The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-04

| saloon at midnight for nightcap dls- covered the flames and gave the alarm. | Clark and Belden were the first to be l aroused and saved the most of the mon- 1 ey and valuable books and papers. It l was quick work, as there were ninety | five kegs of powder and two hundred | barrels of whiskey in the place, and an | explosion was momentarily expected 1 Suddenly Clark recollected that he had
 not seen Uncle Gerry, as Galvan was l called, and at the risk of his life | dashed back through the flames to the | room that he occupied, and catching up | the half-suffocated man carried him out 1 by main force. A few moments after | the house blew up with a terrible re- | port, scattering destruction far and | wide. A number of other buildings l were wrecked, and several men killed, among them Frank North, who with Henry Miller was carrying out the bags of silver from Werbiskies store next door Miller himself was badly hurt, and the street for quite a distance was fairly paved with Mexican dollars. A couple of stores on the main, oriEllzd- beth street behind were also wrecked, and a couple of Jewish merchants killed in their beds. Out of gratitude for saving his life Calvin left Clark an
 annuity in his will of fifty dollars month.
 The basis of the fortune of the Still
 mans, the wealthy New York bankers,
 was also laid here. James started bus
 mess before the "cotton times in Mat
 amoras, selling codflsh and other New England products and gradually worked up At the time of the Cortina raid on Brownsville, in 1859, he occu-
 pied the store next to that of Galvan's
 on the levee, at the corner Cortina and
 his men had occupied the place, killed
 the jailer. city marshall and several oth-
 CT citizens, and with his men were at tacking Werbiskies place, which was just back of Stillman's across the all
 ley Cortina was sea ted on his horse directing operations, when Dolph Glae- vecke, another old timer still alive, and
 who was for many years he county clerk of Cameron county, who had some old scores to settle with Cortina threw a double barreled shot gun, load ed with buckshot, down on him from a small rear window, and would most SuIGly uGNe hlllel HllIl, Nlicil i'SlNlCil' fearing that Cortina being killed his enraged men would kill them all and
 burn the store and perhaps the town, threw up the muzzle of Glaevecke's gun and for the time saved Cortina's life
 Jose San Roman Sodrs was anoth- CT old-time house that made a great deal of money, the head and several of the members of the firm retiring to Spain with large fortunes. And still business was apparently carried on in the Nloosest style For eXapmle the mouth of an ixtle 'moral' containing one thousand dollars would be cut open, the amount charged in the books to petty cash" and all small amounts as for drayage, mosos, porteros, when not of the house, were paid from 1t and no account kept of the sums, and any one of the firm wanting few dollars would help hfsemlf from the ever open sack and use it for his own needs and no account was kept of that either Open house and open table were kept for the members of the firm, the clerks and the friends who might call and right royalty did they live as we'll The
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