently appointed
its medical director.
The managers of the Casino are about
to make extensive improvements on their
hall this winter. They are going to ex-
tend th^ball room, build additional par-
lors and reception rooms, a kitchen and
dining room, bath room and rvater
closets. The improvements that they
propose to make will cost about $20,-
000. This hall when finished, as now
contemplated will be the handsomest in
the republic. The total cost will be in
the neighborhood of $100,000.
There is a movement on foot to estab-
lish a loan and pawn shop institution.
A charter and a concession have been
applied for. Some of the most promi-
nent citizens and capitalists are at the
head of it. The rate of interest will be
limited to 4 per cent, a month.
There is every reason to belieye that
before many weeks roll by there will be
a large factory erected for the treatment
of ixtle, leehuguilla, henequen, maguey,
cacti, cirio, palm, banana, palmetto, and
cocoa. As there are large quantities of
all but the cocoa growing on the moun-
tains and valleys in this country, which
do not need cultivation, and can be
gathered at very little cost, there is
every reason to believe that such a plant
would pay- well. The party who pro-
posed coming here has discovered a pro-
cess by which the pulp can be removed
from the fiber without breaking it, at
very little expense. He proposes to
make twine out of the fiber and paper of
the pulp. The party who has been writ-
ing here for information about the cacti
of this country proposes to put in a
plant that will cost about $100,000.
Last Alonday morning your corres-
pondent visited several places in the city.
All along the line of the street cars I saw
men erecting new buildings and remodel-
ing and rebuilding others. Near the
Monterey and Mexican Gulf depot there
is a one story' stone building going up.
It is in the shape of am L, each wing is
20x100 feet.
On the first of January they fired up
at the new saw mill that the Afonterev
furniture manufacturing company are
erecting. This is the only one of the nine
buildings which comprise the group
that is finished. They do not
expect to be ready' to manufacture fur-
niture before the 1st of June.
Prof. N. Kaurts has been giving magic
lantern exhibitions to full houses the past
week. The scenes that he threw on the
canvas were very picturesque, and
amused the old as well as the voung.
He goes from here to Laredo, San Anto-
nio, Houston, and Galveston.
They' expect a large excursion party
here from the north and east by the 20th
which will spend two days in this city.
On the 5th Air. J. A. Robertson, gen-
eral manager of the Alonterey and Alexi-
can Gulf railroad, Wm. Mackenzie, traf-
fic manager, and Mr. Sam Park, went
to Tampico in Mr. Robertson’s private
car “Sierra Atojada,” and returned on
Sunday morning. They found the road
and business at Tampico in good shape.
The following ships arrived and cleared
since the 1st: Schooners Severn, Jaenie
Lockwood, John S. Klauntz; S. S. Louis-
iana, S. S. Merjulio, S. S. Regulus, S. S.
Progreso, S. S. City of Washington,
S. S. Vera Cruz, and S. S. Gallic. All of
them brought freight for points on the
line of the Alonterey and Mexican Gulf
railway.
Tourists have begun to come in. There
has been quite a number of arrivals this
week. J. R. Rooth, Sierra Mojada, C. K.
Dunlap, 0. K. Hamilton, Eagle Pass; J.
W. Poreh, Tampico; B. F. Larue and
wife, Villaldama; Reagan Houston and
wife, D. H. Ainsworth and wife, John
Haley, M. Comack, and Frank Baitler,
San Antonio; Capt. Ismael Ramos, eheif
of police, Saltillo; C. T. Herring and
wife, Vernon; Rev. N. R. Richardson, D.
D, , N. J.; Rev. Robert E. Spur, Miss R.
E. Spur, New York City, and Rev. Isaac
Bayu, Saltillo. E. L.
As to Perm isos.
The Guide presents below a free trans-
lation of the decree of President Diaz, as
to the documentation of small shipments
originating at American, and destined
for consumption within the Alexican,
border towns. The translation copied
last week from a Alexico city paper
conveyed the erroneous impression that
the decree had reference to duties, where-
as it but reduces the value of the goods
imported on a permiso from $100 to $50
and increases the stamp tax from twenty
cents to fifty cents per page of official
papers used in the original permiso:
By virtue of the power granted to him
by the laws of 1893 and 1894 and Dec.
:t 1,1884, the president of the republic
has decreed as follows:
1. The law of June 12, 1891, Article
468, section 1 and article 469 of the cus-
toms law are amended as follows:
Small importations of merchandise
originating in towns opposite the border
custom houses and intended for con-
sumption in the frontier: towns, may be
imported on partial permits issued by
the collectors, when the value of such im-
portations does not exceed $50. If it is
ascertained that the value of any impor-
tation so made exceeds $50, theimport-
er will be fined double the consular fees
which the certificate w'ould regularly
have cost. The importer must present
such permits in quadruplicate to the col-
lector in accordance with form 67, de-
claring the merchandise as required in
the eonsular invoice according to article
44 of the customs laws. Each permit
must be stamped with a 50 cent stamp
on each page. This decree will be effect-
ive from Jan. 1, 1894.
PERSONAL.
Miss Esther Jones, who teaches the little
SXLthC sc*100,s> spent Christ
BS&JSagSrs 5SS&2* Sgfts tfe
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IS a good town.—Brackett News.
from the'veI1 known dentist
Antonio, who has done much
excellent work on the teeth of this border
citvUnuH v,UrinS the past few Years, is in the
city and has rooms at the Dolch. He will
remain only two days.
Professor and Mrs. Blakesiey, and the
young lady teachers of the institute, Miss
Dove, Miss Gehrett, and Miss Price, visited
the beautiful Mexican city, Monterev, last
week. Miss Price’s account of the'trip is.
very interesting.—Brackett News P ~
her relatives. The young lady ret
News.
Miss Mollie Brown, teacher of the higher
®e'5?^e aA region where it
gotion pump on the market, w
family, and brother, arrived in the citv on
Sunday last, and are staying at the Dolch
Mr. Menge is in ill health, and was very
weak when he arrived here He resides at
New Orleans and is in hopes that the dry
his^traigt h^e <^rant^e valley may restore
firm So™ SS°P.’ sLpseV'&
irned this week from an extended ’tr;~
through Mexico, during which he visit
Puebla, Cuatla, Irapuato, Silao, and
other
•eater
Puebla, Cuatla, Irapuato, Silao, and c
by w
and
time. Hotel keepers told Mr: Simpson
vay of excuse, that heat rarities the air
this, in an altitude so great as Mexico*
MmmEM
n”ntlUrai,!iln£'. Tb,c Panic and hard times so
noticeable elsewhere, do not seem to have
Marriage.
Spence-Morton. — At Waukeshua,
Wisconsin, December 10th 1893, by the
Rev. Dr. Sanford, Edmund R. Spence, of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Bessie Easton
Morton, daughter of Captain Charles
Morton, Third Cavalry, United States
Army.
— A $850 piano for $3 at Leehengers’.
noticeable elsewhere, do not seem to have
taken hold in that country, while the decline
of silver seems to have been a blessing in dis-
guise, acting as a stimulus to every inc
in the country, either adding to the vi
exported products or increasing the d<
for articles for domestic consumption
Simpson was especially impressed t
sou
rem
tour
ces, m
notw
ipson was especially impressed bv the
mdness ot the federal treasury, and br the
the
an-
an-
—Cash paid for clean cotton rags at
the Guide office.
—Attention is directed to the change in
the advei-tisement of the Dolch Hotel.
Mr. AV. L. Lyman, the new proprietor, is
well known to every one in Eagle Pass,
and under his personal management this
old and most justly popular hostlery
may be relied upon to give even greater
satisfaction to the traveling public in the
future than in the past.
—100 different varities of fine cut
glasses for wfine, liquors, etc., at F. W.
Holbrook’s. The best of bar glassware,
plain and engraved a specialty'.
—The Manhattan Life Insurance Com
pany of New York has appointed Mr. F.
H. Dillon of this city its agent for the
Rio Grande district.
—A $150 organ for $3 at Leehengers’,
—Capt. Paddock, with a detachment
of his cavalry troop, will proceed over-
land along the riyer from this place to
Laredo next week—a march of over 300
miles there and back.
—The King Comedy company occupied
the courthouse for three nights this week
and drew good audiences. The entire
absence of all scenery and usual appli-
ances to set off the stage, made the task
of the company very difficult indeed. Yet
notwithstanding the disadvantages un-
der which they labored, they afforded
excellent entertainment. Miss Grace
Hezlep as widow, mother, and maid ex-
pressed her assumed characters with re-
markable individuality and naturalness,
exaggerating the characteristic phases
of her role with judicious art. Charles
King showed marked ability as a corn-
median, while Miss Willa Blaine did the
heroine parts with delightful artlessness.
—A $125 watch for $3 at Leehengers’.
—Co to Stiebel’s on Mam street near
depot Piedras Negras, for the Eagle Pass
Guide, the Globe-Democrat, and the best
ciara.s.
CHURCH NOTICES.
Usual services morning and night at the
are frcc and thc
The subject of the morning discourse at the
Episcopal church will be “Thecaliing ofGod’s
SllYSSSP-SLfg.?1" The «
Catholic.—From November 1st until
Easter services will be held in the Church of
—A masquerade ball will be given un-
der the auspices of the Mesquite club on
Friday evening, February 2nd. Mem-
bers of the club and their invited non-
resident guests will form the company.
-Uigh Mass, at lO a. m. Thc evening
at 5 p. m. &
Rev. L. Maurel, O. M. I., Pastor.
—Mexican dollars are worth 54 cents
in Eagle Pass today'.
Business Notice.
To the Public:—Having sold out my
drug and stationery business to Mr. E.
H. Cooper, I take this occasion to thank
my patrons and the public at large for
favors conferred in the past and at the
same time to request the continuance of
the patronage extended to me, for my
successor. All accounts due by the old
business will be settled by me, and to me
all accounts due them should also be
paid as early as possible.
W. L. Lyman.
Eagle Pass, Texas, Jan. 12, 1894.
The Diario Oficial of the 22nd
ultimo publishes the terms of the
concession granted Joaqnin D.
Casasus, repesenting the Irri-
gation Company of San. Juan
de Camargo, Tamaulipas, to
undertake certain irrigation
works there. The water is to
be obtained from the San Juan
river. The plans are to be pres-
sented within ten months to the
department for approval. The
preliminary surveys are to be
made within ten months. The
The work of excavation is to
be commenced within four
months of the approval of the
plans and the forty kilometers
of canal and the dam must be
completed within four years
thereafter. Mr. Scougall, the
English irrigation expert, has
been employed to make the pre-
liminary surveys and is at
present on the ground for the
purpose. Thecompany includes
several well-known capitalists
and the inhabitants of the dis-
trict are taking a strong inte-
nest in the project.—Ex.
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