Eagle Pass Guide. (Eagle Pass, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 9, 1895 Page: 1 of 8
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EAGLE PASS GUIDE.
VOL. 7.
EAGLE PASS, MAVERICK COUNTY, TEXAS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY, 9 1895.
NO. 24
West Texas Items.
A deplorable cutting scrape occurred
on the street in front ot the Ranch saloon,
about 7 o’clock last Friday evening, be-
tween J. A. Stroud and J. F. Bennett.
Pocket knives were used, and Bennett
received some sixteen cuts about the
head and body, the most dangerous
"being in the right side, which penetrated
the hollow; while Stroud received alight
•cut in the side and head. The fight
would have terminated fatally had the
knives of both not been broken in the
struggle, Stroud’s knife being broken off
in Bennett’s head, while the blade of the
latter’s became bent. Bennett is yet
•confined to his bed, but is out of danger.
Stroud gave bond in the sum of $500.—
Alpine Avalanche.
The preliminary work on the big irri-
■ gating ditch is progressing favorably
and will soon be under headway. Mr.
F. B. Maltby, engineer in charge and his
assistants Messrs. 1. A. Knox and Frank
Axtell, arrived here the 20th ult. and
immediately commenced the topograph-
ical survey, and locating the line of the
ditch. These gentlemen are busily at
work and are losing no time, and in a
•comparatively short time will have the
survey completed. Mr. B. F. Larkin, su-
perintendent of the dam and flume, ac-
companied by four expert mechanics, ar-
rived in the city Sunday and immediate-
ly went out to the head of the ditch
where camp has been established. The
mechanics are to operate the pile driver
during the construction of the dam. The
lumber for this work, consisting of six
carloads, has already arrived and is be-
ing transported to the site of the dam.
Capt. Benson, secretary of the company
is superintending the unloading of the
material as it arrives, and starts it out.
The gentleman in charge intend to pros-
ecute the work vigorously, and complete
it as soon as possible.—Uvalde News.
A boy by the name of George Lonv,
■about 12 years old, well dressed, and
who looked as though he had been well
raised, arrived here last Saturday night
from Sierra Blanca. Hesaid he had come
-all the way from Toledo, Ohio, and was
in search of his uncle, George Louy, who
was supposed to own a ranch somewhere
in the neighborhood of Sierra Blanca.
He said that he had remained there two
or three days, and could hear nothing of
him, and had been advised to come here.
As no one here knew of any one bv that
name, he was advised to telegraph home
to his lather and find out just where his
uncle lived. The fact that every' time
anybody would suggest telegraphing',
the boy would set up a howl and cry,
“ I want to go home ! I want to go
home!” created suspicion that all was not
right; and as no one could get any
decided information from him, he was
taken in charge by Deputy Wilcox, who
took him home. Alter considcablec oax-
ing, he told that his stepfather’s name
was Jacob Louv, and gave his address
in Toledo. Mr. Wilcox telegraphed him,
and received a reply to the effect that the
boy had stolen $100 from him and left,
and he did not care to have him back.
The boy had about $47 left, and, as
there was nothing to hold him on, he
departed, having purchased a through
ticket for Toledo. The boy claimed his
stepfather mistreated him.— Marfa F>a.
A New Exodus.
On Monday night last a train of three
cars containing Alabama negroes passed
through this port bound for Mapimf
| station, on the Mexican Central railroad,
! whence they will proceed to Tlahualila,
j Durango, to engage in cotton planting,
j The negroes were in charge of Ellis and
Wilson, who have the contract to supplv
1000 of their race each month to the
great cotton land company of Tlahualila.
This company owns lands in the Nazas
valley, on the western verge of the La-
guna region, so famous for its cotton
crops. Some years ago the company
built a dam across the Nazas, making a
great storage lake from which they led
canals to their lands, watering them
abundantly for cotton culture, which is
very lucrative in Mexico, both the lint
and the oil commanding prices there
which would astonish a Texas farmer.
It is to farm these lands that the negroes
are imported. They will be supplied
with land, water and tools by the com-
pany, in return for which the latter will
receive one-half the gross crop of forty-!
five acres in cotton and fifteen in corn.
Supplies also will be advanced to the j
colonists by the company, but for these
the latter will be requii-ed to pay. Each
head of a family, also, will receive a I
grant of five acres for garden. The ne-
groes being accustomed to cotton farm-
ing in Alabama, are expected to make
big money for the company as well as a
competency for themselves. Other train
loads of the dusky emigrants are ex-
pected .
New Health Officer.
The Austin dispatches announce the
appointment by Gov. Culberson of Dr.
A. H. Evans as health officer at this port,
to succeed Dr. M.'K. Lott, whose term
had expired. Dr. Evans is one of.thesol-
id and progressive citizens of Eagle Pass
and his appointment is regarded with
the utmost favor by our people.
—The best bicycle in town for a song
at the Guide office.
—Do you want a pair of shoes that
will last? Then call on E. Coblentz and
ask for the Douglas shoe.
—Dr. Lorenzo Cantu has just received
at his drug store in Ciudad Porfirio Ihaz
a consignment of superfine French medi-
cines and perfumery, which is well worth
examination.
—Representative Martin, of this dis-
trict is making a gallant fight for the
purity of elections on the border, and has
succeeded in having his Australian ballot
bill favorably reported. In a speech
made on the subject, last Tuesday, the
Austin correspondent of the San Antonio
Express made Mr. Martin say (on last
election day) “all the inhabitants ofPor-
firio Diaz, had deserted to this side to
swell Judge Noonan’s majority.” This
was not Mr. Martin’s statement, he
writes. What he did say was that he
had found Porfirio Diaz depopulated of
this kind of voter (i. e. the man who
never does nor intends to naturalize but
still votes for a consideration—Ed.) who
had come over to swell Judge Noonan’s
majority”—in which statement, it will
be observed, there is not found the dis-
respect of our neighbors across the Rio
Bravo which is contained in the Express
correspondent’s report. In this connec-
tion it might be well to add that all the
purchasable voters in Texas or even on
the border are not of Mexican or Indian
origin and certainly a very small percent-
age of them are of Mexican birth or citi-
zenship. Piven in Eagle Pass at least
three-fourths of the purchasable vote is
either citizen by birth or by long and le-
gal naturalization. There may be towns
in Texas where dummy votes, available
for the use of monied heelers and repeat-
ers are of foreign citizenship—but this is
not so in Eagle Pass or in one-tenth of
the towns where the intelligent elector-
ate is threatened by the purchasable
vote. Consequently, the campaign
against such vote is not a race or nation-
al campaign but an assault on the stuf-
fing of ballot boxes with the ballots of
alleged voters who really cast the repeat-
ed votes of their employers.
—If you wish a really good bicycle,
strong, light-running, and durable—best
in every respect—try the Victor, at the
Guide office.
—Senator Dean, of this district, has
introduced a resolution at Austin calling
on the federal government to deprive
merchants of border towns of the right
of bonding merchandise for export to
Mexico. But Representative Seaburrv,
of Cameron county', does not agree with
the senator. Mr. Seaburryr points out
that such a disability would place the
Texas ports at a disadvantage, and
drive through business from Galveston,
Eagle Pass, Brownsville, and El Paso to
Tampico and Vera Cruz, as the mer-
chants at the Texas ports could not pos-
sibly pay both the American and Mexi-
can tariffs in competition with the mari-
time ports where only the latter are col-
lectable. Mr. Seabury, however, does
not seem to be in full sympathy with
the recent revival of the mercantile
theory of ecouomics which, during the
middle ages,induced the most enlightened
statesmen to strain every nerve to choke
off and kill business of every kind. They
argue that in bargain and sale, if one
party made a profit the other party to
the trade must have sustained an equal
loss, and consequently, as there could be
no general profit to a people in trading,
the less done of it the better; in this
way energy lost in necessarilly unprofit-
able trading would be turned into the
profitable and productive channels of
tax-gathering, soldiering, and so forth.
This interesting theory was overthrown
more than a century ago, but has been
revived with vigor recently by the dis-
tinguished school of economists which
the corruption funds of the protected
monopolists, engendered by the tariffs
of Europe and our own country, have
developed ; just as the contributions of
many excellent people who fear that
modern science—from geography to
zoology—is demolishing the foundations
of religion engendered the philosophic
school of substantialists whose litera-
ture boldly and ingeniously denies all the
patent facts about the vibratory' nature
of light and sound upon which so many
practical inventions—from telephone to
spectroscrope—have been made; or the
fiat earth men who deny the com-
monest facts of geography even in en-
lightened west Texas. To these resur-
rected economist all trade is evil. Hence
they choke it off by taxes—euphemisti-
cally called protective—which yield no
revenue. In all other wars also, they
interfere with, and harrass business to
the utmost, imposing gratuitous and
expensive delays and restrictions on all
kinds of pretexts, to scotch if not destroy
their bete noir—trade. To them men
who do least business are most prosper-
ous, consequently they would drive from
their home towns everything that could
encourage or facilitate the to them mis-
chievous and abhorred waste of energy
—trade. According to their philosophy
undoubtedly Air. Seaburry is seriously
in error. For the abolition of the bond-
ing privileges would deprive the Texas
ports of all facilities for transacting an
export trade in European goods to
Alexico.
The Euchre Club.
The progressive euchre club in C.
! Porfirio Diaz affords its members and
invited guests from week to week much
; social pleasure and reciprocal enjoyment
! 'n each others homes and hospitalities,
to say naught of the excitement and
i keen competition over prizes. The club
I met on Wednesday night at the residence
of Mr. and Mrs. Frink whose arrange-
ments for the care and comfort of their
guests were very complete—all the more
appreciated because of the diabolical
norther raging outside. The previous
meeting was held at the residence of Mr.
and Mrs. Dunlap whose genei'ous hospi-
talities were dispensed in a most capti-
vating and unstinted manner.
By the way, the Guide would take
pleasure in recot ding the doings of this
delightful social club more at length if it s
secretary or other member would kindly
furnish a few memoranda, or mere skele-
ton for which clothing would be freely
furnished. The like remarks are made as
to other social events occurring beyond
the ken of the Guide scribes who are
neither Argus-ey'ed nor ubiquitous, but
who are always ready to give careful
publication to all items of interest per-
sonal or otherwise.
—Do _voti want the best wheel in town
for $1.50 .J Then call on J. 0. Boehmer,
at this office.
—Those who bought the Douglas shoes
from E. Coblentz find that they are just
as serviceable in the rain of the past two
months, as during the preceding three
years’ drouth. There is no shoddy ma-
terial or scamped work about the
W. L. Douglas shoe.
—It seems hardly possible, but never-
theless it is true, that on an average
every fifty-fifth person you meet wears
W. L. Douglqs shoes. Did you ever real-
ize what an immense undertaking it is
to supply one article of wearing apparel
to over one million people ? For sale bv
Jaggi & Hielscher.
—Mr. Vicente Cardenas has reopened
his custom’s commission brokerage
establishment in C. Porfirio Diaz. He
thoroughly understands all the instruc-
tions of the customs broker’s trade, as
will be soon noted by all who entrust
their shipments to him for transmission
through the fiscal barriers.
—Dr. J. K. Foster has returned from
San Antonio, and will be at his office in
the Cooper block from now on. where \
patients wishing careful and skillful j
treatment for their teeth can find him !
daily.
—The coldest spell of the season set in
about sundown after a lovely, mild day
on the 5th instant. The norther blew
furiously all night, with less vigor all j
Thursdays and died out that night to
give place to a bitter, damp return cur-
rent from the south yesterday. The
thermometer showed a minimum of
18° Fahrenlieint on Wednesday night,
and 16° on Thursday night.
Death.
Trevino.—At the residence of her par-
ents, Don Enemesio and Dona Enemesio
Trevino, in C. Porfirio Diaz, this morn-
ing, Miss Arcadia Trevino, aged 26
years.
A Coming Treat.
All the musical talent of the border has
been drawn upon to make the concert
for the benefit of the Eagle Pass brass
band, which will take place on the 26th
inst., two weeks from next Tuesday, a
memorable event. A full program will
be duly published in this paper.
—Duane kid gloves at the “Port of Liv
erpool.”
—Messrs. Procter and Louis Ladner
have purchased the fittings and stock of
the Club saloon from Mr. John F.
Bowles, the late proprietor, and will
continue the business, aiming to keep
only the best classes of liquors, wines,
arid beer, with a view to catering to the
best trade of the town,
—Gomez, who discharged a forty-five
Colt at his partner Hickson on last Sat-
urday, as then related, returned .from
Mexico late that evening to fix matters
up with the latter, and was arrested by
Sheriff Dowe. He was examined before
Justice Yarrington and put under a
small bond to await the action of the
grand jury.
PERSONAL.
Airs. Louis F. Dolch and children are
still staying in San Antonio.
Dr. J. B. Frilich, a dentist from Alis-
sissippi, who has been visiting Del Rio,
accompanied Mr. C. C. Thomas on his
visit to Eagle Pass, this week.
Air. and Mrs. Wm. Lyman spent last
week at Messrs., Burke & Aitcheson’s
ranch, which a little local irrigation has
converted into a delightful home spot.
Air. S. L. Buchanan, of C. Porfirio Diaz,
was in town Wednesday and settled the
transfer of the Apiary propertv recently
bought by Air. F. L. Cruikshank. Air.
Buchanan came in on the 10 o’clock
stage and left two hours later on the
noon stage for Spofford and for home,
having completed his business in short
order.—Brackett News.
C. K. Dunlap, Esq., the enterprising
and efficient general freight and passen-
ger agent agent of the Mexican Interna-
tional arrived in the city yesterdav on
the “Strawberry'Limited.” He returns
this morning. Air. Dunlap says busi-
ness on the Mexican International is
good m every department and especially
in the passenger department.—San An-
tonio Express.
C. C. Thomas, Esq., prosecuting at-
torney of this Forty-first judicial district
spent the week end in this city. Air.
Thomas has found time from his official
and legal duties to investigate the meth-
od of irrigation by gas engines and cen-
trifugal pumps as advocated in this pa-
per and has come to the conclusion that
it is eminently feasible and promising of
wealth to come.
—The Afaverick hotel was sold this
week by Collector W. A. Fitch, the pro-
prietor, to Mr. P. V. Conover, of Uvalde,
for $7500. Mr. Sargent, late manager
of the Uvalde hotel, Air. Conover’s
father-in-law, will open and operate the
establishment, probably before the first
of next month.
— Twenty-nine shades of American
paint are always in stock at Wm. Haus-
ser’s lumber y ard. It is the best paint
in the market, and is sold cheap.
—Good food, well cooked, at the “Audi-
torium,” adjoining the Exchange saloon
in Ciudad Poiffirio Diaz.
—One of those magnificent traveling
luxuries—a Raymond and Whitcomb
special—passed through Eagle Pass on
Thursday evening bearing New England
sight seers to Mexico. The train con-
sisted of six cars in all. It was handled
with quick despatch, and left southward
within an hour after arrival. A smooth
run was made over the Mexican Inter-
national to Torreon. The schedule time
being more than ample no effort was
made to compass one of those quick
uns for which this road is noted.
Air. Boyd Anderson, engineer for the
Texas-Alexican Electric Light and Power
company, returned last evening from
Dallas, where he was attending the
grand lodge of Odd Fellows with 700 or
800 other delegates from as many local
lodges all over thegreat empire of Texas.
The pleasure of his trip was, however,
marred by the horrible weather, the mer-
cury standing even below zero in Dallas
on one occasion—how much below it is
dangerous to state.
Mrs. D. McKellar, accompanied bv her
brother-in-law, Air. Jos. L. Alatt, spent
the earlier part of the week at the fron-
tier en route from New Mexico, where
Airs. McKellar and family have resided
for twelve months past for the Naci-
miento, Coahuila. Airs. McKellar is
about to dispose of the magnificent
Mexican principality—the Nacimiento—
and in that event will retire from a
country which for her is fraught with
painful memories. The assassin of her
husband, Adolfo A illareal, is still enjoy-
ing (?) a respite, under cover of legal
subterfuges from his deserved fate. Yet
this is a case in which both state and
federal governments should have seen
that swift justice was meted out to the
man who bribed another to do a horri-
ble deed.
County Attorney \V. Lee Evans re-
turned this week Torn north Texas
where he was attempting to secure the
the purchase money for the Maverick
county lands which have recently been
turned back to the county by the former
purchasers. These gentlemen were
wealthy land speculators who bought
t hese lands with others expecting to pay
:or them out of the increase in their val-
ue due to advancing population and
trade. The march of trade and popula-
tion was not however as fast as the pur-
chasers anticipated, and they have been
unable to continue payments on lands
which were not yielding any revenue.
They are virtually bankrupt and the
county cannot enforce payments from
them any longer. It remains therefore
to secure other purchasers or lessees for
Jhe lands as soon as possible. The lands
are good for grazing, but being without
permanent surface water lease law—2
cents per acre being the largest rental of-
fered. Abundant water can however be
obtained at moderate depth and per-
chance the expenditure of a little money
in wells would make the lands revenue
producing. This by' way of suggestion.
Messrs. John and R. J. Hassard, of
Coleman, Texas, are in the citv looking-
after cattle with which to stock then-
ranges. 1 hey find the Mexican cattle of
rather a low grade for the north Texas
pastures. The former is somewhat in-
terested in irrigation and talks most in-
terestingly of a home made pumping irri-
gation plant which is operated by an en-
terprising, working farmer in the San
Saba valley, west of Menard. The San
Saba, there, is a bold, rapid stream and
the farmer who is somewhat of a me-
chanic, built him an iron dam, confining
the stream and giving it some fall with
greatly increased velocity. Over this
stream he erected a frame work on
which he hung a home-made undershot
wheel, some eight feet in diameter, with
blades a little over a foot square and
dipping a few inches into the water. The
shaft of this wheel was made to operate
a crude reciprocating pump, also of
home manufacture. The entire outfit, is
wasteful and ill suited to its purpose,
nevertheless the enterprising farmer is
enabled to irrigate with it some fourteen
acres of land and on the products of this
he has thrived while all around his neigh-
bors have almost come to want from
drouth and repeated crop-failures. So
successful has been his venture, that he
now lias capital laid by which will ena-
ble him to put in improved machinery
which will irrigate some 200 acres of his
farm. He has an easy competence with-
in his reach. A dozen ranch men and
farmers in this county could haye be-
come independently rich in the past de-
cade by the adoption of the Menard
county' man's home made irrigating
plant, but in this valley it would have
been necessary to float the undershot
wheel on a boat or pontoons, anchored
up the stream.
Air. Alax L. Oppenheimer, of S. P.
Simpson & Co., bankers, returned this
week from a fifteen weeks’ trip through
Alexico, during which he visited Duran-
go, Aguas Calientes, Mexico Citv, and
other points of interest. What struck
Mr. Oppenheimer most on his trip were
the plethora of money and the sound-
ness of business throughout thecountiw.
In nil the banks he observed accumula-
tion of money of from $4,000,000 do wn,
I and everywhere he found industrial en-
terprises, factory after factory, opening
tip or a-bnilding or in project for the
future—every where the utmost indus-
trial activity was manifest, while crops
are larger and productive acreage more
extensive than ever before. All this Mr.
Oppenheimer attributes to the fact that
Mexico is on a silver basis. The cost of
all commercial operations is accounted
in silver, while the sales are made for
gold—the goods either going abroad for
sale in gold using countries or remain-
ing at home to replace the gold-bought
imports from the United States, Germa-
ny, France or Spain. Though a con-
firmed “gold-bug”—as he himself put it
—before making the trip, Air. Oppenhei-
mer returns home impressed with' the
great benefit that the appreciation of
gold has conferred on silver-basis coun-
tries, and he now favors some form of
limited “recognition” here for the white
metal. In Mexico City Mr. Oppenheimer
was the recipient of many favors at the
hands of the United Stfites Consul Gen-
eral Crittenden, ex-governor of Alis-
souri. This gentleman introduced Mr.
Oppenheimer to the new American club,
whose new quarters—the former palace
of Governor Rincon on Gante and San
Francisco streets, furnished at an out-
lay of $14,000—Mr. Oppenheimer con-
siders the most luxurious and best ap-
pointed clubhouse west oftheMississippi.
1 lie club is fast increasing in member-
ship and promises to be one of the most
remarkable and influential institutions
in the country. In Irapuato, Mr. Oppen-
heimer met Col. R. E. Moffit, ex-deputv
collector of this port and well known
here for his honorable, manly character.
Air. Moffit has not lost interest in
American politics since he went to Mex-
ico. He considers the nation financially
‘ busted,’ and suggests that the.treasury
go into liquidation. As to the war talk
in Alexico City, Air. Oppenheimer heard
considerable and noted that active pre-
parations were being taken to antici-
pate its possibility. Still he is of opin-
ion that an actual conflict will be
averted, as the authorities seem thor-
oughly alive to the importance of fos-
tering and stimulating to the utmost
the wonderful industrial and material
development which so impressed the
Eagle Pass banker.
—Mexican dollars are worth 48i/2to 49
cents in Eagle Pass to-day.
Moved.
Mr. R. Kleinsmith has moved his jew-
elry and watch-making establishment
from the corner of Main and Commer-
cial streets to the old Lechenger stand,
opposite Toziewitz’ store, where he will
be pleased to meet old customers and new.
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