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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-03
SOUTH TEXAS FRUIT.
The Introduction of the Alberta
Peach-Early Shipments.

Mr. Ed Sells agent for the American
Refrigerator Transit company, was in the
city yesterday. What MIR. Sells does not
know about the handling and shipment
OF fruit is not worth knowing
He was caught while in communicative
mood by a Post representative and he
gave some very interesting facts regard
ing fruit raising in the coast country of
South Texas.
THE Alberta peach" said he. which
originated in Georgia, has reached a bet
ter perfection OF growth right here in
South Texas and the Texas product gets
to the market earlier than the same fruit
raised in Georgia. These peaches bring
from 1926 TO $3.50 per bushel, while ths
Texas pears bring only from 80 to rs cents
per bushel and they get to market long
after the peach. The result of this that
Mr.. W II. Pumley, at Webster, is sub
stituting peaches for pears"
The strawberry is another great crop
for South Texas remarked Mr.. Sells.
We took out of Van Buren,, Ark. last
year seventy one cars of strawberries.
They Melted the producers Sl.62 l-2 per
crate OF twenty four quarts to the crate.
These Strawberries brought to Van Buren,
$4,000. This was in April. Strawber-
ries raised around Webster can be gotten
the producer from $3.50 to $3.50 per crate.
The first shipment of strawberries into
st. Louis last season brought the fabulous
price of $3.50 per crate. net profit Of
$1,000 to the producer. Planters around
Webster are going to double their straw
berry crops this year.
"Cantaloupes are another very profita-
BILE and prolific vegetable in South Texas
one hundred and twenty-six cars Of can
taloupes were shipped out of Texas over
the International and Great Northern this
season and they netted the producer TO
cents per crate. There are fortyfive mel
ons TO the crate and from $50 to 420 crates
TO the car
Tomatoes arc another very profitable
crop, because they can be raised here so
early. They bring so cents per craze.
with four baskets TO the crate. A single
shipment OF tomatoes in the latter part of
June NOTED the producers sl13S6S.
'How can people of this section think
OF raising cotton with such results from
fruits and vegetables? And there is no
better section in which to produce them
than right here in south Texas, and Hous-
ton is recognized as the best fruit market
In the entire country"
In connection with the above facts. It
may be interestin to know that for
the reason that South Texas does
not take advantage OF It's opportunity to
supply even the home market, Mr.. T. H..
Thompson OF the produce firm of T. H.
Thompson & Co., has now gone TO Cali
fornia to buy all the fruit he can secure.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-03
SOUTHERN RAILWAY

The improved schedule and facilitie.
make the Southern railway the choice
route from West TO East.
Leaving New Orleans or Memphis via
the Southern railway you reach Washing
Ton. Baltimore. Philadelphia and New
York without change of cars and hours
ahead OF other lines. The improved facil-
tiles make the Southern railway partlcu-
larly attractive, sold vestibuled trains,
composed OF elegant Pullman drawing
room sleeping cars, high backed coaches,
superior dining cars. library observation
cars. cafe cars everything that will con-
tribute TO the pleasure of the passenger.
Only "a hours from New Orleans ia
Washington, and 40 hours to New York
without change. Only 33 hours from Mem.
phis to Washington, aud SO hours to New
York. without change OF cars. Safe and
swift and luxurious.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-03
CROPS IN THE COTTON BELT,
SUMMARIZES OF REPORTS MADE BY
SOUTHERN WEATHER BUREAU.
The Cotton Crop In Not Doing very
We'll as n Rule, Rust and She'd
ding General.

Following are summaries OF the reports
OF weather bureaus throughout the cotton
States. compiled by w. I. Blythe, section
director at New Orleans
Louislana-Cotton Is shedding In some
fields and needs rain. but as whole the
crop is fairly promising; in localities
where sufficient rain has fallen 1t is ex-
cellent; where the growth of the plant
was stopped by the drouth, one and two
weeks ago, and rain has fallen since, a
second growth has begun and the latest
planted cotton. except in the few spots"
and "sreaks" where the drouth has been
practically continuous for several weeks,
is growing, blooming and fruiting salts
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-03
CITIZENS MASS MEETING.
Sanitary Condition Will Be Fully Discussed This
Evening at the Business League Rooms.

The meeting Of citizens call for which published in yesterdays
fur;herng
maybe deemed
do
observations concerning
comparatively pee.
olidemcs
this afternoon and help
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-03
CITY BREyITIn..

The new crsmatory will commence work to-
day.
Six new recruits from Galveston and hve
from Houston were sent 10 San Antonio last
night over the Southern Pacific.
DR.. ]. r Glaze has removed his office to a
more central location over Lewyns drug
store. corner Preston and Main
The Young woman's Christian Temperance
Union will bold its monthly business meeting
this evening at o'clock at the Christian
church.
The First Philosophical Society OF Houston
will discuss Truth this evening al Lyceum
hall, Mason block, at o'clock sharp. All
persons interested are cordially invited to be
present.
The Eta school house will be completed ana
ready tor occupancy by tho opening Of the
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-03

schools. The Eta School House club has
worked hard IN bringing about this result,
and desire to thank all who have helped them.
Mrs. w, L. Fielding was injured last nigh,
as result of a runaway accident which oc-
CURED on Franklin avenue shortly before Ii
o'clock. AT the time of the accident the
bregy was occupied by Mrs, Fielding and her
l.ttle girl.
Under the auspices OF the Woman's Relief
Corps there will be held tonight, at Grand
Army hail. in the Mason building. a social
meeting OF George B. Mcclellan post aud
corps, and all old soldiers and their famil.e s
are cordially invited to be present
odd King" the fire horse OF hose company
No. l. whose leg was broken while running
to a fire at an early hour yesterday morning.
mention of which was made In yesterday s
Post was shot and killed, to be put out OF tis
misery and as he had ended his usefulness.
Old King was % years Of age and had served
the FIRE department for sixteen years.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-03

the work can be done and in the meantime
too many precautions can not be taken"
DR.. G.. D. Parker: 81 am heartily in
favor of the proposed movement"
DR.. o. L. Noteworthy: THE plan to as
slst the health department through an
organized effort on the part of the citizens
meets with my hearty and complete APP
prevail"
Dr.. Robert McElroy. ex-city health Of
ficer: II certainly favor the idea We can
not do too much in the way of cleaning
up the city, particularly at this season OF
the year. | think every citizen should
take an interest in this matter
Dr.. r. Irrelevant: IL am in perfect ac-
cord with the movement. which 1 consider
very timely and pertinent"
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-03

One OF the most eminent and sk;llh,,
specialists in the United States is the an
thor OF great home medical WORT tho,
every woman, whether young or old should
read: That physician is DR.. R. Y piercn
for thirty years chief consulting nhrs;a;o,,
to the Invalids' Hotel and Sure;c,i I,.s.;
tute, at Buffalo, N Y. This is one ~ -.
greatest medical institutions in ths 49,, ~, .ne
IN ms capacity as head of this institution
III rietee Is surrounded by staff of n ariy
score OF able physicians With the as.
sis'ance OF THIS staff OF physicians. DURING
tne past thirty years, Dr. Pierce has nre'
seripea ior many thousands of ailinr WOW.
en-. ms Common Sense Medical A.
WISER contains 1905 pages and over .on
illustrations. II contains several chanteys
devoted to the treatment of diseases ps.,,
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sent free on receipt of al one. cent s,a py 10
TO cover mailing, by the Worlds D;snap'ss'
sary Medical Association, Buffalo ~ psu'
fIench cloth binding 81 stamps, 4
Every woman should read II 7, 80
ABOUT a medicine that cures ali d;so,aa..s
ana irregularities from which wo,ns,
Ter. This medicine is DR.. Pierce,s Esso sui
PRESCRIPTION. 1t acts directly ON tha AN;
cate organs concerned in wifehoad WI. wi,
ino,hethood. 1t makes them s,, anu
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drains ana soothes pain. II is the ,.r .ns
est OF all nerve tonics. In the "Nssi:aa.,
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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-03
CATARRHAL DEPRESSION OF SUM-
MER

Senator W. N. Roach from Larimore,
North Dakota. writes: II am glad to
testify that Pe-ru-na has greatly helped
me in strength, yigor and appetite"
For the nervous depression Of spring
and summer Pe-ru-na will be found 10
be of great benefit. Summer Catarrh, :
Mrs. John Carpenter, Perry. Oklahoma,
write; II took a bottle OF Pe-ru-na and
received great benefit from It. suffered
greatly from nervous headaches and my
nervous system was completely broken
down. ! recommend Ps.ru-nA TO nervous
people,"
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-03
work Of garbage Depn rtment.

Mr.. Fred Erickson, superintendent o.
the Houston garbage department. makes
the following report of work done In his
department during the month of July:
Following is the monthly report for the
month of July of dead carcasses picked ND
from the streets OF Houston by the city
garbage department; Four horses, Of
dogs. lis cats. 16 rabbits, 8 opossums, l7s
rats. is turkeys. geese, &c ducks, IT'S
chickens. II pigeons; total 1888.
Average for the first seven months Jan.
uary 2l6o, February 1898 March 1897. April
l4ls, May 1927, June 1851, July 22ss: total
llSSb.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-03
MASS MEETING TONIGHT.

Every citizen who Is inter-
ested in the sanitary improve
ment of Houston should attend
the mass meeting at the Bush
ness League rooms this after
noon ut . o'clock. The health
and welfare of the people are
concerned. Help to organize
II sanitary league.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-03
Invoice of MuIlin Stock.

Denton. Texas, August 2-Trustee n.
NJ. kelso gives 1t out that the stock of p.
j. Mullin, who filed an assignment yes
terday, as printed in The Post today, in
voices 1888. The liabilities were abou,
$500.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-03

Rev. J. NJ Yingling, pastor of the Bed
ford street Methodist church al Cumber-
land. Md. says; II affords me much
pleasure TO recommend chamherlain's
Collie. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy i
have used 1t and know Others who have
done so. have never known il TO fal
II Is sure cure when taken in time For
sale by all druggists.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-03
HAMPE'S
' and TFssD'11zzvBargains

IS dozen Ladies' Leather Belts in Black Brown Grav T.,
etc. selling soc, 75c to csc, ouoi
choice each. ..........................e 7Qs
Ladies Observation-Disclosures of entire line, ~
selling $500, s2s, $3.50 to close out choice each "a
Hair and Clothes Bruhes-choice of very large assortment h
made Brushes selling 75c o5c i.oo choice each 1 550s
Club Te-choice of entire assortment Ladies' Solid ca
Fancy Figured Silk or Lawn Club Ties, "ao ~
selling ioc and i5c each .... .............. "a
Veilngsarge assortment Fancy Dotted and Novelty R,.L -
Colored Yelling that sells CSC to $50 per yard only .a
Ladies' Parasosn Fancy Coored White China Silk. Pm,
dered or Fancy Ruffed, -. a.
selling 81 IS to $685. choice each. ........... g5N
Ladies' Parasos-choe line higher grades in Fan
Rufled or Plain selling s2.25 TO S475, S = ~
take your choice OF the lot for only .......... jT5
26inch English Twlled Oil Boiled Tafeta and Gloria rIrt
rods and Paragon Frames natural wood and fancy handles "a
selling st2s $3.50 and st75, choice each 0yr
2o-nch Pure Taea and Twed Silk Umbrellas Paragon franz
steel rod tight roll, natural wood and Fancy handles
selling 50 IS $685. 1925, $3.50, s375, take choice for
Ladies' White Pque Duck and Linen Crash Skirts made full v
of best quality material, -
selling si.Oo and Si.25, choice each ......... 4yc'
Ladies Plain Brocaded Black Briianne Skirts lined with N
quality lining, selling Si.o5 S2.25 and $3.50, 49,
choice each LON.
Ladies Colored Lawn Shirt Waists, choice of entire line -
selling CSC, s25 and $3.50 for only /3c.
Infants and chldren's Embroidered Lawn Caps, %
selling 25c and 35c choice each ............., zoe
Infants and Chldren's Embroidered Lawn Caps, =.
selling soc and ooc choice EACH ............... Zy
81 pieces Ribbon Solid and Changable Taeta Plaid and st
selling 25c, CSC, 4oc and 45c per yard Il
oS pieces Ribbon Fancy Plaid, Striped Dresden and Gau M
selling soc, 6oc, $50 75c to csc per yard, az ns1
Ladies' Straw Salors-entre line selling up to Stoo, a.
to close out, choice EACH JSC
Ladies' Straw Salors-enre line selling rs to $3.50 ~
to close out, choice each
Ladies' Misses and Chidrens Ready Trimmed Hats to close out
less than HALF PRICE.
4. HAMPEI
Main St. aud Texas Ave., Binz Building.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-03
OUT AFTER CHICKENS.
Several Parties Return from an On
sInuGht of the Birds.

Tuesday, August /. was the opening day
of prairie chicken shooting in Texas and
there was a reasonable rivalry as to who
should kill the first bird. Armed and
equipped for the occasion and moved by a
commendabe ambition. Messrs. Charles f.
Winkler. William Bohle and f. Lee
Schwander left Houston Monday evening
and went out to w. E. Wren's, where they
recruited with Mr.. Wren and moved on
to the artesian well near Spring Gully and
camped Monday night. Next morning a
southerly wind and a cloudless sky called
them from their beds and before the sun
was fairly up Charley Winker's bird dog
took position, wagging his tail, and
pointed covey of five prairie chickens and
of that covey the hunters killed two. Nov
ing on, they flushed another flock of seven
and got Ave of them. The birds killed
were brought to town and The Post re-
porter was invited to look at them, but
was not asked to take one of them home.
In this connection it is proper to say that
Mr. Schwander was especially expert Mon
day evening shooting swallows, killing
seven out of eight of the little flyers on the
wing, but out OF seven shots at prairie
chickens he never got feather.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-03

Messrs. G. L. Boring, o. ]. Lorehn, John
Chew and ALI Whine have returned from
a chicken hunt at Round Point, near Deer
Park.
They left Houston at 1880 on Monday,
July 81, and camped on the chicken
grounds, waiting for the LIST. Shortly after
daybreak Mr.. c. l.. Boring with his dogs,
Aza and Mack, flushed single chicken,
the last of covey which was bagged.
The rest had evidently been shot before
the season. Mr.. o. ]. Lorehn was lucky in
getting one shot later on and that made
the bag for the day--two chickens. Four
were seen during the day only. There
were four coveys in this vicinity week
before the LIST. but some one evidently
could not wait.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-03

Coke ana TAr--For sale BY Houston GA.
Light Company.
Mohave County miner., 1899-06-17
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Ramon Aibares and John Garcia,
their Assigns and Legal Represen-
tative,

You are hereby notified that the under
signed VINO is co-owner with you in the
Blue Maria mine. has expended the sum
Of four hundred dollars ts4Oo) in labor and
Improvements made for the years 1895 e6-g7-9s,
IN compliance with the United States mining
laws requiring annual expenditures TO be made
on mining claims The said Blue Maria mine
is situated in the Cedar Valley mining district,
Mohave county, Territory of ,rizons, aud is
duly recorded In the ONE of the county re-
corder OF Mohaye county, Arizona. I'm Book
TX. page 642, mining records and you are
further notified that If, at the expiration OF
ninety days rom the last publication OF this
notice, you fail or refuse to pay your proper
ton of said expenditure, together with the cost
of publication of this Lotice. your interest ia
the said Blue Maria mine win be forfeited and
become the property of the undersigned in ae-
eordance with law. MARTIN JINENEz
Kiugman, Arizona, April I'D, 1879
First insertion Apr 2ld, 1899.
Mohave County miner., 1899-06-17
Mine Warning Notice.

Notice is hereby given that neither
myself nor the Green Linnet mine.
situated in Union Basin, Wallapai
mining district, Mohave County, Ari-
zona, will be responsible for any debt
for labor or supplies contracted by the
lessees thereon. FOSTER S. DENNIS.
Kingman May Goth, 1898.
Mohave County miner., 1899-06-17
We hare had Si.r years

We hare had Sir years
experience in business in
KinGp1an, and We are con-
stantly on the lookout tor
the best goods for this mar
bet. IRE mean goods hdt
WiU GiUe the consumer the
best SatiSfacti0n and 9Je0t-
est Unlue for his money.
When ne find an article
that comes up to our StdRd-
ard of excellence 1Ce keep 1t
constantly IN stock.
KiR6mnn Mercantile Co...
Mohave County miner., 1899-06-17
In tha da,tb e Richard p Bland

In the death # Richard p. Bland,
commonly known as Silver Dick"
the common people Of the United
States have lost one of their staunch-
est friends. Mr.. Bland repr sented
Missouri district in congress for
twenty-eight years, He was the
author of the Bland silver bill and
for twenty years has made con
tinuous fight for the recognition OF
silver.
Mohave County miner., 1899-06-17

1t is sand that 10000 men will
he thrown out Of employment in
Colorado if work on the sm-lters is
not resumed at nee All the big
producing mines are cutting forces
and the railroads running into the
carbonate camps will let out 5,OOJ
men OH account Of lack Of business
The eight hour law is the cause OF
the whole mess.
Mohave County miner., 1899-06-17

Tornados and cloudbursts have
been dealing death and destruction
in the states of Wisconsin, Mime.
sofa, Nebraska and Texas this
week, Hundreds of people have
been killed and manned and hun
dreds of thousands of dollars worth
of pr ,pertv DESTROYED.
Mohave County miner., 1899-06-17

The fiendish San Quentin con-
Wet who stabbed a guard to the
very door of death has been sen.
fenced to solitary confinement for
life 1t is to be hoped that his IN
stinct to take human life will live
and that he will satisfy it upon his
only available victim S. F. Call.
Mohave County miner., 1899-06-17

Preeloos metals production in
the west, since the beginning, have
aggregated 300, ,O0O,0O0k in Colora-
do; in California, l,3O0,0OO,0 0O0t;
Nevada, 100000 00OS; Montana,
100000, ,0OO$; Idaho, 100, 0,O00,000S
Arizona, S0,O00,0O0$; South Dako,
Ia, 5O,OON, ,OUOS.
Mohave County miner., 1899-06-17

Never before in the world has there
been such general and widespread ac-
tivity in mining in all parts of the
world, and for all the important min
erals, says the New York financial
News. This activity is more concen-
trated and intense in the United States
than elsewhere, but it is spreading in
every region. Australia, Africa, China,
the Islands of the Pacific, Europe,
South America, British North America,
Mexico, are all in the rush as well as
are we of the United States. Ii is an
age of mining. We have passed Great
Britain now in the output of coal, far
excel any other country in the produc-
tion of iron ores, we raise big part of
the copper that comes out of the earth,
and zinc, lead, antimony, etc, and the
development of gold mining keeps up
with the procession. In every mining
state and territory of the Union there
is an amount Of work going on not
heretofore equalled. The old field are
giving out enlarged yields and the new
ones are constantly coming forward.
Coal is the basis of modern energy and
steel and copper the body and nerves
of modern appliances and machinery
in the arts and industries. This has
given a foundation to mining which
has taken from il speculative, uncertain
features which have long kept it out of
what called itself Legitimate business
Today there is no business so legiti-
mate, so stable, so certain of giving
good return for capital and labor put
into it as mining whether for iron or
coal, or gold or silver. The world
needs, for its modern progress, the
mineral wealth of the earth and capital
is as ready to go into mining now as
into the most favored lines of other
industry or production.
j Certain disciples of Charcot, not
ably Giles de la Tourette, have re-
Gently evolved q new science, or
rather a new aid to diagnosis, in
the sound of the skull, They tap
the skull with little hammer and
according to the character of the
note it gives out they conclude as
to the condition of the brain. The
skull of a child gives out a note of
higher pitch than that of Il man.
In old age the skull sound rises
again. The thickness of the skull
can be determined after some prac-
tice and any disease or fracture be.
trays itself by the peculiar sound
Some skulls, according to the doc
tors, give out veritable sound OF
a cracked pot and so the popular
term ''cracHed" for a person Of &c,
centric intellect is fully justified
Ex.
Mohave County miner., 1899-06-17

Great preparation is being made
in Las Vegas for the first annual
reunion of Roosevclts Rough Rid
crs, on June oath, 25th and Goth.
The little New Mexican town will
be astream with banners and bunt-
ing and all sorts Of doings will take
place
Mohave County miner., 1899-06-17

Gen Lawton is exhibiting to the
world what tact, bravery and dash
will do against "A semi civilized race
in the war with the Filipinos, On
June 18th be went against an en-
trenched force to the number Of
10000 and killed, wounded and
captured 1000, scattering the bal
ance in al directions. Lawton il
the Indian wars learned how to dea
with this class Of people,
Mohave County miner., 1899-06-17

Heretofore California parties have
come to Arizona to marry to avoid
the operation of the divorce law,
but Judge Allen, of Los Angeles,
has just decided that such mar
riages are void.
Mohave County miner., 1899-06-17

Report comes from the klondike
that the spring cleanup will he
greater than that of 1898. The
Yukon is now open to Dawson and
the rush out is great.
Mohave County miner., 1899-06-17

Phenix now claims a population
of $4,000 The capital city has
another distinction besides having
the largest population of any town
in Arizona by being the only pre-.
paratory place on earth for Pluto's
domain
Mohave County miner., 1899-06-17

The Lower California placer fields
turn out to be worthless. There
never was enough rain in the penin-
sula TO assure a very wide distri,
button of nuggets and gold dust
from the decomposed quartz of the
mountains, and the bulk of what
precious metal there is reposes in
the original rock The time may
come when Lower California will
attract large capital to its quartz
lodes, but there is small prospect
that it will ever earn the right to
be called a poor mans country on
any other basis than the poverty
Of its working CLASS. f. Chron-
icle.
Mohave County miner., 1899-06-17

The smelter trust has closed
down all its smelters in Colorado
on account Of the strike of work
men. The Guggenheim smelters
are the only ones now in operation
in Colorado.
Mohave County miner., 1899-06-17

Mining in Arizona has passed the
experimental stage Big compan'
les are now being organized all
OVER the United States and Europe
to operate mining properties in
this territory. Gold and copper
properties are the most sought af,
ter
Mohave County miner., 1899-06-17

Although miners who have been
in the new Lower California gold
field report them to be very poor
the transportation companies are
making strenuous effort to boom
them