San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-02
HoUSoN HAPPENINGS,
Dished Up for the Light by Our
Special Correspondent
HOUSTON, Jan. 81, 1895.

will give its second annual ball at
Turner hall, Friday night, Feb. Is.
Assessor and Collector Justin G.
White, gives notice that taxpayers
| have been granted another extern
sion Of thirty days from February
l, in which to pay their city taxes,
without interest.
Measles are quite prevalent here
with a few severe attacks.
The late norther made it's pres.
ence severely felt to the average
Houstonian, but it is "subsiding"
again.
The hotels Of this city have been
doing an excellent business for
some time past. The new Hutch
ms house-form erly the Hutch
ms house, which proved financial
burden under different manage
ments, mainly on account of its
size, in that respect being in ad-
vance Of Houston's demand until
the past year-has with it's pres
emit management, become one of
the best patronized and most pop
ular hotels in the south.
At the city council meeting Mon
day,Chief of Police Pruett SUBMIT.
ed his annual report. He states the
present force is thirty. two men,
one patrol wagon and two horses,
and declared, on account of the
number, was totally inadequate
to properly patrol a city of this
size. He also regarded number
of secondhand stores as regular
"fences," and suggested that they
be placed under pawnshop restric-
tions.
Some of our local papers are
greatly agitated and enthused
about the possibility-or rather
certainty in self-protection to
themselves. of the advantages here,
which is about the way they pic
ture the situation-of the cotton
manufacturers of the East bring
ing and building their mills among
us, and are clamoring for their
capital and location here. But
with all this they forget, or pre-
tend to be unaware of the fact that
their prominent business and
moneyed men and real estate
owners are too close-fisted and
penurious--the very class that
would reap the greatest bene.
tit-to proffer money or loca.
ton bonuses in way of induce
ment. Instead, it seems their hap
py faculty to thrust upon them
big tax and a conspicuous vote
against home industries. We have
a peculiar kind of nerve of which
the manufacturers are acquainted
with.
County Judge Tod left Monday
for Austin on business connected
with the proposed annexation Of a
part of Harris county to Waller
county. His mission Is to oppose
the measure He returned Thurs
day morning.
Chief Of Police Pruett left Mon
day night for Dallas, to attend the
meeting of the Texas police chiefs.
Fence cutters have been "doing"
the country adjacent to Houston.
The sheriff of Harris county offers
a reward of $500 for the arrest of
the offenders, or for clue leading
to their arrest or conviction.
The committee raising money
and subscribers for the erection of
a permanent natatorium in this
city, report they have raised
$4,000 with fiattering prospects
ahead.
The block bounded by Congress
and Franklin avenues, San Jacinto
and Caroline streets, on which fire
destroyed nearly all the buildings
last October, is being rapidly re-
built with substantial structures.
On the northwest corner of that
block w. n. Shaw's large three
story brick business and office
building is about completed, and
Immediately in rear Of the Shaw
building and fronting on San ia
cinto, l.. M. Kicks three tory
brick store is nearing completion,
and alongside this store II. Freud
is erecting two-story brick.
The civil and criminal district
courts will convene here next Mon
day.
The fact has developed that the
Elgin safe blowers recently cap
tured by Sheriffs Erickson and
Davis, Of which mention was made
at the time, are noted cracksmen,
we'll known and variously wanted
for high crimes and misdemeanors
committed in Massachusetts.
The following is the expression
and sympathy offered for unfortu-
nate humanity, uttered by the
Evening Age publishers of
this city one day last week: