San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-16
He WENT TO KERRVILLE,
A LIGHT SCRIBE TAKES A TRIP
UP THE s. A..
He Passes Through a Beautiful
Country and Sees Some Pretty
Scenery - He Meets Old
Acquaintance and Has
a Pleasant Time.

One OF J0e reporters LOT J0e LIGHT ma
returned from a very pleasant trip t
Kerrville, over the Arkansas Pass road
He left San Antonio Tuesday evening
and got back Thursday morning. Among
the passengers on the train with hin
were DR.. F. and Mrs. Herff, who were Ell
route for Boerne, their summer home;
Mrs. Albert Maverick, with her children
and their nurse, who were also bound fol
Boerne, and Captain Charles Schreiner
of Kerrvile. The road from here to Kerr
vile traverSes the most picturesque
country anywhere along the lire of the s.
A. p, and the mountain sceneryis lovely.
All Of the places along the road are pref
tily located, and especially Comfort and
Kerrville. The latter is the terminus of the
extension of the road, which was original
ly:intended 10 have been built to Llano,
1t however, was a great benefit to Kerr
vile that the ROAD terminated there, as its
terminal makes that place the base of
supply and distribution to very large
area OF tributary country.
kerryille, which has a population OF
1,500, lies in valley and on the banks of
the Guadalupe river and nestleS snugly
at the foot of range of small-sized
peaks, one of which Is called Monumen
tai mountain, from the fact that on its
crest are Inferred the remains of the late
Captain Tivey and his wife, having
been erected by the Masonic fraternity,
of which he was prominent and wor-
thy member, "a handsome monument
which is plainly visible in every drec-
tiOn for a distance of thirty miles.
Captain Tivey was one of the wealthy
citizens of Kerrville, he and Captain
Schreiner owning the largest portion Of
the property there. Captain Tivey'S
maiden sister inherited the bulk of the
property left by him. Captain Schrenier,
who is frequently alluded to as the king
of Kerrvile," owns the waterworks, the
rolling mills, the only bank and the lar
geSt stores there, not TO speak Of his gins
and most of the real estate. He also owns
very fine artesian well, which had fine
flow, but unfortunately the contractors
drilling itlet the drill fall from the rope
attached to it to the bottom of the well
and they have been unable to extricate it,
thus greatly lesSening the volume and
pressure of the flow which babe fair to
furnish all the water needed 10 the city
and with sufficient force to raise it to the
top of any of the hills on which residences
in the city limits are located.
There are "a number of other artesian
wells in Kerrville and in the immediate
vicinity. Principal among them are two
owned by the Tivey estate, one by Alder
men Honse and one by Mr.. Frank Moore,
the latter being about three miles from
the city. Artesian water was found to
flow copiously and with force of pres
sure of 80 lbs. 10 the square inch by bOr-
ing less than 300 feet in Moore's well.
The arteSan water is all soft and pure,
being almost as free from lime as that in
the Breckenridge arIeSian well here back
of the LIGHT office.
KerrvilIe has two newspapers, one call
ed the Kerrville Paper, the other the
Kerrville News. Both are well patron
lied and have extensive circulation,
which speaks well for the intelligence of
the people; They have, fine public
schools there, and this summer
be taught there. The city is incorporated
and the tax values of the city and are a
little over S2,OOO,OC0. The city and county
schools are Independent of those of the
county, but the county schools as well as
those of the city are up to the standard of
city and county schools In the state.
The term OF the county schools this year
will be five months. The city schools
which have just closed, for the summer
vacation are open ten months out of the
twelve, and are under the management of
an efficient corps OF teachers.
The reporter, while there, met Adolf
Brakeman, who formerly resided in San
Antonio where he is we'll Known and has
a large number of relatives, and Adolf
showed the scribe the sights of the coun-
try nj tropolis, especially the river, the
water works and rolling mill. He also
showed him one OF the pistol balls that
went through and killed the last man who
was shot in Kerrvile about two months
ago. The man killed was Tom Carson,
of Junction City, who was killed in the
saloon owned by Barleman's brother
Charles. Carson was killed by Bill Holl-
man just as he was going out of the
screen doorIand the ball is imbedded n
this door. Another Is imbedded in the
floor. This shot missed Carson, but he
him. He was shot twice, both times in
the back. His slayer is to be tried at the
next term of the court that meets there.
He was released on a $4,000 bail bond on
a habeaS corpus trial, in which he proved
that the dead man had threatened to kill
him for improper conduct towards his
sister. Court meets here twice year, in
May and In November. A large number
OF San Antonians are spending the sum-
mer in Boerne, Comfort and KerrvilIe.
At the latter place the family Of Mr.. John
Seahorn and Professor Hamilton, of
Temple & Hamilton's business college.
are the latest arrivals there. Business is
quite brisk.
The spring wool trade there this season
was large one, Schreiner alone having
handled over million and a quarter OF
pounds of the product shaved from the
sleeps pelt
There is considerable building going on
there and all of the buildings are sub
Stantial and ornate. In fact all of the
places along the line of the San Antonio
and Arkansas Pass, are live and bustling
places and the S. A. p. does very good
traffic both in freights and passengers.
turns refreshed by the trip and ready to
90 back into harness for hard work