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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-22

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SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-22
ST ECIAL BARGAINS
In Farm and Ranch.Property

In Farm and RANCH property.
1l.2OO acres in Bandera and Medina
counties under fence, good water. S1.75
per acre.
10000 acres in AtaScosa county all
fenced fine pasture land, $3.50 per acre.
1000 acres in Williamson and Burnett
counties all fenced, large portion of this
tract Is fine agricultural land. $500 per
acre.
1000 acres in Atascosa county all fenced,
good water. $500 per acre.
1900 acres in La Sale county, fenced,
3 windmillS fine ranch. $3.50 per acre.
$3.50 acres on San Antonio river.y's9OO
per acre.
240O acres on the Llano river, all fenced,
house, etc, miles from junction City.
$500 per acre.
1000 acres on San Miguel creek, Atlas
coSa county, all fenced, house, stock pens,
etc. 1915 per acre.
1920 acres in McMullen county, wind
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1000 acres on San Antonio river, under
fence, well improved, IL miles from San
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1000 acres, 10 miles west of city, all
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900 acres between Moor and Pearsall, 3
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PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has a Clear Gift Of a Small
Fortune, and the Losers Have Patents
that may Bring them in still More.

Would you like to make twenty-five hun
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what follows and you may see a way to do it.
The Press Claims Company devotes much
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ands of applications for inventions, but it
would like to handle a thousand more. There
plenty of inventive talent at large in this
country, needing nothing but encourage nent
to produce practical results. That encourage
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oriu
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Naming Supreme Judges.

LITTLE Rock, June 22.--The
State Judicial convention meets to-
day to name the successors to
Judges Cottrell and Hemingway
Judge H. G. Bum, now on the SUI
preme Bench, is the leading candi-
date for Chief Justice, Judges John
Fletcher and J. Brown are the
principal candidates for Associate
Justice.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-22
NOT so HARD AS IT SEEMS,

A patent strikes most people as an appall
ingly formidable thing. The idea is that an
inventor must be natural genius, like Edi-
son or Bel; that he must devote years to
delving in complicated mechanical problems
and that he must spent fortune on delicate
experiments before he can get new device to
patentable degree of perfection. This delu-
sion the company desires to dispel. 1t desires
to get into the head of the public clear COM
prehension of the fact that it is not the great,
complex, and expensive inventions that bring
the best returns to their authors, out the lit
tie. simple, and cheap ones-the things that
seem so absurdly trivial that the average citi-
zen would eelsomewhat ashamed of bringing
them to the attention of the Patent Office.
Edison says that the profits he has received
from the patents on all his marvellous inven-
tons have not been sufficient to pay the cost
OF his experiments. But the man who con-
ceived the idea of fastning a bit of rubber
cord to child's ball, so that it would come
back TO the hand when thrown made a fortune
out of his scheme. The modern sewing-ma-
chine is miracle of ngenuity-the product of
the toll of hundreds of busy brains through a
hundred and fifty years, but the whole bril-
liant result rests upon the simple device of
putting the eye of the needle at the point in.
stead of at the other end
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cBoIcELoTs FOR SALE.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT,
SAN ANTONIO, TEX

Grand View Addition offers the best
and cheapest building and garden lots in
the city. You are sure to double your
money in twelve months. Lots from fifty
to one hundred and fifty dollars. Garden
blocks three miles from pOstoftice at Sl25
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-22
A BARGAIN.

Frame house rooms and bath with all
modern improvements. Size of lot, 100 by
III feet, south exposure, in one of the
elevations about the city and
short distance from the car line. gas and
water. This property is offered for few
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-22
A TEMPTING OFFER.

To induce people TO Leep track of their
bright ideas and sec what there is in them,
the Press Claims Company has resolved to
offer price.
To the person who submits to it the SIM
piest and most promising invention, from
a commercial point OF view, the company will
give twenty-five hundred dollars in cash, in
addition to refunding the fees for securing
the patent.
1t will also adv ertise the invention free of
charge.
This offer is subject to. the following con-
ditons:
Every competitor must obtain a patent f. r
his invention through the company. He
must first apply for a preliminary search
the cost of which will be five dollars
Should this search show his invention beot
unpatentable. he can withdraw without cur.
Their expense. Otherwise he will be expected
to complete mis- application and take out a
patent in the regular way. The total expense
including Government and Bureau fees will
be seventy dollars. For this, whether ne
secures the prize or not, the inventor will
have a patent that ought to be a valuable
property to him. This prize will be awaI led
by jury consisting of three reputable patent
attorneys of Washington. Intending com.
petitors should I'LL out the following blank,
and forward II with their applications:
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-22
Ex-Governor Waller Will Speak.

New HAVEN, Conn, June %
Ex-Governor Thomas M. Waller,
of Connecticut, has been selected
by the Faculty of the Yale Law
School to deliver the anniversary
Grafton to the graduating class in
Centre church today.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-22
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
Railroad officials in Town-otheI
Railroad News.

l.. M. johnson, general manager
of the International MeXicanO, ar
rived in the city yesterday in his
special car, "Sabinas," and is on his
way to headquarters at Cindad
Porfirio Diaz,> Mex. He has been
to Chicago, where he had been Wis
iting the Worlds fair.
William Mail, assistant to G. p.
Huntington, president of the
Southern Pacific company, arrived
in the city yesterday from Hous-
ton, where he has come from New
York. He is in his special car
<'Morgan," and is here to consult
General Manager M. ID. Monseratte
of the San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass.
Special car "Santa Fe" arrived in
the city yesterday from Houston
over the Southern Pacific.
REPAIRS GOING ON.
Roadmaster A. p. Blue, of the
Southern Pacific arrived in the
city yesterday afternoon from Gid
den and left this morning for Schu-
lenburg. He states that the bal
lasting of the track with gravel is
progressing nicely between Kings
bury and Luling and that the road
bed is being rebuilt on that end.
BETWEEN STATIONS.
Hank Small, of the Southern
Pacific, left for Ell Paso yesterday
morning.
l.. Benedict, chief clerk for Hank
Small, returned from Austin yes
terday where he had been to attend
the commencement exercises of
the State university.
X. III. lnneS, uperintendent of
the San Antonio and Arkansas Pass,
returned nome from Yoakum last
night, in company with General
M. D. Monseratte.
Mrs. Ryan, wife of the late Jerry
J. Ryan, the section foreman at
LOZier station, who was recently
killed by an engine, arrived in the
city yesterday and will in the fu-
ture reside in San Antonio.
Engineer Evans took out engine
No. Gil yesterday, which has been
in the Southern Pacific repair
shops. The first trip of the re-
newed engine was to Houston.
F. w. Weeks, trainmaster of the
Mexican National, at Laredo, is in
the city, to meet his wife, whom
he expects from New York, where
she has been visiting for some
time. Mr.. and Mrs. Weeks will
remain in San Antonio several
days, and then leave for their home
on the border.
The ball of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Firemen will take
place tonight at Taylor. A num-
Der of San AntOnians will attend
B. F. Yoakum, general manager
for the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe, was in the city yesterday from
Galveston, his new headquarters
He left again last night.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-22
AN EYEOPENER,

Keep your eye on the real estate trans
fers and see the bone fde home seekers
who are buying in Grand View Addition,
state for safe, sure and reliable invest
ments. See A. j, May, over Texas Natl
Bank. lit
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SURVEYS, PHAEToNs AND CAR
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-22

Sam Maverick. Agent. Buys
small notes, negotiates loans, So
Iicits insurance, also notary public.
Office, CenTal hotel. 6 % If
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-22
Big Hotels to Open for the Season

SARATOGA, n. Y, June 22.-The
United States and Congress Hall
hotels open for the summer season
today. This annually marks the
beginning of the CAV season he re
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-22
Tho Little Things The Most Valuable

Comparatively few people regard them
sci YES as inventors, but almost everybody
has been struck, at one time or another,
wi tn ideas that seemed calculated to reduce
some of theJlittle frictiOns of life. Usually
such ideas are dismissed without further
thought.
why don't the railroad company make its
car windows so that they can be slid up and
down without b,ea king the passengers
backs?" eX claims the traveller. "If l were
running the road would make them in such
away"
"What was the man that made this sauce
pan thinking Off" grumbes the cook. "He
never had to work over stove or he would
have known how it ought to have been fixed !"
Hang such collar buttonr' growls the
man who is late for breakfast. "If were in
the business I'd make buttons that would Mt
slip out or break Off, or gouge out the back
of my neck"
And then the various sufferers forgot about
their grievar es and begin to think of some
thing else. If they would sit down at the
next convenient opportunity, put their ideas
about car windows, saucepans, and collar
buttons into practical shape, and then apply
for patents, they might find themselves as In
dependently wealthy as the man who invent
ed the iron umbrella ring, or the one who
natented the fifteen nIzzla
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-22
SHORT STOPS.
What the People are Saying.

The question of voting $4,000 in
bonds to begin the preliminary
work of sewerage will be submitted
to vote of the taxpayers of our
city on the 30th inst.
x
The charter wisely limits the de-
cision of such questions to those
citizens who are directly concerned
in the payment of the bill.
The city business embraces a
multitude of small affairs in the
administration of which there nat
urally arises good deal of friction
and disappointments. The present
administration has been in office
but little over three months,
saddled with a legacy of eXtrava-
gance hard to correct with finan-
cial embarrassment difficult to
overcome.
If there are those who feel dis
persed to pass adverse criticism
upon the city administration be-
cause every thing has not gone to
suit them, if they are good citizens
they will not permit their judg-
ment to be warped in the presence
of question of far more reaching
Importance than all the routine
business of the city.
The proposition to inaugurate a
system of sewerage rises late in
the day with our city, but it must
be done now or never. We have
the means at hand-a few years
hence we will not be so well stu
ated. The proposition is the in
auguration of the broad and pro-
gressive policy the people voted
for and which they have been
waiting for.
The sewerage question involves
the ownership of the water supply;
this means much to every taXpay.
er who is water taker. The city
and the taxpayers are now paying
out for water annually half the
amount that it will cost to dupli-
cate the present water works sys-
tenn. In two years the taxpayers
can earn the water works.
| X
| 1t means that the taxpayers can
| reduce their water rate fifty per
cent, that is that you will not
| have to pay One-half as much as
you are now paying. To the small
| taxpayers it means you can save
the amount you are now paying in
the way of taxes to the city.
|
Hard times, difficulty in paying
your taxes is largely due to your
excessive water rents. Cut your
water charges down One-half and
you will relieve the greatest strain
upon your income.
The most relentless-the hardest
collector is the Water Works COM
pany. You must pay monthly or
be cut off from this necessity of
life. The time has come for you to
get out of the clutches of this pri-
vate monopoly.
Vote the $4,000 proposition to
inaugurate the peoples ownership
of their own plant. 1t is money in
your pockets.
Ex-Governor Waller Will Speak.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-22

81 submit the within described invention
in competition for the Twenty-Five Hundred
Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims
Company.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-22

Vote the $4,000 proposition to
inaugurate the peoples ownership
of their own plant. 1t is money in
your pockets.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-22

The most relentless-the hardest
collector is the Water Works COM
pany. You must pay monthly or
be cut off from this necessity of
life. The time has come for you to
get out of the clutches of this pri-
vate monopoly.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-22

Hard times, difficulty in paying
your taxes is largely due to your
excessive water rents. Cut your
water charges down one-half and
you will relieve the greatest strain
upon your income.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-22

The charter wisely limits the de-
cision of such questions to those
citizens who are directly concerned
in the payment of the bill.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-22

1t means that the taxpayers can
reduce their water rate fifty per
cent, that is that you will not
have to pay one-half as much as
you are now paying. To the small
taxpayers it means you can save
the amount you are now paying in
the way of taxes to the city.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-22
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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-11-08
a Mountain OF uorns.one.

Mount K1neo, which rises precip.
itously zoo feet out of Moosehead
lake in Maine, is wholly composed OF
hornstone and is the largest mass OF
that mineral in the known world.
There is no true flint in the United
States, but hornstone so closely re
sembles it that it takes an expert to
tell the difference. This rock sup
piled arrowheads to Indians hun
dreds and thousands of miles away.
The discovery of these arrowheads
in the Mississippi valley has led to
the belief that a system of CONNER
cial exchange must have existed
among the red men in former cen
turies. According to an Indian ira
dition, the mountain is the body of 8
monster moose that was slain by g
giant. Exchange
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-11-08
s StorI on Indye Rerkshiro.

The presence in Pittsburg of Geo
c. Sturgis, the well known West
Virginia lawyer aud politician, re-
minded a gentleman yesterday ol
an experience with the plain and
unassuming people up and about
Morgantown.
= was fourteen years younger
than ! am now when visited Nor.
gantown with an engineering corps,
he said It was only narrow
guage road We were laying out,
but We had a broad guage idea Of
our own Importance. The people
helped us to it. Very many ofthem
had never seen a railroad train, aud
knowing US to be engineers some of
them used to keep looking over
their shoulders whenever they were
out on line with US for fear The en-
gIne would run over them. That
road hasn't been built yet so far as
know. but it was very real to the
people along the line. I was there
or thereabouts for a month, and
about the only man saw that wore
a whole suit of clothes, without any
patches on it, was sturgis. The
people agreed that he was a big
man and a powerful taIker, but
some of them thought he put on
rather too much style in his clothes.
"His Office was headquarters for
our corps, and ] will never forget
my experience the first time 1 visi-
ted it, one day when L went there
to do some figuring while the rest of
the corps were in the field. l found
the fire low in the private Office, and
hailed middle aged man. dressed
in an old suit of home spun clothes,
who was reading the county paper
in the outer Office.
"Herel Please put some more
coal on and FIX up good fire here.
he did SO, and then / added.
"Now, if you clear away those
asoes and tidy the hearth up it will
make things look more respectable. /"
"He did that too, although somo-
what awkwardly, and just then in
came Mr.. Sturgis. whom 1 had met
at the hotel" "Hellol making your
self at home l sec" in his hearty
manner. "That's right. You new
er met my partner here, / believe, !"
indicating the man | had been or
dering around as a scullion. nLet
me introduce you to Judge Berk-
SHIRE of our court" and 1 after.
ward heard he was counted one of
the ablest jurists in the State.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-11-08
n1llltarr crcll... In no1land.

In Holland the number of military
cyclists is fixed at rs. They are en-
rolled for period of five years, and
in case of mobilization must be at the
disposal of the war minister. Each
year they may be called upon to
serve three weeks with the troops
Each cyclist receives from the gov
ernment retaining fee of 80 horins
a year for his bicycle and pay at the
rate of forins day, besides travel
ing expenses. Repairs are done al
the expense of the state. The rank
of the cyelist is that of a noncom.
missioned officer, and he is entitled
to pension London News.