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mittee above referred to the mayor de-
clared in most positive terms that our
system of public schools was unsurpassed
in Texas, and gave universal satisfaction,
and that he had acted in perfectly nom
partisan manner as TO appointments, and
IL l am not mistaken cited specially the
case of Mr.. Shearn as a member retained
on the board who had voted against MINI
He gave no intimation OF any dissatis-
faction with MIR. Kimbrough ON the con-
trary. his eulogies OF the school system
and It's operation was of itself the highest
possible tribute TO the ability and eff
cheney OF that gentleman. Yet learn the
mayor has recently stated In the public
prints that the removal of a public SER
want to whose fidelity and efficiency he
bore unqualified testimony was q plank In
his platform.
II this is not a disregard OF the best
interests OF the schools and their subor-
dination to other and less important in
terests, and politics of the worst type /
do not know what to term IT,,
For proposing and advocating plan
that would make such exercise of power
impossible and yet leave the mayor with
full power In such spheres of action as are
properly germane to his office. | was
most bitterly assailed and denounced by
the recognized organ of the administra-
ton. though l could not have bad. and
uiu hot nave, any purpose Out Tue uustti-
ish one of preventing just such a condi-
ton of affairs as now arouses public fear
and Indignation.
am not the champion personally or
professionally of either side. II the may
ors appointee mad been ten years in Office
and had proved his efficiency as has Mr..
kimhrough | would say keep him and
would denlore his removal as | do that
of Mr. Kimbrough. My feeling for the
enc is as kind os for the other, hut my
interest as n ratron of the schools is
greater in their successful administration
than II Is IN the holding or obtaining Of
nee by any man. ! am a partisan demo-
crat of the most intense type, yet | do
NOT hesitate to say that the administra-
tion of the affairs of a city like Houston
is purely matter of business and should
he utterly devoid of politics, but If 1t Is
to be made a party issue, the schools
should not be mixed in the unsavory
middle.
1t half the zeal that is manifested TO
nut out OF office a tried and proved eff
Gent superintendent of city schools was
displayed and employed to close those
dens OF robbery known as gambling houses
and to shut up the saloons OF the defiant
violators of the plainly written statute
and municipal law. we wculd not be con
fronted with the spectacle of scores of
gambling houses run night and day In
bold and shameless defiance of law
wherein hundreds are robbed nightly
with mathematical certainty and by a sys-
tenn compared with which burglary is re-
spectacle and highway robbery is virtue.
Norman G.. Kittrell.
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THE SCHOOLS IN POLITICS.
Judge KittreIi Explains Efforts Made
to Prevent Present Conditions.

To the Editor of The Post.
Houston, Texas, July 19.-The editorial
in your issue OF this morning concerning
the most unfortunate imbroglio in school
matters states the facts so far rs l am
concerned. My sole purpose was to ut
terly and absolutely divorce the public
schools from control OF the mayor and
board of aldermen for all time to come.
regardless of what party or what in
divduals might be in control Of municipal
affairs.
had observed how admirably the sys-
tenn proposed by me had worked in Gal
weston, Dallas, and other cities. Where I
knew any proposition to return to alder
manic interference or control would be
resisted and defeated.
The first insimation OF my purpose
brought at once to Austin a delegation
headed by the mayor and city attorney,
who protested most vigorously against the
proposed change
We had good natured discussion pro
and con before the committee on town
and city government, and the committee
decided that as there was a conflict OF To-
cal opinions they would follow the rule
laid down and make no change l ac-
cepted the decision without murmur OF
dissent, and carried from the contest no
illwill or nnknd feeling. and did not
further cogitate the matter.
| During the discussion the city attorney
twitted me with inconsistency because
had advocated putting in the hands OF
Mayor Brashear the power OF appointment
OF city officials subject to approval of tho
council, SO as to place full responsibility
upon him, especially as concerned the po-
| leo force so that he would have absolute
power to compel enforcement OF the law,
and prevent the present shameless condi-
| tion of disregard of State and municipal
| laws by those charged with their enforce
| inent
II is most obvious that the public schools
and the police are two entirely separate
and distinct agencies OF government the
latter being supported and managed in a
way entirely different from the former,
and being far more important
| The people pay but little attention TO
| who, as matters now stand, command or
| constitute the police force. because they
have learned by sad experience that the
gamblers. Sunday saloon keepers and
other Influential violators of law 20
along undisturbed under all admInistra-
| tons alike.
| But the people are vitality interested in
who runs the public schools because the
supreme interests of society are involved
| in their proper conduct, hence they want
| and intend TO have them divorced from
municipal politics. which Ia every city Is
| the worst form OF politics,
| During the discussion before the COM
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CAMPBELL-JONEs.
Mnrriaec of Two Well known HOus-
toninns Yesterday Evening.

t"hiUns yesterday evening.
One of the prettiest weddings seen Ia
Houston for some time past was that of
Mr.. Ira Lee Campbell and Miss Sadie
Shepherd Jones, which was solemnized at
Shearn NJ, e. church last night at s
o'clock, Rev. Seth Ward officiating. The
church was tasetfully and attractively
decorated for tho occasion and the i'm
pressive ceremony was witnessed by Il
large number of the friends and relatives
of the bride and groom After the wed
ding an enjoyable reception in ssxor of
the newly married couple was given. A
large number of guests were entertained
and numerous valuable wedding presents
We're received
MIR. and Mrs. Campbell left via she
Houston and Texas Central at 1850 for
bridal tour, which will include several
points in Colorado and other places in
that section. The bride is the daughter
OF Mr. w. B. Jones, manager OF the gro
/ Gerry department of the firm of Fl. D. Tay.
or Sons, and is young lady of rare
/ personal and intellectual gifts, Her hus-
! band a rising young business man of this
| city, is a son OF Mr.. ]. /. Campbell, witt
| whom he is associated in business. Ills
sterling character and pleasing person
altty make friends of all with whom he
comes IN contact.
Mr. and Mrs Campbell will reside here
OH their return from their bridal tour
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Coke and Tar--For sale by Houston Gas
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Fruit and Vegetables Growers.

Hon L. X Morris of La Porte has writ
ten letter to the Houston Business
league announcing meeting of the fruit
and vegetable growers OF La Porte and vi
entity TO be held at the Artesian hote
this, Thursday, evening. July 20, at S
o'clock
Mayor Morris says that it is expected
that the attendance will be very large
and that the results will be OF special
Importance locally and to the entire coas
country as we'll. The representatives o.
railroads, express companies and other
transportation organizations, crate manu-
facturers and commission merchants are
expected to be present. The Houston
Business league Is asked to send a dele
cation.
The Houston delegation is made up az
follows Colonel \. l.. Mills, B. A. Bald
win, A. F.. Sittig, NJ. E. Foster Hamp
Cook and Tom Richardson.
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rot The city health department, unde,
| the present arrangement, mas no coh,' ~,
whatnver over the burial Of paupers, put
| II one Of these dead children are ieit 70
a.cnmnose because the undertaken won
| 90 FOR N and IL becomes nuisance 10 pun
| lie health we would probably nnu way
| To interfere under the nuisance act a.
"As long as the county pays only 20
cents for burylng paupers they can no'
expect to get satisfactory service
Mr. Charles Wright, of the firm OF Ross
& wright county undertakers, was seen
and interrogated concerning the matter
complained Of
Al drst he did not remember the par.
tin,llar case. 1--WE have cases OF tnat sort
every day." said he. Under Judge SHAW
administration as county Judge we maze
our last contract With the county LOT purS
ing paupers at % cents per CAPITA wnile
the digging of the grave cost ~ pesiues
The coffin and the hauling. so YOU see
,ra can't he expected to do a great deal Tor
a ouarter of dollar. This mater OIL
handling pauper infants was fuily as
cussed in open court and the commission
ers agreed with me that might require
people who wanted their children pulieu
ut the expense OF the county 10 oslns
them to me instead of requiring me w
90 after them and we have been pursuing
this custom ever since, for nearly year
and a half Where know that the cases
are worthy and that the parents reaiiy
have no way of getting their dead child
rem to us we send for them, ana we al
ways send for them in cases OF contagious
diseases, which is indicated by the GER
tihcate they present The county IS 100
often imposed upon by people claiming
pauper burial when they are amply aDie
to bury their dead without putting the
county TO the expense OF doing it,
II have frequently gone after pauper
children and taken them from houses
where there were pianos and lace cur
tains
LAS before remarked, when know
case is deserving one and that the par
ents have no way of bringing or sending
their dead children down, go after them
and this seems to be great deal OF russ
in this Ease about nothing particularly
when the same custom has been In vogue
for the past eighteen months and we
have had no trouble about it.
why don't YOU apply the same 'ule
in case of adult paupers?
Simply because it is impracticable to
have them brought TO our establishment
but with young babies 1t is different
There is no great harm done in bringing
them down here In covered basket or
wrapped In a blanket and very few COM
plain of It"
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NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS,

Department of Health. Office OF the City
Health Officer. Houston, Texas. July ],
ls9a--Notice is hereby given to all owners
agents and occupants of property IN the
city of Houston that. commencing with to-
day. they will be required 10 cut down and
keep their premises free from all growing
weeds. AS the healthfulness of the city
depends upon the individual and combined
Efforts of its citizens, property owners.
agents and occupants OF premises are
strictly epjoined to render hearty COM
plisnoe with the foregoing request.
]. d. Massie.
City Health ofncer.
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denar,ment An Eve Witness
tA+4
| reporter for The POST was sent out 10
| tJa wont arst ia tho residence of Mrs s
~ g.. :, NJ, -, c,o,,o,,.r,
- '''e'ie' '0i io' Va
| upon whose premises the death occurred
/ Mrs Steele was shown the letter and
/ oorrohor,.sd nracticall,, everv 5etou shs
/
eaiu 'ie iio'her Oh the paoy' rainy 4e"'s'
colored lived on her premises and through
| the courtesy of Mrs. steele the reporter
was permitted to see the mother of the
child. who said that her baby, months
old, died last Sunday night. On Monday
morning she went down to arrange to have
/ II buried at the countys expense, she hav-
ing no money with which to perform that
she first sought the county Judge but that
official being absent from the city, she
was told 10 go LOT ouIlal permit To
one louhu Ut, Larenuoh, VINO ,oiu hel INA
en- ,oust 6ret cot +, certifcate NJ deoth
from the attending physician This she
procured from Dr. Roby and with IL went
pack 10 1T, LaTenuol' mno sast nen ,r,u
perm, anu tolu I nei 70 az w ~ ~ en-, Sh
va Me- taid bv some one whom sha
No fn
did not Know put VINO appoaIso 10 ne III
charge there' mat they woulu oury lne
chllu LOT her' NV Ia. SUI ,1, nitss "a g, a.,
down 10 mem, tnat CheS utu 10. su ,.i.,, III
panper children one says tnaI n, WIN a. ms
! Information sue Wen uae a ~ ~ 81, i" tho
! doh, VINO toiu neI sue nau uo''e' '""e '''0
She saws she then went to Josh Watson,
whose sister she knew. and MI. watson
lelephonen Tue neataS - hin, INA II
was not their custom to go after pauper
children. but that they would bury them
If they were hrousnt Gown w ,h th
ahe lneh W. IA startnd to take II
BABY IN a planke. anu s'at. " .ane "
TO the undertaken s. when she was me- ~
Josh Watson dauEn,er VIII osss ah w
in this way ths rhiin was eaael, W ,me
undertakers' ms was a'o'' ~ ~"
Monday ,.,.s ,toto,,a,,
| the above is thc uh th ~ 49,
of FANNIE Lewis 'he i'o'ne' Va '''e N'''
child.
Dr. George Larendon was seen In regard
~ tho matter He remembered the cir
W 81. nomap canning IN him
eulns'ahVe o. Wv -, -, ST., 81,
on Monday TOR pur'ai permit 'ne ''iu
him that the undertaken had told her to
bring the child down TO him and. thinking
| that this had been arranged between them,
| he simply said to her; well. II that Is
| the case you had better DO IT, Wneh
asked IL this was the custom of the
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ARE We RETROCADING?
Pauper Children Must Be Carried to the
County Undertaken for Burial.
CUSTOM CONNlyED At BY COMMISSIONERS
Undertaken Allowed only rs Cents
for Pauper Observation-Disclosures Car
ries Dend Child to Undertaken.

The Post received yesterday the fol-
lowing sensational communication:
To the Editor of The Post.
Houston Texas July 19.-While the
health office is notifying the citizens o.
Houston through the daily papers to cut
down growing vegetation, which any well
informed person knows does no harm, on
penalty of arrest and payment OF Inc
it is well that the public should be III
formed that he is "straining at gnats and
swallowing camels," which is well IL
Illustrated by the following facts when
can be fully substantiated by calling on
the proper parties.
A colored child died on the premises OF
resident of the Third ward. The mother,
who had not cent of money, got a death
certificate from the attending physician
and applied to the city undertaken to send
and get the dead child He Informed her
that the city would bury the child. but
that he would not send his wagon out foI
the body, that she must bring the corpse
to the undertaker's. When the mother
naturally demonstrated at such barharous
demand he informed her that she was not
the only one WHO was required to bring
dead babies to him; that the undertaken
wagon never called for the bodies OF
paupers. and that It was a daily occur
renee for babies TO be brought to the un-
dertaker's establishment In baskets or
merely wrapped In a blanket.
When she came home and reported what
the undertaken told her, some one tele-
phoned the health officer the facts in the
case. and asked him to see that the I'M
dertaker's wagon was sent out mime
diately for the body, as it. had then been
dead over twelve hours. The assistant In
the office replied that he had no authority
TO make the undertaken 20 for the body
The health officer was then telephoned
the facts In person and told very plainly
that IL was a disgrace to the city OF
Houston, besides being a menace 10 the
public health, for such a state of things
to be allowed He replied that he had not
been informed of 1t before, and that he
would see that the undertaken sent al
once for the body, which he did not do
and several respectable witnesses saw the
mother carry the baby in her arms wrap
ped in a blanket, and she would have had
TO walk all the way In the broilng sun
but one of her friends took pity on the
poor mother, and offered her a seat in heI
buggy. and the two women drove alone to
the undertaker's, where they left tbs
body OF the poor little baby to the taRdei
mercies of the undertaken.
! If this were the only case of such Grim
inal carelessness and inhumanlty 1T would
be a blot on the fair name of our city
but when the undertaken himself admit;
that such things are of daily occurrence
IL becomes a matter of serious moment
to the general public, as contagious dis
eases are likely to spread like wild fire
under such Acknowledgement of the health
department. An Eye Witness.
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machinery Arriving nj pnrI,cr,

Barker Texas, July Is, --Josspl Foster.
Fred Smith. August Fisher, T. H. Fox of
Chicago ana Peter Chr .teIson OF Fulton.
H.. arrived here on tho KatY liver tits
morning TO see to unloading the machinery
for the cotton mill. One ear has arrived
and seventy zine more afa on the WY.
The warehouse is completed, also an addi-
ton to hold the res: Of the machinery.
Mr., McCarty commenced burning h ok
NeSt nrdnx - - -
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Judge Tod's restraining order is as fol-
lows:
July TO- 1S9a.--Upon consideration of the
foregoing petition, it is ordered that the
hearing of the application for injunction
he set down for Monday. July "A, at .
O'Clock. n. m. before me at the district
court room for the Eleventh judicial dis
trict. and that a temporary restraining
order Issue to the defendants restraining
them from In any manner interfering
with the plaintiffs in the management of
the public schools or school property of
the city of Houston. or from acting as a
hoard OF trustees for the city of Houston,
and that the defendant Barnett be re-
strained from acting as superintendent OF
the schools of the city of Houston; such
restraining order to issue upon the plain
tiffs giving bond in the sum of $1,000
conditional and payable as required by
law and to continue in force until the APP
plication for injunction is heard.
Judge Eleventh Judicial District.
~
Mayor Brashear when seen by repre-
sentative of The Post in reference TO the
filing of Tie suit, said The action be-
gun today is only what We have expected
for several days past and although it Is
probably only incidental to the main ac-
ton, it indicates that the question may
be settled before the time of the opening
of the schools. For my part. ! intend TO
insist on the position originally taken by
me. believing, upon the advice of counsel.
that am acting as my duty requires and
for the best interests of the school sys-
tom Should the courts decide otherwise,
however 1t win only be relief to me, as
the duties in this connection are very
onerous. One OF the chief difficulties |
have had has been to raise cash every
month wherewith to pay off the teachers
in full, This | have succeeded in doing
right along. 1t may be that others can do
the same, but that remains to be seen.
As l have said before, 1t would only be a
relief to me-
| CITY Sttorney Stewart With whom
| Mayor Brashear consulted during the eve
ming. said in reference to the matter thai
4 he believed the mayor had the law on hi
side and would he successful in upholdini
the position he had taken.
Professor Barnett, when seea by re
porter. had nothing to say Ia regard to
| tho situation.
Most of the defendants were served Will
| the writ of Injunction last night and tho
others will be served this morning M
developments in the premises are eN-
pected prior to the hearing on next Mon
! daV
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MUSICAL DICTIONARIES rprp

To twenty-five children whose paren,!
intend buying a piano soon will Ne giver
a little dictionary by C, Grlrcwuld SIC
Main street. Al sheet musc half price.
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ENDORSEMENT ENOUGH.

Even our competitors admit we give
the best color and best work, all you want
is our work. 81 Packard's Troy Laundry,
9l2 Prairie avenue; phone 3S2.
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ance with said ruling in the discharge Of
their dnties. That II the defendants are
permitted to Interfere with said schools, as
hereinbefore alleged. such interference will
produce irreparsble injury. That II will
|disorganize said schools and prevent the
proper administration OF the same. That
there will be conflicting corps OF teachers
as there now is OF superintendents. That
the keys to all or nearly all OF the build
ings arc in possession OF plaintiffs. who
fear that defendants will use force and
violence to get possession OF said buildings
and thereby injure the property. Plaintiffs
further represent that they are without
adequate remedy at law In the premises.
Wherefore, premises considered. plain
tiffs pray that n writ of Injunction issue,
restraining the defendants from Interior
ing with the control of said schools and
school property by the plaintiffs. except
as to the said Fisher and Charlton may be
entitled to discharge their duties as mem
bers OF the plaintiff board OF trustees and
especially that the defendants. S. II. Bra
shear. Andrew Dow and George Jones be
restrained from In any way interfering
with the control aud management OF said
schools and school property. either as in
dividuals or as members OF the alleged
board OF which they pretend to be trus-
tees: that defendants be restrained from
acting as a school board as hereinbefore
alleged; that the defendant Barnett. be
restrained from In any manner interfering
with the said schools and the manage
ment Of the same by the plaintiffs. and
upon a final hearing that the said injunc-
ton he made perpetual and they pray for
costs and for all relief, both general and
special. as they may be entitled to receive
at law or In equity, as in duty bound, etc
W, c. oliver,
W. s. Hunt,
Ross & Wood.
Attorneys for Plaintiffs.
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might be possible for people TO be careless
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Unfortunately since Adam and Eve were
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sweat OF his brow and woman must bring
forth children in pain and suffering.
In both cases the curse is multiplied
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