San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-07
HOUSTON PARAGRAPHS.
BREEZY BUDGET FROM THE BAYOU
CITY.
May Slip Up on That Harbor Business -
Packing Company Chartered
Other Notes of Interest.
Special Wire to Sunday Light.

has been utterly devoid of incident
this week, but there have, neverthe-
less been two events of marked i'm
portancc TO the future of the city.
First and foremost was the arrival
on Sunday of the schooner, Louis Dol
son, with Assistant United States En-
gineer OppekOfer and his party to
commence the survey of the bayou
for the purpose of estimating the cost
of the proposed deep water channel
from here to Galveston. There is
also to be harbOr 500 feet wide at
this end of the bayou, or the river" as
it is now called, but, whether this will
be located at Houston or not, is a
matter which will not be decided I'M
til the survey is completed. Speak
ing TO your correspondent Mr.. Oppe-
kOfer said:
The harbOr may not be here at all.
1t may be at some adjacent point be-
low. There would be no trouble about
harbOr at Harrisburg, as the bayou
is in good shape there. But am not
prepared to make any statement yet
| except the most tentative. | think
the work will be completed within
ABOUT TWO weeks.
The next matter of importance to
the city was the incorporation of the
Houston Packing company, which
emerged from the chrysalis state on
Wednesday and assumed definite pro-
portions. 1t is n purely local affair
every dollar of capital invested being
the money of good Houston citizens.
| The officers are X. L. Paine, presi-
dent; II. II. Thompson, vice president;
John Finnegan, treasurer, and w. II.
Kirkland, secretary. The company
| will at once commence the erection
| of a building. which will be a modern
| up-tO-date affair, with capacity for
| killing $50 cattle and $50 hogs. The
| main building will be 129X113 feet, the
| boiler house will be 32X41 feet. the
machine house will be 23X61 feet and
| the tank house 32x32 feet. The plans
| are drawn by Ollie J. Lorehn, archi-
tect of this city, and are complete in
every detail. The main building will
be three stories in height, while it is
said that the plant will not be equall-
ed, in point of modern equipment by
any in Kansas City, st. Louis or Chi
cagO. 1t will be located ON a 20-acre
tract on Buffalo bayou and will have
an artesian we'll of 10000 gallons ca
pacity per diem. The contract for the
building has been let and it is hoped
that the plant will be in operation
by June.
The curious coincidence of the week
was that the sale of Uncle Dan1 Nc
Gdry's old paper, the Houston Age,
and the departure of "Uncle" Dan'l
himself for fresh pastures should have
taken place on the same day. The
history of the CAGE" which was one
of the oldest, if not the oldest paper in
the state, and that of "Uncle" Dan'l
is synonymous to a large extent, as it
was only under that well known news
paper man that the now defunct sheet
could be persuaded to make any re-
turn to its owners. "Uucle" Danl has
gone to Wallesville to start a news
paper, which he will, In spite of su
perstition, call "The Wallesville Age"
The assets of the Houston Age sold
| for 5000.
There were two sad deaths in the
city this week, one which cast a shade
over the more elderly circles, and the
other which struck keenly at the heart
chords of the younger element The
first was the death of Mrs. ROsine
| Sternes, widow of the late Judge
| Sternes. of NacOgdOches, who died at
| the Bristol hotel on Monday evening.
Mrs. SterneS was a most popular old
lady and left many friends III TINS
city to mourn her death. Little sam
X. Perryman'S death threw a gloom
over the young men of thetOwn. he
was seventeen years old and was the
son of w. J. X. Perryman and a neph-
ew of Judge Sam r. Perryman, and
was much beloved by all who knew
him. He was i'll in bed when word
came last week of his uncle'S troubles
in Liberty. and nothing would do him
but he should go down on the special
train. This probably was the cause
of his death.
The baseball fiends are beginning to
put in an appearance and already the
merits and dement's of teams and men
are beginning to be discussed on the
streets. G. NJ. Reed, HoustOn's man
ager and captain. has just returned
from the Fort Worth meeting, and he
has strong hopes of a successful sea-
son. He says Paris, DenisOn and
Sherman will have plenty of financial
backing and he sees no reason why |
they should not pull through the sum-
mer.
Mr.. Henry Hart has a curiosity in
the shape of a horse which is SO
years old. 1t is a mere bag of skin
and bones. but it is tenderly taken
care of as though it were child. 1t
forms part of the romance of Mrs. |
Harris life. Prior to her marriage
with Mr. Hart, she was the wife of
Henry Oates. and this horse is the an
imal which Oates bestrOde when he
came counting her in 1860. 1t has
been in the family ever since and has
carried Oates grandchildren.
\ new military company, which has
been formed here under the name of
the Harris County Cowboy Rangers,
is meeting with great success. Their
dress and equipment is that of the
Texas cowboy of 1886.
Wilma Johnson, nee Saterlee, is the
latest applicant for divorce here. She