San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-12
STATE NEWS.

(DySUerS are COIllDS III inoio piOhu'
fully to Refugio than they have for
some time past.
Weather is cold and unsettled at
San Diego, and the sheep men are
happy over politics.
Tuesdays rain at Boerne did con-
siderable damage to fences etc. Also
to the railroad track.
Col. Brewster's friends are of the
opinion that he will be the next con-
gresham from the Laredo district.
Reeves and attached counties give
Cleveland, Ross and the balance of
the state ticket about 200 majority.
The contract for building the new
courthouse at Rusk is given to Messrs.
Moody, Ellis & Evans, of Greenville,
they bidding SO, 495.
A brakeman named Joe Wright,
had his hand crushed while coupling
cars at San Angelo. The hand, how
ever, will not have to be amputated.
The body of a mullatto boy lying
partly out of water in the middle of
the stream, and shot through the
head, is found along Walnut creek at
Calvert.
n The Laredo Real Estate and Alb
stract Co., has closed one of the most
important real estate deals ever made
in that city comprising some 800 lots
to a st. Louis syndicate.
Mr.. Wellmer, of Austin, in the face
of the charges against him of unOtfi-
cial conduct in selling goods to the
county, contrary to law, has been re-
ell, tied commissioner.
The murderer and COW thief, d. d.
Dodd, who was tried and convicted at
the last term of court, has escaped
from jail at Brackettville, by cutting
through the floor of his cell.
The BOerne Light Cavalry Co., has
received its arms, carbines, sabres,
ETC., from the state, and the contract
for uniforms is made, so that in few
weeks the company will be ready to
report for service.
A cold norther has prevailed for
several days at Pecos. Snow fell
across the New Mexico line, 50 miles
north of there and the Davis Noun
tain, 80 miles west, could be seen TO
be covered with snow.
Palestine is in whirl of excitement
over a quarter mile race, just run, be-
tween William Hardye's sOrrel mare
of this place, and a bay horse owned
by saloon man of Greenville, Tex.
The race was won by two feet by the
horse. The wager was for $500, and
81 900 changed hands on side bets.
About | 900 people witnessed the race.
THE English salt trust has put up
the price of common salt from sixty
cents per two hundred and twenty
five cents to ton, and yet we are told
that trusts are the creation, solely and
purely, of protection policies. The
truth is that neither protection nor
free trade are responsible for the ex-
istence of monopolIes and LIonopolies |
and combinations and trusts exist |
wherever capital can combine to |
crowd out competition and monopolize |
the output of any product. How far |
governments can control trusts is as |
yet an unsolved problem. 1t is one,
however, which is destined to come to |
the front in the immediate by and by. |
THE Mexican National railroad |
opens and the short cut to the Monte
yuma capital is via San Antonio and
Laredo. Mail directed thus from east
ern cities will be certain to reach it's
destination some days ahead of the
mail which goes over the old FL Paso
route. This will bind the interests of
northern Mexico and southwest Texas
together more closely than ever, and |
give renewed assurance of the cOntinu-
ance of the most friendly relations be-
tween these neighbOring people. The
troubles at Ell Paso, over Rio Grande
currents, has come to an end, an ami
cable understanding having been ar
rived at between the Mexican and
American authorities. "Give to us
peace in our time, o Lord"
ALL reports from Mexico induce the
belief that the exhibit of the sister re-
public in the fair and exposition
which opens tomorrow, will not only
be one of the most attractive features,
but that this will be but the begin
ming of an increasingly extensive ex-
hibit from across the Rio Grande year
by year. The commercial ties and the
commercial interests that bind Texas
and north Mexico together will be {
by every accruing fair !
held here and in a few years the old
of former border strifes I
will die out and the days of Rio S
Irande ruffianism and blOOdshed be !
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