The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-10-06
LOCAL ITEMS
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For Csc and 35c lodgings apply to
Mccain, fronting the depot. 6-27-tt
Just received a car of pea green al
falfa. Louis Kowalski. 1898
] Five carloads of cottonseed are be-
/ ing shipped today by Martin Besteiro
to Kennedy, Texas.
| Received today, one car cats, one
car alfalfa, one car chops, bran and
wheat. Grain Co. 1t
The regular meeting of the K. of P.
will take place tomorrow night at
eight O'Clock. Work in the third de-
gree. All members are urged to be
present.
The Herald has on hand a large
stock of blank deeds, earnest re,
ceipts, vendors lien notes, plain
other legal blanks, all approved Tex
as forms. tt
Only one real estate transfer was
recorded to day, that of the Gulf
Coast Irrigation Company to Walter
R. Rolfe. 80 acres out of the Sebas-
tian tract Consideration, $3.50.
The work on the new market and
fire station combined just north of the
present market is rapidly nearing
completion The walls are completed
and it is now ready for the roof.
A solemn mass of requiem was held
at the Catholic pro-cathedral in this
city yesterday, for the late j. F. Kim
ball, formerly of Brownsville, who
passed away just a year ago. Many
friends of the family attended the
mass.
A larger program than usual will
be presented for two nights at the
Electric Theater consisting of mi
chael Strogoff, Courier to the Car"
Lord for Day. Hidden Hand" To-
morrow night a most thrilling In
dian picture will be shown. 1t
The outside work on the new San
Carlos hotel has been completed and
the first coat of paint put on. 1t is
now being finished on the inside, with
a force of eleven men at work The
large pillars for the porches are being
put in place today. This hotel will
be opened about the latter part of
this month.
This morning a Mexican woman
giving her name as Augustine Her
nandez. accompanied by her two
small children, boy aged four years
and girl of five years, coming from
Monterey, Mexico applied to the i'm
migration officials for admission into
this country but, upon being exam
ined by the surgeon the two children
were both found to be afflicted with
trachoma. The children were or
dered deported an dthe mother also
returned with them to Mexico as an
accompanying alien.
The new Hotel Majestic on Adams
street between Eleventh and Twelfth
streets, under the management of
Mrs. E. ]. Hardness, will be thrown
open to the public on next Friday
night. This hotel contains about
forty rooms and is strictly modern
first class in all respects. Among the
chief features is a grill room, where
meals will be served after regular
hours, a breakfast room, a family
dining room and a private dining
room for children and their nurses.
The hotel will be conducted on both
the European and American plan. If
Considerable complaint is made by
the managers of the Ohio and Texas
Sugar Plantation of visitors cutting
the cane. Sometimes a whole stalk
will be cut and only a joint taken
from it, the remainder being thrown !
away. 1t is a poor requite for the
privilege of being permitted to in
spect this enterprise to depredate |
upon the company's property in this |
way. The company also finds it ne
cessary to adopt stringent rules to |
prevent the employees from commit |
ting similar depredations