Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 190, Ed. 1, Tuesday, February 12, 1907 Page: 1 of 4
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PROWMSVILhE
DAILY
HERALD
VOL. XV. NO. 190
BROWNSVILLE TBXAS. TUESDAY FEBRUARY-12 1907..
SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS
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THE RIO GRANDE COUNTRY IS ALL RIGHT
YOUR RESULTS 'depend on the RIGrTT A
WE HAVE THE RIGHT OUTFITS IN OUR LINE
' BifseHnd Old Bicbnrv 'Wafons Stand- "
iAlI:SteehS;. Mattocks Ayeryjind
Hancock Disc Plows PJanetir. feeders
Wheel Hoes and Cultivators Tents Wagon
CoyersfAxes v. ft..x .
AERMOTOR AND STANDARD WINDMILL
Our CataI5gr:Nb . icfgives "net cash delivered prices
tells all about our goods and is free for the asking.
Corpus Christi Texas
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f HALLAM COLONIZATION CO. j
OFFICES OVER EAGLE DRUG STORE
Representing Lands From Corpus
uinsu to me rcio uranue
is
BROWNSVILLE
n
HAS THE BEST
Soil the best climate the best class of citizen-
ship and the best grade of
Clothing Shoes Shirts Collars
Cuffs Neck wear Hose Under-
wear Hats Valises Trunks
Quilts Blankets and other good
things too numerous to mention.
FOR PROOF CALL AT
SPERO'
H
s
Combe Building Next to Postoffice
Elizabeth Street
COMPETENT PHARMACY
ESTABLISHED 1865
Botica del Leon
....You WanHhe Best
. . -. -.
Your Physician aims to put all his knowledge experi-
ence and skill into the . prescnpUqp he whites.. - It igan;prder
for a combination "of-.remedies . which JQP. case requires. vle
cannot rely on the result unless -the ingredients .are .properly
compounded . -
Be fair to your doctor and to yourself by bringing your
prescriptions .here. They'll be compounded only by. registered
pharmacists who .are aided byhe.largest.sjock of .dntes in his
part of thestate. Everything ofthe finest aualitytIiat.money.cin
buy or experience can select. . -
J. L. Rutegnat & Bro.J
W. 0. Coleman
Real Estate
Farm Lands
City Property
Agent for.
Bessie Land Water and Town
- Site Company-- -;
Fruit Vegetable and Farm
r Lauds . i
TOWN LOTS AND BLOCKS
Mercantile and
Topographical Map
OF THE
CITY OF BROWNSVILLE
For Sale by Louis Kowalski at
30 Cents Each.
BROWNSVILLE
UNDERTAKING
COMPANY
Rubber Tire Carriage on Call
PHONE 123
LAND FQ-R SALE
Farms and Ranches .
Tracts of 40 and 50 acres
and upward to. suit ptu
chasers. . Situated near
Brownsville. Suitable for
Truck and Sugar cane Cot-
ton Corn Etc.. Address
BOX BROTHERS
ISABEL TEXAS
or phone with instructions
to have message delivered.
THE RESIDENCE
5 AND OCCUPATION
Of the Hundreds of Homeseekers
1 Coming r Hitherv; ..-:.
JAMES B. WELLS
cAttorney
at Law
Successor to Powers & Maxan
Powers & Wells Wells &Rentfro
Wells Rentfro & Hicks Wells &
Hicks Wells. Stayton & Kleberg
I buy and sell Real Estate and
investigate land titles. A complete
abstract o. all titles of record in
Cameron County Texas.
Practice in all state and federal
courts when especially employed
Land Litigation and corporation
practice.
FRANK RABB
Real Estate Agent
Brownsville Texas
Have for sale some choice
pieces of agricultural land
in large and small. tracts.
Also have a number of
tracts of grazing lands.
OFFICE: Store of Juan H. Fernandez
A. GOLDAMMER
-CONTRACTOR AND
BUILDER
Plans and specifications. Fur
nished on ShorjLNotice
CITY TIN SHOP
FrdelAfeVafo $pF
All Kinds :6f Tin' Work' Done
Promptly aud Neatly
Also Plumbing " "
Patronage Respectfally Solicited
Some Statistics Showing Personality of
ihe sExcursionisb --Brought-' fa' -the --'Brownsville
CountryyUheiRock
f Island System's Advertising -
As an indication of what the
Rock Island system is doing -.t6
promote -ihe development of. the
country along the.Browrisville rail-
road it -jtnay be staterLas:.a con-
servative estimate that not less
than two thousand persons have
visited this section over that sys-
tem since the initial through train
was run from Chicago to Browns-
ville. This is a direct result of the
wide advertising done by the Rock
Island under the energetic and in
telligent direction of John Sebas
tian who is at the head of the
traffic department of that system.
In line with this subject The
Herald has secured some statistics
showing the states from whence a
great many of these Homeseekers
have come and the occupations rep
resented by them which are
published below' These figures
are not given as complete of
course but are accurate as far as
they go- While many of the ex-
cursionists were interviewed many
9
others were on -trains that were not
accessible to the train agents. Those
given are the people who came ou
the special trains which leave
Chicago complete twice a month
and are run through without
change including the hotel cars
and most of the tourist sleepers.
The real number who have came
on the Homeseekers' tickets sold
by this system and its associated
lines will probably be .much more
than twice that given. Of course
all of these do not become settlers
or investors; all do not locate; but
they come to look at the country
and it may be said safely that for
each one who does not invest or
settle with us there is or will Be
one who will come soften perhaps
a dozen or more as a result of this
inspection and out of these there
have been many and will be very
many more who will invest and
locate somewhere in this section.
The statistics are furnished by
Isaac Kline who comes with the
trains as a representative of the
immigration department of the
Rock Island-Frisco systems. The
figures show that Mr. Kline has
interviewed-nearly five hundred of
these excursionists who were from
twenty-one different states of the
Union with a few from two for-
eign countries being distributed as
follows:
WHERE THEV ARE FROM
Colorado 2t Indiana 43 Illinois
82 Iowa S6 Kansas .21 Missouri
19x Minnesota 32 Montana 2
Michigan 26 Maine 3 Massachu-
setts 3 Nebraska 23 N. Dakota
13 New York 8 New Jersey 3
Ohio 23 Pennsylvania 14 S.
Dakota 50 Wyoming 2 Wisconsin
30 Texas 1 Canada 5 Sweder 2.
The occupations of these Home-
seekers were as follows:
WHAT THEY ARE
Attorneys 4 bankers 13 black
smiths : 2. carpenters 15 dairymen
14 dentist. 1 cement workers 3
contractors 37 cooks 3 druggists 2
eleptricians 1 farmers. 1483rocers
7. .hardware and.jmplement dealers
4 hotel keepers .1 investors 21
livery 3 lumbermen 5 gardeners
9 merchants 3 truck men 5plum-
bef 1 physician 1 photographers
'3"real estate 13 manufacturers - 9
produce dealer 1 mechanics 17 re
tired business njen 11. stenograph
er 1 tailors 3 millinery 2fiiUrseryr
men 2 fine stocky raiser 1-mer-
cbandise 8 millers 2 ministers!.
school teachers 2.
Just receivelCar .Eagle Portland
The Learners' Meeting.
The Learnewumet with. Miss
Cocke Saturdayafteriioon Feb. 9
instead of Thursday when the
weather was - loo bad; -Twelve
members answered roll call -with
quotations fxpni Shakespeare's
sonnets..
?. The plan to attempt to secure a
Carnegie -library for Brownsville
was postponed-4tq til some. future
tune- -7j v i ...
. .After the business of the meeting;
was iattended tojthe program iwas
taken-up... The papers. red. were
verv- interesting and instructive..
Following is the program; it ....
. The Sonnet" paper by Miss
Dysart.
"The English Sonneteers" pa-
per by Mrs. A. Celaya.
Reading from the Sonnets Mrs.
Loew.
Song a Sonnet Mrs. Cain.
General discussion. The Club.
After the regular program the
roll was called again and each
member responded with an interest-
ing current event.
Mrs. Cain being absent Mrs.
Celaya in lieu of the song on the
program gave some piano selec
tions adding much to the enjoy
ment of the afternoon.
The club adjourned to meet
Feb. 14h. with the Misse? Fernandez.
A Delightful Dance.
One of the most delightful affairs
of the last days of the pre-Lenten
season was the dance given by the
King's Daughters at the Wood-
men's hall Monday evening. A
small admission fee was charged
the returns being devoted to the
purpose of paying off the debt for
repairs-on the Episcopal rectory.
There were 87 persons present
all of whom seemed to enjoy the
occasion'inost thoroughly. A num
ber of visitors from other places
were present and were accorded a
very cordial welcome being in
troduced to the ladies and mingl
ing with them in social enjoy
ment. An excellent Mexican band
furnished music for dancing. The
number of dancers grew so large
that the hall would not accom
modate them and the Knights of
Pythias thereupon kindly threw
open their hall adjoining the
Woodmen's hall and permitted the
ladies to use that also for dancing
At ten o'clock coffee and sand
wiches were served there being no
extra charge for the refreshments.
Both Irrigation and
Providence Crops
From T. J. Hooks of the La
Blanca Land and Irrigation com
pany of Hidalgo county who is
in the city at present The
Herald learns that the country
in his section is in fine shape and
looking very well. Mr. Hooks has
on his own plantation a very prom
ising crop of vegetables which
he is cultivating with the aid of
irrigation including a cabbage
"patch'' of 15 acres besides 60
acres of cucumbers and 40 of
onions. These are all well advanced
and doing finely. He is also pre-
paring to plant about 300 acres in
corn and 100 in cotton which will
be grown as "Providence crops"
that is without irrigation.
Prof. M. Gonzalez of the well
knrown'dealers in musical inslru
ments of this city arrived here
several days ago from Victoria
Mexico wh.erejie resides and will
spend a short time here . attending
to business matters. ; - -.
Miss Edna- Smith formerly of
Brownsville but now residing with
her parents at Mercedes where she.!
is. teaching chdol .is visiting in
town being the guest of . Mrs.
Smiths -
-A. I. Hudson Esq. was a pas-
senger on'the north- bound St. L-
B. M train. today -Cir .
.H.. Pjhmani.fa. in the city
from his ranch attending to busi-
DONATIONS
WROCKFELLEit
V
To Education Reach a Total of
w... .$79000.
a - - rtT .
Oil Magnate Gives $32000000 in Ok.
LMfewYork'fGcneraHdoca--
Xf c 1 nil u -1 1 r j rril
nun i unu umcr mi lions c
peded to Be DdnatetL -
A recent press telegram fronar
New York states: -tbatl(the fund.oir
the general education board of thai:
state was lately increased. to .$43
000000 by the amazing gift oF
$32000000 by Johpip: ilockfenesr-
in a lump sum; and additions-:
donations are expected from othea -millionaires
friends of- theRocke-
fellers which will raise the fncci:
to $50000000.
John D. Rockefeller's gifts ti
education have now reached the?
great total of $79000000 distrib-
uted as follows:
Chicago university $21000000-
Rush Medical college $6000000
other colleges (estimated) $10
000000; general education board
original gift $10000000; general!
education board new gift $32
000000.
Other notable gifts to education.
include those of Andrew Carnegie
to different institutions about $28-
000000; Mrs. Leland Standford' to
Standfordjuniversity. $2000005-
Cecil Rhodes Anglo-American
scholarship $10000000; P. A. B
Widener memorial training setter
for crippled children. $9000000p
Stephen Girard Girard college.
$8000000; George - Peabodyr $7
000000; Wm. Marsh Rice $6
000000; Marshall Field $5000
000; and D. B. Fayerweather
$4000000.
A Good Story;
A story is' told of ' a Nebraska-
farmer who had a suit for damages
against a Nebraska railroad- A&
the cause approached the day oS:
trial the farmer man casually learn-
ed that the judge who would!
preside over the trial carried azz
annual pass over the defendant
railroad's lines.
This information worried tfiesoiir
tiller. He thought about it by day
and cogitated over it by night..
He figured cut that the- annoax.
must be worth about $500- a year.-
to the judge. He had confidence
in the judge but little in the rail-
road and he pondered the qnerjr
in his mind why the railroad gave;
the judge $500 a year for nothing.
He finally concluded that the-
railroad must know what it vras. .
about and he sat down and wrote
ttie judge following letterr
"Dear Judge: I am told thair
you carry an annual pass over tie-
Burlington railroad. As near as S
can fig'ire it this pass is worth to-
you about $500 a year. I deca'fit
believe that this will influence- yoa
in favor of the railroa&andiginst;
me in my case but to be on set
a equal footing with the railroad
f enclose my check for $500. I ks
not do this to influence yoor de-
cision in any way do- not ask
you to retain my check. Eat i"
you return this check please re-
turn the railroad . pass. If yorx
keep the pass keep the check J"
Love of Animals:-
Mark Twain waS talking of war-
and of the hardshipsiand privations
of sieges. -
"A Frenchman" he said "caB
ed one day on a woman who hzol
two dogs They were ugly- little-
brutes and ' wheri-they came near r
him the-man pushed- thenr outcfi
the way with his Foot. --'--
"' I perceive; sir.' ybu" ara nefc
very fond of dogs..- " -'The-man
started in surpriser.
" Tm-not fond of xlbgs!' heeat--claimcd.
-'Why' IriSaam I ater
more.than 20'of jhem'durine rt-.
siegeof Pris'-HarpeVs Week
4. - mlfni t CiAiSc
cement I.njsLKpvvaJfey.2il-3t.
ly. --VT?.
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Wheeler, Jesse O. Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 190, Ed. 1, Tuesday, February 12, 1907, newspaper, February 12, 1907; Brownsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth147379/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .