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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-31
Look at This,

Lavaca county, nine miles from Yoakum,
adjoining the town of Hope. All under
hog proof fence. 2.story house of seven
70 IN completely finished, with full set
of necessary outbuildings, large tank,
good well living water. good soil. l0-l3-tT.
JNO T HANBIETON & Co
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-31

Albert +. Beckmann, Architect
Wishes you all ga Happy New
Year." and to know that he has
opened an office over corner Commerce
and Navarro street, where he will be
pleased to see anybody who may
call. 1921 ct
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-31

Averting public disaster: "My
good girl" said an experienced
amusement purveyor, "take my adj
vice and don't go on the stage" ~
suppose she said sharply, ''you are
going to undertake to save me from q
terrible fate, or something of that
sort.n "No," he replied, solemnly,
II was thinking OF the public. ~
Washington Post.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-31
Answer This Question.

No. Why do 80 many people we see around
cradle by Indigestion, Constipation. Dizziness,
Loss of appetite, Coming Up of the Food. yell
low Skin, when for Is cents we will send them
Shios system yitalizer. guaranteed 10 cure
theru Sold by Kalteyer & Son. s13Iy
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-31
NOTICE TO DEPosITORS.
Maverick Bank

Parties having accounts with the Nav
'erick bank will please send me their pass
books that they may be balanced.
REAGAN HoUsTON, Assignee.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-31

Goals to Newcastle: Benevolent In
dividual -'Beg pardon, sir, but am
around collecting reading matter for
the hospitals" Busy Parsonage
"Oh, they've got plenty of reading
matter, loads of it. 1t isn't a month
since sent them Sunday paper. p
New York Weekly.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-31
The Reduction Sale

Ordered by me at Slevin & McGilPs
dry goods store. Commerce and Nav
AFRO will continue during the week
and the reduced figures will be found
in red marks. PETER SHIELDS,
12-27-5t Assignee
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-31
Cord Wood For Sale.

For Best Post Oak, we'll seasoned. cord
wood, full measure guaranteed, leave or
Telephone pei, will receive prompt atten-
ton. Price 1925 per cord delivered.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-31
\ TROUGH ON ITCH"

Trough ITCH"
Ointment cures Skin, Humors, Pim-
Piles, Flesh Worms, Ring Worm,
letter, Salt, Rheum, Frosted Feet,
Chilblains, Itch, Ivy Poison, Barber's
Itch, Scald Head, Eczema, soc. Drug
gist or mail. E. S. Wells. Jersey
City, N. J. S-9-ly.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-31
Before the Commissioner.

Rafael Ramirez, alias Juan Herman
DEE, was held under $3.50 bond on
the charge of passing counterfeit mon
ey, failing to give which he was COM
mitted to the county jail. The feder-
al grand jury will investigate the
case.
Commissioner Price also admitted
Faustino Parras, one Of Sandoval's
followers to bail. This man was not
tried with others of the Ssndoval
groupe, as he had obtained a contin-
uance- He gave bail to the sum of
$3.50 and was released.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-31

IT. G. Frost has filed suit in Judge
Noonan's court against Max Bassist
and others, but the cause of the ac-
ton is not stated. NJ. Roy has
brought action against VIM. Shepard,
for damages and TO try title to land.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-31
j. VORPHAL Il o. CONRAD.
Corner Elm and Burnet Streets
Chris. Dullnig's Old Stand.

Staple and fancy groceries. fine wines,
liquors and Cigars. Goods delivered free
TO any part of the city. Give us call.
1929 mo.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-31

Mission Oil Co.. No. 1S, North
Alamo Street.
Stove Gasoline a speciality. VIII also
send you man to repair your gasoline
stoves. Telephone 543. l2-2-lmo.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-31
Assjgnee's Sale,

Assignee's Sale.
Selling out entire stock of A. Bruins.
wick Il Son. regardless of cost.
1912 n. SCHNITzER, Assignee.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-31
Removal.

C. III. Mueller, dealer in wall paper,
glass, artists and painters supplies, has
removed to PIT, Z. Houston street. II II
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-04-10

q relatively large area of land. The
lands reclaimed in this way, therefore
will not only be SO much net gain O.
irrigable area but the water obtained
will irrigate and reclaim relatively
large amount of land.
This immense underground water
supply, while probably derived, in the
main, from the percolation of the Ar.
| kansas River and its tributaries, is
probably largely supplemented by un.
foreground currents from distant
sources north and west.
While these remarks apply particu-
larly to the Arkansas Valley, which the
writer has made special study for
some years, yet sufficient is known of a
large number of other streams, as the
Platte, Canadian, Missouri, ETC., with
their tributaries, to convince the wri-
ter that the area of land which will
ultimately be reclaimed by irrigation
will at least double the amount at pres
ent estimated as reclaimable.
The great value of this method of
securing a water supply lies in this
That the water caught and held back
in the mountains by means of storage
reservoirs, lakes and forests, and
spread out over the lands nearest to
these sources OF supply will speedily
find its way, in large measure, into the
underfow, and can thus be used again
and again in its progress down the
long slopes which it must traverse on
its way toward the sea. That part
which does not thus sink again and
again into the under strata. will rise
into the air by evaporation to be again
deposited either upon mountain or
plain in the form of rain, snow or dew.
None of that part which is evaporated
can be lost.
The accompanying map shows the
generally accepted boundaries of what
is known as "the arid region" and be-
tween the two shaded lines on the
right is shown the strip of country
which will be most benefited by the
development of the vast subterranean
sources of water supply for irrigation,
which may be tapped and utilized in
hundreds of places, not only In the
region thus outlined, but throughout
the entire territory In which irrigation
is needed. The lands which will thus
be furnished with irrigation are in very
large proportion smooth as to surface,
possessing soil of great depth and ex-
ceedingly rich, and having fine eli
mate. They are too far from the noun
tains to secure a reliable supply of
water from torrential sources, and, at
the same time, they already contain
many settlers who have been tempted,
or gone mistakenly. beyond the boun-
diaries of humid areas. Hence, the
underfiow viii not only furnish to
many million acres of rich land the
only sure means of irrigation, but will
turn the sorrow OF many thousand toll
ing settlers into JOY by giving to their
arid homesteads the means of the high
est degree of fertility and certainty
of much greater success in farming
than can be secured by natural rainfall.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-04-10
Chicago, Qll.) Arkansas Traveller, March I,

Chicago, OIL Arkansas Traveller March IS.
Chicago is indeed favorite of fortune
In the congressional drawing she has lately
been awarded tine first capital prize-the
Worlds fair-and in the February 18th
drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery two
of her citizens drew cash prizes which have
made them wealthy. IL. A. Hulburi, 80
Metropolitan Block, is one of the lucky cit
liens. To a Traveller representative Mr..
.Hulburd said II held one-quarter of ticket
No 1919 which drew the Ithirt, capital prize
of $4,000. The cash, 1850, was promptly
received by me through the American EN-
press.
Messrs. Charles Kozminski & Co., bankers,
at los Washington St., collected for custo-
mer, through the State National bank, of
New Orleans, one-twentieth of ticket No. 6i.-
.;S5 which drew the first capital prize of
1000 in the same drawing. Mr.. koZmin-
ski, in answer to inquiries of the reporter.
said: Il have no authority to give the name
of the customer for whom this collection was
made. 1t is fact. however, that the ticket
gas promptly honored and the $4,000. less
cost of collection, is placed to the credit of
the depositor.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-04-10
The Nine VIII Save Time.

~Lots OF time will he saved by letter
writer's this year" said very
busy merchant down town the other
day. He had improved breathing
spell in his working hours to scribble
all over a piece of scratch paper the
dates 1899 and 1890. See here" he
continued. pointing with his pen at the
paper. ~Do you know that / can write
lS91 much faster than 1889, although I
have had the advantage of q years
practice with the latter date? 1t is only
the difference of ia fraction of q second,
of course. but when you ada together
these fractions OF seconds hundreds of
millions of times they go to make up
very respectable period of dme-per-
haps century or SO Ia all We have
not had such an easy date to write as
1890 siace the year 1850. All the dates
from 1870 TO 1889 have been awk-
ward for penmen. Try it few times
and see how easily you can put 1890 on
paper. Then next week you will won
der why you viii persist In writing the
awkward 1889 and scratching it out
again. But rou'u do it all the same"
-Netc York Times.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-04-10

der agriculture thereon certainly re
munerative. On two acres out of ever,
five in the sum total of the United
States, there must be more or less IL
rlSatiOn to secure success in farming
and all could employ it profitably a
times.
The arid and semi-arid lands, which
constitute the two-fifths mentioned
cover about 10000 square miles, o.
more than S00,000,000 acres. If thi.
area could be thoroughly reclaimed by
irrigation, it would add more than 40,
600, 900 possible homes of agriculturist.
to the treasures of the resources of the
United States; because, it is demon
strated that, on thoroughly irrigated
land, an average family may live well
Off less than twenty acres, the average
yield from irrigated land being foul
times the average product of non-irri
gated. But large areas, which are in.
Guided in the arid limits, consist OF
mountainous country, consequently
unsuitable by nature for agriculture.
Notwithstanding this, it has been esti-
mated that, when all available sources
of water supply for irrigation are util-
lied, there will only be water enough
to irrigate about one-fourth of the land
needing irrigation. This estimate in
cluded only the surface waters, how
ever, from melting snow. rains. and
natural springs, aided by artesian
wells and pumping machinery. But
there is another source of water sup
ply, hitherto unnoted, which is des-
tined to become a factor of most
wonderful Importance in the prob
lem of the reclamation of
the arid lands. It is the underflow.
Thus is the broad and deep subter-
ranean volume of water which slowly
flows through the sand and gravel I'M
deriving most, if not all. the streams
which traverse the plains adjacent to
the Rocky Mountain system, these
plains constituting the greater portion
of the land which viii require irriga-
ton.
These underground streams, which,
extended investigation shows, flow
steadily, though slowly, through their
sandy medium, are probably much
~
upon the surface, and there are indica-
tons tina. they are also much more nu-
merous, and there is little question
that they are, in large measure, distinct
from surface streams In the direction
of their flow. But little investigation
has been made as yet into the extent of
these underground bodies of water.
In the valley of the Arkansas River.
particularly that part extending from
the Tooth meridian westward some 300
miles, the subterranean flow is both
wide and deep, and is an average of
but three feet below the surface of the
low lands along the river.
AT Garden City, Kan, which is on
the Arkansas River, fifty miles west of
the one hundred:h meridian and sew
enty miles east from the west line of
the State, the water-bearing bed of
sand and gravel is 80 fee. deep; and
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-04-10

Such caution as this seems hardly
necessary to any person in the full
possession of his faculties, yet it is as
tonishing how many people there are,
including good business men, who at
tach their signatures to papers or
documents whose contents might have
q serious bearing upon themselves or
their affairs, with scarcely glance at
their contents. Carelessness in failing
to acquaint themselves with the con-
tents of paper before signing it has
worked incalculable harm to thousands
Of well-intentioned people. Then read
all papers carefully before YOU sign
them, particularly those that express
or imply anything in the nature of a
contract or q legal obligation.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-04-10

In Brazil Senators hold Office for lie,
and take so-cailed active part in the
legislation of the country SO long as
they can be carried to the Senate cham
Der. 4 view of the Brazilian Senate
reminds one of hospital for the infirm
and aged, with here and there man of
some bodily vigor thrown in. As a
rule at least third of the Senators
are so old that they fall asleep after
sitting il the Senate chamber for half
an hour, and even on important oc-
casions of debates it is impossible to
keep them awake long enough to hear
the argument of tie Younger men they
never attempt anything like an address
themselves. | remember on one oc-
casion counting thirteen OF these aged
Legislators sitting in their chairs asleep
while one of the ablest Gebaters was
addressing the body.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-04-10
SuperstitiOns About Babies.

In Ireland belt made with WON
ans hair is placed about child to keep
harm away,
In Spain the infants face is swept
with pine tree bough to bring good
luck.
Garlic, bread, salt and steak are put
into the cradle OF a newborn babe In
Holland
In America the child is handed over
to q nurse with instructions to "raise it
on the bottle"
In Scotland i. is said that to rock the
empty cradle will insure the coming q
other occupants FOR it.
The Greciaa mother before putting
the child in the cradle turns three times
around before the fire while singing
her favorite song, to ward Off evil
spirits.
The Turkish mother loads her child
with amuiets -, soon as ii is born. A
small bit of Maud well stepped in hot
water prepared by precious charms is
stuck on its forehead.
Welsh mothers put pair OF tongs or
knife in the cradle to insure the
safety OF their children: the knife is
also used for the same purpose in some
parts of England.
The London mother places a book
unde: the head of the newborn infant
that i may be quick at reading, and
puts money into the first bath to guar
antee its wealth in the future.
Roumanian mothers tie red ribbons
around the ankles OF their children to
preserve them from harm, while Ethi-
opiaa mothers attach bits of asafetida
to the neck of their offspring.
At the birth of child in Lower
Brittany the neighboring women take
it in charge. wash il. crack its joints and
rub its head with oil to solder the cram
ium bones. 1t is then wrapped in
tight bundle, and its lids are anointed
with brandy to make it full Breton.
Among Vosges peasants children
born at new moon are supposed to
have their tongues better hung than
others, while those born at the last
quarter are supposed to have less
tongue, but better reasoning powers. A
born during the waxing moon
Is always pfecocious.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-04-10

preciable part of the Union which re-
mains as distinctively new and I'M
settled. But six Territories remain
unadmitted as States and these already
contain SO many people that they are
almost ready to knock at the door,
The processes of working over and
filling up have begun, and will soon
bring impressively before the people of
the United States the fact that at least
two-ffths of the total area of our great
country, not including Alaska, will re-
quire an artificial water supply to rem
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-04-10

engineers, who have made q study OF
the matter. find it probably over fifty
miles wide. Though it is not probable
that such depth and width are. by any
means, uniform, yet that a great width
and depth are maintained throughout
the 800 miles mentioned, has been
demonstrated. This renders the use
of improved pumping machinery cheap
and effective, to limited extent, for
the purpose of raising water to the sur.
face for use In irrigation; but, a sys-
tenn is available which will utilize these
vast subterranean stores of water, and
which is simple, cheap, and permanent,
costing comparatively little either to
establish or maintain it.
The quantity of land which may be
placed under irrigation by this means,
and which has no other certain source
of water supply, in the Arkansas
valley, will be more than 1000, coo
acres, IN Kansas, and an equal area in
Colorado. These lands are too far
from the mountains to be sure of re-
ceiving any appreciable portion of the
surface waters emanating from that
source, because so much good land,
which must have irrigation, lies nearer
to that source of supply. There is no
appreciate surplus of local storm
waters falling upon these lower lands,
because, on these plains, five-sixths of
all the annual precipitation falls be-
tween April l and September /. and
is absorbed by the soil. This, how
ever, gives SO nearly a. sufficient rain
fall, through the growing season, that
but little additional moisture in the
way of irrigation is needed: hence the
water supplied for irrigation will serve
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-04-10

MARSHALL JEWELL. of Connecticut.
made good portion of his great for
tune while Minister to Russia. The
story runs that he bribed servant to
give him the secret of the manufacture
of Russia leather. With i. he returned
to America and became = wealthy man
by making an excellent imitation of the
genuine and overcostly article.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-04-10

Moasz's SCHOOL SRoEs.-ma6e in ous
large shoe factory at Omaha, Nebraska.
Ask your dealer for them. Refuse to take
any others. If not kept in your town write.
US asking where to get them. They wear
longer and fit better than any other shoes.
Shoes have always been made too narrow.
We make them wide. A reward of Fifty
Dollars in gold pad fo- pair of our own
make of shoes that contain particle of
shoddy, or anything but solld leather. We
make one hundred and fifty styles Of Wo-
mems, Misses and Children's Sewed and
Standard Screw, Grain, Glove Kid and Don.
COLA. Elegant styles, wide and good fitting.
We also carry one hundred and fifty styles
Of Mems Goods, Rubbers, etc.
w. V. MORSE i CO.,
Shoe Manufacturers, Omahs, Ne5raska
Wales Goojyear Rubbers are the best,
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-04-10

JOSEPH WALKER, a New York i'm
rorter, has sued the United States
Government for 20 cents. In October
of last year the plaintiff imported some
goods. which were placed in bonded
warehouse and subsequently car.ed
from there to the appraisers stores.
The carriage amounted 10 20 cents.
which amount the Government asked
the plaintiff to nay. He demurred
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-04-10

W. h. MooREHEAD, of The Smithso,
MAN, spent last summer, with staff
OF assistants, in surveying and explor
ing Fort Ancient, the prehistoric
earthwork of Warren County, Ohio,
and is about to bring out an illustrated
volume of his discoveries. In the course
of his explorations Mr.. Moorehead has
found evidence of two distinct races of
aborigines, and has, moreover, discov-
cred a large village site in the Miami
RIVER bottoms, five feet below the sur.
face.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-04-10

\ NEW calculating machine has been
perfected, occupying about the same
space as an ordinary typewriter,
having a slightly inclined keyboard,
the keys of which are operated in the
same manner as those Of q typewriter.
Each key has two figures, a large and
small one, the large figures increasing
consecutively from one to rine, and
the small ones decreasing in the same
manner Thus the comtometer is so
constructed that it not only performs
all computations in whole numbers and
decimal fractions, but in common frac-
lions, being equally accurate in dis
count, interest, square root, exchange,
ard al! forms OF account work.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-04-10

A PARIS paper offered an eminent
Frenchman one thousand dollars for
his autobiography. He accepted this
offer, and after getting check for the
amount, sent on his autobiography,
which was as follows: L was born at
Lyons in 1889, and since that time !
can recall nothing of any account, ex-
cept that I have not been killed in any
of the uprisings."
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-04-10

A CoRK-CoRE floating robe has been
invented. The inventor claims that
his floating rope of one inch thickness
will stand a strain OF more than one
thousand pounds. 1t can be used in
life lines, on life RATS, and as heav-
ing line TO tie heavy hawsers to. At a
life-saving station such rope would
be very valuable
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-04-10

SHEEP are now sheared by electricity
in Australia, Frederick Wolseley, a
brother of Lord Wolseley, having in
vented machine for the purpose. The
method of using the shears is very
simple, the operator having merely to
throw friction wheel into adjustment
by means of handle, and then push
the comb into the wool, pressing it
continuously forward and keeping it
as closely as possible to the body of
the animal being operated upon. From
one to one hundred shears can be OPP
shearing is done more mercifully than
when done by hand shears.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-04-10

THERE are thirty-six car-building
companies in the United States, and
in the year 1889 they turned out TO-
$40 cars, and at the shops of railway
companies there were doubtless enough
cars built to swell the number added
to the freight equipment of the roads
of this country last year to 100000
cars
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-04-10
but finally paid the amount under pro-
test, and now brings suit to recover it.

JUST how patient that portion of the
public which travels is may be realized
from public case in Connecticut. A
hotel at which an average of forty
people stopped nightly was sued by a
guest for harboring bugs in the beds.
Out of ffty-two beds overhauled, forty
eight had bugs, and this was the first
and only complaint for five years.