San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-07-22
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
Proposed Extension OF the City Limits
a Campaign Against Small Dalriss-
. Ntutto, noItar Iavrsu5t

A Million Dollar Lawsuit.
ST. LOWS. No, July 1.-The APP
proach OF city campaign has brought
about lively discussion of the tnan-
clal condition of St Louis. Money
IS wanted for new public build
iDrs that are contemplated. The
CITY cannot run into debt and
cannot increase its taxation with
out a vote OF the people, and every
body understands that proposition to
do either of these things would be.
beaten at the polls by the taxpayers.
So a movement Is on foot now - in
t,., lse the city limits, and take in about
twenty square miles Of rich and popu-
lou. suburban settlements TO the West.
II Is claimed that the taxes from this
source would give the city all the reve-
nue. it needs to carry out its plan of
public improvement. Ne question will
be ugitated vigorously from now till
the election, and IL may be an issue IN
the spring campaign ioF the election o.
a Mayor.
The big and little dairiss Of the city
are fighting over 4 new milh law, the
most thorough ever proposed IN TINS CITY,
wnic d is now pending in the Assembly
The system OF inspection which tho
bill contemplates is so rigid that 1t viii
drive out of business the many little
dirty dairies in the city, that make
money by selling impure milk, and
they are moving heaven and earth to
xiii the bill II the bill passes 1t will
put into operation "a complete system
Of food inspection that will include
Every article of food nsed on the table.
Milk Inspector James L. sullivan
males n telling argument for the bill
by drawing from the records Of infant
mortality in the health office. Chi
dren fed on impure milk die Of mar
asmus most often. Inspector sullivan
shows that since milk inspection was
begun here, five years ago, the deaths
from marasmuS have decreased 50 per
cent lie argues, Of course, that the
better the inspection the life of more
children will be saved The great
dairies of the city, whose reputation
depends on the quality of their milk,
are doing all they can to pass the bill,
and rid themselves of the comparatively
irresponsible competition OF the smauev
dairymen.
We are going to have a very inter-
esting million dollar suit here. When
Thomas Smith sold Washington Park
to the city years ago for SIS, 600, he
stipulated that it was to be used for
ever for the purposes ola public square.
The city is now building a city hall on
the site Of the park, having cut down
the trees. and has already spent about
quarter of a millios- on the structure
Now the heirs of Mr.. Smith, most of
whom live in Texas and kentucky
come to the United States court claim
ing not only large damages because the
city has diverted the park from the
use to which il agreed to put it, but
also the park itself The park Is now
worth n million dollars. Good lawyers
say the heirs have an excellent case,
but the city's lawyers Of course make
light of it, While the suit goes on,
the building OF the hall will proceed
too, and by the time a decision is oh
tanned the edifce VIII be finished.
Then, if the heirs win the suit, the
city Will simply hand them over the
money the park is worth.
Experiments in new kind OF
weather signalling are to be tried soon
in the agricultural country which de
ponds on ST. Louis for its forecasts.
Chief Signal Officer, Mark w Harring-
ton, is not at all satisfied with the re-
suits obtained from the system of dis
tributing signals by means Of manufac-
tory and factory whistles. IT seems
that they are cunfounded with the
whistles used for other purposes, and
often pass unEoticed 10y the people
for whose benefit they are set ont.
The weather officers here have been
informed that Chief HARRINGTON intends
to introduce silver whistles for trans
hitting the signals. lie thinks they
give out purer, rounder tone, just as
loud as the sound from the other wills
ties, and easily distinguished from
them. The first experiments in this
part of the country witt the silver
whistle viii be made in tire large farm
ing towns Of Missouri and Illinois.