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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-24
STOCK LAW ELECTION.

This day came on to be heard the
written petition of Chas. H. Smith and
twenty-one others, freeholders and
qualified voters of election precinct No
so, asking this court to order an cleo
ton TO be held in said election precinct
for the purpose Of enabling the free
holders Of said election precinct No.
SO to determine whether hogs, sheep
or goats shall be permitted to run at
large in said precinct. And the same
having been duly considered by the
court it is ordered that an election be
held for the purpose Of enabling the
freeholders of said election precinct
No. 50 to determine whether hogs, sheep
or goats shall be permitted to run at
large within the following boundaries,
to-wit:
Commencing on the BeXar county
line at the southeast corner of Bexar
county, thence in a northeast direc-
ton with said county line to the Ma
riana Seguin grant, thence along the
south line Of said survey to the south
west corner Of the same. thence north
along the western line of said survey
TO the northeast corner of state survey
No. 4, thence with the north line of
said state survey In a westerly direc-
ton until it intersects the line of the
Francisco Farias survey, thence in a
southerly direction with said line to
the southeast corner of said Farias
survey thence with the south line Of
said survey until it intersects the cas-
tern line of voting precinct No. 49,,
thence south along said division line to
it's intersection with the county line,
thence with said county line to place
of beginning.
That said election be held on Satur-
day, March 20th, A. D., 1897, at the Po-
sitos school house, and that B. F.
Shields be appointed as the presiding
officer, and w. Nuckolls and w. B.
Hooker as the judges of said election.
Pursuant to the above order passed
by the Honorable County Commission
ers' court of BeXar county, Texas, on
the 9th day of February, A. D., 1897,
notice is hereby given that an election
will be held in election precinct No.50,
at the Positos school house, on Satur-
day, March goth, 1897, for the freehol-
ders and qualified tax-paying voters of
said precinct TO determine whether
hogs, sheep or goats shall be permitted
to run at large in said precinct.
Voters desiring to prevent the ami
mails designated in the order from run
ming at large shall place upon their
ballots the words, For The Stock
Law" and those in favor of allowing
such animals to run at large shall
place upon their ballots the words,
Against the Stock Law"
Givsn under my hand at office in San
Antonio, Texas, this 18th day of Febru-
airy, A. D., 1897.
BRYAN CALLAGHAN.
County Judge, BeXar County, Texas.
2-.S-3Jt
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-24
BROKE INTO A RUN.

round backwards again, off the step,
and then hung there for a second OF
two, holding with one hand the rail he
had grabbed first, and dangling from
the corner of the car.
''Well, we had all stopped smiling
some time before that. The policeman
and one or two more had started on a
run up the platform toward the train.
They couldn't do anything, the thing
had got to work itself out now, but ii
was natural to make rush for the
place. The chances were a million to
one that he couldn't pull himself up,
and he could not. In a second or two he
dropped. OF course there was an even
chance that he would fall outward,
clear of the car, as he might tumble in
ward under the car, and be smashed.
What actually did happen was this:
He fell so that he lay stretched out on
the ground parallel with the track and
under the projecting side of the car.
If he kept still he was as safe there as
il he had been in China. If he should
roll over outwardly he would roll into
safety; inwardly he would roll into al
most certain death. If he sat up he was
sure to be hit by some of the projecting
attachments Of the car. It was a thrill
ing situation while it lasted.
"What the man did do was to lie per-
tectly still; he had been stunned or
dazed by the fall, and in second the
car had passed on and left him lying
there, safe. The policeman picked him
up and brought him back to the plat
form; he could walk then all right and
talk, but he hadn't the faintest realiza-
ton of what he had just escaped.
"For myown part I never try to board
a moving train. Life is much too short
to be fooled away in any such fashion as
fhafO
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-24
AT A RAILWAY STATION.
An Interested Crowd Watches an
Intoxicated Man.
what Happened When lie Tried to Board
q Moving Train-Escaped Where
Sober Individual Would Have
Been Killed.

standing the other day on a railroad
platform waiting for train," said a
traveller to New York Sun reporter, II
saw among the passengers who had just
got off train-not the train that
wanted-a well dressed man who was
drunk; he was noticeable on that ac-
count. He went into the station, and
the other passengers disappeared as
people do after they get off a railroad
train. The people who had been wait
ing for that train had boarded it, and
the platform, minute before all in a
hustle, was now almost deserted ex-
cept for the few who were waiting as /
was for the train in the other direction,
and a policeman.
"Out from one of the station doors
came the man with the jag. He saw the
deserted platform, and then he looked
up and saw the train-his train-mov-
ing smoothly and rapidly out of the sta
ton and gathering Roadway all the
time; and instantly he made a break
for it, running along the platform at
the start and obliquely off upon the
tracks. OF course everybody on the
platform watched him, as people do
when they haven't anything to do, and
almost everybody was inclined to smile
at the effort of a man to overtake rail-
road train.
But this man was runner, and he
was not only swift, but true. From the
instant he appeared through the door
of the station, and saw the moving
train, and broke into the run, he never
wavered. He ran as true as die. If he
had been second later he wouldn't
have made it at all. AS it was, he came
alongside the last car of the moving
train just back of the front platform.
We thought he would miss it even then,
but he made a squirt, came up level with
the steps, caught the handrail nearest
to him, the one on the body of the car,
made spring for the steps at the same
time reaching for the other hand rail,
the one en- the forward part of the plat
form. He got his feet up on the steps,
missed the front rail by hair, swung
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-24
KAILROAU TIME TABLE.
|. & G. N. RAILROAD.

North bound trains leave for Aus
Yin at 900 a. M, and 500 D. M; and
arrives from Laredo at T:30 p. M.
South bound trains arrive At 8 4. M,
7:15 p. M, and leave for Laredo at
.9:45 a. m.
N. Z. &. T. FROM l. & G. N DEPOT
Trains leave for Waco, st. Louis
and Kansas City at 500 p. m; and
arrive at 900 a. m.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.
East bound trains arrive from Mex
leo and Eagle Pass at 11:50 a. M;
and leave at 1910 p. m. and $50 p. m.
for Houston, Galveston and New Or
leans.
West bound trains arrive from New
Orleans, Houston and Galveston at
i:2h Il. IN. and 4:25 p. m.; and leave
FOR Eagle Pass and Mexico at 4 As p.
st. Louis Limited leaves for Waco,
Fort Worth, Dallas, Kansas City and
st. Louis at TAO p. m.
Arrives from st. Louis, Kansas
City, Dallas, Fort Worth and Waco
at S:45 a. m.
y, n. * a. . nOO
Trains leave daily for Cuero, Waco,
Houston and Galveston at $50 a. m;
for Beeville, Corpus Christi and Rock
port at 1:50 p. M; and arrive daily
from the former places at 6:35 p. m. !;
and from the latter at 100 p. m.
KerrvilIe Braneh.-Train leaves San
Antonio daily except Sunday at 2:45
p. m; leaves San Antonio Sundays on
Iy at $50 a. m. Train daily ex-
cept Sunday arrives at San Antonio
at 1915 a. M; on Sundays arrives at
San Antonio at $50 p. m.
8. A. &.GULF SHORE.
Train leaves San Antonio for Mar
sinez, Sanders, Atkins, Lavernia and
Sutherland Springs at a. M, daily
except Sunday.
Arrives at San Antonio at 2 p. M,
daily except Sunday.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-24
OPENING FOR FARMER.

$50 acres, II miles from city, all
fenced, good water never failing, 2
gins adjoining this farm. 1 mile from
school house, good house, post oak
and mesquite timber, this insures
moisture, water can be had few feet
from surface. This is a good invest
ment for German farmer. We will
sell this place y cash and balance on
long time.
Call and see JOHN T. HANDLE
TON & CO., Daily Light Building.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-24
PROBATE NOTICE.
Estate Of Matthew Burnside. Deceased
The State of Texas:

| Estate of Matthew Burnside, Deceased.
The State of Texas:
County of BeXar:
County court in matters of probate. To
March term, A. D., 1897.
The State of Texas to all persons in
terested in the administration of the
estate of Matthew Burnside, deceased.
J.tA Burnside, executor of the estate
of Matthew Burnside, deceased, has fill
ed his final account in the County court
of Bexar county, which will be acted
on at the March term, A. D., 1897, Of
said court, at the court house thereof,
in the city of San Antonio, after this
notice shall have been duly published
for twenty COY days in some news
paper printed in Bexar county, Texas,
at which time all persons interested
in said estate may appear and make
objections thereto, if they see proper.
Witness, Thad w. Smith, clerk of the
County court of Bexar county,
IL. Stand seal of said court at my Of
flee at San Antonio, this 18th
day of February, A. D., 1897.
THAD w. SMITH,
Clerk County Count Bexar County
BY r. C. SYMINGTON. Deputy.
GIssued same day.1
No. 2,246.
Came to hand February Is, 1897, ait
o'clock p. m. and publication of this
citation ordered made in the Daily
Light. JOHN P. CAMPBELL,
By Sheriff Bexar County.
NJ. p. CAMPBELL, Deputy. 2-16-2Ot
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-24
PROBATE NOTICE.

Estate Of Thomas c. Harris, deceased
The State of Texas:
County of Bexar:
County Court Matters of Probate. TIC
March term, A. D., 1897.
The State of Texas to all persons in
terested in the administration of the
estate Of Thomas c. Harris, deceased,
]. ". Groesbeck, administrator of the
estate Of Thomas c. Harris, deceased,
has filed his final account in the Coun-
ty Court Of Bexar county, which will
be acetd on at the March term, A. D.,
1897, Of said court, at the court house
thereof, in the City of San Antonio,
after this notice shall have been duly
published for twenty (20) days in some
newspaper printed in Bexar County,
Texas, at which time all persons inter
ested in said estate may appear and
make objections thereto, if they see
proper
Witness, Thad w. Smith, clerk of the
County court of Bexar county,
and seal of said court, at my
IL. s. Office in San Antonio, this 18th
day of February, A. D.. 1897.
THAD. w. SMITH,
Clerk County Court Bexar County.
By r. c. SYMINGTON, Deputy
[Issued same day.l
No. 194S
Came to hand February 18th, 1897,
at Gle o'clock p. m, and publication
of this citation ordered made in the
Daily Light. JOHN p. CAMPBELL,
BY Sheriff Bexar County.
NJ. F. CAMPBELL, Deputy.
2-15-2Ot.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-24
NOTICE OF FILING FINAL AC-
COUNTS.

Estate of Mary ]. Gable, Deceased.
STATE OF TEXAS,
County of Bexar.
County Court in Matters of Probate.
To March term, A. D., 1897.
The state Of Texas to all persons in
terested in the Administration of the
estate of Mary J. Gable, deceased.
Ben T. Gable, executor, and Lucie
Gable Castleman, executrix of the es-
tate of Mary J. Gable, deceased, have
filed their final account in the County
Court of Bexar County, which will be
acted on at the March term, A. D.,
1897, of said court, at the Court House
thereof, in the City Of San Antonio, af-
ter this notice shall have been duly
published for at least twenty (20) days
in some newspaper printed in Bexar
County, Texas, at which time all per-
sons interested in said estate may APP
pear and make objections thereto, If
they see proper.
Witness, Thad. w. Smith. Clerk of the
County Court of Bexar County,
IL. 81 and Seal of said Court, at my
office in San Antonio. this 23d
day of February. A. D. 1897.
THAD. W. SMITH,
Clerk County Court, Bexar County.
BY r. c. SYMINGTON, Deputy
Issued same day.
No. 2235
Came to hand February ed, 1897 at
IL o'clock, a. m, and publication of
this notice ordered made in the Daily
Light.
JOHN Z. CAMPBELL,
Sheriff Bexar County.
BY NJ. F. CAMPBELL, Deputy.
2-2S-20t
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-24
TO THE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:

Z. Brown has moved to SOC East
Houston street and has beautiful dis
play in his new headquarters. New
Store. New Prices the lowest ever
known in San Antonio; we are lower
than anybody.
IMAGINE
r. r. Hats from 70 cents up; Suits of
clothes from $3.50 up; underwear from
Is cents up; Ladies and Gents and
Chilren's low and high cut shoes the
latest styles, Ladies low cut shoes from
80 cents a pair up.
The best and politest attention Civ
en- to our friends and customers. The
Hamilton and Brown, best fitting shoe
in the world, always in stock.
E EST5s E. BROWN ''f G Ga:: Street
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-24
A Vegetable Curiosity.

\ Biddeford (Me.) man, while in the
country the other day, found a tree
growing through a milestone, and the
tree had lifted the stone from the
ground.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-24

ton. If the blood is pure and the tissues
sound and healthy, the deadly germs of
consumption are harmless. Dr. Pierce s
Golden Medical Discovery is The great
blood purifier and tissue builder. 1t makes
the liver active, the digestion perfect, and
the appetite keen. II drives out all disease
germs and builds solid, healthy flesh.
There is another and graver danger that
threatens woman in the marital relation
1t is the peril that attends maternity. No
woman can safely become a mother who
suffers from weakness or ill-health of the
delicate organs that bear the burdens of
child-bearing. DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription robs maternity of its unnatural
teTors. 1t makes a woman strong and Wig
orous where she most needs strength and
vigor. II banishes the annoyances of the
period of anticipation and makes the little
strangers advent easy and almost painless.
Good druggists sell both the Golden Med
icai Discovery" and the "Favorite Pre-
scription " and will not try to substitute in
ferior preparations.
II suffered with bearing down pain in my
pelvis and hurting in my back and loins, espe-
cially whenever exposed myself or took cold f."
writes Mrs. Title Cunningham, of Weir, Choctaw
scription and Golden Medical Discovery for
three months and am now strong and well and
all my bad feelings have disappeared"
Bilious attacks and constipation are
surely, speedily and permanently cured by
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regu-
late and invigorate stomach, liver and bow
els One little pellet " is gentle laxative,
and two mild cathartic. They never
gripe. An honest druggist will not offer
some worthless substitute for profits
sake.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-24
REAL EsTATE-AssIGNEE's SALE

The Maverick Printing house build
ing. a splendid modern structure, cen
trally located. admirably suited for a
Wholesale business, or convertible into
a hotel or apartment house, again re-
duced in price. A great bargain. 9th
er valuable property.
REAGAN HOUSTON, Assignee.
2-2l-10t.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-24
THE KISS OF DEATH.

Consumption is
abroad in the land and
death may Turk in a
kiss. OF course it is
absurd to suppose that
as long as love rules
the world, people will
stop kissing. That
leaves only one protec-
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-24
Poor Ride In Carriages.

The other afternoon the Wichite Bea-
con advertised that there were 600 rab-
bits for the poor in the express office,
end within an hour peoplewere driving
- - -----=:s=- asking for them.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-24
GRAND BALL.

COncordia Lodge 1893, X. and l.. of
H., at Muth's garden Saturday, March
6, 1897. 2 20 If
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-09-01

lation is in itself the cureal for the innumerable
woes Of strong drink"
Saloon keepers in Indianapolis evading the
Nicholson temperance law, which prohibits music in
saloons, by placing electric in the easements
of their places of business-Associated Press dis
patch
A liquor law which fails to take into account the
relation of saloon to the lower regions is no law
at all.
I take issue with the third party people, on the
ground of wisdom. It is simple sum of~ar1thmetlc
organized than to get majority of all the voters
Rev. s. G. Smith, DID,
On the same principle, presume that it is easier
make bad egg good than to go to the trouble Of
buying fresh
The greatest good to the greatest number be
attained only by applying the same commons sense
treatment to this subject that would be given to
other-Dispatch.
That principle would knock the liquor traffic into
smithereens and incidentally cut off some Of the
revenue from your advertising columns.
In the civil war he who loved the flag and wanted
to fight for it was asked his politics.-BshOp I'll.
W. Warren
True but so clearly did patriots the Importance
of voting they shot that in the campaign of 1853
in which the issue whether the war should go
on hundreds Of thousands of "war Democrats voted
for Mr.. Lincoln. He could not have been elected
without their votes and his defeat would have meant
either the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Union or peace on
slavery basis.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-09-01
BACK SAUCE.

Our candidate for governor is Methodist but not
prohibitionist.-Iowa Republican papers
Which is another way of saying that he is not
Methodist.
An utterly inexcusabe blunder made in our
last issue in the publication of batch of recipes one
of which prescribed rum Ingredient
lar.
Don't mention it. The woods full of church
members who voting right along with political
parties which perpetuate the saloon system. And
most of them making no apologies for It, either
It is a delusion of some of my well-meaning Pro-
hibitionist brethren that legislation is in itself the
cureall for the innumerabe woes of strong drink.
They preach nothing else labor for nothing else
Rev. z. T.. Guy Ter, D. D.
We know little of the situation in New York, but in
Minnesota nine-tenths Of those who are working
for total abstinence, and for the education OF the
masses along the lines laid down by Dr. Cuyler, are
these same "wellmeaning Prohibitionist brethren
and sisters. And not of them thinks that 'egis-
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-09-01
Our Brother Editors.

New Jersey Gazette: The Dingley bill doesn't make
it any harder for the saloons to conduct their bust
ness.
Patriot Phalanx: The time is here for all the
Christian elements Of the land to unite in new
party and that party is fully organized.
Corner Stone: Where saloonkeepers and brewers
and distillers unanimously oppose womans suffrage
the God-fearing man may well think twice before he
joins the opposition
Methodist Herald: From the feeling that political
and social reforms will take Of themselves, any
how it is an easy step to the sentiment that oppos-
ton to the saloon is useless, and that finally it is
legitimate institution of society at present con-
stuted How needful it u.s. therefore, that the pulpit
and the press give no uncertain sound on the duty
of all good citizens to maintain attitude Of I'M
compromising opposition to the sale Of Intoxicating
liquors, whether licensed not.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-09-01
Brief and Brainy.

Verify church members flame in General Assem-
blies, Synods and Conferences and tumble in the
ballot box-John A. Patterson Toronto.
ssWhat's whiskey bringing?' inquired dealer IN
the vile stuff. bringing men to the galloWs and
women and children to want" the truthful re-
ply.
If you plant poisonous weed in your garden, don't
blame your boy for getting poisoned. If you vote
with political party that favors license; don't blame
your bow for getting drunk. Thou art the mani
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-09-01

Entered at St Paul Posot1ce as second class matter
Talk about and pray for at the prayer
meeting and Sunday school.
Plan to reach everybody with the truths Of the
movement in some way and do it.
The Southwest liquor organ boasts that only two
per cent of the church vote is cast against the
saloon. It is time that someone blushed.
Many good men who think they enemies of the
liquor traffic hate the Prohibition party than
they do the saloon. Yet it's only crime is that it
hates the saloon more than it loves any party
Thoughtful people quite generally recognize the
fact that in recent no issue has approached the
prohibition question in Importance "The need of
the hour" recognize it's greatness at the ballot
box.
Remember to call at Prohibition Headquarters,
just south of Institute Hail. at the State Fair You
read write, rest subscribe for any of pa
pers. Chairman Higgins and Secretary Wells will
be in charge.
The action of the International Christian Endeavor
and Epworth League conventions the liquor ques-
ton was disappointing 1T looks as though somebody
keeping these aggressive workers from saying
the things that ought to be said
State Chairman Higgins often says to the writer,
20, if every Prohibtionist in the state would do
what he can! Therein lies the key to success Not
what we would like to do if we were in more favora-
BILE circumstances, but what we can.
At this writing it looks though the coal miners
would win. Had their leaders not constantly empfa-
sized the Importance of their keeping sober, they
would have been compelled to throw up the sponge
weeks ago. Liquor is labor's worst foe
Every member of the Prohibition party may be
safely depended upon to cast his vote against the
local saloon If could safely rely upon the
friends of decency in the other parties to against
the state and national saloon the conflict would soon
be over.
If the church cannot overthrow the saloon ours is
lost cause If she will not enlist for the fight we
need appeal to other institution class to take
her place in the line of battle If it is her duty
to do SO, she has mission, the saloon is good
creature Of God and all distinctions between right
and wrong are myth.
Turn your face to the sunlight. Study the reasons
for hope of victory and inspire others with
confidence. Multitudes who know that we are right
hesitate to ally themselves with because they
not certain that have the sand for such under
taking. Have sand-enough to supply your neigh
bors also if necessary.
Let not needlessly offend. But above all things
let not be guilty of silence when ought to cry
out of endurance when ought to rebel and
incite to rebellion. While Christian bubble
issues almost too Insignificant for political
footballs millions of being slain through
drink and the hearts of millions Of helpless women
and children ache and break. If we hold peace
and withhold aid their blood will cry out against
The bulletin of certain st. Paul church whose
vote against the saloon is in inverse proportion to the
size of it's membership in announcing its annual out