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Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-11-28


few days in this city. The Judge
after staying here n few days will re-
turn to his home In Dodge City, Kan.
Inroads are already being made in
the magnificent stock OF Christmas
goods Mt Richey's. From the youngest
to the Oldest there Is to be found
something to meet the ideas Of the
Christmas buyer.
Bear in mind the entertainment
Tuesday night at the High school by
Ralph Bingham. The last entertain
ment given at the High school was
ample guarantee that only the best
to be had will be given the people.
The street commissioners atten-
ton is called to the wire netting en-
closing the lawn tennis grounds on
Twelfth street 1t is down In several
places and the poles broken OF and
lying across the walk. 1t ia a nuisance
Durango will start the new year
with more sidewalks and better ones
than ever before. The work OF build
ing new walks. replacing old ones
and putting in stone crossings. has
gone on steadily all through the past
season.
Ralph Sma,ley. who was cent to
the penitentiary last year for shoot
ing Ed Lazarus, was released today.
having served his time. He sent to
friends here to have some OF his per
sonal belongings sent to him in Den
YER
The water mains have been extend
ed from the west part on the North
side, south to Peter Peterson's place
on the east side Of the street and
across the street to Ferguson's house.
most finished.
The Trimble Hot Springs m anage-
ment will give the best attention to
all who visit that place tomorrow. You
don't have to take care OF your own
horse and wait upon yourself gener.
ally. The guests get the best, and at
reasonable prices.
The Ladies' Aid socitey of the
Presbyterian church, have docketed
| their annual fair for December 9Th
and 10th. Much that is appropriate for
the coming holidays will be on sale
and the hungry will be given a chicA
| en- pie dinner. Come nowl don't fast
| too long that you may feast at theiI
price.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Humbarger. rel
atives OF b. w. Solomon, departed
this morning for Denver In resopnst
to telegram announcing the deatf
of an aunt OF Mrs. Humbarger. They
were down at La Plata, N. NJ, visit
ing their relative, Mr.. Fisherdick, tn,
postmaster, when they received thu
news by phone. 80 they came up las
night. Their home is in Rawlins, Wye
Mrs. o. F. Boyle returned Thursda,
night from Bayfield,. where she was
few days in attendance upon her niece
Mrs A. W. Robbins, who has bee
seriously Ill. Mrs. Robbins man
many friends will be glad to learr
however. that she 10 improving IN
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-11-28

Tnroads are already being made in
the magnificent stock Of Christmas
goods at Richey's. From the youngest
to the Oldest there is to be found
something to meet the ideas Of the
Christmas buyer.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-11-28

II all goes well will soon bs entirely
out Of danger
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-06-10

very generously donated the use
of the Merry-Co-Round" for the
occasion. 50 there viii be lots of
fun and frolic for the young people.
All are most cordially invited to
come children for the different
amusements they will find there,
and the grown ups" for the
pleasure Of seeing the juvenels have
a good time. and TO enjoy the de-
licions ice cream and cake which
will be sold at the very reasonable
prices of 10 cents and rs cents
Mex, a plate.
CARPENrRh AND BULDER.-Con-
tracts taken for both frame and
brick buildings, and all other work
in my line. Also painting and re-
pairing. Cypress cisterns made to
rider. Address, w. s. CoRKnL,
Eleventh street, bet. Elizabeth and
Levee streets, Brownsville. Texas.
The laying Of about 1000 feet of
finch water pipe fog supplying
the rice mill with water has just
been completed and the installing
of pump on the bank of the river
to force the water to the mill will
commence next week.
The members of Acacia Camp
No. $50, Woodmen of the World
will meet at their camp Sunday.
June 18th. at4 p. m. From the
camp they will march to the Gene
terry and decorate the graves of
their deceased comrades. Visiting
brothers are cordially invited to
unite with us in this memorial SER
vice.
The passengers from the steamer
Manteo arrived last night over the
Rio Crande railroad, the
following of which is list: Man
uel Garcia, Noonan Malnor, Geo.
Griffin, James A. Mean. w. K.
Folgner, S. p. Wreford and Mrs.
H. c. Holman. The freight from
the steamer Beacham was also
brought in by same train.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-06-10
DEPOTS FOR St L. 3.
&MEMCO LOCATED.


All things in connection with
the right-of-way and depot grounds
are at last definitely settled and
the work of completing the grade
to the depot will be resumed a,
once and pushed rapidly to COM
pletion.
The line of the road as it enters
the city proper comes down
Avenue 6 tie the intersection OF
Levee Street where it makes a
curve running out to the property
of the Brownsville Ferry Co., Ltd,
which is on line with 18th. street.
where it stops.
: The passenger depot will be
located on the lot now oc-
cupied by the Office of Judge E. c.
Fort, fronting on Levee street. and
having 18th street as a side front
age for a distance of two blocks ex-
tending to St. Francis street.
The deed from Jas. Stillman and
the New York and Brownsville
Improvement company and the
Brownsville Ferry Co., Ltd, car
ries with it the right of way
through the several blocks through
which the line passes, commencing
at Fifth street and running through
blocks II, Is, 321, 31s, 3l4 and all
of block 3l1, and on the opposite
side of Avenue G will take block 6
and a block not numbered on city
map and blocks 500, $40, 313, and
312. On the last mentioned block
the track will curve into what is
known as upper Levee stree.
There will be a bonded ware
house erected on the Ferry COM
pany's land just opposite blocks
$40 and 81. along side track of
the B. G. railroad. This ware
house will be the property of the
Ferry company.
Now that this matter is settled
the railroad people will complete
some kind of temporary depots on
both locations to answer until ma
terial and men are. available to put
up the permanent structures.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-06-10
COMMITTEE NAMED
Hon. James B. Wells Appoints Membes
to County Executive Committee.


To whom it may concern: By
authority vested in me as Chairman
of the Democratic Executive COM
mittee of Cameron county, / do
now hereby appoint as, and to con-
stitute the membership of said
committee, the. following demo-
Gratis, of this county, towit:-
John G. Kennedy George L. Crum
Jose Canales Lamaso Lerma
Jesse o. Wheeler L. H. Bates
John ]. Kleiber Joseph Webb
Caledonia Cara r. ]. Hooks
Louis Kowalski Santos Valdez
WIN. Radcliffe Frank w. Kibbe
Tomas Tijerina D. G. Wood
James A. Browne George Conner
Jose M. Villareal John Bartlett.
Done in the city of Brownsville,
Cameron county, Texas. this the
first (lst) day of June, A. D. 1904.
JAMES B. WELLS,
Chairman, Democratic Executive
Committee of Cameron County
Texas.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-06-10

What this country needs is fewer
avs and more enforcement thereof.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-06-10

A new two thousand pound bell
for San Augustine pro-cathedrai has
been ordered to take place of the
one thousand pound one, which
was cracked a short time ago.
Mechanics are now at work lower
ing the cid bell from the church
steeple to have everything in read
mess to put up the new one as soon
as it arrives Laredo Times.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-06-10
Time Table.
sss1Fz53z E3z5iIEz5aI
NK III
Rio Grande Railroad.

On and after June LIST. regular
trains over the Rio Grande Railroad
will leave as follows:
Leave Brownsville daily 5p. m.
Arrive Point Isabel 6:1Sp- m.
Leave Point Isabel a. m.
Arrive Brownsville Sis a. m.
JOSE CELAYA,
Pres. and Gen. Mgr.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-06-10
PERSONALS.

]. T. Williams of Beaumont ar
rived last night over the Lott road
R. F. Watt, of Corpus Christi,
accompanied the Lott excursionists
last night.
O'Ortrand and S. L. Cross, from
San Antonio, were passengers on
the Lott special.
Jas. Mulligan, one of the grade
contractors of the Lott road, was
in town yesterday.
Max E. Jesse, who is out selling
pianos from San Antonio, came in
on the Lott special last night
F. J. Sargent left for San Anto-
MO today going via the Alice stage
to Alice where he will take the
Sap.
]. L. Hendrick, of San Antonio.
played in luck by securing a through
trip on the big train from Robs-
town.
Geo. Hubbard, the bridge con-
tractor of the Lott road, accompa-
MED by his wife. came in from
Kingsville with the through train.
Frank P. Read, manager for
Johnston Bros. the general contrac-
tors for the construction of the
Lott road, is here looking after the
interests of his company.
B. G. Stegman was a passenger
on the outgoing stage to Alice
this morning. Mr.. Stegman will
go to Houston, but in all probable
ity will return here shortly.
T. ]. cahill of Chicago. Ill.,, ar
rived last night with the big
crowd who took advantage of the
last lot of passengers to be hauled
over the Lott road till July LIST.
]. K. Powers came in with the
Lott special last night. Mr.. Pow
ers is interested in telephone sys-
TENS and is mere for the purpose
of investigating the prospects here.
What this country needs is fewer
laws and more enforcement thereof
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-06-10

4
Washington Park. Tuesday even
ing. Be there.
Swiss and American cheese finest
quality at Leo Wise's. -6-1-tf.
Don't forget the ice cream fes-
tival next Tuesday.
The best built wheel is at John
son's-The Racycle. OFT.
A. Barreda and wife returned
home last night, as passengers on
the Lott train.
American Restaurant everything
new and first class. Bill of fare and
service much improved. -5.21-tf.
George Griffin of Palestine, has
accepted position with THE HER
AID and arrived on the steamer
Manteo yesterday.
Currants, raisins, prunes, dried
peaches, apricots. apples and pears
at Leo Wise's. -6-1-tf.
d. Lerma jr. who has been at
tending school in San Antonio, re-
turned home last night on board of
the limited.
The Racycle is the finest and
most substantially built wheel.
Johnson has it. -6-2.tf.
Charley Hanson. son of Martin
Hanson, returned from Bryan
-sMhere he has been attending the
A. & M. college.
The American Restaurant has
the finest cook in the city. When
hunger drives you, come to the
American.-John A. Tillman.
-5-2l-tf.
Felix Schoenfeld and Jacob
Sichel came in from San Antonio.
They are engaged at work on the
post Quartermaster store house.
George Harper for several years
with the Burnett undertaking es-
Establishment, left yesterday for
Brownsville to establish a business
of his own.-San Antonio Express
January 7.
See the Racycle at Johnson's.
OFT.
The best fruit tablets in the
market can be found at the Botica
del Aguila. 5-19-tf.
Chilimac-Uneeda- Biscuit-Force-
at Leo Wise's.
There will be match game of base
ball between the soldiers of the
Twenty Sixth infantry and the town
boys atlFort Brown Saturday after
noon. 1t is understood the game
is to be played for fifty dollars
a side.
All of Brownsville now has a
good opportunity to have good,
smooth shave and stylish hair cut
at the Elite barber shop. 5-26-tf.
FouND-On military road in
outskirts of town ladies wrist bag
containing handkerchief, three pen
knives, key, bread check, bead
necklace, etc. Owner can get
same by describing contents and
paving for this notice. 6-1O-tf.
There was a warranty deed filed
for record today, conveying pro-
perty with an unwritten history.
The lots referred to are parts of
lots II and IL out of city block 81
and the parties to the transfer are
Iose6na Narcotic, who conveys to
Francisco Ochoa her interest for
one dollar and other consideration.
An ice cream festival will be
given in Washington Park on Tues
day evening, under the manage
ment of the Repair Fund Society,
and the proceeds equally divided
between II and St. Joseph's Home.
Mr.. Sahualla and Mr.. Besteiro have
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-06-10
Puente de los Negroes
GROCERY.
RESTAURANT
LICE COLD BEER

N. Lightbourn & Co.. Proprietors
See the crowds going to be fed
at the American Restaurant.-John
A Tillman, proprietor. -5-2l-tf.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-06-10
Pound Notice.

The city marshal has the follow
ing animals impounded. Owners
may claim same by paying penalty
of one dollar for each day i'm
pounded:
One grey horse branded B. c.
One brown horse branded r.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-06-10
FOR FINE PHOTOGRAPHS.

Call at my studio, on Elizabeth
and 18th. streets. Best work at
popular prices.
MARY NJ. Wal rGExBAcH
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-06-10
1000 POUND BELL

San Augustine Prof. Cathedral Has New
One Il Laredo.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-10-17

When Vardaman was elected gov
ernor of Mississippi only $4,000 votes
were cast, that is, about one person in
50 in that great state took part in the
election. Even counting out the large
colored populat ton in Mississippi. which
is not allowed to take part in the cleo
ton, the white population of the State
is fully as large as the population of
Maine, and yet the Maine vote at our
recent gnbernatorial election was four
TIRES as large as that of Mississippi.
Yet Mississippi has eight representa-
tives in the national House of Repre-
sentatives. where Maine has only four.
But how the Southern Democrats and
their allies in the North squirm and
vince and whine when the Republicans
present these facts, and urge that in
Justice to the rest of the country the
congressional apportionment of the
South should be revised. The Demo-
cratic leaders of that section declare
that the great question with them IS
one of white rule, but their cause is in
deed weak, when, in State where this
| rule is most rigidly enforced, man
like Vardaman can be chosen for gov
ernor.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-10-17
For President
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The Canteen Question Again.
Of New York.

The agitation over the question OF
the army cantcen goes merrily on,
whether the canteen is abolished or in
existence. A few years ago. as a re-
suit Of vigorous campaign on the
part of temperance people throughout
the country, Congress abolished the
canteen at all the army posts. Since
then the leading army officers have
been insisting that that was mistake,
and that the aboishment of the cam
teen system has intensified the very
evils that the temperance people We're
honestly working against.
1t was the theory of the enemies of
the canteen that if the places were
abolished where the private soldier
could obtain beer in his own camp. he
would settle down to total abstinence.
with the result that drunkenness in
the army and it's accompanying
crimes would cease. but they reckoned
without taking into account the per-
verSity of human nature. The adju-
tant general of the army and the
heads of the various army depart
ments, in making their reports since
the cantcen was abolished, have agreed
in declaring that the rumshops, dives
and gambling hells, which have sprung
up around the outskirts of the army
posts since the abolishment of the
campaign. work infinitely more dam
age upon the soldier and upon the
morale OF the army than the canteen
itself ever worked or could work. In
stead of drinking beer and relatively
mild drinks in a place under control of
the army officers, and spending their
spare time there. the soldier now
spends his spare time drinking the
worst kind of liquors amid the worst
kind Of surroundings, with a result
that drunkenness, desertion and crimes
of all kinds have steadily increased.
These army officers contend that the
abolition OF the canteen was injudi-
cious and shortsighted. that it has
struck blow at the efficiency of the
army and has caused the moral ruin OF
many a young soldier. Consequently
they urge that the canteen be re-estab-
lished Whether or not Congress will
listen to their pleas and arguments re-
mains to be seen. Probably the tenn
perance people, who brought about the
abolition Of the canteen, will adhere tC
their original ideas and refuse to be
converted. and their influence with
Congress is something not lightly tc
be estimated.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-10-17
An American Suroeon's View.

In an address before the convention
of the Association of Military and
Naval Surgeons of the United States.
at st. Louis the other day, Major
Louis l.. Seaman gave a most inter-
esting account of the medical features
of the war in the far East. He has
had the advantages of several months
in the field there. and has seen the
work of the surgeons and nurses at
short range. He finds no superla-
tives too strong to use in praising the
work Of the Japanese government and
for the efficiency of the medical and
sanitary departments of it's army.
Their surgeons have saved an almost
incredible proportion of the wounded.
while deaths from disease, which have
always made such havoc in great
armies In the field. have been reduced
to a minimum. Part of this is due to
the sensible food Of the japanese SOL
diors and the care they have taken of
themselves, and part to the skill with
which the medical officers do their
work.
He declares that this government
and the governments of Europe
have much to learn from the sue
cess of the Japanese on this line.
and that as we are now we are very
far behind them. He unhesitatingly
asserts that in matters of military
medical organization and sanitation
the Japanese lead the world, and that
Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-10-17

their field hospitals are by far the
most successful ever known in the
history of warfare. incidentally
Major Seaman presents an eloquent
picture of the way in which the nus
slams in Manchuria failed to prepare
for the war which Japan so suddenly
forced them into. He says that on
the very night when Admiral Togo
torpedoed the Russian squadrons and
practically closed Port Arthur to the
outside world, Russian officers of high
rank in conversation with him de-
cla,ed that there would be no war be-
tween the two countries. He says:
ARRIVING trains that should have
been crowded with men and munitions
of war, brought each a full complement
of the demimonde and vodka. The
thousands of these creatures and the
tens of thousands of cases of vodka
that passed over the Siberian railway.
in place of food and equipments, must
have Mortified even the gentle
Verestchagin, familiar as he was with
war, in it's most brutal and bestial as
poets. Had he lived to portray re-
cent scenes in Manchuria he could
have revealed to the victimized suf-
fering masses at home perfect night
mare OF Gebauchery, apathy and crmi-
nal carelessness. His historic picture
of a battlefield in the Russo-Turkish
war. with the dead and dying soldiers
lying bleeding in the distance, while
in the foreground, the Russian head
quarters were Strewn with empty
champagne bottles and the rags of
harlots, had its counterpart in scenes
that greeted the eyes of the observer
at Port Arthur, Neuchwang and
Vladivostock. Wine, woman and
song, were certainly the undoing of
Russia, where a beauty and a bottle
were the highest ambition of it's
otficers-from general to corporal.
SodOm and Gomorrah-the current
synonyms of Port Arthur and
Vladivostock in the Orient-were tenn
pies of virtue III comparison to the de-
bauchery. Righteousness, fragrant i'm
moralities and openly Haunted vice re-
Gently practiced in those unhappy
cities. This was Russia's preparation
for war. But if the bloody conflict
now Waeing serves to awaken her from
her terrible nightmare, and brings
about her moral regeneration (and
nothing less than such catastrophe
ear do it,, then civilization will ulti-
mately be promoted and the masses OF
suffering humanity in that grand
country will come in some measure by
their own
Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-10-17
Personal Notes.

Bishop Talbot of PENNSYLVANIA, will
take part in the ceremonies on October
u. when the Earl of Dartmouth will lay
the corner stone of the new Dartmouth
Hall. at Hanover.
Herr Adolf THEM. a wealthy resident
OF San Reno, has presented a collection
OF Flemish and French pictures to the
Royal Gallery in Berlin. The collection
is valued at s500.OOO
Rear Admiral George Wood Pigman
has gone to Delphi, Ind. to spend the
remainder of his days. 1t is his purpose
to retire from active service as soon as
his appointment as rear admiral is con-
hrmed by the United States Senate. He
entered the Naval Academy September
%, 1861.
Henri Rochefort, who in his time has
Deen journalist, convict member of the
Government and Boulangist, is the only
survivor of the members of the Govern
ment of the National Defense, which
ruled France thirty four years ago. They
consisted of twelve of the best. known
members of the Opposition under the
Empire.
William Bell Cooper. for twenty-five
years an employee of the National Mu-
scum, and one of the oldest inhabitants
of the District of Columbia, has just died
in Washington. OF late years he has
been giving particular attention to the
of Prof Langley's flying
machine and much of the metal con-
struction of these airships was his
Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-10-17
"killed" at Last.

Army officers are not given to calcu-
/ latins their chances on the field of bat
| tie except i'm the most cold-blooded
! way. They have figured out for
themselves the percentage Of men who
! lose their lives on the field OF battle
| as compared with the number OF
! rounds Of ammunition expended, and
| they go about war as purely busi-
ness proposition. There are, however,
sometimes, peculiar instances noted in
the lives Of some officers that give
those who pin faith to that mysterious
power called fate" excellent argu-
ment in favor of their particular
creed.
II happens that in an infantry regi-
ment now stationed at one of the posts
in New York state there is a popular
major who enjoys the distinction of
having been wounded in almost every
engagement in which he participated.
at some time during it's course. This
officer is known to be one of the brav-
est and coolest of men on the battle
field, and his mettle has been proven
in Indian campaigns, in Cuba, the
Philippines and China. He has been
wounded repeatedly, some officers
claim more than any other officer in
the army, but is still a good, healthy,
active specimen of the kind of men the
United States has in it's army. This
officer, of course, was compelled to
take a good deal of chatting when he
started for the recent manoeuvres in
Virginia His brother officers de-
clared that he would not get a chance
to be wounded in this campaign, and
made him the butt of several jokes of
this character. 1t happened, how
ever, that the battalion commanded by
this major was thrown into the thick
of the fight in the course of the SOlu-
tion of the second problem, and with
his usual ability the major managed
to secure information which would en-
able him to take his command through
the enemy's lines. He made a recon-
noissance of the ground over which he
expected to make this move with his
battalion and was returning to give the
necessary orders when his luck over
took and threw him. He was just
about to give the orders when a polite
and efficient umpire rode up to him
and informed him, with the utmost
care not to injure his feeling, that he
had been Killed." Being dead" he
could not take the battalion where he
had planned, but the officer next in
rank, lieutenant, had, fortunately,
escaped slaughter, and, being ac-
quainted with the plans of his chief up
to a certain point, marched the bat
talon forward on his own responsible |
ity and made the contemplated move |
ment. So successful was the
manoeuvre that it practically won the /,
battle for the army to which it was |
attached.-Washingto Star.