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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-03-22

County court met today

4OSAk ITEMS.
county court met today.
Best Java blend coffee at Lex
Wise's. o-26-tf
A number of cases of measles arr
reported in town.
Funerals conducted in the mos
up-to-date and appropriate name,
by the Brownsville Undertaking
company. lot.
A large retail hardware store
will be opened shortly by P. J.
Vivier in a building adjoining J. S.
& NJ. H. Cross on Elizabeth street.
John B. Viano, the piano tuner,
who has been here for the past few
weeks, has been kept busy repairing
pianos, as we'll as selling new ones.
As to his skill and the quality of
his work, he refers by permission
to the following residents of
Brownsville: Aug. Celaya, Jose
Celaya, Manuel Alonzo, Mrs. An
ME S. Putegnat, Mrs. Rosa Puteg-
nat, A. A. Browne, George Brulay,
and number of others. Leave
orders for Mr.. Viano at Putegnat' S
drug store or Darroussett' s restaur.
ant. IT,.
The quickest trip ever made from
Corpus Christi to Brownsville was
that just made by Chief Engineer
Jonah and Mr.. Read who arrived
last evening. Leaving Corpus at
Ia. m. Sunday over the Tex-Mex,
they, took the Lott road at Robs-
town making SO IL miles by rail,
and thence by ambulance to
Brownsville, reaching here at p.
m. Monday.
CARPENTER AND BUILDER.
tracts taken for both frame and
brick buildings, and all other work
In my line. Also painting and re-
pairing. Cypress cisterns made to
order. Address, w. S. CORKILL,
Brownsville, Texas.
We are prepared to do all kinds
of hauling on short notice, at low
est prices. Satisfaction guaranteed.
We earnestly solicit a share of your
patronage because we are here to
STAY. Our wagons can be found at
Eleventh and Elizabeth streets.
For the convenience of our patrons
an order book has been placed in
the Botica del Leon. Orders booked
here will receive our immediate at
tention, Brownsville Transfer COM
pany. 21-2t. |
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-03-22
Mexican Pesos for China.

1t is estimated that during the
past two months three millions of
Mexican silver pesos were exported
via San Francisco, Cal, to China,
Korea and Japan. A large quantity
of pesos was also exported to the
Philippines.
The Mexican Herald of last
Wednesday says: j. w. burst
was operated upon yesterday, in
the American hospital for appen-
dicitis, very successfully. The
latest advices are to the effect that
the patient was doing very well. y
Mr.. burst is very well known
here, being a brother-in-law of
Col. Armstrong of this county and
at one time a prominent member of
the Cameron county republican
organization. His old friends here
sincerely hope that he may speed
idly recover his health.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-03-22
THE WEATHER.

New Orleans, March 22.-To Collector
of Customs, Brownsville, Texas:
z Tonight and Wednesday probably
showers. Colder tonight fresh southerly
to westerly winds.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-03-22
Reversing the Law.

We are firm believers in the
Darwinian theory. 1t is a COM
mon sight to see men making
monkeys of Observation-Disclosures
vile Herald.
But Darwin teaches that monkeys
made men of themselves.-Flores-
vile Chronicle.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-03-22

Mankind suffers from spasms o.
virtue and vice, but the former j.
the more easily cured.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-28
DEATHS OF THE DAY.

NEW YORK, March 27.-Dan DAILY,
the comedian, died suddenly today in
his room in the Vendome hotel. For
several years he. has suffered from tu-
berculosis. He got up this afternoon
and while dressing was seized with
fit of coughing, which brought on a
fatal hemorrhage. His wife died sud
denly two weeks ago in Revere, Mass,
and he felt her loss keenly. Although
DAILY had long been a consumptive, his
affection did not seriously Interfere
with his stage work until during the
last two seasons. He played the early
part of this season and as late as SIX
weeks ago he appeared in vaudeville
at Proctor's theater.
Special to The Globe.
WINONA, Mimi, March 27.@James
l.. Norton, member of the well known
lumber firm, the Laird-Norton compa-
nv, who came to Winona in pioneer
DAYS. died this afternoon from cere-
bral hemorrhage. Mr.. Norton contrib
uted literally to religious and benevo-
lent enterprises. Mrs. Norton is Sc
riously i'll.
ROME, March 27.-Guiseppe Mar
conf, father of the inventor, died at
Bologna today, aged eighty-three.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-28
BETTER MANAGEMENT
IN OREGON IRRIGATION
Many More Acres Irrigated by Eco.
nomicaI Use of Water.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 81
The census bureau today issued a pre-
liminary report on irrigation in Oregon
in 1902. 1t shows that the irrigation
conditions there were above the aver
age. Better methods of management
and more economical use of the Or
binary water supply are urged in order
to greatly increase the number of acres
that may be brought under irriga-
ton.
In 1902 the number of farms reported
were 5,133 with an irrigated area Of
419,119 acres, an increase since 1899 of
51,S16 acres, or 1873 per cent for the
three years. The per cent of increase
for the ten years from 1889 to 1899 was
1882. In 1902 1855 irrigating systems
were in operation, representing a total
construction cost of 81, OS9, 500, an aver
age Of $S1S per system and $4.75 per ir-
rigated acre. The total length Of main
canals and bitches was 1858 miles, an
average of IA miles per system.
The aggregate number of acres ir-
rigated by the 2,417 systems receiving
water from streams was 42S,925 be-
longing to 4,97S farms.
The average cost per acre was $4.81.
The ia systems supplied with water
from springs irrigated 1879 acres on
131 farms, the average cost per acre
being $2.13. Twenty-four well systems
irrigated 297 acres, representing TWEEN
ty-four farms, at an average cost Of
$15.27 per acre.
The stream systems cost initially
$2,062,18S for the 1904 miles of main
canals and bitches and the necessary
dams and head gates. The first cost Of
the spring systems was $22,985, and
the length of main bitches was forty
nine miles. The construction of the
well systems was 81, 1876.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-28
AMBASSADOR MEYER
DIMES WITH EMPEROR
His Majesty Entertains on Board the
German Imperial Yacht.

NAPLES, March 27-On the invi-
tation of Emperor William, Ambassa-
dor Meyer came to Naples from Rome
today and dined with his majesty on
board the German imperial XN2ht
Hohenzollern. The ambassador sat at
the right of the emperor, on whose left
was Father Boniface Krug, formerly
of the Benedictine abbey at Beatty,
Pa, and now abbot of the abbey of
Monte Casino. The ambassador and
the abbot were the only guests of the
emperor, who jokingly said that it was
an American dinner.
At the request of the emperor, Am
bassador Meyer accompanied him and
Father Krug to Monte Casino, where
they visited the abbey and admired
the work of restoration of the famous
mosaics there.
Speaking of the condition of the en-
peror, Ambassador Meyer said:
emperor William looks extremely
well, Just as he did when 1 saw him
at Kiel last summer. His voice IS as
strong as ever and he is in excellent
cniritSO
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-28

vote all our funds to making the lower
education better worth having, more
accurate, more thorough, more useful
discipline and development of the men
tai powers, with less care for it's wide
distribution according to subjects, and
future generations will rise up and
call us blessed. Is there, after such an
expression of opinion as has been had,
really any school problem remaining
to be solved?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-28
ENTERTAINING THE STRANGER

The little old town of New York,
located as you may know on the con-
fines of the United States, has turned
up many queer schemes, but it has
touched the limit in the organization
Of the Bohemian Guide society, whose
mission it will be to provide women
entertainers for strange gentlemen
who happen to linger in Gotham.
1t is proposed that for so much per
services of a younger otherwise
woman, of such mental and physical
preference for, whose business it shall
be to provide such entertainment for
the guest as he may desire.
We have some doubts about the sue
cess of the venture-not that the in
stitution would lack patronage, but
because it must inevitably fall out that
the supply of guides will be exhausted.
The Bohemian Guide society will be-
come a matrimonial bureau and die
because of the enthusiastic support Civ
en- its members by its patrons.
1t is guaranteed that the stranger
will be supplied with guide to his
liking. The rural college professor who
yearns to see the sights of the metrop-
oils under the guidance of a young
woman of superior mental endowments
is pretty sure to meet up with his
affinity The man from the mining
camp with a roll and a thirst for fe-
male society will overlook the adj
vantages Of the mentally superior per-
son and demand female loneliness per-
sonified. And, Of course, he will never
return the guide if she fills the mat
rimonial bill.
And aside from its assurance Of self
destruction through this means, the
Bohemian Guide society promises to
stir things up socially during the brief
career to which it Is fated. For what
woman, not a resident Of New York.
will permit her husband to remain in
Gotham subject to the allurements Of
fered by the Bohemians without hav-
ing a private detective on his trail?
The Society for the Promotion of
Trouble would be a good subtitle for
the institution.
The man who thought Of 1t first is
capable of brilliant things, but he
should apply his massive intellect
again and find another method for pro-
viding propinquity for twin souls at
so much per hour.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-28
NO AGREEMENT IN
BARTON BRIBERY CASE
Jury Which Heard Evidence Against
Kansas Senator Is Still Out.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March 27.-Almost
twenty-four hours in which to DELHI
crate since the closing of the case
against United States Senator Bur-
ton, of Kansas, the jury had not
reached a conclusion. During the aft
ernoon deputies took the twelve jury
men from the hotel in which they were
ouartered and escorted them around
the streets to give them exercise and
fresh air. The United States district
court, which was ordered to be consid-
cred as having taken an indefinite re-
cess when the case went to the jury
last evening, was kept open all day, and
court officers remained on duty to sum-
mon Judge Adams from his residence
at any time that the jury might report.
The time dragged along YEARLY to
those who watched at the United States
district court for the expected return
Of the jury with a verdict, until sus-
pense was ended at 10 o'clock by the
announcement of United States Mar
shall Dorsey that if the jury arrived
at a conclusion after that hour the YER
dict would not be received by the court
until tomorrow morning at O'CLOCK:
Judge Adams forbade the returning or
sealed verdict At 10 o'clock tonight
the case had been in the hands of the
Jury for twenty-six and one-half
hours.
During the day and into the night
Senator Burton paced the corridors Of
the Southern hotel anxiously awaiting
the verdict He declined to discuss the
long deliberation by the jury, simply
saving as he turned away from those
who questioned, II can't talk about it.
Great interest in the outcome of the
case was manifested today by the
freouenee with which District Attorney
Over and members Of the counsel for
the defense were called up by telephone
and questioned as to the course of the
Jury. Throughout the day persons
visited the court room on a similar
mission.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-28
Rentz- santIey Company at the Star.


Two Japanese brothers-"Yamamoto"
is the family name-amaZed the spec
tators assembled at the Star theater
yesterday afternoon and evening. 1t
would be a feeble expression to say
that they walked on wire suspended
six feet above the stage. They ran
across 1t, they danced upon it, they
rode bicycles on it-they ignored it!
And how modestly they defied the
laws Of gravitation. 1t was enough to
make Isaac Newton revolve in his
grave.
There is a big brother, of course. He
starts the climax, when he advances to
the front of the stage and raises a
nickel-p plated iron pole eighteen feet
high to his shoulder. 1t weighs twenty
eight pounds. His brother, a sfnuous,
muscular Oriental, who tips the beam
at 1876 pounds, climbs that pole and
when once he attains the topmost
round" stands on his head, with his
feet in the flies. His big brother
scorns to touch the pole with his hands.
He merely allows it to stand on his
shoulder.
The theater shook with applause. The
Japs bowed once after it was all over
instead of kissing their hands fer
vently and frequently, after the man
ner of the feminine bareback rider
The Rentz- Santley company is the
attraction at the Star. 'The Matri-
monial Market" which is the opening
burletta, and 'The Califf of Zuzu," the
closing slzit, serve to display female
chorus of liberal proportions. The COM
edians get in the way occasionally, but
as a rule are not permitted to blur the
pictures of feminine grace which ex-
cuse burlesque. +. u. II.
The Savage English Grand Opera
company, which arrived in st. Paul
early this morning, will present Verdi's
"Othello' at the Metropolitan tonight.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-28
At St. Paul Theaters

Theodore Kremer holds the English
language in lofty disdain when he
starts in to write a melodrama-by the
way, he doesn't essay comedy-but he
believes in action, fact which was
demonstrated in most convincing fash
ion at the Grand last night.
welded and Parted is the tragic
title Of the Kremer play, which began
weeks engagement at the Grand last
night. Mr.. Kremer might have added
s'and Reunited" to the caption, but
that would have been commercially
unwise. 1t would have implied that
the people who enjoy Mr.. Kremer's
melodramas were deficient in imag-
ination, and needed a diagram to eX-
plain the play.
s'Wedded and Parted" threw the
Grand audience into paroxysms of de-
light. Between the play behind the
footlights and the people in front there
was much joy. Deafening applause
greeted every point that virtue scored
over vice. Oppressive silence darken-
ed the theater when villainy was in
the ascendant What preacher drives
home a more lasting lesson?
Mr.. Kremer is to be congratulated for
not invading the field of legitimate
Drama. he knew DGIl6T IIldu u dp-
peal to the carping critics who would
have dissected his eccentric English
down to a Greek particle and proclaim
ed his work libel on human nature.
So he said to himself: 81 will write
melodramas for living and defy crit
icism. A has the critics!"
Morally he stands on solid ground
He has sagely avoided the quicksands
that have come previously near en-
quilting Pinero and Henry Arthur Jones',
who love to set their audiences guess
ing about their heroine's virtue. Not
SO with Kremer. His heroines, like
Shakespeares, bear a striking resem-
blance to Caesars wife.
The company is every bit as good as
the play, if not better. Alexander
Leonard, who impersonated the das-
tardly incarnation of vilest villany,
contributed the most convincing por-
trayal. Virginia Thornton. in the role
of the honest wife, who never could
have been convicted of a felony except
in a melodrama or Minneapolis, played
a distracted woman in sane fashion.
She deserves sympathy. The other
members Of the company were entirely
adequate to the drama.
Mr.. Kremer is setting the parsons
a pretty fast pace, Notwithstanding
his English.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-28
The flowers that bloom in the spring,
tra-la, still cost about four dollars
dozen.
Mormonism.

Mormonism is still rampant and
Mormonism means polygamy. The
missionaries of the Mormon church
are going about in all parts of the
country, and there are many OF them
here in Virginia. They are persistent
and sometimes almost insolent in call
ing at private residences and seeking
to distribute their literature. It is a
question which the government must
handle promptly and handle with firm
ness and vigor. Mormonism is like a
loathsome disease spreading over the
land, and it must be stamped out
Richmond Times Dispatch.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-28
PLAN TO BLOCK PURE
FOOD BILL IN SENATE
Opponents of Measure viii In.
sist Upon Consideration of
Appropriation Bills.

WASHINGTON, D. c. March 81
Senator Hepburn has given notice that
tomorrow he will move to take up the
pure food bill, but the enemies of that
measure will seek to prevent consider
alton of it by constantly keeping appro-
priation bills before the senate. This
policy was made plain by the early adj
journment of the senate Saturday,
which was taken to prevent the COM
pletion of consideration of the District.
OF Columbia appropriation bill on that
day, thus. forcing it over and afford
ing material in the way of appropria-
ton legislation for discussion on Mon
day. The opponents of the pure food
bill count on continuing the discussion
of the district bill until the post
office appropriation bill can be reported
from committee. The postoffice bill
will receive its first attention at the
hands OF the committee on postoffices
tomorrow and there will be an effort
to report it by Tuesday or Wednesday,
If the district bill is passed before the
postoffice bill is ready for considera-
ton the conference report on the army
appropriation bill authorizing a new
department building in Washington
may be made to serve the purpose of
holding off the pure food bill
Senator Hepburn announces his in
tention to call up the food bill, if posi-
bic, and says he will use his best eff
forts to secure it's passage.
The sundry civil bill has the right
of way in the house this week, and
Chairman Hemenway believes that it
will require the whole week to dispose
of the measure. Should this prove to
be the case two special orders have
been set to follow it-pension bills and
the omnibus claims bill. The impeach-
ment of Judge Charles Swayne Is now
properly before the house and is a
matter Of the highest privilege.
Mr.. Palmer, in charge of this case,
says that he will not press it during
consideration of the sundry civil bill,
but he will call up the case at the D
clusion Of that measure. While minor
| ity views are to be presented in this
| case by Representative Gillett, of Cali
fornia, it is expected the decision of
| the house can bemet without prolong-
ed discussion
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-28
TODAY'S WEATHER


Minnesota-Rain or snow Monday, with
rising temperature; Tuesday fair; north
westerly winds.
Wisconsin-Fair in south: snow in north
portion Monday; Tuesday fair and warm
er; fresh to southwest winds.
Iowa-Fair, warmer Monday; Tuesday
fair.
day.
Upper Michigan Snow Monday with ris
ing temperature; Tuesday fair, warmer;
fresh winds.
Montana-Fair in east; rain in west por-
ton; rising temperature Monday; Tues
day fair. -
St. Paul = Yesterdays observations
taken by the United States weather bu-
reau, st. Paul, w. E. Oliver. observer, for
the twenty-four hours ended at o'clock
last night-Baronaeter corrected for tenn
perature and elevation. Highest tempera-
ture. 80; lowest temperature, Il; average
temperature, 81; daily range, IS; barom-
eter, 1922; humidity, ..55; precipitation,
o; o. M. temperature, 80; p. M wind,
west; weather, partly cloudy.
do VIC tires
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-28
BOTH AT A LOSS.

Military and naval authorities are as
much at a loss in discussing the
Russo Chinese war as are the war
correspondents The latter give us
what scraps of news are allowed to
filter through the war lines, but have
found precious little either decisive or
strongly indicative Of future events.
The military and naval wiseacres Of
other countries have been studying
war preliminaries with the usual con-
fiict of opinion.
One finds the torpedo destroyer in
action the most wonderful war weapon
yet invented. Another says how easily
it can be sunk by well directed fire,
where officers and men keep their
heads, and declares it a useless adj
junct. One authority points out the
futility Of an attack by warships upon
strong land Notifications. He notes
that Port Arthur has not been reduced
and is not likely to be, and concludes
that navy is useless except to crush
another navy. The second man finds
that guns in fortified strongholds on
land, however great their range and
however skillfully they are manipulate
ed, can inf1ict practically no damage,
except by happy accident, upon an at
lacking fleet. He points out that in
many recent naval engagements the
warships dash in and out and hammer
to suffer the slightest damage from the
heaviest Notifications.
All these people are about right. 1t
is an unfruitful use of the human mind
to attempt to draw any fixed general
conclusion from any given war. Each
one is sui generis. 1t depends on local
circumstances, on the particular plan
of campaign, on the intelligence Of the
commander in chief, on the morale of
the officers, and, above all, on the imam
behind the gum" We do not any of us
know what steel and powder, or what
flesh and blood either, can be made to
do under given circumstances. It is
now a great many centuries since the
human mind began the effort to re-
duce warfare to an exact science. 1t
| has not been accomplished yet, either
on land or sea, and we do not believe
| that it ever will be.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-28
Inventive Genius.

eyes, sir, this is a safety razor that
gives you the same sort of a shave as
you get at the barber shop" claimed the
agent.
The prospective customer rather pooh
poohed
.sBut it does" persisted the agent. "See,
here is thingumajig that squirts lather
into your eyes, and here is small phono
graphic attachment that delivers an
onion favored grafton while the razor is
in use Can you beat that?"-Judge.