San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-25


Can it be that our climate has so
changed that our summers are to
always be periods of drouth?"
Texas is ever generous. She will
spare her sister along the Ohio some
of her supernumerary showers, if the
old state will only arrange matters
with the weather clerk. Barkis is
willing.
THE Boerne Advance, calling upon
Fort Worth to settle the deep water
question, remarks truthfully concern
ing the determination of efforts for
deep water:
mo definite course can be mapped
out by the communities for their dele
gates to pursue, until each delegate
has become conversant with the i'm
portant facts that will be placed be-
fore the convention bearing upon the
adaptiveness of the different points
selected for deep water"
Just so, and it is the business of
south west Texas to demonstrate that
the "adaptiveness" lies at Arkansas
Pass. Simply that and nothing more.
A POINTER for cattle raisers was
made in the Kansas City fat stock
show when all steers over three years
old were ruled out as a class of cattle
not to be encouraged by premiums
at shows. The profits are so decided
ly in favor of the early maturity of
beeves, as shown by the increase per
day from birth to date of exhibit, that
the management felt justified in thus
ruling, believing that it was demon
strated without question that there
was more money, quicker returns and
higher interest in early matured beef
than in any other.
WHILE the beauties of free trade
with all their leveling tendencies are
being preached upon the democratic
housetops, and the movement made to
reduce American labor to European
conditions, the following from the De-
troit Free Press is in order:
Take the poorest and most
wretched-looking hamlet in America
says one who has made the tour,
'overrun it with dogs and beggars,
furnish it with $4,000 rank smells and
two dirty hotels, and you have some
thing to compare with one of the beau
tiful italian villages some of our folks
rave over"
To such condition will free trade
policies bring us at last.
THE three "R's" are coming in for
their share of attention in the coming
campaign and they are not Rum"
"Romanism" and rebellion" either
by a big majority. The Brooklyn
Eagle says Cleveland was elected on
a platform of decentralization, Reform
and Rectitude," to which the Wash
ington critic responds "Rats, BOOSTERS
and Red bandannas.n
THE Castroville Anvil aings true as
it echoes the following:
"The building era has again COM
menced in San Antonio. The indica-
tions are that it is no mush room affair
either.n
The old Alamo city is not troubled
with an epidemic of spasmodic sud-
denness, but she will get there all the
same.
THE Kinney county democracy
seem to be for the democracy, wool or
no wool. The wool will be pulled off
their eyes if Mills bill strips their
sheep ranges and leaves them all
shorn of profit.
Killed by the Engine.
The I. & G. N. train from Austin
Saturday, when ON a curve near Hun
ter Station came suddenly upon two
section men, who were riding upon a
hand car, and before anything could
be done both men were knocked down
by the engine. One of them, Joe Wat
son, was killed instantaneously, the
other, Frank Mclaughlin, had his
arm cut off and was badly lacerateC.
The train was instantly StOnDed and