San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-03-01
sLAsHING RATES.
The Southern Pacific Announces the
Lowest Rates to California.


The Southern Pacific has met
the cut on rates to California re-
Gently made by Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe, as part Of the Atchison
system. The following circular
was issued yesterday by Assistant
General Passenger Agent l.. J.
Parks, of the Southern Pacific to
all agents along the line: "You
are hereby authorized to use.until
further notice the following rates
to Los Angeles, San Jose, San
Francisco, Sacramento and inter-
mediate points in California, not
including San Diego, from stations
on the main line west of and in
Guiding Houston, one way, $40;
round trip, $3.50; Orange, $23.15
and SAL 80; Beaumont, $22.55 and
$4,000; Galveston, $2l.50 and $751;
so; Victoria, $22.75 and $4l; Cuero,
$23.10 and $4l.70; Beeville, $3.50
and $41.16; La Grange, $20.95 and
$37 40; Gonzales, 5000 and 5000;
Eagle Pass, $21.05 and $37 60"
The rate from San Antonio to
California is $40 for one way and
$50 for the round trip. This is the
cheapest rate ever put on to Cali
fornia from Texas and the South
ern Pacific expects to do a rushing
business this spring.
EXCURsIoN1sTs HERE.
San Antonio is entertaining q
large number of northern and east
ern visitors today with her beauti-
full climate and general points of
interest. Three excursions arrived
i'm the city over the Southern Pa
cific this morning, two being Ray
mond- Whitcomb excursions, which
arrived this morning at 6 80 o'clock.
One left for Mexico at noon today
and the other will remain here I'M
til midnight when it will pull out
for California.
The third Is Harrington spe-
cial from Columbus, Ohio, and ar
rived here at 8 o'clock this morn
ing. 1t has on board some of the
leading families of the Buckeye
state and will remain in San An
tonic twenty-four hours, when 1t
will leave for the west over the
Southern Pacific. The three excur-
sions combined have about two
hundred people on board.
ALONG THE RAILS.
The executive committee Of the
Southern Railroad and Steamship
association held two sessions at
Louisville yesterday and decided
not to dissolve. 1t is expected the
Louisville and Nashville will with
draw today and in that event a
rate war will doubtless follow.
Hank Small, superintendent of
building and bridges Of the South
ern Pacific, returned from Ell Paso
yesterday, where he is supervising
the construction of the new steel
bridge being erected over the Rio
Grande.
Dick Richards, a we'll known
conductor on the Texas and Pa
cific, died at Fort Worth last Mon
day. He was a member of the Or.
der of Railway Conductors and his
remains were shipped to Paris.
Miss Helen, daughter of General
Manager l.. NJ. johnson, Of the
Mexican International, who has
been seriously i'll at Eagle Pass for
some time, is reported improving.
J. p. Maloney, commercial agent
of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas.
is spending today in his office in
San Antonio In company with
Ticket Agent Johnson.
w. A. Reinhardt, travelling
passenger agent for the Southern
Pacific, returned from a trip to
Laredo last night and left for his
home in Houston.
w. D. Lawson, travelling passen-
ger agent Of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas, was in the city yester-
day and lett for Houston last
night.
Colonel A. J. Radcliffe, travelling
freight and passenger agent Of the
Union Pacific, is in San Antonio
from Fort Worth.
p. II. Coombs, commercial agent
Of the Cotton Belt, with headquar-
ters at Houston, arrived in San An
tonic last night.
The Southern Pacific pay car
left for the west at 6:30 o'clock
this morning on Conductor
O'Day's train.
Mrs. Koenigheim Enters Suit.