The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-02-14


state LEGISLATURES have habit OF not doing
that
Mayor lIunmaster Is Ia receipt VI letter
from paftiea IN kansns City who want 10
come to Mineola with an Ice and cold storage
plant. and another oup from parties In Penn
aylvanla who are hunting location for a
waterworks plant Mlneola Is the place for
these people A better opening does not ex
list IN tho State.--Wood County News.
And many other towns in Texas would be
glad to get such enterprises as these. There
Is not better opening for iSlustrial enter
prses in the wide world than Texas.
Man eoeth forth and planteth his harden,
and his wife prepareth to buy from the voge-
table wagonDe Leon FREQ Press.
That Is all right back In the old States. but
It doesn't fit to the facts In South Texas
Down here man panteth and hath to call in
all the neighhors TO help aim gather IN the
crop
We've had all kinds Of warm. cold wet
and drv weather this week but still the
flowers bloom. the prarles look green. y2ge-
tables are ripe unto eating and cattle arc get
ting tatt'r. Refugio Review
Cheerful news this would be to the dsni-
Iowa the Dakotas aud many other States
Nherc It s cold enough TO freeze the smoke
stack off locomotive. and snow Is four feet
deep. stand up for Texas.
Georgia railroad men gives IL as his
opinion that not bale of cotton viii he
sim ned iron, that State deXt year. as tho
numerous cotton mills now built ard build
ing wil make a market for .he cotton at
hif ran u.llf lt nktn All fatN
into cotton fabrics she can keep millions Of
dc,lars IN the state ard furnish employment
for thousands Of her people Fort Worth
Register,
And tho same thing may be said for Texas
without even stretching tho BLANKETS OF We.
racity. The interesting iuterrofatory is what
Is Texas doing townr1 keeping millions .!
money IN tho state and giving thousands of
people employment?
A friend of this paper who recently lived
az Guadalup Calva, a mining town In the
state OF Chihuahua. says that the trial OF
an American citizen, Joe Turrentne down
there has been unnecessarily delayed by the
MeNiran authorities. much to the distress Of
the accused who ia without means and at
place VIII re there is no American consul who
can helm him out Of his dfiiculty.-El Paso
Times.
Tho trouble with the Mexican state govern
ment IS, they forget there is anything in
Texas Xccpt san Antonio and El Paso. and
are inclined to be impairment. II few
gallons Of hot Federal souD were shot into
the senors they would III the henccucss wear
! their sombrtros not 10 iHuntily as at present.
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| Tho Fort Worth Register rccalcitrates
anent the report that Governor Hogg Is to
take up his residence IN New York II says;
We dlscredt this rimor at the outset on
account of its mprohahIlity. What would
| 1ogg be without Texas? New York is mot
! big enough tor his eSpausiveutss. Where.
] outside Of Texas. could he ind room to roar
without breaking the window panes Of the
| peopie's residences" Texas Is for HOgE, and
| lloeg Is for Texas. Hero he was born, here
! he has won honor aud distinction. and Will
! ho now abandon ~ for new mistress In this
| Babylon OF the East2 Governor Hogg Is un-
| der pledge to tour this State in advocacy of
certain constitutional amendments which he
| VIII demand that thu next legislature shall
submit to the people As an alien no could
carry out his promise. but not with the crlat,
| force. the irresistible rage OF eloquence that
have marked his former trlumphal tours
through tho State. What will 1t mean to a
Texas audience to have him introduced
tho Hon, James 8, Hogg OF New York grand
high sachem of the society of Tammany? Jim
uoge. Of anywhere but Texas? Go to!
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Tho Velasco World Of last week contains
an interview with Mr.. r. Oliver. the coast
sugar planter in which that gentleman gives
information that will interest any who
may be thinking of engaging In that pdus-
try in tho promising but little developed
lands along the Texas coast. We use this
excerpt from Mr. divers conversation;
Cane in Louisiana now sells for 81 n ton
In the field. Wages are higher than they arc
here. hands getting from 81 TO Sl21 a day.
Vh0t there ~ great prosp rtty among the
, sugar planters in Louisiana there can be no
kfNtha hoe attFl Inc .a. W
and have great confidence Tor tho future OF
sugar. | was thero three weeks and | went
thero 10 study tho sugar growing question
from every phase OF the subject aud have
A returned fully confirmed In tho opinion that
sugar today has brighter prospect than any
other agricultural product In this country II
a SURPRISES anything have vet figured with.
, For Instance. count ton or cane at ST. and
: 20 tons to the aero. and the small farmer has
$50. and the mill owner over there tn Louis
: lana gathers the crop from tho hold, great
many OF those mills run railroad tracks and
tramwaYs right through She fields ard the
3 cost OF h1ndltng cane, the greatest eNnense
TO be considered, Is reduced to minimum, .
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Miss Geuovleve Blair OF Corslcana will is.
sue tho first number OF the Kodak in the
corsican city next SUNDAY, The Kodak Will
, he society weekly, and we trust it viii
snap all the good things in It's territory and
take shot at the bad ones,
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Tho Huntsville Enterprise PAYS this neat
and we'll deserved compliment to Congress
man BALI
Tho nantes OF the ablest and most noble
lesislHtiNa solors rest with grace and dig
LltN upon the shoulders Of Hon. Thomas II
BAN, the peerless representative OF the FIRST
congressional district OF Texas. Every por-
ton OF the district is unanimously In favor
OF retaining HIN IN the nOsitlon for whick he
Is SO highly guelihee by reason Of his manly
attributes talcn, ana ability
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The Rookdale Reporter is in favor Of trades
displays. In discussing thom 1t says:
Richmond, Texas, town OF 1900 peoplc.
, has already hegun preparati0ns for "a two
days trades display and Maitcst to be held
IA May Why can't Rockdaic get up an eu-
trtRrment OF this character, II gly.s at
citizens q daY or two OF pleasure and recroh q
tlcn and brings tho peppo OF the towns aud
Its trade territory moro closely together and
culuvatss "A tendency for general good feel
ing amone all the people Trades displays
IN the last few years are Becoming quite
i popular IN TeXEs.
Major J. :. West Dead.
Columbus, Texas February lS-Major