Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. NINE, No. 275, Ed. 1, Wednesday, May 22, 1901 Page: 1 of 4
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BBOWNSVILLE TEXAS WEDNESDAY MAY 22 1901.
NUMBER 275.
COraObrDATtil) IX JULY lSOSVlTH THIS 1AUY COSMOPOLITAN WHICH WAS PUBLISHED HEKK FOlt S1XTKEN YEAHS.
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Meals the Choicest
To Be Obtained
On the market
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A Three Story Brick
20 Nicely Furnished Rooms.
On Principal Business Street.
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Reasonable Rates
to Families.
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A Large Will Ventilated Two
Story Brick.
Convenient to the business portion of
the city. Table supplied with hsh
oysters shrimp crabs ducks geese
and all kinds of vegetables in season.
Miss Mary Douglas
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DIRECTORY-
DISTRICT AND COUNTY OFFICERS.
Congressman 11th. district. . .R.Kleberg
'tate Senator 27th district
D. McNiel Turner
Representatives ( F. W. Seabury
85th. district . . . . "Win. J. Russell
County Judge Thomas Carson
County Attorney. . .Robt. B.Rentfro jr.
County Clerk Joseph Webb
Sheriff Celedonio Garza
Treasurer Aug. Celaya
Assessor Ezequiel Cavazos
Collector Damaso Lerma
Surveyor M. Hanson jr.
Bide Inspector Tomas Tijerina
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Precinct No. 1 Atenojenes Oribe
Precinct No. 2 Jose Celaya
Precinct No. 3 E. B. Raymond
Precinct No. 4 Eugene Keller
Fustice Peace Precinct No. 2 4
J. I. P. Franklin
County court meets for civil criminal
and probate business Jon the first Mon-
days in March June September and De-
cern oer.
CITY OFFICERS.
Mayor . . Thomas Carson
hief of Police L. H. Bates
treasurer Geo. M. Putegnat
Secretary Clemente Martinez
Attorney S. A. Belden jr.
nrveyor S. W. Brooks
x-nssor and Collector S. Valdez
U. S. DISTRICT COURT.
Che following are the officers of and
the Mmes aid places of holding court for
the Western District of Texas:
S District Judge... ...T.S. Maxey
c vrney ; Henry Terrell
JleiV D. H. Hart
Marshal Geo. L. Siebrecht
Court convenes in San Antonio on the
hrst Mondays in May and November
In Austin on the first Mondays in Feb-
ruary and July.
rn Brownsville on the first Monday in
January and second Monday in June.
In El Paso on the first Mondays in
pril and October.
U. S. CUSTOM HOUSE.
J. H. Maris Collector
A. Thornham Special Deputy
A. A. Browne Chief Clerk
E. K. Goodrich Entry Glerk
MEXICAN. CONSULATE..
Miguel Barragan Consul
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PROFESSIONAL OARDS.
j A.MKS j;. WKIJa
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Oflic. Second Floor kto ornnile Rnilrod
Building
J AMES B. BUTLER
ATTORNEY AT L AVV
Brownsville Texas
Will practice in all the courts.
E. H. OOODRICH. E. K. GOODRICH
E. H. GOODRICH & SON.
Attorneys at Law.
Dealers in Real Estate.
Complete Abstracts of Cameron County
in me orace.
BROW.N VlfLE. TEXAS
JOHN II ART LETT
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Will practice in District State anI
federal Courts.
Office wltn Jm. B. Wells in Rio Grand Hal o
Bnildine (upstair).
Brownsville - - JfL .
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H. THORN
DENTIST.
Office Opposite Miller's Hotel.
-Mice Hours: fri8toi5Pl2ma:m-' an
BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS.
R. H- WALLIS.-
PHOTOGRAPHER
Its introducing new and select styles
ot work at his parlors. Also new style
of fancy card mounts.
Copxing and enlargements in crayon
QR. R. P. ANDFRSON.
DENTIST.
'rraduate VanderbUt Dental college
Nc charge for examining teeth
Office Hours SSLi-"1
Office 9th street. One block from P.O
BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS1
Jellies and Jaws.
Oatmeal and Rico.
High:grade Hams.
Nutmegs and Spice.
MACerel and Macaroni
good Goods for the Money.
Qnions if yon please.
Yermi2illi Canned Fruit.
Everything that's nice.
Reasonable Prices.
Never Pails to Suit
'gave Money by buying at
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01 ELIZABETH STREET.
BENJ. KQWALSKI
General Merchandise
BROKER.
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CAPTURE OF CHAN "
SANTA CRUZ.
Ancient Yucatan Capital of Mayas
Surrenders. Taken By Mex-
icans. Mexico City. Official reports
from Bacalar confirm the success-
ful victories of the Federal troops
in that section. General de la Vega
disembarked with fjty men after
having shelled tue town wun ins
small rapid fire guns from his
lighters. The Indians stationed at
the water's edge immediately abau
doned their posts and retreated to
Chan Santa Cruz. The landing
party immediately took possession
of the Castello and hoisted the
Mexican tri color. At the same
time Colonel Uandara effected a
landing at Santa Lucia the Judiaus
retreating to Sauta Cruz. The
temple was used as a barrack for
the- soldiery and in one of tbe
chapels an image of San Joaquin
was found be smeared with mud
and full of small bangles called
milagros as an offering by some
devotee for some miracl he ex
pects the image to perform for him
and many lighted wax candles
which were placed around the
image some very costly and
beautiful vestments of the clergy
were also found.
A. Tribute to Lee.
In 1874 hi a -speech at Atlanta
Ga. Benjamin H. Hill uttered the
following tribute to Lee which
should be familiar to every .South
ern child :
"When the future historian shall
come to survey the character of
Lee he will find it rising like a
huge inonntain above the" undulat
ing plain of humanity and he must
lift his eyes high toward heaven to
catch its summit. He possessed
every virtnre of other grerft com
manders without their vices. He
was a foe without hate ;v a friend
without treachery ; a soldier with
out cruelty; a victor without op-
. - ... ...
pression ana a victim without
murmuring. He was a pnblic offi
cer without vices; a private citizen
wjthout wrong; a ueighbor with
out reproach ; a Christiau without
hypocrisy and a man withont guile.
He was Caesar-without his ambi
tion ; Frederick without his tyran-
ny; Napoleon without his selfish
ness; and a Washington without
his reward and royal in anthority
as a King he was gentle as a wo
men Fu life;modest awl pure ns a
virgiu in. thought watchful as a
Roman vestal in 'duty; submissive
to law ai Socrates and grand in
battle as Achilles." Richmodn
(Vn.f) News.
A Lawful Fenqe. .
By an net of the legislature the
following defines a'biwful fringe:
Three strands of imrhed wire
the top at least four feet from the
ground posts thirty feet 'apart
with one or more stays between
them ; or pickets four feet and not
more thau four iuches apart; when
boards or rails are used there shall
not be less thau three boards not
less than five inches wide and one
inch thick or four rails ;all fences
not be less than four feet high.
Effective July 7th 1901.
MONSTER SPIDERS.
Buena Vista (Col.) Cor. Ifew York Sun.
Prof. E. T. Laughton has return
ed to his home in New York after
spending the winter in exploriug
the mouutains near Buena Vista
and investigating the habits of a
species of monster spiders found
in the Mid'dle Ccttouwood Pass.
Little definite is known of thesi
spiders but around them has beeu
gathered a mass of Indian legend
and prospectors' yarns that rival
those of Munchausen. Many years
ago these spiders lived in a cave
easily reached by toursts. It
was in a valley two miles north
east from Harvard City then
a thriving mining camp eight miles
west of liueua Vista.
In 1880 a man named Shultzcui
his way into the spiders' den. He
did not return aud a week later a
searching party found his body
partly buried in the spiders' caye
under a mass of fallen rock. As
it wonld have requiiedconsiderabje
timbering at an expense of several
hundred dollars to .recover the
the body and as the man had no
kuuwn relatives it was left uu
disturbed. Shultz's skeleton is
still in the cave but the spider
have iound another home farther
back in the mountains.
Some of the tales told about
these spiders are given in an oJ4
letter which has just beep fouud
in Buena Visra. It says:
"A short distauce out of Buena
Vista there is a cave swarming
with spiders of immense size some
of them haviug legs forfr iuches in
length and bodies as large as t.hat
of a canary bird. The cav was
discovered iu 1868 and was often
visited by pioneers on their "way
to California who obtained their
webs for use iu the place of thread j
"Early and .late the cave re
sounds with a "buzzing sound emitt-
ed by the spiders as they weave
their webs. They were tested in
71 and fonnd to be composed off
silk of the finest quality. Tbe
skins of the spiders make gloves
as they are pliable and require no
tanning.
'A number were captured aud
tamed and manifested great affec
tion for all rrleinlTersof the family
They were far superior to a eat in
extermiuiug rats and mice follow'-
ing theirprey into the holes in the
walls and ceilings One spider'
kept a pet by a Buena Vista lady
used to stay all night at the head
of her bed acting as sentinel."
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(50UNTESFEITERS CAUGHT
- IN MEXICO1?
Mexico City The chief of the
detective force accompanied by
several subalters unearthed the
most gigantic counterfeiting :plant
ever operated iu Mexico. For the
last year or so the Government has
been obliged to suspend the min-
tage of the pew 20c pieces on ac-
count of the reproduction of 3ime
by counterfeiters. The police .de-
partment has been at work on this
matter and ther work has been
crowned with -success. The pre-
mises raided were. No 7 Second
street of Matamoros the dies and
a large amonut of 25c 10c and 5c
connterfeit pieces were recovered.
No arrests have been made but
the police will follow' the matter
up.
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The Early Bird.
Corpus Christ! Caller.
The early bird generally gets
there. This reminds ns that the
early cabbage raiser is going To be
about the only planter who has
struck it right this season here
when it is over. Mr. Einmert for
instance shipped out of his field
commencing in January fifteen
carloads of cabbage averaging 20-
000 pounds to the car and is very
apt to do it again next season for
soon he will be putting his land in
thoVongh cultivation to catch' the
rains whiihi we are almost sure to
have in July August or Septem-
ber with the intention of .com-
mencing his shipments again early
in January.
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Spanish War Pensions
Boston Herald. '
Athough it is less than- three
years siucethe war with Spain be-
gan there have been already al-
most 41000 applications for 'pen-
sionsfiled on actiount of. it ana
this exclusive of the service in the
Philippines. It i estimated that
Ihe total number of 'men in war oi
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the American side was 274717
though of this number only about
60000 were actually engaged. It
will be seeu.therefore'on this basis
that for every six amen wlio ac-
tnally saw service. there have.b'een
four applications for peusions
In the light of these fifenres it is
not at all surprising that the pen-
sion agents are extremely anxious
that Commissioner Evans be re-
moved from the pension office'
where he now stands as at least a
partial bulwark against the gran '
ing of dishonest claims.
Commissioner Evans 'recently
stated that he did not fhiuk tint
soldiers themselves were as much
to blame for this flood of 'applica-
tions as were' the pension agents.
As soon as a sian came from the
army he was pounceu on by the
solicitors who argued to the sol-
diers that as the money was in the
treasury they miht as well have
it as anybody else. This he
claims accounts for the large unm-
ter of applications many of which
were in duDlicate.cominr from dif-
ferent agentsthe second4agent pro
bably arguing with the soldiers
iliac he'had abetter pull at Wash
ington than had the first. .
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Even tfrerboom in the Texas oil
fjejds hardly exceeded in breadth m
VnxHtitensity that which just now
dominates the market for barne3
horses of all descriptions. This is .
especially true of good drivers
showing some speed. Breeders of
this class of horses are reaping a
iharvest.such as they did not dream
of a year ago and dealers who are
equipped to handle the trade are
doing a good business. If this
thU keeps np none but the rick
will be able to own horses of the
best type. If the farmer will breed
tht right sort he will find there is
moeny to be made in the business
Texas Stockman and Farmer
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Wheeler, Jesse O. Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. NINE, No. 275, Ed. 1, Wednesday, May 22, 1901, newspaper, May 22, 1901; Brownsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth144079/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .