San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-25
SCENES IN WONDERLAND.
THE EXPRESS TURNED LOOSE
THEIR LIARS.
Wind, and Dust-Good Shepherd
Day-spanish and English
Shipment of Bullion-Miners
and Mines Died
Personals.
LA CoNCORDIA, MONTERREY, I
April q, 1898.

AKA III luIhCNl lOoSI llNI ii"h'' b>''Se
week it published nearly two col
umns about the death of EXPIRES
ident Manuel Gonzales, which so
shocked the friends of that states
man in this city that many of them
closed their stores, but when they
were informed that it was another
of the Express lies, they could
hardly restrain themselves for be-
ing imposed upon by that paper.
Many of them remarked in my
hearing that they would not be-
lieve anything that they publish
ed.
The Express has been for about
a year and a half trying to boom
the bandit war that was started on
the Texas side of the Rio Grande
by Catarina Cara, against Presi-
dent DIaZ and his administration.
1t has done its level best to destroy
American enterprises in Mexico;
prevent the introduction of Ameri-
can capital, goods, machinery, the
opening of mines, the building of
smelters, factories and railways.
But as they could not kill
nor overthrow President DiaZ
and his administration and
and turn the country over to lot
of bandits and murdererS, they
now try to kill off eX-president
Gonzales. Such infamous lies as
the Express has published about
DiaZ and his administration, and
prominent citizen have done this
country incalculable injury. They
have done more harm to Ameri-
can enterprises, and created more
illfeeling against them than the
war of 1871.
The MeXiCans naturally thinks
that the Express voices the senti-
ments Of the Americans, and that
. they favored the overthrow of the
liberal government Of President
DiaZ, and establish in its stead
government of bandits and MUIR
dererS.
That is not all, the San Antonio
merchants have lost hundreds of
thousands of dollars on account of
the Express. The Mexico mer-
chants will not purchase goods
from any one that will advertise in
paper that tries to destroy their
government and lie about their
people.
WIND AND DUST.
I',,iI
was visited by a wind and dust
storm, such as was never seen
before in this city. The sun
rose bright, the sky was
clear and there was not
anything about the horizon to in
dictate an approaching storm. But
it came like flash of lightning
from a clear sky, and the noise
that it made and the dust that it
raised was deafening and binding.
For an hour or more the dust was
raised in immense clouds and
whirled about so that persons who
were on the streets had to seek
refuge in the stores and houses.
Immense cloud banks rolled in
from the nOrth-mOrtheast, and the
thermometer fell several degrees,
and it continued chilly the balance
of the day.
As there are no records kept of
the velocity of the wind we have no
way Of ascertaining how fast it
did travel, but we have met citi-
ZenS from LampaZOS Mexico and
Laredo, Texas, who came up Sun
day morning and informed us that
the storm struck Laredo at } :4j
LampaZOs 6: 80 a. m M, so that it
only took two hours and quarter to
come from Laredo to Monterey, a
distance of $50 miles in a direct
line.
Soon after the storm set in, every
one expected down pour of rain
but in this they were disappointed
as not drop of rain fell. The
only damage that it did was to
take what little moisture there
was in the ground.
Sunday night there set in a driz.
Zling rain, just enough to lay the
dust, but there is every indication
OF having rainy spell here.
GOOD SHEPHERDS DAY.
Last Sunday was Good Shep
herds day, and the ladies of Mon.
terey had a chocolate breakfast anC
dinner prepared for the city
prisoners, the state prisoners in
the penitentiary and the sick in
the hospitals, and they marched tC
those institutions and had then
served. Those in the hospitals