San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-09-28
SHORT SNAPPERS.

l.. II. Peck and Co. make an arts
tic display in their big show win
dow.
The applicants for the San Anto
MO post office are all on a still
hunt.
The opponents to the $20O,OOC
bond scheme are organizing fol
the fight.
When schemers combine the
poor taxpayer is apt to gel
squeezed"
Ben MOke is getting ready fol-
his fall opening. He will exhibit
over 2000 hats.
The children should be required
to attend the public schools Of the
ward they live in.
Too many stockholders have
caused a big cOmmotiOn among the
TOnguelet people.
A big snow storm in Chicago
would keep considerable San An
tonic money at home.
Now is the time for the land
owner. and real estate dealer to get
move on themselves.
Pat Bergen, would make a first
class officer to fill one of the Vacan-
cies on the police force.
Chief Duerler has not vet made
up his mind to resign. The people
want him to stay there.
Many of our readers are anxious
to hear from Jack Daugherty again
on the garbage question.
A goodly number of children got
shut out of the public schools this
year for want of seating room.
Editor McHugo, of the Sunday
Chronicle, strikes out in an indie
pendent style in his editorials.
f. p. ClaudOn is the only candi-
date announced in the papers for
alderman for the Fourth Ward.
It's poor encouragement for an
officer to make arrests if the cases
are dismissed without a hearing.
1t will take considerable money
to clean out the pigeOn-hole
boxes of the finance committee.
Since the committee of Twenty
five disbanded the Fourth ward
seems scarce of aldermanic candi-
dates.
If the 100000 bond proposition
is beaten, it will be the fOre-runner
of the defeat of other like prOpo-
sitiOnS.
About the easiest way to "bust"
the Express would be to put up
$25O,O0O in cash and buy Frank
Grice out.
Judge Callaghan does not own
any stock in newspapers, but he
is a rustler in local politics just
the same.
Since the LIGHT advertised for
the scalp of that black wolf, in the
Third ward, he has moved over on
another beat.
Commodores Reed and Walker
were out last night, painting the
town white with George Wilson'S
''Monte Carlo"
From the present outlook the
Democratic party of BeXar county
will have only one Organ,-"The
Staats-Zeitung.
Fred j. Loring has returned
from his fishing and hunting trip
on the Guadalupe, and is chock
full Of fish yarns.
Every man who holds city
office should be required to be a |
property-tax-payer, or better, a |
homestead owner. !
The patronage of the merchants
and common people is worth more
to a newspaper than an army of |
sore-head politicians.
There are probably 5000 men
in San Antonio who think they
know better how to run a news
paper than the owner.
Five thousand dollars would on
ly pay the running expenses of a |
good newspaper like the Galveston
News, just about one week.
1t is reported that the "Star"
newspaper will be revived with |
Editor Hamilton in charge. San
Antonio will then have two organs.
IfyOu want a mammoth poster
printed call around and see the
LIGHT, the only San Antonio
newspaper owing its own job
office.
When a man reputed to be
worth more than 100000 stands
the collector off for SOC subscrip-