The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-01-14
Fen DAYS ago. Mr. Rhodes found

COQQ1L1O0, With QeaQ-SLOn6S SLaRSSI-
ing at all angles, and badly in
need of some drainage work tC
check the invasion of the lagoon
on the cemetery. Just what Mr..
Rhodes report will be is not
known, of course, but it is Under
stood that he will recommend the
expenditure of enough money to
put the cemetery in good order. A
visit will convince anyone that
there is considerable room for i'm
provement.
A pleasant party of visitors from
the North who called at THE HER
AID Office today were Mr.. and Mrs.
R. J. Redpath of Baldwin, ILL.,.
Mrs. Teresa Fox and Miss EsteIle
Fox, who were being piloted about
our little city by Mr.. Helbig of
St. Louis, who is spending the
winter at Brownsville and who
happens to be an old acquaintance
of theirs. Like all of Our North
ern visitors, Mr.. Redpath and
party express themselves as delight
ed with our country and climate.
They expect to take trip up the
river tomorrow to inspect the lands
there, and may invest somewhere
in this valley as a result of their
visit here.
One of the busiest men in town
today was S. c. Tucker of the
Peoples Ice Company, who was
experimenting the icing of three
refrigerator cars for Shipping veget-
ables. One of these cars will carry
truck from Brownsville the 9TH
ers going to be loaded at Olmito
and San Francisco. Mr.. Tucker
expects to have about two cars a
day to ice the remainder of the
week, and probably for several
weeks to come, as truck shipments
will be steady from now on, until
the winter crop is finished. As ii
requires at least five tons of ice
per car, this will keep the factory
quite busy.
There was a difficulty Saturday
morning about half past six at the
St. L., B. & M. passenger depot,
between Marcellus Dougherty Of
the police force and Express Mes
senger S. P. Harris over a rooster
which the former wished to ship
by express, in which pistols arr
said to have been drawn and one
shot fired. No ore was wounded
however. Dougherty afterwards
went to police headquarters and
surrendered himself to arrest, but
no complaint was filed against him,
and there were no further develop
ments in the case.
The Piper Texas Plantation /;
today loading its first carload OIL
cabbage, which will be shipped
tomorrow. From Gen. Nettleton
who is one of the partners in this
enterprise, THE HERALD learns
that plantation Will have about
400 tons of cabbage to ship in all,
or about sixty carloads. They
expect to ship four carloads this
week and FIVE next week, and late,
there will be about ten carloads oil
of cabbage per week going from
this plantation, unit! the crop is
all shipped.
A breakfas. of Point Isabel fish
and oysters was enjoyed at thai
popular seaside resort yesterday
by Messrs. Louis Kowalski anc
| J. I. Kleiber of Brownsville anc
Messrs R. NJ. Miller and Najar
OF the Mexican internal revenue
service, of Matamoros, who went
down on the morning train and re
turned to town in the afternoon.
Express shipments of truck
have been going out at a lively
rate from Brownsville for severa
weeks, several barrels of cau1i
flower, and a considerable amount
OF, tomatoes in crates going almost