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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-03-22
HOUSTON. WEDNESDAY. MARCH ~
TEN PAGES TODAY -
HOUSTON AND IT'S FUTURE.

Every indication points 10 the rapid aud
phenomenal expansion soon OF the popu-
lation. trade, Industrial activity and COM
mercial importance Of Houston. Matters,
unknown to the general public. are pend
ing that will give us remarkable impetus
forward in the near future
This city is as sire 10 show wonderful
changes within the next year as that it
mas shown remarkable growth and pros
perity within the past decade These are
not idle statements made for effect, for
there is no occasion to indulge in fanciful
predictions or conclusions.
Everything, however, depends largely
upon the confidence and interest manifest
ed by the intelligent business community of
the city IN the progress and development
foreshadowed. Tho Post. in reaching its
conviction Of an assured expansion. as
sunes that the citizens OF the city will
manifest at least the public spirit that
they have heretofore shown in pushing
Houston TO the front.
But there ought TO be a more general
participation in this forward movement In
the future than in the past. Scores OF
good men and noble women have responded
always with alacrity and unselnshness TO
the demands OF enterprise and public spirit
as the occasions have arisen, but hundreds
have held back. selfshness and moss
backism have interposed too often. The
time has como now when all must work
for the accomplishment OF great destiny
for the city. =.
There will he deep water here after
awhile, quickening commerce and making
this busy, cosmopolitan port, Some no.
table improvements are projected and some
large investments promised for tho i'm.
mediate future. These things will give
activity to the real estate market enlarge
Industries and multiply trade. The citl-
zenshp must he wideawake. aroused and
prepared TO utilize this transformation
process for ALI 1t is worth to the commu.
nifty as a whole.
in view OF this splendid outlook. all
classes of citizens should drop any iudlf.
ference heretofore manifested toward pub.
lie affairs and determine hencoforth 10 ac-
lively participate in the discussion and
shaping of public questions. Come out
OF the shell ana help look after matters
OF vital public concern! Take an nteres
IN city government, IN city improvements
in the manntr In which public service ii
performed. DO not continue TO live undei
government In which you have no voice
Go to the business Leagus meetings. ak
the local Manufacturers association, shske
off the long moss and get in close touci
with the life aud progress around YOU!
We are going to have great 1ity her
and We want to see the intelligent hdsi
ness and working classes educating them
selves by practical connection with ou
growth now for the important calls tina
the no distant future will make uror
them.
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SHORT TEXAS SPECIALS.

NAVASoTA.-Dr Scott of Galveston Is
conducting protracted meeting at the
Presbyterian church.
HlLLSBORo.-Rev Phillip f. King
| pastor OF the First Christian church. be-
gan protracted meeting last night
LoCKHART. District court. Judge "A.
Teichmueller presiding. is In session Mr..
W. NJ Steele was appointed foreman "
the grand jury
CoRSICANA. - Prof j. H. Morse. a
principal In the public schools was found
guilty OF assault and fined S95 for having
administered corporal punishment TO a
child.
DENTON Superintendent T. c. Snow
OF the city schools here has received an
offer OF the chair OF mathematics in Add
Ram University at Waco, but be declined
the offer
BRENHAM.-It is probable that when
the grand jury reoonvenes Wednesday
morning It will take IN the matter OF o.
eupation tax dellnquencies, and especially
the matter OF the cigarette tax.
REFUGlo.-'rhe town has taken on lis
usual spring growth several new houses
Just completed and several moro In course
OF erection. most OF them good dwelling
houses, owned and to be occupied by sub
stantial citizens.
M'KINNEY w. c. Allen Skinned
carload OF good mules TO Shreveport La.
The shipment included several road horses
also. This makes the third car OF mules
Mr Allen has shipped out from McKIn-
ney this winter.
LoCKHART.-T Loekhart oil mill
closed down Saturday, after the ,ncst *
tended and profitable run OF is history
The success of this enterprise shows what
manufacturing can do In Texas when
properly and intelligently conducted.
WAco.-Father McBrady Of Toronto
Canada. at the head OF the Order of no
slian Fathers, Is In the city TO confer
With the committee OF the Church OF The
Assumption concerning the proposed Cath
Ollie college for boys in this city.
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THE COTTON CROP.
NcilI Protests against the suns Con-
dcmnatiou of His Estimate.


New York, March 2i.-H. NJ. Neill writes
to the Sun, protesting against its con-
domination Of his Aug,at cottcn circular,
in which he said the crop might be as high
as 12,000,000 bales He says.
You admit, at this late date. after the
most disastrous winter on record in the
South that the promise now is still about
1O,500,OO0 to 1880 600.
There is no doubt taat in October and
November the public saw, as ! saw, that
the promise was vastly beyond that-igure,
and that the actual growth. IL 1t could all
be saved was up to. If not over, l2,00O,
900. How much OF this vast crop has been
destroyed by the phenomenal weather OF
December. January and February can not
now be known, but had we had normal
weather there Is no doubt that my No
vember estimate would have been reached
or exceeded. II 600 commercial bales.
There is still much cotton to pick and
much in stores. which the late advance IN
prices will bring out, and it Is therefore
quite too soon to dogmatze about the re-
suit. In 1sS0-Sl my estimate published in
November, was $3.50 900 bales. There was
very bad weather in December and jan
uary, and people said the cotton still in
the fields was destroyed, The agricultural
bureau in December gave crop estimate
OF 100000 and the National cotton ex-
change one of $500, 600. but the crop turned
out $500, 600. Something of the kind Will
probably occur this year
The Sun makes this comment
Nothing that the writer says mo1ifes
the opinion already expressed concerning
Mr. Neill's estimates, or nitigates the
condemnation there passed upon tie prac-
tice of issuing estimates or promises,
whatever they may be called, Of crop
yields, at time so early that reasonable
basis for them is lacking Mr.. Neill is
correct in stating that his definite prrdic-
tion of 11,750, 900 bales was made in No
vember. instead OF in August, of last year;
but November estimate is open to little
less objection. comparatively, than an Au-
gust one. The entire spirit of Mr.. Neill s
August circular was plainly that the car
rent crop would be of enormous dimen-
sons, away above all previous records
and from the date OF that circular the cot
ton trade of the world put a 1900, 900
bale crop as the production considered
likely by Mr. NELL. That the crop will
come anywhere near these figures TO one
in the world except Mr.. NeIl' now beliegcs.
Indeed, the crop that has come in sight
is even 900 bales less than that which
appeared in the same period last year,
when but 111s0.00O bales were raised"
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THERE'S MILLIONS IN IT,

When the peace treaty with Spain pro-
vided for the assumption by this govern
ment of the obligations of Spain to Amer
lean citizens for property and interests
destroyed In the Spanish possessions dur
ing the war and the Cuban rebellion pre-
cedlng 1t, The Post expressed the fear that
the widest door had been opened for the
biggest jobs that had been attempted
against this government for many years
| The facts, as they are now coming to the
surface, are justifying the position taken
by The Post in the premises. The Wash
ington Post OF Sunday last presented some
| figures and facts as 10 the total and char
acter of the claims that will be urged
against the government under the treaty
provision referred TO, that are startling.
The Posts article shows that already 200
claims, by no means all. aggregate $4,000,
600, while the fnal total is expected to
| reach double that sum. or more. The
Washington paper instances nine claims
that run from $4,000 the lowest, to
| 81, l62 COO, the highest-this small batch
alone aggregating between &s,0OO,O0O and
50 600 600!
The bulk Of these claims were originally
owned by and may yet be applied for in
the name OF naturalized Americans who
are Cuban born, and who Ned TO New
York aud other American cities during the
Cuban insurrection. The majority OF the
claims however, through the necessities
OF the original owners. have doubtless
passed into the hands of SPECTATORS in
New York and the East, and it is more
than probable that a fue political hand
was at work when this claims clause was
inserted In the peace treaty! Fraud and
"gouge" viii be written all over this par
ticular raid upon the treasury and the
American people will bear the burden that
Spain should have been made to bear
In summing up the results OF the war az
shaped by the remarkable document knowr
as the Paris treaty. the Washington Pos
declares that It may be au eXsggeration
perhaps, to say that It will cost the United
States more TO settle the war with Spain
than to have fought IT, but the fact is that
the future expense viii be enormous, even
now that peace is actually in sight. THE
treaty left three legacies for this country
The first is war In the Philippines, ,at
end of which is by no means in sight; thu
second WAS the payment OF $50 100000 t.
Spain for those islands. and the third II
another s2O,OoO,OOO which will have to b
paid TO American citizens
And II our Washington contemporar,
had carried its observations to theiI
legitimate conclusion, It would have ad
dcd that each and all these "legaoies,
left to the country by the Paris commits
sion, acting under administration orders
constituted singly and in the aggregate ar
outrageous imposition upon the American
people!
The probable course of procedure with
reference TO the prosecution OF thes'
claims will be to have congress by delay
! discourage original claimants for few
years In order that big spectators ma!
buy their claims for song and then hav
the necessary appropriations made fol
their payment
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-03-22

Calvert. Texas. March 2O-Dr. West,
pastor of the Presbyterian church At
Bryan is in the city. Yesterday at the
close of the sermon by Rev. j. d. Mccall
OF Cleburne. he regularly Installed Rev j.
". Thompson pastor of the Presbyterian
church here At night Or. West preached
AT the Methodist church.
Prof. Minter, superintendent of the pub
lie schools of Bryan. recently visited his
sister. Miss Matte Minter, who Is teach
ing in the Calvert city schools.
Mr.. Jen. Moore of Cameron spent sew
eral days visiting In Calvert recently.
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ACTIVE LUMBER MaRkEr
condition Now Prevailing sa,a a., II.
Unprecedented

new Orleans, March 2i.--Mr. J. E. pete.
Ua1sn OF Chicago, editor OF the American
li'noernan, one OF the pleasantest geptl.-
uien' and perhaps tho rest posted man in
s"S country on the lumber situation from
Ns'iosal standpoint, is at the st. Charlie,
4o.ei on Southern and Southwestern
,pip. he has Just completed an Eas,err
~ u ~ ~nere ne put himself In possession
ne conditions obtaining there. and now
viii - s'gnyles the Southern situation. lie
ana win 60 from this civ thronsS 81 70
NJ peiehsnsh is an editor who tslieves
ea,, ss'ng personally the conditions he A.
SAs'sa upon to describe. and hia rrssont
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THE NEGRO AND HIS INDUSTRIAL
TRAINING.


The interview with Prof, Blackshear,
principal of Prairie View Normal school
for colored students, which appeared In
Mondays issue OF The Post, ought to be
read by all the intelligent white and coll
cred people in Texas and should especially
command the attention of our legislators
at Austin.
AS with the poor we shall have the negro
with us always. Nor can he remain al
ways In his present condition, morally,
intellectually or individually. lie must
improve or become worse--he can not
stand still. 1t is TO the direct nolltlaal.
social and pecuniary interest of the white
people to sec that the negro becomes In
teliigent and trained TO useful occupations.
and, above all things lifted TO higher
and self-respecting moral plane The
black race win for years to come be SO
intimately associated with us as our help
ers In all kinds Of labor. in the home as
well as on the street or in the field that
II will become an investment for any state
to spare no pains to elevate the negro TO
a seif-sustaining, industrIally trained and
socially improved condition.
II is these ends to which the Prairie
View Normal school is working. The
negro boys and girls are there given such
mental and practical training as viii make
useful respectable men and women OF
them They are taught 70 become car.
penters' sesmstrssses. laundresses. farm.
ers' tlacksmiths, dairymen, and gardeners
Their moral aide Is developed ana they
aFe Impressed with the truth that they
must initiate the virtues and conduct q,
tne better and industrious classes Of the
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Attorney for Purchaser of La ~

Galveston. Texas, March 2l'--'u''
c. Foster of Denison. attorney 10Y :
Smith. purchaser OF the La Porte IT,, !.
was in the city today and yisited.tn Il
eral court. According to the terms M y
sale the remainder of the pirenas,s. :,
amounting &c 1876, 900. must sc paw X
last day of March. whereupon the pss'
will be delivered to the purchaser; IA
as the attaches of the court are ~
the money will be paid promptly "a
and the final transfer and the W., s,,:|
the receivership OF this case WI ~
follow. s,<>|
Judge Foster was accompanied "
c. s. Broodscott Of ST. Louis, rut
be has acquired any iatsrsSt -
rtrts 10 not knowa hexA--.
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FIRST STATEMENT suFFIcEs.
General Wheeler Declines TO Discuss
the Matter Freely.

New York, March 21.-General Joseph
Wheeler, who is at present in this city, re-
fused today to discuss any further the sub
iect OF the battle of Las Guasimas.
81 think" he said to reporter the state
ment which sent 10 the war department and
which the department has seen At to publish
covers the whole ground Of controversy.
am in too delicate a position to say anything
further. even II there were anything more
to say.
1T was at least due to the officers In my
division that the statement should be made
and the officers had nit been allowed to rest
until the cloud Of misunderstood ng was
cleared up.
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DEMAND INCREASING.
Additional Furnaces being Pat in
Opcration

Birmingham Ala, March 2t-Because
Of Unprecedented demand for Southern pig
iron, furnace operators are preparing to
increase the output OF this district so
per cent in the next sixty days by blowing
in seven furnaces now idle and under
going repairs. This will make twenty one
furnaces in operation with daily produc-
tive capacity OF $500 tons.
Plans are also maturing for the erection
OF six additional furnaces within the next
twelve months, giving a total furnace ca
pacity 10 the district Of $500 tons daily.
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M Alarm Mt mckinney.

Mckinney, Texas. March 2O.--Ver' !. y
dread is felt In this city that smAa,
which has appeared In the western ~
the county, will reach here. As W. y
one case. that OF Mrs. j. 7. Taylor, ~
veloped, though about eighteen otne. VI
sons have been exposed and may 80
from this case. The county judge r-s
action in adopting strenuous measmr "
suppress and confine the disease wa ~
fed by the commissioners couL y
Tents and immune nurses have pse.
out. and an effective quarantine gn r m
instituted. The patients brother, Z
went out TO assist in caring for her
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Rangers will act by themselves at.

Rangers will act by themselves atts,
day. ~ n
Some 100 cases have been safely Issa,
In the pe5thouse up to tonight. M
were one or two cases of slight obisri 1
shown by members of families but M n
position worthy Of note.
AT p. m. a report reached the sutA~t
tiles that six. armed men were statiopa \
the mouse on Grant street where yess
days greatest row occurred, lnteudrr 4
ampush OF the military or Rangers N
a force Immediately proceeded there d N
Vestigate. AS a result of the raid M
was narrow escape of more shoogal
caused by the actions of drunken MI
can in the house, but the man was srg (
ed and only one gun and half do,sp y l
| men were found on the premises.
Candida Garcia, wounded slightly /, N
places in yesterdays trouble, made 81
escape 10 Nuevo Laredo, and was III
there by the Mexican authorities. d
other Mexicans wounded in yesterdayit
trays have been located today, one wort
and five men.
The following are the casualties repr
ed as result of yesterdays riot Cap1i
| R. II. Rogers of the Rangers. shot thrurn
the right shoulder joint and the had l.
| the arm bone is badly fractured: wovS
is serious; Captain Rogers has been
moved to San Antonio.
Agapito Hererrra, dead; shot I'll
times.
Refugia Herrera. sister of Agapito HI
rera. wounded; shot through right Cd
above elbow; not serious.
margarine Herrera, wounded; shot ID n
left shoulder and wrist; the latter n
shattered; he was shot with buckshot. Z
Candida Garcia, wounded four times,
slight. Garcia fled to Nuevo LAREDO q
was arrested and jailed there by the Nra
can authorities.
Antonio Pacheo, wounded; shot In Il
right side; not serious.
Santiago Grimaldo. seriously wountg
shot through abdomen.
II is believed that there were two
three others wounded, but they are ssf
ing quiet to avoid arrest.
Domingo Castillo was the man who n
knocked down by one of the colored trrk
ers; he was only knocked senseless
the time being and was out on the stfHE
today.
About 100 patients have so far VI
moved to the hospital, and they are u
fed with the treatment and care the! n
being accorded. Il
Those first taken to the hospital iss&
a circular over their signatures and VI
It printed and distributed on the stisW
today. 1t was to the patients ana VII
families, telling them how the hosplu
being conducted and urging them 70 M
on and offer no resistance to the ae,s
tiles. that no better attention couH
given them anywhere else.
The Jail is becoming overcrowdea VI
the instigators and leaders OF ricuu VI
they are forfeited out and locked " Il
the police. i, 4
DR. Blunt has received numoa
offers of medical assistance from Az VII
the country. and the Pacific Express Z. N. &
pany announces that it will transpol |,
of charge donations for the rehel =,
sufferers when addressed to the may
Iaredn. "
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Ayres Fnvors Extra Session.

Fort Worth Texas, March 2o.-Hon. b.
p. Ayres, senior member In the lower
house from Tarrant county. left for Austin
tonight He fayors adjournment OF the
legislature and the recouvening In extra
session. Mr.. Ayres does not believe the
house will consent 10 take up IL : or.lsa
charter or any other charter on Tuesday
There is a growing sentiment in the legis /.
lature that the cities OF Texas don't seem
10 know hat they want In the way of n
charter They, all ask for change every
two years and the members Of tho lsrIs-
lature seem to be getting tired of this.
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Richmond Item.

Richmond. Texas, March 21.-The young
soeiay people Of Richmond enjoyed well
attended ball at Davis hall last evening.
dancing until o'clock.
j. II. p. Davis returned today from Ha-
vana. Cuba where he has been for the
last month looking after cattle interests
he has there. He reports a very pleasant
trip, and says it is a great and growing
country. e"'Ne
Miss jessie Shoemaker. a ponular soc,atv
lady Of Yoakum Texas, is visiting friend
and relatives here.
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tour is the result Of this trait in his char.

tour is the result of this trait in his char
acter.
The condition of the lumber market all
over the country is simply unprecedtnt-
ed, said Mr.. psfebaugh last night. Val
ues are increasing steadily. and this holds
good for hardwoods as well as for pine,
and for cypress as well as for hardw- DDS.
The foreign demand is not only constantly
increasing, but the domestic demand is OH
the jump. Great crops of the West and
Northwest last year. are In measure re-
sponsble for the advance in values, in
asmuch as the easy condition Of the money
market created the demand. Locally
speaking the demand for lumber in the
South is not so great as 1t is North and
East, but the demand there OF course, has
the same beneficial effect upon markets
here which 1t exercises at home"
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stnte aunrnntlne wanted.

Austin. Texas. March 2l.-The s0'T
this evening received kilograms il0D =.
Franklin and other points on .ne
branch of the Santa Fe, asking thas :.
antine be declared against Hone, ,s,
owing to the prevalence of smsNr
that point $50 NJ
In reply he wired that the sta,s -
officer would be sent to the scens -
vestigate. this being the best tna' M
done owing to the absence OF an sm
ton that would permit of taking o.,
decisive step.
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Ar GALv EsT0N.
FIRST Texas VIII he Sent Home
Direcf.

Washington, March 2.--Captaih
Harrington West. commissary, 7.
s. A.. now on duty at New Orleans,
has been ordered to Galveston TO
get the First Texas regiment, 10
be mustered cut there. and to ar
range subsistence for 1t. II Is un-
derstood that the First Texas Will
arrive at Galveston before the
quarantine laws 60 into effect. The
men wanted to be sent North and
be clustered out on account of travel
pay, but the department has de-
creed otherwise from the stand
point of economy.
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An Oyster Crust Nom.

New Haven, Conn. March al.--In Ter !.
soy City tomorrow, under the laws o, New
Jersey, an Organization VIII be formed
which will control the oyster grouDds on
beth Sides of Long Island Soand. ~, "
York and Jersey bays, whore oysters ars
grown. the oyster farms NJ Na,r1.nnse,s
hay and Rhcde lslhpe saa no nys,er
grounds OF Massachusetts. The new :, M
bination. 4 Is said, will nays a capital o.
over $4,000 -' VI
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FOREIGN BRIEFS.

BERLIN. The relohstag passed the
budget and adjourned until April IL.
TORONTO, Ont---Harry plavlock a,.a
hsie ~ psralysis In his dsy he was one
Of ne best ierkeys Of Americp
NNHiIA kaa. Jerry simpson. who a.
~ toNn, expresses the opinion that IN.
aemocraue campaign OF 1900 Will be anti
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-03-22

Refugio. Refugio County. Texas March
20 Quite cool and very dry norther
niew UP Yesterday. spelling what reome
10 ne finc prospect for rain which is he
ginning TO he very badly needed. stock
nave quit dying. but must have rain Ia
stsrt he srarH soon or thr sprlul iatteu.
inS VIII be greatly retarded.
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Experience often moves In oircle--we now
hnd them at Manila getting back to the propo-
sition made last summer that 1t will take
100 600 men to conquer the Philippines. II
Cts has not a sufficient number Of troops,
however, It is largely his own m!stake-he has
for months besn cabling that he had the stu
alton well In handl"
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II the populous suburbs OF Houston were
included within the city boundaries. It is al
Iaost certain that We would show up In the
twelfth census with a population Of 5000 and
lead by many thousands any other Texas city
That would be great card for us. But alas!
osshaokism interposes It's barrier