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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-11

The Houston Drug company supplied f.
a. stevens d Co., at Angle,on, and Nes-
DIN Quinn, at Brookshire, with $40
worth OF medicine for free distribution.
a. n. kiesling sent supply of medi-
Sine 70 Stafford to Dr. w. B. Cochran for
Inc following donations In clothing. etc.
were received yesterday at relief head
quarters:
hessier & Dixon. First ward. pair
tnsn snoes. pair ladies' shoes, three
hats' two bundles clothing. / sack pota-
soes. = half sacks -four, / quarter sack
mouri 4. A, Chadwick. package of cloth
ing MISS Lula Bryan package clothing;
Mrs; Jonn Schumacher. package clothing:
N. l.. Verne, package clothing; Mrs sem.
sry, Package dry goods; Miss George o.
rolser. boxes; Houston Min and Ele-
r n Company, 20 sacks meal; Kessler &
ptlAeh, wagon load merchandise, q
lowell : bundles; Henry Howe. cloth
ing; w G, T. u, 25 articles Of clothing
..nrougn the courtesy OF Mrs. Mihills,
s Mrs =, NJ. Johnston, Mrs, D. D BRYAN.
"'s' Gus Ttps, Mrs. G. J. Palmer. psck.
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days and nights; but they are happy In
the thought that they have spared no CT
fort to save life and to relieve the suffering
OF the distressed. The colored men OF An
gleton have, with few exceptions. volun-
teered their services and are working hard
Most of the negroes of the valley made no
effort to rescue stock, though many of
plished much had they tried, as Il general
thing, they abandoned their stock without
an effort 20 save them.
When The Post correspondent was In the
bottoms he saw dozens of mules swim
ming around and occasionally resting their
heads in the foliage OF trees or across logs,
while dozens of dogs fioated by on logs.
Many cabins were floating down, with a
few chickens and sometimes a dog on the
roof
The woods seemed 10 be full OF hogs and
pigs; some of them were swimming and
many had taken temporary shelter on piles
of drift which would be separated by the
first tree it struck. One bright spot in the
the noble generosity with which the peo-
pie OF the cities of Houston and Galveston
have answered appeals for help. without
such aid mary would have persisted from
hunger
The Post correspondent has been asked
a hundred times to thank the donors
through The Post for their timely aid.
but In order to provide for themselves the
people will need something besides sup
plies which carry them from one day to
another. AS soon as the water subsidies
they must have seeds for planting, which
will enable them 10 make fall crop of
field peas, cabbage, onions, sorghum. Ger
man millet and general garden stuff. They
arc too poor to buy them.
telegram was sent today to Congress
man Hawley in Washington. asking that
the government help us In this matter.
With proper seeds and plenty of them, the
wants OF many thousand people in .hirtas-
ton can be relieved In a few weeks, II
they can not be had through the govern
ment. then the generosity of the Texas
people must be appealed to.
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MEAL, BACON AND SALT
The Kind of Food Wanted In the
District.

The INind of Food Wanted In the
District.
To tho Editor OF the Post.
Duke, Texas. July 1O-Please publish
the following:
To all who are so kind as TO make con-
tributions for food sufferers at Duke: We
have received supplies consisting OF pota-
toes and canned goods and other costly
foodstuff. Now, we want to say that 1t is
impossible TO issue such to the kind OF
people we are feeding. and all we ask for
Is meal aud bacon and salt. We are need
ing some coarse men and women's cloth
ing. Such as this we can handle and thore
Will be but little loss to It.
will be but very little loss to It. Very
truly yours, j. j. Fem,
or Relief Committee.
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Thnnlss from sunnyside.

To the Editor OF The Post
Sunnyside, Texas. July 10.-We desire to
make public expression of our thanks for
the following contributions from Sunny
Side hood sufferers: Thirty sacks OF -four,
two barrels molasses, three sacks bacon,
from Carson. sewall & Co.; 400 pounds
bacon from Hilliard Taylor, Ed Banks and
other Houston colored people; one barrel
molasses, two barrels bread, from Thoo
Keller $500 check from Professor W. c.
Rollines.
Geo c. Marshall.
B. r. orman.
VIM. Cheney.
Committee.
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CONDITION AT MILLICAN.
Sufferers Camped Along the River
Without Shelter.


Without shelter.
Millican, Texas, July 9.--Thls is the
first day this place received portion OF
its mail since June 2S.
The river is still out of its banks, but Is
falling fast. II was six feet higher than
in the overflow of 1885.
There were no lives lost. but the suffer
ing OF the people will be great. as the most
of them have lost all they had and are
camped up and down tho river. the ma
jority without any shelter
The crops in the river and creek bottoms
are total loss,
Those people will have to get assistance,
as there is nothing here for them to do.
The CROPS In the uplands are very good,
the rains having brought them out and
there is fine prospect for full crop.
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Buffalo. Texas, July 1n.--After being cut
of from mail service and almost every
other kind OF communication for the past
ten days this section has about resumed
its usual attitude While the damage
from the recent rains has been very crsst
on the lowlands no serious damage hss
been reported here. The streams wer. all
higher than was ever known before ana
many farms on the lowlands were u,dsr
water Tor three days. but after ell. II no,h
ing further happens, there viii We ~,
crop Of cotton and plenty OF corn in this
section. 'A's
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At sandy Point.

Galveston, Texas. July io.--Mayor Jones
received the following telegram last eve
ming from Captain Hutchinss Of the llfc
saving service
Sandy Point. Texas, July Cone hun.
dred and nifty people brought in today.
Total tonight of the three boats Of Chase.
Woolford and Hutchings. soc. Water re-
eeding; may return tomorrow. Captain
Hhines and crew Will remain for more
WORK Ifuteh.ngs'
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ages of clothing; Miss NJ. A. zvi.A

ages of clothing; Miss N. A. zviA \
ing.
General j. R. Waties went out /, \
land yesterday to investigate Il.
ton there for the central commitN
returning he reported that the WI
that section had fallen eighteen !
and that matters were at yhs
The negroes who had been drive, I
their homes in the bottom had bea
out on hill on the edge Of the pus
are being provided for by contf.t
The people at Sugarland are tryil,
communication with Sartart!l, VII
still under water. At Stafford sbs |
negro refugees are being prorAe
There are none to be cared for at "
City and the supplies previously set
were ordered back to Stafford.
Some sickness has already been ri
| in the bottom and from couditi,a
prevailing there, with dead anlrai
decaying vegetation scattered all %
flooded district, the indications ~
much sickness will be an inevitable.
General Waties was furnished y
lowing written statement from d.
Cochran of Stafford as to the @.s
there:
General J. r. Waties.
Stafford, Texas, July 10.-Der
Replying to your note, beg 70 HIl
need staple drugs-quinine al
c. C. pills, turpentine, ETC., verl
also bacon, meal and tobacco;
enough to last until Thursday
are feeding about 1000 here y
the most central point from VIZ
distribute rations. There are
many here who have no clothlA
except what they have on. The
be thankful for any kind Of cls'
second hand or new. We can
use a carload of cotton SEED
planting. ! am advising that tt
to re-planting as fast as tne
recedes. We need 400 bushes
corn, 100 bushel sorghum ssei
will be thankful for any klna
and will plant them and Try "
what we can make. We cou.d
tato vines if we could get tnel
Houston or near here that We
set them the came day they wss
Have issued rations for iOV w.
to 100 p. M. and will issue 70 y
400 this evening.
Everything is demoralliea
don't know what to do, yet =
ing to hold the people toge!na
the water recedes. which VIII p
bly, be a week longer. i.
I can not attempt to desa,"
damage TO crops, stock, lanss
Der, houses and other propeW
] am worked down. Have msa
ing day and night for SIX ons
are now asking for help 70! =. ~
time, and | am thankful 70 y
request has been Literally ap'
Yours, with best wishes. vi
w. B. Cochran,
What to do with the two OF W.
bred negroes now camped at %
patton park in this city is osoOr ssI
rious problem. The colored cv. W.
which Hilliard Taylor Is cl
working in conjunction WIN ~ ~,
relief committee in looking wv
people.
The Southern Pacific took soS s,'
people back to Stafford yese.sI
lot more are expected to go ou .di
the same road, while Others -
Claudine and Fulshear VIA y,
Pass, But it appears that as ~, NJ
out others come in 10 take ~
A delegation OF sixty four 81 M
night from Fulshear ana we'
to the grounds. -.
The Post has received q paN,
from Mr.. j. H. Ferguson +" ~.
acknowledging receipts oil oou
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WE CURE

Where others fail; thousanos m u
on Ale. voluntarily given. ~ ss,uis irssI
sincere expressions OF gIss al pk;j
chants. farmers and all Glass;, ,ith " |
MISTAKES, NO FAILURE bJ ysSI
ment. Do not be discourage .tisngsy
rience elsewhere in your van nv or
we'll, but IL you euffer froI bsir nsEti.
case or diseases private N III Al crrI
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lifelong nurse. No man has . .n
a woman TO share the burder "
health, and that is what he Nv n
asks her to be his wife. Ill.hs.H,
is almost invariably the result ~ Il Y
of the digestive and nutritive ~, y
a mans stomach is right ana
right, his blood will be pun sra y.
his nerves strong and steady ~
blood is pure and rich man -. "s|
fer from ill-hcalth. DR., p;errs,a
Medical Discovery is the rrest !.
tonic. 1t is not a mere appetivs
scientific aid to the natural mn
secretion and excretion. It NAL.
petite keen aud hearty, pror,ot.s 4
of digestive juices, makes the ss.;.,
perfect, the liver active and IN M,
and rich 1t builds firm, health, n
sues. 1t is the greatest known KS
and restorative.
Mrs. p. Mortcnson, of Sanger ON,
Oak, writes: DIR. Pierce's Golden VIZ
covery is the best cough medicine ~, ~
A little over two years ago was siBirJI
very bad cough and my home pirrS;s
scribed Cod Liver Oil aud other fiud.s
cine. He said ] might so into ouick ~
ton and might die in two or three mos,s
medicine did not do me any good Y
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovtr =
gan taking it; when had taken Il ~
months, according to directions. INV ~
cured, and since that time we have AN
your mediciue in the house"
DR.. Piercc's Pleasant Pellets rt,u,,.
invigorate the stomach. live, and n
By all medicine dealers.
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SPECIAL NOTICE.

SPECIAL NOTICE.
A good deal of sickness reported
from overfowed points. Salts, quiz
nine and cathartlcs needed. Tho
druggists of Houston are requested
TO send contributions of above med
icines to the relief committee at
the office of the Houston Business
League. under the Hutchins house.
Please forward promptly.
S. Taliaferro,
Chairman Relief Committee.
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Y
Mr.. s. NJ. Gordon of Harlem, Texas, one
Of the heaviest sufferers from thu recent
flood is IN Houston. Mr.. Gordon called
upon the relief committee yesterday and
urgently advised that steps be taken to
keep the negroes on the plantations. The
water will subsde within a few avs. and
there is a great deal of work to be done.
ana II the negroes get scattered and get
mere into Houston, it will be next 10
impossible to get them back to work
we can provide for a few. but they Will
need assistance until the frs. day OF jan
nary at least. and there are representa-
i've white people in every community who
WI! do their best with outside assistaure
10 avoid all zeal suffering, and 1t Will be
easier for them to provide against impo-
sltion imam II would be for committees
IN town. Mr.. Gordon was especially
pteased TO learn that the relief committee
q hoane was not only dlscCuraging me-
sFoes from coming to Houston. but eond
sible. 90 last as pos
The following dispatches were received
ana sent out yesterday from the headquar-
ters OF the central relief committee:
W: d. Fordtran, Duke.
Houston, July 10--One thousand
dollars stun shipped to Duke this
morning Must be at junction il not
@''i'eu' s. Taliaferro,
Chairman.
inc Following dispatch was sent to
srookshire, Hampstead. sunnyside. Full
shear, Stafford, Duke Sandy Point Che
mango Ansleton, Columbia, sartartta and
sugarland:
houston. July i0.--Make at once as
Lnu'"usa canvass as possible as to seed
'nat can be used and advise us.
6 5. Taliaferro, Chairman.
. Ialiaterro, Houston.
ruishear, July 10. Ship 100 BUSH
els meal or corn sufficient to make
same. sM orattis,,s,
Chairman.
. NJ Quattlebaum. Chairman Commit
tee, Fulshear.
houston, July 10-We send by morn
ins Tram twenty sacks of meal. all in
,oNn WIN send corn IL can get f.
hsep US advised what stock is on hand.
s. Taliaferro. Chairman.
governor Joseph d. Savers, Austin.
nuuston July 10. Please wire may
ols az towns named below asking i'm
mediate donations of cotton seed for
painting in flooded district Must come
ualaleiy to be valuable;- The
ssIon reliet committee will dispatch
p.vmpHy II sent here or will Indicate
'SH's where It should be shipped:
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CENTRAL RELIEF COMMITTEE.
The Work Still Being Done for the Relief OF
the Flood Sufferers
ARRANGING FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF SEED.

Over $500 Additional Subscriptions Yestedaye Agricultural
Department Furnishes SeedThe First Ward Committee
the Only Reported
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! Tho contra, relief committee was busy
| .,,,, headoar-
again All uay SsS'e'uas ~ 49,.
ters at the Business League sehuine o''
supplies and answering and receiving dis
no,obes ooncern,ng the condition of the
-,
hooa-strlchen ais''lo''
The First ward soliciting committee was
the only one to submit report Of its
.,. M, ho,aoa In che following list
W" w ~ T., H., soction.
~ II, All Si.i+srs Of Flrs, Ward:
- ma t,i ,nd se hainr Amounted to So
,,i. NJ 9a,tn,,s t,,r me aood sufferers take
~, ~. ,r'nas ~ ,nnaoitne IN Won for money,
o i,.s or ,rayisions for dood sufferers
49,. s. pra,os ho,toms
"'oNe 'Ne i r Kessler.
COMMITTEES chairman.
r nixon
e fitzgerald.
I, Antoni.
Nv Puls
" n Martin
T. Anton, ana .,cl notatoes. Geo. yo-
col e.. ~, IL a,,'scn & Crrice sur:
w N, igii, % soo 80 cbsries Bn,ler Soc
u 49, -,.a, NJ soc Iohn Kaffenber.
CO. 60 81 $3.50 piobe, a.. Ice lValker
son.' ~ sohtal,lor e.. wi, schul1 81.
c.sh 5sc o.,sh 90 Nnton Hahn 5on. Fred
H.bn a. ~ n ri,rI- soo. I i eto,tal
t 5enH. -, e. - 80 Ia r. sns. ~ XIV 56c,
a. c n.Uoei. 1e IN ar,aarsS3 81
n w Wy Ia SIr,t o,c. cash q o.. Mr.
w. Nanenpe4 -'I, rSou cia,h,r,,
Kuhn 50. c. ) FITZGERALD. 81; Aug. scbier
81; Tom Lawson. 81; Charles Richards 5cc:
V. F.. Watson, SOC; j. II. Nelson. 25c; o.
Pech. 81 J. j. Weiss, Il; w. j. KohlhauH
tTpl- .n1 n
w. II. Marten, 81: l.. Spauldlng, 81; A. +.
Read 81. VIM Hoops 81; John Stoeckle,
so; cash 81; Gus Dreyling soc; Albert Chi
meme 81: F. Wottrich. SOC: w. L. Foley,
81; j. Jarit, soc, Frank Schupnosh 81:
j. j. Meyers. 81; cash soc; H. Wottrich.
soc: a R Miller soc. Levy. soc: {,
Blaus 25c. @ A Hahn 50c. Erickson
81. F. C Fourrnv 81. ID I I.awlor soc. I
q Blanlthurn SOC. { n Stronp 81, T
Rogers 81 r. Fenwick MERCHANDISE soc
patio Mabanav 81. c p Nontcon,arv o5c,
NJ A Dunn 81 4 Stonnle 81. T n,inree
5nc. A TaIgar 5nc W . powars a5c.
Dr A,I.rev 300. cosb a. r Won,os 81
w Wi o.. ia, w. r.. 20 Nj,
n,o- rrs,s 80. nI u
u,rt+ e., II 81, - w. y,,,, ~, -
oEn. NJ ~. ens ,I ", ,ii'
o.. -. c,,,as q, -. ~ -
NJ ur;o,,. y, -. -. NO. -
~ 4eenIIaH, ~ FF4t1 GEoIa, ovc' D.
~, q, =, - - w. -
90. T -, ., "a. @yio[s oVc' Ian eIaADoh,
Ringer. 81. total from the First v,ar,
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F THE FLOOD AID FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS.
1t Is Coming from All Parts of the State in
Answer to Appeals.

pie to work up contributions. These con-
tributions will be forwarded as coon as
collected. The sl75 is on the road.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-22
CASE OF yoUuG EaH CHASE.
ssa.oEnon3 from Cincinnati oc Eij Rol1-
tons WITH tho Duh,aS5.


Cincinnati. June % Moses Fowler
Chase, the young man whose alleged
abduction has been a current topic fo-
several days, spent several years OF his
life in Cincinnati with Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Il. Duhme. Mrs. Duhme is a
sister of his mother. 1t was at their
home last September that he suffered
sunstroke, while playing golf, which
was followed by acute mania. By ad
vice of physicians he was taken to Oak
Grove hospital at Flint, Mich. In order
to be admitted as a patient there he
had to appear before the probate court
and be adjudSed a fit person for treat
ment at the hospital on account Of
mental unsoundness.
There he remained until June 8. when
his father, an attorney of Lafayette,
Ind, brought him to Detroit, intending
to take him to Lafayette, Ind. to have
a guardian appointed for him. The
youag man was Il years old on June g.
At Detroit, where he arrived on June
T. he was met by Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
H. Duhme and expressed a desire to be
with them, and went with them. In
case of the young mans death the es-
tate would go to his father, if he died
without will. Neither Mr.. nor Mrs.
Duhme would be legally entitled to any
part of it. Both of them say that they
would have no legal claim on it and
that 'they have no interest in the boy
except that of natural affection.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-22

cuse such a crime as the shooting of in
rocent black men in Illinois who were
guilty of no crime except that of seek
ing labor: but my words just now are to
the south. where my home is, and q
part of which 1 am Let others act Is
they will 1 want to see our beautiful
southland free from this terrible evil
of lynching. Lynching does not stop
crime.
In the immediate section of the south
where a colored man recently commit
ted the most terrible crime ever charged
against a member of my race but a few
weeks previous to this five colored men
were lynched for supposed incendiarism.
If lynching was a cure for crime surely
the lyrchirg OF five would have pre-
vented another negro from committing
@ most heinous crime few weeks later.
We cannot disregard the teachings of
the civilized world for eighteen hundred
years-that the only way to punish
crime is by law. When we leave this
dictum, chaos begins.
Il am not pleading for the negro alone.
Lynching Injuries. hinders and blunts
the moral seusibilities of the young and
tender manhood of the south. Never
shall I forget the remark made by a
little 9-year-old white boy with blue
eyes and haxen hair. The little fellow
from a lynching: L have seen a man
hanged; now 1 wish / could see one
burned Rather than hear such a re-
mark from one of my little boys would
see him dead. In the south and at the
present time there is less excuse for not
permitting the law to take its course
when a negro is to be tried than any
where else in the world.
IF our present laws are net sufficient
to properly punish crime let the law be
changed, but let the punishment be by
lawfully constituted authorities is the
plea / beg to make. The figures for a
given period show that in the United
States 30 per cent. of the crime commit
ted is by negroes, while we constitute
only about Il per cent. of the entire
population. No race that is so largely
ignorant and SO recently out of slavery
could perhaps show better record. but
we must face these plain facts. He is
most kind TO the negro who tells him
of his faults as well as of his virtues"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-22
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