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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08
MONEY IN TEXAS.
why Interest Is High and LOanable
Funds Contracted.

The Galveston Daily News reminds
it's Texas readers of the difference in in
terest rates in the northeastern states
ern states and gives them few elemen-
tary lessons on the reasons for this diff
ference. Interest is never so low" it
says, Sin communities given over to
suspicious fires, questionable assign
ments, fraudulent failures or to legisla-
ton with decided turn against the
creditor and in favor of the debtor"
Much of the market rate of interest is
insurance against risk, and of course
diminishes as the risk decreases.
"Where men are required by law to pay
their debts and are not sheltered and
encouraged in tricky courses by unreal
sonable exemption laws and by pub
lie prejudice against creditors as a class
the risk is naturally less serious"
Making it's application to Texas, the
News says: 1--WE have a right to leave
fraudulent debtor a resident worth $780,
600, all the bank stock or bonds he can
carry and an extraordinary collection
of the tools of his trade or profession
and to defy his creditors to crook
finger at him. We can do this if we
prefer, but it is going to cost us some
thing" 1t asks why the "goodly ma
jority of the people of Texas, who ''are
not disposed to live high to-day and
hide behind the exemption law, the as
signment law or some other law to-mor-
row." should be forced by the discredit
of bad laws and a few dishonest men
"to pay two prices for every dollar they
borrow" 1t believes the rate of interest
would come down one-half and the
loanable funds would double if the hon.
est men of the state would demand the
enactment of laws under which a cred
itor could collect what is due him.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08
Republican Suggestions.

The retirement from circulation of
United States notes is step to be taken
in our progress toward safe and stable
currency which should be accepted as
the policy and duty of the government
and the interest and security of the peo-
ple.-President r. b. Hayes, in His An
nual Message to Congress December 6,
1850.
The several forms of our paper
money offer, in my judgment, a con-
slant embarrassment to the govern
ment and to a safe balance in the treas
ury. Therefore l believe it necessary
to devise system which y will
present a remedy for those arrange
ments,which, temporary to their nature,
mightwen in theyears of our prosperity
have been displaced by wiser provisions.
President William Mckinley, in His
Inaugural Address March 4, 1897.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08
SOME CHOICE BARGAINS.

Now is the Time to Make Investments
Seven room house, all modern i'm
provement; lot S0x1S71a feet; wood
house, laundry, stable, situated on
Dignowity Hill. Price, $1,000.
Six room cottage on Fourth street,
centrally located; bargain at $1,000.
Two-story ten room house South
Presa street, large lot, only $1,000.
Six room cottage on Matamoras
street, first class in every particular,
and bargain at $1,000.
Two story frame house on River av-
enue, good location; $500.
Eight room, two-story house, all fur
nished; stable and outhouses, one acre
of ground, two street car lines also
horse and buggy, $4,000.
Fine brick house, large lot, stable;
situated on North street, $1,000; a
beautiful home.
Fine building consisting of store
room and saloon, rooms in second
story, with gallery, warehouse, sta
BILE and hay barn, 2 large lots, on
South Presa street; $1,000.
Two story brick house, 10 rooms,
with bath on both floors. servants
room and stable, large lot, on Presa
street; $500.
Three lots on Crockett street, suit
n hlD for M. SalAn,, In,
for four houses; $1,000.
Six room cottage on Government
HILL large lot; $4,000.
Large 10 room house, with all mod
ern improvements, in South Heights, a
beautiful home; $4,000.
Two story frame house on Prospect
hill, two large lots; $4,000.
Five room cottage at Midway, near
West End; $1,000.
Three twO-story houses, large lots,
on Chestnut street, at very reasonable
figures.
We have bargains in lots on Govern
ment HILL Dignowity Hill, Laurel
Heights, South Heights, Tobin Hill,
West End, as well as in most any
part of the city, at very reasonable
prices.
We can also fit you up in farms,
and ranches ranging from 100 acres
to 10000 acres. We particularly call
your attention to 1000 acres on the
coast near ROckpOrt, with frontage of
about four miles on the bay, suitable
for fruit, grapes. vegetables. etc; $40
per acre. This is dirt cheap.
$50 acres near FlOresville.
a.
800 acres near Elmendorf.
$500 acres in FriO county.
1900 acres in Gonzales county.
The above is only a partial list of
the property we have for sale. We
think before purchasing 1t will pay
vou to call in and see JOHN r. HAM
BLETON & CO, Daily Light Build
ing, No. 104 East Commerce street.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08
A HUNT FOR COMANCHES.
Interesting "Reminiscences Of a Reg
ular Army Officer.
Description of the Jumping of the
Indians Camp Mt DnybreaI< After
Prolonged Chase-No Quarter
Asked or Given.

at was little party, these renegade
Comanches from the reservation-they
numbered only five bucks and three
squaws-but they did heap of deviltry
before they were brought to book"
said regular army officer, telling of
campaigns in Texas, to New York
Sun reporter. 1.-Two wagon outfits they
had destroyed, and left no one alive
to tell the tale-only the bodies of men
and children and outraged women.
Ranch after ranch they had jumped,
killing everybody they found at them
and burning the buildings. There were
other murders of cowboys, shepherds
and travellers which did not come to
light so soon, and which no doubt they
committed. 1t was not easy to believe
that so small band could do so much
mischief, and it was generally thought
that there was a large party of Indi-
ans on the warpath. When the troops
and the rangers turned out to hunt
them down and could find only the
trail of a few Indians, it was still taken
for granted that the party had sep
arated into several small bands for the
purpose of covering more country, and
making pursuit more difficult.
There were two separate detach-
ments of cavalry sent out against them,
a half company each. The Indians gave
the troops a long chase, doubling and
turning, and making night and day
marches to throw us off their trail.
They were so few in number and trav-
eled SO light that they were hard to
follow, and all the time we were chas-
ing them reports of their depreda-
tons were coming in to US from every
quarter. 1t began to look as if they
would round out their career of rapine
by getting safe back on the reservation
in spite of us, when the detachment
commanded struck their trail hot, BY
marching all night we came up with
them at the breaking of morning while
they were still asleep in camp. They
were lying on the ground in the open
air, with the plumber they had taken
heaped up around them. A little dis
lance away the horses they had stolen,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08

The murderer who at dead of night,
creeps, stealthily out to bury the dead and
rnangled body of his victim inspires men
with horror and dread. There is murderer
abroad who yearlyslays one-sixth of all the
human race who go down to untimely deaths.
This dread monster is called consumption.
The approach of consumption is slow and
insidious. First there is slight disorder
of the digestion. The appetite is poor and
the nourishing properties of the food are not
properly assimilated. The blood becomes
thin and impure. The body begins to starve.
Old tissues of the body are not properly re-
placed by new. The lung tissues are not
properly nourished and are inert and half
dead. In this condition they offer good
soil for the germs of consumption which
invade and attack them.
This operation is promptly reversed by
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. II
invigorates the digestion and appetite and
makes assimilation perfect. 1t builds up
and purifes the blood. 1t makes new and
healthy tissue to replace the old, inert mat
ter which it causes to be carried off. II
drives out all disease-germs. Thousands of
cases given UP as hopeless have been cured.
Miss Laura Piersel of East Bethlehem Wash.
ington Co, Pa, writes: - must write you tel.
ling you of the great benefit derived from the
of your Golden Medical Discovery Last sum.
mer my friends thought was surely going into
consumption, and having tried doctors with no
satisfactory results and hearing your medicine so
highly spoken of, took one bottle. My cough
left me together with all the distressing symp-
toms, and in fact the cure seemed almost mirac-
ulous to all who saw me-"
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are tiny,
sugar coated granules that are an unfailing
and permanent cure for constipation.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08
FAILURE OF sIMETALLISM.
Japan's Experience with the Free
Coinage of Silver.

SoihaSe Ot stiNer.
The attempt of Japan to maintain a
mint ratio that was different from the
market ratio was failure and resulted
in denuding the circulation of gold. BIZ
metallism had failed in Japan as else
where.
The decline in the value of money had
in Japan the effect it always has had of
robbing the laborer and enriching the
capitalist. The miserable pittance paid
to the wretched operatives must at no
distant period lead to a social revolution
unless the rate of wages be consider
ably improved.
In 1872 a family consisting of five
members of the lower middle class could
subsist on 7oyen a year. In 1898 the cost
of living had risen to $50 yen year.
During a period of 20 years the silver
yen declined very nearly one-half in its
gold value, about two-fifths in its power
to buy merchandise and about one
fourth in it's power to buy labor.
The gold value of the exports from
the United States and England to Japan
was over S1S,o00,00o in 1892 and nearly
$31, 100000 in 1896, while the imports
of the two from Japan were over $780,
100000 in the first year and less than
$31, 000, 900 in the last year.-Fred Per-
ry Powers, in Sound Currency for
March 1.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08

about 20 in number, were picketed out
to the camp.
81 knew, of course, that the Indians
must be jumped very suddenly, and
short work made of them, else they
would give us another long chase, with
almost the certainty that some of them
would get away. At quarter of mile
from the camp I dismounted half my
command, and ordered that the men
with the horses should come up at the
first firing. 1 crept with the others
upon the Indians and took up position
between them and their horses. The
surprise was complete. At the click OF
our carbine locks an Indian lifted his
head and sprang up with yell. He fell,
shot through and through, and we got
most of the others before they could
grab their guns. We made no prison
ers, and it was only after the business
was over that we discovered that three
of the Indians were squaws. There is
so little difference in dress and general
appearance between the sexes among
Indians that in battle the squaws can
not be distinguished from the bucks
except by the greater ferocity they dis
play.
''All but two of the band fell on the
spot where they had slept. These two
were bucks who leaped, upon the back
of the horse tethered at the camp and
started him out on the prairie There
was no saddle or bride on the horse,
and the way they swung their arms
and legs and contorted their bodies in
the effort to make him go faster was one
of the most ridiculous sights imagin-
able. I told one of my troopers to go
after the two Indians. He galloped
down upon them, and when at the right
distance away dropped them both to
the prairie with one shot from his re-
volver. He kept on until he caught the
horse and then as he rode back halt
ed by the two Comanches, gave each of
them a shot to make sure that he would
remain a good Indian, and then rode
back to the command.
There were all sorts of plumber in
the Comanches' camp, trophies of their
depredations. But the sight that made
my men wild with rage was the IL
fresh scalps that we found-scalps of
men and women and children. After
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08

seeing these think the soldiers would
have liked to kill the Indians over again.
But they were already dead-we had
made quick and clean work-and there
was nothing further to be done but re-
turn to quarters bringing the recap
tured horses and the report Engaged
the Indians at daybreak and killed
eight, fighting. No prisoners taken"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08
EXCURSION TO
MEXICO CITY.

Account of the above the |. & G. ~
r. r., International route, will have
Mexico City at extremely low rates.
Tickets on sale April 10th and 18th,
good 80 days for return. Call on near
est ticket agent for full particulars, or
write the undersigned. ID. ]. PRICE,
A. G.. =, A., Palestine Texas. If
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08
NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS
MEETING.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Santa Rosa CONSOLIDATE
ed Mining and Smelling company,
will be held at San Antonio, Texas. on
May 9. 1897. for the election of
board of directors and to transact such
other business as may properly come
before such meeting. r. H. HunstOck,
President 4-S-30t
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08
BAPTIST CONVENTIONS, WILL
MINGTON. \. c.

Account of various Baptist cOnven-
tions to be held at Wilmington, N. c.,
May 9TH to 14th, the l. & G. n. R. r.
will have on sale round trip tickets at
half rates. Dates of sale May 3rd and
18th. good to return 90 days from date
of sale. D. j. Price, A. G. p. A, Pal
eStine, Tex. If
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08
An Improbable Investment.

A colored child down in Ashland, KY,
swallowed a dime the other day. Her
mother was advised to send for the doc
tor. What" said she, give dat ole doc
tab dollah to git a dime outen dat
chile? Oh, no, honey; dat wouldn't pay"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08
BARGAIN IN TYPE.

For Sale: 800 pounds Bourgeoise:
300 pounds Minion; 200 pounds Non
pareil Roman type, In good condition
Also 80 fonts Of display letter-Job
faces. Apply to T. B. Johnson. Man
ager, s. A. Light. 12-19-tf.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08
J. Q. 3 e r r y,
NOTARY PUBLIC

COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS.
And all other instruments of writing
for Record in the States of Louisiana
Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and
others. Office 102 W. Commerce ST
next to bridge; Lock Box S67, SAN
ANTONIO, TEXAS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08
IF YOU HAVE MONEY

And want to make some good paying
call on John T. Handle
ton & Co., the live real estate dealers
at 104 East Commerce street. 2 If
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08
DON'T WALK,

But call on Fred. Small for the incest
turnout in the city when you wish
10 take a drive. He Is with D. J.
Woodward, Main Ave. Tel. 800.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08
FOR SALE.

5000 old newspapers, clean and
whole, low rates. Apply at Ligbt
nee
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08
ICE! ICE

Prices for the season 1897:
In quantities of sob and over 25c
per hundred.
In quantities of less than sob 30c
per hundred.
SAN ANTONIO ICE CO.,
w. w. Johnson, Supt.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-08

o. RIEBE & FRITZ STEINER.
Tndertakers and embalmers. 22s
Fast Commerce street. Tel. BAL.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-10-15
TAX RIOTS IN ITALY.
Indignant Romans Make q Demon.
stratiOn Against Taxation.

Rome, Oct. ia large procession Of
tradesmen, headed by the pro-syndica of
Rome, and the president of the chamber
Of commerce, marched to the Office Of the
minister of the interior to protest and con
fer with the government regarding the in
creased taxation. Premier Rudini receiv-
ed the committee and promised that ev-
erything possible would be done to pro-
mote friendly relations and greater equity
between the collectors and the taxpayers
A large crowd Of people collected around
the ministry and angry shouts were heard
and some of those present assumed a
threatening attitude. The police attempt.
ed to disperse the violent portion of the
crowd, and in the conflict six policemen
were injured and one rioter was killed
Revolvers were freely used, many persons
in the crowd being injured, and 20 lead
ers of the disturbance We're arrested. TIT
condition of three of the wounded police
men is serious
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-10-15

A st. Louis man with picturesque
name, who Is at the head Of a million.
aire dry goods firm IN that city and IL
also president Of the Sunday School
Teachers Union there. has been ar.
rested in New York ON the charge Of
trying to smuggle diamonds. When he
landed from the steamer $1,000 worth
OF the gems were found concealed in q
belt around his waist. He indignantly
denies that he intended to snuggle and
says that the diamonds were intended
as presents for the members Of the
Sunday School Teachers Union. He
and companion had declared thai
they had but $25 worth Of dutiablt
goods on their persons. His partner a
home says that someone will pay dear
ly for the outrage, meaning the arrest
and that If the arrested man had dutia
BILE goods he was ignorant Of that fact
Here Is a man who imports many thou
sands Of dollars worth of goods ever,
year. and who probably knows tn
schedule almost by heart, trying t
evade the law and setting up the ple'
| of ignorance when detected. What sor
Of an example is this for respecte'
man to give the public? What would h
| do to one Of his clerks whom he caugh
taking goods from the store at les
than the regular rate or below cost
What will he say to the members 9
the Sunday School Teachers Union?
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-10-15

The most practical work of providing
cheap and good city and suburban
homes for people of moderate means is
that undertaken by the City and Sub
urban Home Company Of New York
City, the annual report Of which has
Just been made. This organization
which Is a member of the united char.
tiles of the metropolis, Is backed by
some of the largest capitalists of the
place. 1t is not philanthropic insti.
tuition, but proposes to provide these
homes mt rates at once satisfactory to
the workmen and to the man who in.
vests his money. 1t is no visionary,
utopian scheme. but one which has
been thought out by practical business
men, assisted by the experience Of sim.
liar faaas abroad. The stock Of the
company. or at least the first issue Of
it, amounting to 81. 600, 600. has all been
placed since December Of last year,
and it is good to know that the greater
part Of it has been taken by small in.
vestors. The shares are $40 each, and
out Of the $40 shareholders 800 own
fifty shares or less each and 1856 own
| ten shares or less. Three building
sites have already been purchased and
work has been begun upon one OF
| these. 1t will contain 375 apartments
of either two, three or four rooms each
and five stores. These homes will be
sold to people of moderate incomes upon
the monthly payment plan, an Interest
rate Of 8 per cent. being charged or
deferred payments and life insur
ance. the whole amounting to a LITTLE
more than is charged for ordinary rent
ais for similar places. The second sit
Is also in the city, but the third Is In thu
suburbs. The apartments will be mod
ern in every respect, and will be con
structed with especial relation to tn
best sanitary conditions Of city life. l
will be but a short time before othe
cities will have to take up this problem
and the experience Of New York viii
therefore be watched with more thai
the usual interest.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-10-15
An Eccentric Novelty.

The early muffs were small and made
of satin or velvet, lined with fur; the
leopard skin came in with Queen Anne.
There is a print Of an Elizabethan lady
with a small muff hanging from her
girdle; before this date 1t was probably
looked upon as an eccentric novelty,
at least in England. A full century be-
fore, a Venetian grande dame had car
ried her lapdog in her muff; fashion
that continued for long season, and
found its way into France. In Paris
muffs were made for this express pur'
nose. French sumptuary laws conde.
scended to notice such minor details as
the color of muff. The bourgeois
was obliged to restrict himself to som.
her black; the noble might please him
self. Under Louis XIV, therefore, the
manchon of the courtier was brilliam
with gold lace and embroidered rib
hons