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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17
AND THERE ARE oTHERs.


The following item from the Calves
ton News of the 18th inst, will be of
interest to our citizens:
"One thing above all others that
will raise a popular howl is an increase
of taxes to any material extent. The
appraisers of the city f Galveston
have been working to equalize assess
ments and simultaneously increased
the taxable valuation from $4,000, 900
to $4,000 900, approximately. Some
claim to have been hit harder than
they deserve. Captain Quick is among
them, and says he has been assessed
$500 more than his selling price for his
place. He says he has given three
days time and spent considerable mon
ey in getting signers TO a petition for
mass meeting to be held in Turner
hall tonight to protest against this in
crease"
If the citizens of Galveston have
cause to kick, every Taxpayer of San
Antonio ought TO hire some non-tax-
paying voter to accompany him to the
Woodshed and there have himself we'll
kicked for remaining silent while our
over assessment is plastered over ev-
cry foot of property we own. 1t is
the Galveston appraisers have
caught on to San Antonio methods and
think they will look better worth
s@O,OOOOOO than $25 100000
There is little or no sale for city
and this is largely due to the
high taxes. Every day property own
Frs are anxiously asking what shall be
lone. If, our case is desperate enough
ct the Taxpayers get together and
discuss the situation.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17
VALUABLE PUBLIC FRANCHISES

The day has gone when public fran
chises are given away for the asking.
The Light has time and again called
attention to the lavish granting of
franchises by our city in the past-the
actual giving away the use of our
streets to private corporations to run
street railways, lay pipes, erect poles
to carry electric wires. Our narrow
streets have been chOked up to the
great discomfort of the public, and not
a cent has been given to compensate
the people for these valuable cOnces-
siOns. Every city in the Union is
waking up to the situation and no
more franchises are granted except for
valuable considerations. The right to
run a street railway through a street
for twenty-five years, is the most val
liable property owned by the company;
the rails, the cars, the plant wears
out every few years, but the franchise
goes on forever. 1t is too much the
case that city franchises are run on
the expanding plan and only look to
the present emergency and do not con-
slider what may be reasonably expected
in the future. Our city is growing
and with its growth the franchises
granted grow in value. The people
are taxed to keep UP streets for the
benefit of private corporations. The
Houston Post commenting upon this
same subject says.
The city council is composed of in
telligent men and they know the flu
ture possibilities of these public fran
Chises as well as do any other citizens
They can not, therefore, in justice
either TO their character or intelligence
ignore patent business considerations
that address themselves at once to
their understanding.
Not only should the present inter-
ests of the citizens be closely guarded
in securing the cheapest possible SER
vice to the public for corporations US
ing the public franchises, but the flu
ture interests of the city should be
short term contracts. Not a franchise
should be granted for more than ten, or
| twenty years at most, and only then
on conditions calculated to obtain for
the people the lowest price and best
service they would be likely to get
from any other company during that
| period. In other words, the certain
| great development of the near future
should enter as a controlling factor
| into every present disposition of any
franchise belonging to the public.
ITO tie this growing community up
in contracts for a half or even quarter
of a century, and at prices for water
light or transportation grossly in ex-
cess of those paid by other prosperous
and expanding cities in the country
and without direct, adequate annual
! compensation to the city, would be an
objectionable sin, a fragrant abandon.
ment of the public's rights. The rep
resentatives of the people must not
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17
SOME CHOICE BARGAINS.


Now is the Time to Make Investments
Seven room house, all modern i'm
provement; lot SOx1S71a feet; wood
house, laundry, stable, situated on
Dignowity Hill Price, $4,000.
Six room cottage on Fourth street,
centrally located; a bargain at $1,000.
Two-story ten room house South
Presa street, large lot, only $4,000.
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; $4,000.
Eight room, two-stoFy 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, 4 rooms in second
story, with gallery, warehouse, sta
BILE and hay barn, 2 large lots, Gu
South Presa street; $4,000.
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
able for store or saloon, close in, room
for four houses; $1,000.
Six room cottage on Government
Hill, large lot; $1,000.
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.
2,400 acres on the Llano river.
$50 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 it will pay
you to call in and see JOHN T. HAM
BLETON & CO., Daily Light Build
ing. No. 10f East Commerce street.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17

A remarkable discovery was made a
few years ago in the sandstone rock at
the Nevada state prison. The find"
was considered wonderful not only
from geological standpoint but from
an chronological point of view. also.
While the convicts at the institution
were unearthing some huge blocks Of
stone they uncovered some peculiar in
dentatiOns in one of the slabs. Closer
investigation proved that these queer
marks were the tracks Of some gigantic
beast of antediluvian time-perhaps a
mastCdon or a mammoth. When the
startling intelligence was announced to
the prison officials, they had the sand
stone slabs containing the tracks care
fully cleaned, whereupOn another Won
derful discovery was made. In the same
pieces of stone, sometimes at the side
and sometimes between the tracks, made
by the great prehistoric beast, were 81
series of human footprints, which proved
cOnclusively that man and the mammoth
lived not only at the same time and in
the same age, but that the huge beast
ana the man had passed Chat way dur
ing the same year, and perhaps OH the
same day. These wonderful relics of a
bygOne age were found in q quarry at II
depth Of about 10 feet from the surface
and had previously been covered with "a
stratum composed Of hundreds of tons
of stOne-the accumulation of the ages
that had interviewed between the date
upon which the tracks We're made and
that upon which thcy were revealed TO
the scientists. Expect biologists who
have since passed al opinion ON the
matter say that at the time the tracks
were made that which is now hard
sandstone was mucky deposit of soft
sediment, probably the border Of a Lake,
where the man had been fishing, and
where the mammoth had come to bathe
or drink.-St. Louis Republic.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17
SATURDAY, APRIL II, 1897.
MILLIONS UNDER WATER.


The New York Mail and Express
says: IF any additional evidence
were needed to emphasize the national
character of the disaster caused by the
special bulletin just issued by the
department of Agriculture. based upon
a weather bureau chart of the inundat-
ed area. Millions of acres and thousands
of farms are involved in the states of
Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and
Arkansas, which are chief sufferers.
An accurate calculation of the area
and the market value per acre of the
farm land under cultivation in this fer
tile section when the rush of waters
brought devastation shows invested
capital of not less than SIG. 900, 600.
Seventy-siX millions of agricultural
interest in the valley of the Mississippi
practically wiped out for a seasonal
sum to restore which would require
a contribution of more than a dollar
each from every man, woman and
Child in the United States. At this
distance it is almost impossible Ia
comprehend what this loss means 10
'llt SNi lNhtH COIillu uHllleS, OF the SUI
fering and misery that it entails. And
yet we have been forced to witness
members of Congress raising objections
to and entering protests against the
100000 relief measure passed in re-
sponse to the presidents appeal.
If another 100000 should be found
necessary the. country would rise as
one man to demand further action by
Congress. 1t is not time or a case for
splitting.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17
ACCUMULATING GOLD,

Russia has accumulated gold
amounting to $685., OOO,OO the Bank of
England has $2OOOOO,OOO; the Bank of
France has 1888, OOO and the United
States has upward of $152. 900, 900, This
country is the only one whose stock
of gold is increasing without govern
mental efforts in that direction. The
gold in the Treasury is growing as
the result of natural business causes
and conditions. The foreign nations
are boarding the yellow metal in antic-
ipation of war, but here it is accumu-
lating as a consequence IF peace and
returning prosperity
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17
THE FAKES.

Whenever there is to be a great day
in our city the occasion is seized upon
to get up any number of fake adver-
Using schemes, and what is remark
able, business firms who are too con-
servative to advertise in the legiti-
mate press, bite freely at the bait fur
nished to them by the schemers or pro-
gram promoters. We like the fake ad-
vertiser because he helps us get even
with the non-advertiser; we like him
for his cheek and his ability to ex-
tort money and privileges out of old
skinflints. The fake may leave the
field of legitimate advertising as bare
as a sidewalk; he may make it hard
for the every day newspaperman to
talk business, but we love him for the
slick way he has roped in his victims.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17
AN ORDINANCE.

To amend section 6, OF chapter "a,
of the revised criminal ordinances.
Be it ordained by the city council of
the City of San Antonio that section
6, of chapter "a, of the city ordinances
of the City of San Antonio be so
amended as to hereafter read as fol-
lows:
Section 6-That all Hacks, Carts,
Drays, Carriages, TwO-HOrse Wagons
for hire shall take such stands upon
the plazas of the city as may be as
signed to them by the Chief of Police
of the City of San Antonio and shall
be under such rules and regulations as
may be prescribed by the said Chief
Of Police.
Approved April 18th, 1897.
BRYAN CALLAGHAN,
Attest: Mayor
THEO. VINKE, City Clerk. 4-15-1Ot
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17
ADVERTISING RATES.

One inch, one time, $3.50; one week,
$3.50; one month, sS.0s; three months,
1880; six months, $500; one year,
,54.00
Legal advertisements S1.00 per inch
eacn insertion. Trustees sales 7sc per
inch first insertion, SOC per inch each
insertion after.
Reading matter, Editorial page, 25c
per line each insertion; Local columns,
zoe first insertion, 10c first week, &c af-
ter frs week. Special rates on so and
100 lines running for a month";
Home advertisements payable on
first of each month. Transient adver-
Using payable in advance. ONLY
METAL CUTS PRINTED.
Special rates gwen on larger space
and long time advertisements. Dis
count given for CASH.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17
THE POWER OF THE PRESS

few days ago the Light made a de-
termined attack upon the nuisance of
sidewalk displays and distractions.
The Express followed up the attack
and today the public can get along
our sidewalks with a great deal more
comfort than formerly. This little
lesson should be needed by those very
merchants who used the sidewalks
to advertise their wares, instead of the
advertising eolamns of the newspapers
If you want the people TO know what
you have to seel. advertise. 1t is the
only proper. sensible way to reach the
public.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17

Why Europeans Are Safe Among Turks.
The explanation of the safety of Eu
ropeans among these fellows, even where
the police were absent, is probably to be
found in the tentative character of TIE
Turks violations of right and Of law.
In doing what is wrong he always be-
gins an abject coward, gaining courage
with impunity. The mere fact that a
European would walk straight through
a-crowd of the bludgeon men, jostling
against them in an unconcerned manner,
convinced them that for some reason he
was not a safe man to attack. In some
cases Armenians walked safely through
the mobs on the street simply by push
ing their way with a determined air. In
every case W here an Armenian ran from
them, or even hesitated on meeting
them, his only chance of life was gone.
The tentative character of Turkish ag-
gressions is not sufficiently borne in
mind. At the beginning of wrong even
sultan will draw back when he sees that
his course is resented by one whom he
Knows TO have the right and believes to
have the 70: 1e to do so. --Yvan Troshine
in Scribner's.
Mr.. All. Dieckmann was elected
yesterday at Houston as president of
the Texas Division, T. P. A.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17
A Wonderful Bird.

One day wonderful bird tapped at
the window Of Mrs Nansen's home at
Christiania. Instantly the window was
opened, and the wife of the famous arc
tic explorer III another moment covered
the little messenger with kisses And
Caresses. The carrier pigeon had been
away from the cottage 30 long months,
but it had not forgotten the way bone.
It brought note from Nansen, stating
that all was going well with him and
his expedition in the polar regions.
Nansen had fastened a message to o
carrier pigeon and turned the bird Loose.
The frail courier darted cut INFO the
blizzardly air. 1t flew like an arrow
over 1000 miles of frozen waste and
then sped forward over another 1000
miles of ocean and plains and forests
and one morning entered the window &C
the waiting mistress and delivered the
message which she had been awaiting
so anxiOusly. We boast of human puck
sagacity and endurance, but this loving
little carrier pigeon, in its hOmeward
flight, after an absence of 80 mouths,
accomplished feat so wonderful that
we can only give ourselves up to the
amazement and admiration which must
overwhelm every one when the marvel.
Gus story is told. Mrs Nansen's pigeon
is one of the wonders of the world. -
Churchman.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17

The Cubans are holding a seaport,
said to be an important place called
Banes, on the north coast. If the
Spanish fail to drive the Cubans from
this place, it will be a serious thing
for Spain. 1t has been claimed that
the Cubans could not expect any recog-
milton as belligerents as long as they
We're without a seaport.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17
NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS
MEETING.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Santa Rosa Consolidat-
ed Mining and Smelling company.
VIII De held at San Antonio, Texas. on
May 3, 1897, for the election of a
BOARD OF directors and to transact such
other business as may properly come
before such meeting. r. H. Hunstock
President. $500
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17

CIeveland's spurious civil service re-
form by which hundreds of compe-
tent men were turned out of service.
and hundreds of incompetent Demo-
Gratis were put in and then cIinched to
their place by the extension of the civil
service list, will receive an appropriate
revision at the hands of a Republican
administration.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17

forget this point-they cannot afford to
forget it--nOr must the people go to
sleep"
What is said about Houston is APP
plicable to San Antonio. We have
dealt with foolish liberality in the
granting of franchises in the past.
wiser policy should be inaugurated for
the future.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17
CHURCH PICNIC.

An excursion to Van Raub April q
by the German Lutheran st. Johns
church, on the A. P. Ry. Trains will
leave at 1880 p. m, returning at 3 n
m. Trains, will stop at Commerce
street crossing. Tickets for sale bv
Rev. Ulrich, c. Zoller and Mic Peters
4-4-5t.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17
TO CORRESPONDENTS:

All communications for this paper
should be accompanied by the name Of
the author, not necessarily for publi-
cation, but as an evidence Of good faith
on the part of the writer. Write on
one side Of the paper in a plain hand.
Anonymous communications will not
be noticed. The Light will not be re-
sponsible for the statements Of its cor
.sspondents
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17
BATTLE OF FLOWERS SOUVENIR

Joske Bros. have received a hand
some lot of souvenir spoons in six diff
ferent patterns. On San Jacinto da,,
they will give one to every visitor 70
the Big Store" who makes a purchase
of $500 or more. 49,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17
ICE! ICE |!

Prices for the, season 1897:
In quantities of sob and over 25c
per hundred
In quantities of less than sob Soc
per hundred.
SAN ANTONIO ICE CO..
w. w. Johnson, Stunt
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17
SAN JACINTO DAY

Joske Bros. will give every visitor to
the Big Store" handsome souvenir
spoon with each purchase of $500 or
oEer' 1S-tf.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17

1t is a curious condition of war ex-
listing on the Greek frontier-they are
lighting and yet it rs not considered
as amounting to anything because the
Greeks are ''irregulars," VINO are fight
ing the Turks.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17

The Grant monument ceremonies on
the 9th inst, promise to be one of the
greatest affairs ever witnessed in this
country.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17
CITY CIRCULATION NOTICE.

Mr.. Dam c. Bitter, from date, has
been given entire charge of the City
circulation Of the Daily and Sunday
Light, and will deliver papers to sub
scribers and collect for same. All COM
plants for non-delivery and changes
can be given to him or telephoned to
the office,
T. B. JOHNSON.
Manager San Antonio Light.
San Antonio, Texas, May 9, 1896.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17
AUTHORIZED COLLECTORS.

The following named are authorized
collectors Of the Light:
H. c. SCHUMACHER, Advertising.
w. T. SCHUMACHER,
DAN c. BITTER, Subscription.
HARVEY L. STEELE
Subscribers are requested not to pay
their subscription without taking q re-
osipt.
T. B. JOHNSON, Manager.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-17

All contracts or bills MUST be ap-
proved by the Secretary or Manager.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-07
ANOTHER NEW MINING CAMP.
Promising Discoveries Made By Som'
 Englishmen in Colorado.

H. C. Lawrence has just returned from the headwaters of the Cache la Poudre river, where a new mining camp has lately been established, says the Denver Republican. '"The discov- cries there were only made about four months ago. said he, ''and con- sequently but little development has been made in the camp. The princi- pal operators in the camp are some Englishmen who have located a num- ber of claims and have made some openings with opsn cuts, some of the ore taken from these cuts has been sent to Denver for assay and given very good results. The ore appears very much like tellurium and some pieces which yield very little on as say, when roasted show very heavy in globules of gold nthe surface. Some of the ore is oxidized at the surface, and when crushed and banned yields free gold, and then again the same rock in appearance will yield nothing at all. Some assays have run as high as S70,000 to the ton in gold. The camp is entirely too young as yet to predict anything regarding it's future, but all of the indications are good and I would not be surprised if it de veloped into a good district next sea- son. The mem at work there are put ting in money, and seem prepared to thoroughly exploit the ore bodies that they have uncovered"
Arizona republican., 1897-12-07
A BULLION PRODUCER.
The Kasser Gold Mining Company's
 Successful Enterprise

On Sunday last we enjoyed the hos pitality of Miles w. Gibbons, general manager of the Kasser Gold Mining company, in Lost Gulch, and were pleased to note the progress made since our previous visit, and the many evidences of a successful enter prise, developed by pluck and ability under adverse conditions, says the Silver Belt.
 The ten stamp mill, running day and night, crushes from twenty -thr ae to twenty-five tons of ore per twenty four hours, tamd is doing very satisfactory work under the skilfu1 management of MT. Davis, late of Clifton. The mill nan twenty-one and one-half days in November, and while WIG are not at liberty to state the amount of bullion retorted, the re- suit was fully up to expectations, and demonstrated the values in the ore as indicated by the assays. It is ex- peoted the mill will be in operation twenty-eight days in December, and that the product will be considerably increased and leave a handsome resi- due after all expenses are deducted By the use of retaining tanks to econ- omiZe the water. the supply is now ample.
 In addition to the bullion product in November, two car loads of concen- trates, running $50 to $60 i'm gold, and lead ore, carrying high values, wlar1e shipped to Deming, N. M.
 The mine, under the superintend- ence of John Kasser, is being rapidly developed. The stopes on the several 1svels look we'll and the supply of ore is abundant. The work of sinking nhe double compartment shaft from the 100 level, begun Nov. 15, has pro- gressed about fifty feet. and will com tinue without interruption. The com- pany has thirty-five men in its en- ploy, who are we'll paid, we'll fed and have every reason to be satisfied with their treatment at the hands of the company.
 There will soon be quite a village built up about the mill A comfort able boarding house. was erected a month ago, and four lodging houses of two rooms each, for employees, will be ready for occupancy this week. A five room cottage for General Mdnage Gibbons, and houses for Superimten- dent Kasser and Mill Foreman Davis will be erected at once.
 The success of the Kasser company means much foF the future of the Los Gulch region. demonstrating as fl does that the Hedges carry values which will repay intelligent manage ment.