The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-06
ISLAND CITY NEWS ITEMS
A Great Amount Of Texas Corn Is Being
Exported.
DRUG CLERK CHloROFoRAtD BY BURGLAR
WAS Not EGcctivc, However, mud
Robbcr Got small Booty-siot
Machines stopped.

| Galveston Texas, Janunry o.--More tnan
800. 900 bushels OF corn have been loaded
into steamers here ia Galveston within
the last two months. Ninety-eight per cent
of this corn was grown in Texas The corn
exporting season is only Just beginning,
The men who are In tho business say the
shipments so far made are small in COM
partson with what are coming.
The exporting OF Texas corn marks an
era in the history of the State. In 1895 there
was some Texas corn shipped from here,
but this season may be said to really mark
the opening of this most important bust
| rcss.
What IL means for the farmers OF Texas
may be appreciated from Just few state
ments:
Heretofore Texas has depended on one
crop--cotton-and has bought her corn, her
flour and her provisions from the people
| OF tho North.
Today Texas ia not only raising her own
| wheat and corn and supplying herself with
provisions. but is placing less reliance in
cotton and is selling her surplus corn and
wheat TO the consumers of Europe
| The corn that Texas is putting on the
market .his season is the finest grown. 1t
| is far superior m quality TO any raisei In
| any other portion of Nthe United States,
and it 10 being received and shipped from
here in such perfect condition that it could
be sent to any port ip sailing vessel with
absolute certainty of arriving in perfect
/ order. 1t grades No. 9, and the farmers
have been getting the benefit of the Hue
prices that have ruled for some time past.
| John Representation said this morning
| that the average price here for export corn
was about 26 cents a bushel, He had sold
some at 80 cents. but that was under
strained circumstances. The Texas corn, he
says, is as dry as a bone and is simply in
excellent condition. The same can not be
said of the corn that is going from the
| Atlantic seaboard.
| When 1t is taken into consideration that
within two months more than 1,5c0,000
bushels of Texas corn have been shipped
from here and that this corn represents
| nearly 100000 cash to the farmers OF
Texas and IL 1t is further considered that
this is but the beginning of the corn ship
ping season and that a great deal more
Texas corn is to come and that this is a
pick up for the Texas farmers, the sig
nificanee of the statements herein made
will be understood.
The signs all point to a greatly increased
acreage in corn and wheat in Texas this
year. II is reasonable to expect that with
the widening of the fields of grain there
will be contraction in the fields of COTTON.
Corn grows all over Texas. Gram fiourishes
In the northern half of the State. Cotton,
like corn is indigenous to the whole State.
The big shipments of Texas corn prove
one thing beyond peraiventure: The
preaching for dtversifcation of crops for
farmers to make themselves self support
ing by raising everything they consume, is
bearing fruit. The more intellgently the
farmer diVersifies the more prosperous he
will be.
With his proximity to the port of Gal
weston the tanner of Texas has q tre-
mendous advantage over the farmer OF
the great grain producing States of Me-
braska, Kansas, the Dakotas, Iowa and
Cotton will always be the money crop
Of the whole South, but corn and wheat
promise to share tho honors with the
king" in the empire State of Texas.
CLERK CHLOROFORMED.
There was another daring burglary last
night. At about 1890 o'clock a robber went
TO the side door of Keene's drug store. at
Thirteenth street and avenue ], put the
point of a syringe I'm the keyhole and
squirted about half a pint OF chloro.orm
into the room in which Druggist Horace
Keene was sleeping. Then the robber, by
means, it is thought, of skeleton key,
opened the door and entered the room.
The bed upon which Mr.. Keene was as.eep
was In one corner of the room. The bur-
glar placed handkerchief saturated with
chloroform ON Mr.. KeelAes face ana then
took Mr.. Kaene's pistol from under the
pillow. After securing the pistol the rob
Der went to a wardrobe and began helping
himself 10 such clothes as were there. II
was probably the intention of the burglar.
after gathering up such clothes as he found
10 proceed at his leisure to tap the cash
draw and rife the show case of such ar
ticles as he desired While the robber was
engaged at the wardrobe, however, some
of the chloroform got into Mr.. Keene's |
eyes and awakened him, He rose up in |
he'd, then jumped out into the floor, and |
seeing the burglar, began to shout, The |
thief made dash for the door and dlsap
of trousers, He got away with some |
clothes, but they are hardly worth enough |
to pay for the choroform the burglar used. |
Mr. Keepe telephoned for the police at i
once and they have soma important clews. |
SLOT MACHINES STOPPED.
Sheriff Henry Thomas has given the slot
machine gentry notice to quit They are
complying as fast as they know how, and
the click of the nickel and the whirr OF
the disk are no longer heard In Galveston.
Mr.. Thomas spent yesterday in locating
the machines. This morning he furnished a
deputy with tho names OF sixty-two estab-
llshments and instructed him TO notify the
that they must cease to operate
tho machines aad either remove them or
plug them up. There was prompt and in
slant compliance The deputy has not yet
reported, but Mr.. Thomas understaaiA
that the notice has served Its purpoie.
A few machines were closed Saturday
night and few more were removes before
The sheriff's order was issued.
Sheriff Thomas says that he Will as.
suredly arrest any person hereafter OPP
Grating or harboring slot machine.
PILOT COMMISSIONERS
The board OF pilot commissioners held a
meeting this afternoon for the purpose
Of examining Gus Chester and Captain
Jones for positions as deputy pilots, but
got into wrangle ana adjourned without
taking action.
or the three men whom the board de.