Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 27, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 3, 1907 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. XVI. NO 27
BROWNSVILLE TEXAS SATURDAY AUGUST 3 1907.
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The Right Hardware for
the Rio Grande Valley at
E. K. Caldwell's.
We will give yot the best that money can buy in
THE BIRDSELL WAGON
Avery Plows. Planet Jr. Cultivators.
Send us your orders for these and other supplies for
Engines Water Supplies & Heavy Machinery.
We have the goods. The prices are
right. The goods are delivered.
We Solicit Your Business.
E. H. CALDWELL
Corpus Christi Texas
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HALLAM COLONIZAIION LU.
OVER MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK
Christi to the Rio Grande
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MANUFACTURERS'
GREAT REDUCTION
A chance for Slim People
to buy their Pants for $2.50
a pair which are actually
Worth $3.00 to $5.00 &
f Take Your Choice at $2.50
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I A. SPERO'Sl
Combe Building.. .-Elizabeth Street....Brownsville B
"Texas Beer for
-No"- better beer is produced in
tie" whole United States than
ALAMO
BOTTLED BEEH
You only have to try
a bottle to know it.
Brtwed ani Battled by
Lone Star
Brewing Co.
San v$Hfx-ri- texas.
AMENDMENTS
TO CONSTITUTION
Citizens Must Pass Upon The
Proposed Changes.
The Election Will be Held Next Tuts-
day the 6th August and Every
Voter Should Go to the Polls
and Vote.
Do not forget tbatv there is an
election to be held all over Texas
on Tuesday " the 6th of August.
It is really more important than
an election in which there are
merely offices and. jobs at stake
albeit it has been called simplyto
give the people opportunity to pass
upon six proposed amendments to
the constitution.
The first proposed amendment
ment merely provides for the erec
tion and maintenance of a home
for aged and needy wives and wid-
ows of Confederate soldiers and
women of the south who aided the
Confederacy.
The second amendment pro1
vides for the establishment
and maintenance of an agri
cultural department and bureau of
labor. This provision should be
made by all means.
The third amendment provides
for increasing the pay of legisla-
tors. The fourth amendment provides
that cities of more than 5000 peo-
ple may lay out their corporate
limits ia certain sections called im-
provement districts for the streets
sidewalks and sewerage therein
and a majority of the reill estate
owning taxpayers in such districts
may vote a tax covering the cost
of one-third of such improvements
to be levied against the abutting
property in such" districts. This
merely makes operative the local
option principle and affords oppor-
tunity for much needed improve
ments that can not.be made as the
law now stands.
The fifth amendment provides
that the state may do its own
printing and provides the ways
and means for doing it.
The sixth amendment is sub-
mitted in response to the demand
for better roads. Its scope and
purpose is to let one.br more pre-
cincts in any county vote on them
selves a tax not to exceed 30c on
the valuation of property situated
therein to build good roads in such
precincts the tax so voted levied
and collected to be spent nowhere
except in the precinct paying it
and only to build good roads in
that precinct. Or if they prefer
they can vote to issue bonds in
place of the tax not to exceed 30c
on the $100 valuation to build and
improve their roads. This tax can
only be-imposed or such bonds
issued whea a majority of the
taxpayers living in the precinct
vote that it may b'edone. This
right is now given to-counties as
a whole but the amendment pro
poses to extend this.right to parts
of counties. Under existing law
there may be one or more precincts
in a county who want good roads
and are willing to tax themselves.
or issue bonds to pay for them
but theyrfaH not da it. They must
wait until a majority of the whole
county are willing to move up and
act with them. The amendment
will .enable them to cut loose from
their dead weights and move for
ward.
To Whom It Hay Concern.
Parties are selling and trying to
sell land assuring purchasers that
the land will be watered by the
Harlingen Canal Co.
Tinder the circumstances we
deem it justice to all to -state that
we will positively water only land
owned by us and no other lands.
Harlingen Land and Canal Co.
j.i4-tf. Lon G. Hrxx.
Alfalfa chops and screenings at
Louis Kowalski's. ' 8-2-3t
PETITION TO THE
CITY COUNCIL
Taxpayers Request Election for
Water and Light Bonds.
Realize Absolute' Ncecisity for These Im
provements at Any Cost and Con-
fident City Can Issue Bonds.
Names of Signers.
Following is a copy of the peti
tion which was presented to the
city council Monday April 22 re-
questing that an election be held
to vote on a bond issue by the city
for the purpose of constructing a
waterworks and light plant with a
list of the signers thereof:
Brownsville Texas April 18 1907.
TO THE HONORABLE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF BROWNSVILLE
TEXAS.
We the undersigned tax payers
and qualified voters of the City of
Brownsville Texas being convinc-
ed after long and patient waiting
and since so many promises and
repeated efforts thereto have fail-
ed that private persons firms or
corporations although for such
purposes holding franchises from
the city for more than four (4)
years last past can not or "will
not undertake to construct the
same and fully appreciating and
realizing the urgent need and abso
lute necessity for a system of water
and lights in the sqid city at any
cost and confidently believing that
some kind of a system of water and
light can be put in constructed
and operated by the city itself if
bonds should be voted for and is
sued to that end therefore hereby
reqnest you to immediately call an
election and thereby submit to the
qualified voters who are tax pay
ers of the city a proposition for
the issuance of bonds by said city
of Brownsville Texas for the pur
pose of putting in a system of wa
ter works and electric lights in
and for the said city.- as required
by law
And we do hereby pledge our-
selves to vote for and to - use all
reasonable efforts to carry the said
proposition to issue the said bonds
for such said purposes.
Very respectfully.
J. W. Hancock W. A.' Rutledge
S. C. Moore Jesse O. Wheeler
S. H. Bell Wm. J. Russell
W. E. McDavitt M. Besteiro
J. R. Howse C. A. Thorn
R. A. Cunningham Benj. Koivalski
Geo. M. Puteenat Fred Kowalski
K. H. McDavitt Floyd F. Layton
James M. Rogers . J. G. Fernandez
F Snipes W. Billingsly
D. S. Spero t E. K. Goodrich
A. Spero ' B D Newman
G. T. Porter V Farias and Bros
Dr. J. K. Combe Aaron Turk
O. I. Hicks Wm. H. Schmidt
Ira G. Killough M Sahualla
A. A. Browne S Benavides
J. B. Sharpe
R. Stillman
E. S. Dougherty
E. Hinojosa
A. Wayne Wood '
A. Ashheim
Willam Kelly
B W Lindley
Robert Dalzell
H Grunewald
M Hanson
W O Coleman
F G Gorgen
Wm. A Neale
Lo Wise
A Bollack
Louis Champion
Louis Kowalski
S L Dworman
C H More
H H Weller
A I H udscn
T A Kinder
S P Wreford
T W Macn
Louis E Laulom
Maltby Hardware Co. HE Woodhouse
F A H'Sanborn A Goldammer
W F Dennett - Jesus Valdez
Adolfo Garza & Bro. Frank A Creager
E A McGarv TJrbauo Marquiz
L R Cowen G W Rendall
H G Stillwell G H Watson
Santos Valdez John Natus
EliElstun MEBrulay
Geo. M. Smith L Layton
E P Combe Geo. Connor
E R Dilworth Thos. R Tumlinson
Bernard Kowalski L P Rousset
Frank C Pierce W H Petty
Tno. Bartlett Mrs. H Bollack
Tohn W Hovt Tobn F Vails
Frank Slavitchek Jose Besteiro
Katie E Leahy Manuel Besteiro
RHWallis J Porter
A Cueto John C aiusell
wencelao Garza TS&JiH Cross
wistano Garza - Fulgencio Lopez
H M Field - w m Katciine
Antonio Barreda L K Morris
J webb F D Haley
Tomas Tijerina C C Falgout
Jesus Villareal Cruz Escobar
E Garcia Osuna Edgar L Hicks
m II Sauceda i Manuel Barreda
Vicroriano Fernandez R B Sentfro
Frank B Armstrong JoseLvios
wJphpI Fernandez & Bro. V L t-nxell
Frank Rabb Juan H Fernandez
vrs. J Sauder Jos w Lamb
Joe Crixell.
Little drops of water.
Little grains cC&and
7tfake the farmer wealthy
On the Rjio Grande
an Benito Land & Water Co.
A GOING CONCERN.
Twenty Miles of Canal'completed.
c4ny quantity of Land you want from a Town Lot
to a thousand acres.
" WE pAKE ON THE JWAIN LINE tfgfeSt. L. B. Si. JB.
At SAN BENITO formerly BESSIE
OFFICERS: AlbajHeywood. Pres.. W. H.Stenfier.lVicelPxes.aSalGeD.Manaser.
E. F. Rowson. Treasurer; Sam Robertson. Secretary.
DIRECTORS: Alba Hcywood. O.W. Heywood. W. Scott Heywood.W.H. Stenger.
Sain Robertson. E. F. Rowson R. I Eatts.
Before yon bay on acre see
. F. Rows!! & COa
AGENTS FOB
San Benito Lands and Town Lotsr
Also Large Tracts for Investment Cheap
;olemcm Lindse
AGENTS FOR.
San Benito Land and
Water Company
For Sale Sugar Cane Land Tropical Fruit Land
Vegetable Lands in blocks of 20 to 160 acres
ON LARGEST IRRIGATION CANAL
la tbe Brownsville District and near Railroad.
Llano Grande Lands Row on Marke
Qn and after August First I will place on sale for the
first time portions of Casa Blanca Plantation lands in Hidalgo
county.. In tracts to suit purchasers. These lands'lie in
the heart of the
Famous Llano Grande Grant and in the middle of the
120000 holdings of the American Rio Grande Land &
Irrigation Company.
Watered by the Casa Blanca Canal one of the largest
most complete and up-to-date systems on the Rio Grande.
Terms and conditions of sale include contract to furnish
and deliver water for all crops the coming season and at fixed
maximum rates per acre per annum.
NO STRINGS NO RESTRICTIONS
The finest sugar lands in the state of Texas or elsewhere.
Railroad station post office telephone system express offices
all established and on the grounds.
The town of Llano Grande shortly to be opened sur'
rounding Beautiful Llano Grande lake will be the future.
Redlands California of Texas and is a portion of and
belongs to Casa Blanca tract.
This may look better than anything else ta you-
It is easy to see. It is still easier to look at.
J. RrWITHERS LLANO GRANDE TEXAS
LLANO GRANDE LANDS
for sale by
HaSkm Colonization Xo.
BARBECUE AT
HARLINGEN
Lon C. Hill Invites Guests from
San Benito.
The New Hotel at San Benito is Almost
Ready far the Roof. Budget of
Persona! Items from the Pro-
gressive Little City.
San Benito Aug. 2nd. 1907.
E. F. Rowson left this morning
for Houston after spending most
of the week here.
Messrs. Franker Lawson H mi
ter and Trimble prominent capi-
talists or Crowley a. spent sev-
eral days at San Benito and are
greatly pleased with the Browns-
ville country.
Mrs. Alba Heywood left this
morning for Mineral Wells Texas
to spend a few weeks.
W. H. Stenger returned last
night from a flying trip to Hous-
ton Beaumont and New Orleans.
The new hotel is making rapid
progress and will soon be under
roof.
Several o'fleading citizens haTe
been invited to attend a barbecue
at the hospitable home of Hon.
Lon C. Hill at Harlingen Sunday.
A pleasant time and feast fit for
the gods is assured.
Robert Allen Craig arrived last
night from Houston and assumed
the position of stenographer with-
the San Benito Company.
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Wheeler, Jesse O. Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 27, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 3, 1907, newspaper, August 3, 1907; Brownsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth147525/m1/1/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .