San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-11-29

the Pistol and Rope
the Waters Pierce
Oil Co. in Mexico
Personal.
To the LIGHT
MONTEREY, Nov. %. =
The Americans in Monterey will
keep thanksgiving day and eat the
roast turkey, and at night they will
give hop at the !Tivoli Renaro.
Your correspondent is in receipt of
an invitation to take dinner thanks
giving day at the Hidalgo hotel.
The employees of the Monterey and
Mexican Cult railway will give ban.
quet at the Gulf restaurant, January
LIST, 1898.
APPOINTED.
Mr.. F. e. Barron has been appoint
ed master mechanic of the Monterey
and Mexican Gulf railway, with
headquarters at Monterey
BY The PISTOL AND ROPE.
At 6 q. m. yesterday Mr.. Mercelo
Villareal went to the Porfirlo Diaz
plaza, pulled q pistol from
his pocket aud sent bullet
through his heart. The same day q
woman went by the rope route by
hanging herself In her room in Wash
iugtOn street. The authorities are in
vestigatiug the cause of both sui
sides.
THE WALTER PIERCE OIL co.
The above company have purchased
ground from the Monterey and Next
can Gulf r. r. a. Tam pico for the
purpose OF erecting thereon the lsrg-
est. Oil reservoir in the world. They
will make Tampico the distributing
point for the Republic of Mexico.
There is every reason to believe that
they will develope the petroleum
wells that exist ia the vicinity of
Tampico. The company ownl
steamer which plyes between Tam.
pico and Vera Cruz, for the purpose
of delivering oil to all points down
the coast. We have been informed
that the company have purchased
large tracts OF woodland and agricul-
tural lands, and that they will set
out coffee, orange and banana planta-
tions along the coast. II
ALL ABOUT LIARS.
The late election in the States have
produced large crop of liars-that
ls class of writers whose chief aim
in life was to misrepresent every
thing that they touched, Texas sum-
med % have raised large crop Of them
since the Houston convention But
the Texas liars will have to take a
back seat when they are sized up
along side of the socalled newspaper
writer's from the north that visit
Mexico.
Some time ago an editor of orth-
ern newspaper paid Mexico WISH
and called on the General Manager
of one of the trunk roads for q free
pass over the road which was re-
FUSED. When the editor got home he
devoted q column or more of abuse
of said manager and road. He
told his readers that 1t was only q
one horse road any way; that the
ties were rotten, the rails worn out
and that the coaches were not fit to
ride In. He went so far as to say
that young married man would not
stoop so low as to permit his mother
in-law to ride on that road.
But since then he received q free
pass from said manager to ride over
the road, and in the late issues of his
paper he devotes considerable space
in'praise of said manager and road.
Now he tells his readers that it
Is the best and safest road
in the Republic of Mexico to /
ride on, and that the seen.
cry along the line of the road are
the most pictureque in this wonder
land.
The question now is: does he lie
now or did he lie then? We think
that he lies now as he lied then,
and that he always will lie until he
lies stll.
Here is another:
"Parrsis Mexico, Nov. 1897
Ever since l have heard any thing of
Mexico / have heard Parrais spoken
Of as place worth visiting-I have
had this desire satisfied, and l now
sit in the far-famed city of wine and
women whiting this letter"
lat s p. m. We arrived at
the hotel in Parras. After supper L
took walk over the town all by my
self. Little could be seen definitely,
the moon was up fully four
hours and everything was bsthed in
3 flood of moon light. Hans Michel
in San Antonio Express"
A referance to the almanic will
show that there was full moon on the |
evening of the 4. and that could not
have been up four hours when he
started out.
Now Hans must have had consider. |
able wine abroad and some women In |
tow when he took the sun for the |
moon, which was four hours high |
when he woke up next morning.
ELECTED MAYOR.
On Sunday, 18th, there was an cleo.
ton held in this city for mayor and