San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-22
SHORT SNAPPERS.

1900 S~N r~O@ 49,
frazzled out?
1t may require an y rays TO
discover the missing sinking fund.
The Mexican smallpox brick
should be taken of the free list.
Peters said either L or the other
fellow has lied. Now, which was
it.
Monterey brick has proved to be
fraud. Make Mr.. Gray present
of one of the best and tell him to
git.
The Sitter says: ait was most
heroic act to marry a mother-in-
law"
The A. P. AS claim between
400 and 600 active members in San
Antonio.
1t takes brains, independence
and backbone to make a grand
juryman.
AS the summer approaches there
will be an advance In rates for
water and ice.
What has our vice-mayor been
doing all this time, the sewer mud
die has been going on?
A premium will be paid by the
LIGHT to the candidate who first
publishes his announcement.
The San Angelo Standard says,
it has invested in a new office
towel and the devil is happy.
A vote OF want of confidence has
been taken by the people-about
the sewers and other things.
1t is too bad that we got mixed
up with the sewers in the late cleo
ton, said an Elmendorf man.
To cut down the big fees Of the
officers,-means ruin and defeat of
the democratic party in Texas.
The big tourist hotel is a popu-
lar fad, but big market house is
a public necessity in San Antonio.
What has become of all the
money put into the contribution
box at the Alamo to build monu-
ment?
At Palestine, the home OF Pap
Reagan, they have turn table to
keep the cows out of the court
house.
The sewers would have been well
built and nearly finished if Mayor
Elmendorf had not fallen in love
with Hindry.
Can't the city suspend Mr.,
Gray's salary during the injunc-
tion trial. Gray has got us into
this muddle.
"Hls word is as good as his bond
Is an old chestnut in this fast age.
The per centsge is only about one
in a thousand.
1t is strongly limited that the
city will not be able to collect one
dollar from the bondsmen of the
sewer contract.
Its the people who have to SUI
fer, not the mayor and alderman,
il the court decides in favor Of the
sewer contractor.
The Big Six has so demoralized
the democratic party in Bexar
county they can't even support a
democratic newspaper.
The failure Of the Maverick bank
dissipated the $4,000 donation for
an Alamo monument, but we need
no monument but the Alamo.
A man has no right to appeal to
the public to support "home in
dustries" so long as he persists in
voting the democratic free trade
ticket.
Should the contractors forfeit
or throw up their contract, on the
sewers, you can bet your loose
change they will not lose much on
the deal.
1t is too much money to pay Mr..
Gray, $3.50 per month, to play
peek-a-boo with Engineer Pan
coast. No wonder our sewers are
failure.
Several OF the Houston contin-
gent go to Austin tomorrow as
delegates,-while several who
voted for Noonsn, are tackled on as
e. "alternates."
He swore Peters to tell the
truth before the investigating
committee, but omitted to swear
the other fellows; what Peters
testified to goes.
Mayor Elmendorf was great.
ly ensmored with Hindry be-
cause he woore dirty shirt and a
paper collar. The people are pay
ing for our mayors love-sickness.
II the water company is violat-
ing its contract, as alleged, in over
charging the private consumer
does it not become the duty of
mayor and council to look into the
matter.
"Atchison Globe: "Every time
a woman gets letter from a coun-
try relative, she has to go the
roundS NJ tho dry pnnda atOraS